And some inflation is due to increased spending on facility construction, especially lab and computer costs.
Finally, there is another potential obstacle to any successful sale, which is that Lloyds has been told by one of the bidders, Sun Capital, that it has chronically underestimated the computer and systems costs of separating Verde.
This tends to be more true in places like Silicon Valley, where workers are computer savvy and housing costs are onerous.
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It will be a computer that is worn on the wrist and thus the manufacturing costs are commensurate with a computer, not with extant watches.
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Kenagy says medicine needs the same type of modularity that drove down costs in the computer industry.
Mr. Hurd also brings a track record of squeezing costs out of computer production.
The early customers for this new Chrome OS based computer (with no admin-costs) are American Airlines, Intercontinental Hotels and some retailers.
It is puzzling why an art degree costs as much as a computer science degree when the job prospects of each are so vastly unequal.
So they conducted a "virtual teardown" to come up with an estimate of what it costs to build the tablet computer Apple Chief Steve Jobs announced last month.
Today, the computer and telecoms revolutions are similarly pushing down costs.
Xinhua reports that technology giant FoxConn, which manufactures products for Apple and other computer companies, is working to reduce labor costs by replacing a portion of their workforce with robots, with a goal of having one million robots in place in their factories within three years.
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By moving from telephone dealing to automated computer trading, the exchange was seeking to cut costs for its customers.
These questions have raised fears in the financial services industry that the department will put a government stamp of approval on one type of investing--index mutual funds--and mandate that computer modeling ignore past performance, considering only past costs.
Although it continues to outgrow the market, Dell Computer is like any other big company trying to cut costs.
Sabre Holdings' hotel reservations arm, likewise, has cut operating costs by 50% by upgrading to embrace newer computer languages such as Java and run on open-source software.
Sabre Holdings (nyse: TSG - news - people )' hotel reservations arm, likewise, has cut operating costs by 50% by upgrading to embrace newer computer languages such as Java and run on open-source software.
The costs for a wired physical phone and wires to the computer are gone.
Grupo Assa, a computer-services company, also stands to benefit from having axed costs before the latest meltdown, and from a (so far) successful foreign expansion.
The point is to ensure that a real person not a computer will have to complete the test, thereby increasing the costs of spamming.
Since deploying a Microsoft Dynamics solution, Computer Aid has cut its billing cycle in half and reduced ERP support costs by 60 percent.
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By targeting tablets instead of smartphones, not only do you provide computer users with a better reading experience, but you lower the adaptation costs.
Dr Baker reckons that costs can be cut if the launch rocket uses the satellite's guidance computer instead of having its own, and if the satellite's built-in rocket motor is bolstered to do the work now performed by a launch rocket's upper stage.
Take Michael Dell, the chairman of the eponymous computer manufacturer which last week announced that it was shedding 10% of its workforce to cut back on costs.
So the movement of work abroad in search of lower labour costs is no longer confined to manufacturing but now also includes white-collar jobs, from computer programming to copywriting and back-office legal tasks.
By adjusting its sophisticated, computer-guided machinery, Forte was able to make its products physically leaner, using less material and lowering costs.
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Officials should be aware that in the past several years insurance companies have begun to market specific computer policies that may provide first and third-party coverage for losses associated with cyber incidents, such as costs for data restoration, crisis response, privacy notification and forensic investigation, as well as defense and indemnification arising out of cyber incidents, and business interruption.
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It costs Intel, the industry giant, several billion dollars to build a foundry to make new-generation computer chips.
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