RIM, that mainstay of business will likely talk about building communities, blogs and activities in a secure network or for external networks, in partnership with IBM.

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After splitting off from Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) in 1999, Agilent's businesses in electronics and life sciences measurement equipment, plus semiconductors, bulked up at the tail end of the tech bubble, then crashed when the manufacturers that were the mainstay of the measurement gear business cancelled orders pell-mell.

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Such frustrations nudged Lieber toward silicon, the mainstay of the computer-chip business.

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That kind of premium business is what a mainstay of the old printing industry--Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, a low-profile, 152-year-old German press manufacturer--is after.

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