But McCrary said the announcement alone doesn't amount to victory for terrorists.

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You saw again a specific announcement by Bank of America on an increased amount of lending in 2010 to small and medium-sized business.

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Those that are buying the stock at this level can make a considerable amount of money leading into the official announcement.

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That was 18.7 per cent of the total which coincidentally (or not) was almost the exact amount the stock lost in value after the announcement.

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Another interesting tidbit in the interview highlights the fact that one of new Nokia CEO Stephen Elop's edicts has been to significantly reduce the amount of time between a product's announcement and its release, which might be the driving force behind his decision to push the introduction of Nokia's first MeeGo products into 2011.

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Sure MakerBot earned a fair amount of attention at last year's show with the announcement of the Replicator, which snagged its share of awards from various press outlets.

ENGADGET

While any announcement of a new game console is rightly going to be greeting with a hefty amount of skepticism, it looks like this new Evo "Smart Console" from upstart Envizions Computer Entertainment could be a bit of a unique case and, as Pandora has shown, sometimes these things do actually pan out.

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