New video-processing chips, meanwhile, let agents merge images from infrared cameras with regular video.
The department said the profile was backdated to 2008 to avoid having to merge data from an old IT system and a new one.
The pressure to merge is coming from Europe's looming single currency, the euro.
"Ericsson is maintaining its top position in wireless networking equipment and technology, so the company will not be forced to merge with another player from a purely competitive position perspective, but rather may be forced to merge to reconcile its weak business model and financial condition, " Lesieur said in a note.
In fact, the disruption and chaos from a merge often drives customers away and is the primary reason acquisitions do not measure up to their projected financial benefits.
Two Russian oil companies, Yukos and Sibneft, are to merge, knocking Lukoil from the number-one position in Russia and creating the world's third-largest private oil company in production terms.
Suntory, the food and beverage giant run by Japanese billionaire Nobutada Saji, has backed away from plans to merge with rival brewer Kirin.
That would mean forcing Greece's biggest banks to merge, recapitalising them with funds from the EU and IMF and putting them under state control.
On 29 November 2011 the Welsh Government announced that the Environment Agency Wales, Countryside Council for Wales and Forestry Council Wales will merge into a single environmental body from April 2013.
There are mashups that let you see which products are selling best on eBay , that help manage the sale of foreclosed property through a network of real estate agents, or merge sales information with data mining from analysis firm Business Objects .
For instance, Westby Fisher, a widely followed electrophysiologist and blogger, mourns that House-like independence will disappear from medicine as individual practices merge into large groups.
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Compaq added that it will go ahead with its plan to merge with tech giant Hewlett Packard, despite opposition from influential members of the Hewlett and Packard families.
She had raised the issue referring to the "merger by fax" whereby the two institutes were given six weeks to respond to a proposal from the Scottish Funding Council that they merge.
Despite the league's potency on DirecTV, exclusive NFL content couldn't prevent Sirius, the satellite-radio operator, from struggling until it was ultimately forced to merge with rival XM.
But the US has a system for propping up ailing companies and airlines have made full use of the Chapter 11 protection from bankruptcy to enable them to restructure or merge, and secure their futures.
From the valley below, each pier and mast merge to look like a single needle with an elongated eye: Foster's drawings, in fact, depict a thread piercing the eye of a needle.
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Proper usage: When two companies merge, the pro forma data give shareholders a point of comparison from one year to the next.
Bush's proposal would merge 22 federal entities into a new Cabinet agency to help safeguard Americans from terrorist attacks.
Facebook has told the BBC that there are currently no plans to merge its services in this way - but did not rule it out from happening in the future.
Unless preps are near state grammar schools and hence have a secure niche drilling children for the 11-plus exams, they may seek to merge with secondary schools, which can then market an all-through education insulated from the vicissitudes of competitive entry at 11 or 13 years of age.
If any bid from Mr Boparan is made, it may end Northern's plans to merge with Irish firm Greencore.
The Shout Out Louds, in from Stockholm to support its new album, "Optica" (Merge), played 10 sets, including four on Friday.
Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust (GWAS) is to merge with South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust (SWASFT) to create a single foundation trust from 1 February.
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OfficeMax and Office Depot are in advanced talks to merge, as the retailers of pens, paper and desks try to fight off tougher competition from rivals like Staples and Amazon.com.
Both intend to merge the city and prefectural governments, to create a regional block to draw investment and jobs away from Tokyo and help reshape government to cope with an ageing society.
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The games merge toy figurines with RFID technology to allow in-game avatar representations of the toys to move from game console to game console, all the while storing unique information about that character.
However Germany, which also does well at the Olympics, broke away from this with 46% wanting to keep the Games separate while 45% wanted them to merge.
The Money Programme travels to Sheffield where pressure from investors has been growing for the city's two troubled clubs, Wednesday and United, to merge.
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