For example, you shut off the unit or the battery dies, and you have to start at the beginning or go through a medieval process of physically recording track numbers.
Bayer insists it won't sell, but hopes to partner the unit off early next year.
It hasn't stopped the club being such a tight-knit unit off the field, however.
There has been speculation that NAB may sell off its UK unit which includes the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks.
Though Hastings later announced that Netflix was canceling its plan to spin off its DVD unit, the stock carnage continued.
After Macaulay got word at a dinner that Dresser-Rand might be turning around, he approached Ingersoll-Rand with a deal to get the unit off its books without taking a writedown.
Google also showed off a new backpack unit, nicknamed Trekker, that will allow for more images of remote, off-road places best reached on foot.
The company may also spin off portions of that unit at a later date.
Merck is spinning off Medco because the unit's margins are too low (see "Merck Decides To Go It Alone").
Sun has a separately listed research arm Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company, which was spun off from the main unit in 2007.
Analysts also say the favorable ruling should set Altria on a faster pace to spin off its Kraft Foods unit from the tobacco business.
The biggest controversy is whether Pfizer will spin off its established products unit, which sells generic drugs and branded medicines like Norvasc and Zoloft that have lost patent protection.
The amount shown on your benefit statement might not be accurate if you have been at the company a long time and your employer spins off your company or unit.
Fresh deets on TomTom's forthcoming GPS are starting to flow in, and hopefully we'll know about all there is to know by the time this unit shows off on the CeBIT floor.
The 1GB of integrated flash memory is a nice touch, but it's not a substitute for the complete inabilty to access the laptop's hard drive when the unit is off or in sleep mode.
The BBC's David Willey in Rome says the Bank of Italy's financial intelligence unit tipped off Italy's tax police last week, after two suspicious transactions were reported between the Vatican Bank and two different Italian banks.
Discover is the easiest business to split off--and the unit that many see as the most likely to go.
Mr. KEELING: Well, I saw an air conditioning unit was blown off the top of one of our dorms here.
Manufacturing accounts for about a fifth of eastern GDP, not far off western levels, and unit labour costs are lower.
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Altria, parent of Marlboro-maker Philip Morris, said the ruling could see it delay the spin off of its Kraft Foods unit.
Cablevision reported solid results for 2010, a year in which it bought back shares, boosted its dividend, and sold off its Madison Square Garden unit.
Media giant Time Warner has announced plans to spin off its Time Inc magazine unit into an independent, publicly traded company by the end of the year.
Northrop wants to spin off or sell its shipbuilding unit, which despite having a huge backlog of work has struggled to match the returns in other areas.
Limited has been making some tough, but smart decisions in the last few years, opting to sell off its namesake The Limited unit to improve financial performance.
In early October the unit was spun off from Tyco.
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There's no way to use Bluetooth to turn the unit on and off, and simple instructions for turning a Bluetooth phone into a remote control are not yet available.
Samsung stock slipped on the news but recover to close the day out with gains of 0.9% after rumors that the company will sell off its hard-drive unit to Seagate ( STX).
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Of course there are also rumors afoot that the AOL Time Warner merger has proved to be such a disaster that the company might be forced spin off the AOL Internet service unit, which is the company's most problematic division.
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