PlexTV will be available exclusively with the PX-612U during the first quarter of 2012.

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PlexTV enables the use of Plextor's PX-612U drive with these previously unsupported devices by translating signal output to mimic a hard drive.

ENGADGET: Plextor's new external DVD burner works with TVs, no computer required

Reilley, chief executive of Praxair (nyse: PX - news - people ), the largest producer of industrial gases in the Americas.

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Reilley of Praxair (nyse: PX - news - people ), one of the best performers, and on page 134 one of the worst.

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This acquisition spending does not appear to be aiding growth in the way management hoped, as PX saw after-tax profit ( NOPAT) increase by a paltry 2.6% in 2012.

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