The Plano, Texas-based company, IntelliGender, has created a singular, over-the-counter product - the "Boy or Girl Gender Prediction Test"! With the help of the new prediction test, couples can find out the gender of the baby-to-be-born in as early as ten weeks after pregnancy, as against the earlier nearly twenty-week duration required for knowing the baby's gender.
A Texas federal judge's Tuesday ruling, in the much-prolonged legal patent infringement lawsuit by set-top box maker TiVo Inc against the satellite TV provider EchoStar Communications Corp, has gone TiVo's way!
The mid-priced department store chain JC Penney Co Inc Friday announced a monstrous 79 percent plunge in its first-quarter profit, citing a ‘hefty’ -$114 million - pension expense. The Plano, Texas-based retailer said that even though its quarterly results surpassed analysts’ estimates, it would likely miss the full-year forecast by Wall Street.
In its endeavor to expand its growing diabetes business, the Minneapolis-based medical device maker Medtronic Inc. intends making 1,400 job-additions in the coming five-year period, at its new San Antonio, Texas-based customer support facility, scheduled to open late this summer.
The recent AT&T-Verizon $2.35-billion-cash deal will result in AT&T's acquisition of Verizon's wireless assets in 79 rural territories of Colorado and 17 other states. As a result, nearly 1.5 million Verizon subscribers will now need new phones to be shifted to the network of AT&T - the country's biggest telecommunications company.
With the space shuttle Atlantis “all set” for its scheduled Monday afternoon take-off, the countdown for NASA’s final servicing trip to the Hubble Space Telescope – which has not had any ‘visitor’ in the past seven years – has begun at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center!
The Austin, Texas-based e-book software maker Lexcycle - well-known for its iPhone e-reading application 'Stanza' - has been acquired by the online book seller Amazon. com. While both Lexcycle and Amazon are competitors in the e-book reading software market for the iPhone, Lexcycle will, for the time being, operate as an autonomous subsidiary.
Swine flu is very much in everyone's mind these days and federal scientists have said that although they have "seed stock" of the virus available with them to develop a swine flu vaccine they have many questions unanswered before they can get to the job.
The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday that seven people have been diagnosed with a flu that combines pig, bird and human viruses in California and Texas.