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ChangeQuakes Of The Week

January 30, 2006

TOP CHANGEQUAKES OF THE WEEK
** Scientists: New Bird Flu Vaccine 100% Effective
** U.S. Savings Rate Lowest Since Great Depression
** Study: Obesity May Be Contagious
** FDA Approves Inhaled Insulin

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TOP CHANGEQUAKES OF THE WEEK

Scientists: New Bird Flu Vaccine 100% Effective

(DISCOVERY CHANGEQUAKE) -- University of Pittsburgh scientists say they've genetically engineered an Avian flu vaccine that has proven 100% effective in mice and chickens.

www.physorg.com

Related Stories: Bird Flu Death Reported in Iraq
news.yahoo.com

European Union Examines Poultry Vaccine to Combat Bird Flu
www.alertnet.org

U.S. Savings Rate Lowest Since Great Depression

(ECONOMIC CHANGEQUAKE) -- Consumer spending rose at a rapid pace in December, far outpacing income growth, a development that helped to push the savings rate for the year down to the lowest level since the Great Depression.

news.yahoo.com

Study: Obesity May Be Contagious

(DISCOVERY CHANGEQUAKE) -- As if the close proximity of delicious, fattening foods weren't bad enough, obesity might actually be infectious. That's the incredulous finding from new research involving overweight chickens; the study suggests that a contagious virus can make fat cells fatter.

www.forbes.com

FDA Approves Inhaled Insulin

(FDA APPROVAL CHANGEQUAKE) -- Inhaled insulin, which could replace shots for millions of people with diabetes, won approval Friday from the U.S. FDA, making it the first new form of insulin since the hormone was discovered nearly 90 years ago.

www.sci-tech-today.com

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TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGEQUAKES

New Advances In Color LCD Technology

Genoa Color Technologies has unveiled technology that expands the color gamut for LCD displays beyond just red, green and blue, expanding a display's visible color range by 35% while increasing brightness by as much as 40%, which allows colors to appear more natural, brighter and richer.

www.eetimes.com

Intel Announces 45nm Chip Breakthrough

Intel claims to have crafted the world's first fully functional SRAM memory chip using 45 nanometer processing technology, which features double the transistor density compared to traditional 65 nanometer semiconductors, resulting in either a 20% increase in transistor switching speed or a five-fold reduction in power leakage.

www.toptechnews.com

'Electronic Discovery' Market On The Rise

Firms that probe e-mail, instant messages and other files for corporate intelligence have seen the industry grow to about $2 billion, with growth of 35% a year expected, according to industry analysts.

www.msnbc.msn.com

Researchers Developing Transparent OLEDs

Displays made of organic LEDs are brightly lit, but tend to be mostly opaque. Making them transparent opens up a whole new world of applications: OLEDs can be wedded with conventional LCDs to transform laminated glass into a display panel.

www.fraunhofer.de


CORPORATE CHANGEQUAKES

Exxon Reports Record Quarterly Profit Of $10.7 Billion

ExxonMobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, reported fourth-quarter profits of $10.7 billion, capping a year of record earnings dominated by surging oil and gas prices.

news.yahoo.com

DaimlerChrysler To Cut Management By A Fifth

DaimlerChrysler will cut up to a fifth of its white-collar staff during the next three years, chopping around 6,000 jobs to boost efficiency.

today.reuters.com

Yahoo! Gives Up Quest For Search Dominance

Yahoo!, one of the first Internet search companies, has capitulated to Google in the battle for market dominance.

seattlepi.nwsource.com


REGULATORY CHANGEQUAKES

TV Rules For Telecoms Not Seen Easing This Year

The chances are seen as slim that the U.S. Congress will pass legislation in 2006 to make it easier for companies like Verizon Communications to offer subscription television service despite intense lobbying.

www.msnbc.msn.com

Ameriquest To Pay $325 Million In Settlement

Ameriquest has been ordered to pay a $325 million nationwide settlement after a 49-state investigation found that from 1999 to 2003, Ameriquest inflated home appraisals and made up employment and income information to allow more people to qualify for loans.

seattletimes.nwsource.com


ECONOMIC CHANGEQUAKES

Gates Defends China's Internet Restrictions

As Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! have been criticized for acquiescing to Chinese government demands to block access to certain sites, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates defended the actions, saying that as technology develops and Chinese innovations multiply, those problems will gradually dissipate.

www.washingtonpost.com

Iran And Venezuela Back Off Calls For Oil Production Cut

OPEC has no obvious reason to cut its oil output, the group's president said, and Iran and Venezuela seemed to back away from earlier suggestions that they would push for a cut.

www.businessweek.com


FDA APPROVAL CHANGEQUAKES

FDA Sends Warning Letter To Boston Scientific

Federal regulators sent Boston Scientific a warning letter identifying "serious regulatory problems" in medical devices produced at three facilities and said the company's previous efforts to address quality control problems at three other sites were inadequate.

www.redherring.com


DISCOVERY CHANGEQUAKES

Shocking New Melanoma Treatment

A promising new gene therapy treatment called Electroporation uses electricity to treat melanoma, or skin cancer, which does not respond to chemotherapy and other standard treatments.

www.wqad.com