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As we emerge from the aftermath of the flooding, we are mindful of coming back with a more robust supply chain model that seeks to disperse in-house and supplier risks across geographies and factory locations. This dispersal of volumes across a wider geographical area will contribute to some structural and logistical cost increases which should be recovered from customers in order to maintain the continuing investment required in what is a high-technology and capital intensive business. An unanticipated benefit of our recovery activities is that we are taking advantage of the downtime to improve process efficiencies and cycle-times.
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— Western Digital Second Quarter Fiscal 2012 Conference Call
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"After years of being the also-ran to Microsoft Corp. in the workplace, Apple has seen its iPad become a standard business tool. According to an IDG Connect survey, 51 percent of managers with iPads say they “always” use the device at work, and another 40 percent sometimes do. Seventy-nine percent of the respondents use the iPad for business when outside the office."
— http://mobile.businessweek.com/technology/apple-goes-corporate-02012012.html
"IDC expects North American SMB IT spending to rise about 6% this year, from roughly $144 billion in 2011 to $150 billion. In a shift from spending patterns reported last year, IDC sees greater growth occurring among small businesses (with 100-499 employees) than among mid-sized (500-1,000 employees)"
— http://www.mspmentor.net/2012/01/30/smb-it-spending-patterns-show-msps-the-way/
"…patents owned by Motorola, which include the basic IEEE 802.11 standard (for Wi-Fi) and that for AVC/H.264, which is used for the overwhelming majority of video encoding"
— http://m.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/jan/29/google-motorola-android-future?cat=technology&type=article
