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Philips Reform Lighting and Its Applications in The Middle East
Jun 26, 2013On the informative conference hosted at the Change Initiative by Royal Philips, Mr. Adbo Rouhana proposed insights and initiatives that to reform lighting and its applications in the Middle East. During the session, Mr. Rouhana pointed ...
Tags: Philips, Lighting Reformation, LED lamp, LED
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Square Has Launched an Online Marketplace That Can Sell Products to Consumers
Jun 26, 2013Mobile payments company Square has launched an online marketplace, an offering that an analyst said is similar to those from eBay, Amazon and Etsy, where merchants can sell products to consumers. Square, known for its small, ...
Tags: Square, Online Marketplace Service
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FTC Commissioner Says Consumers Should Be Able to Reclaim Control of Their Personal Data
Jun 26, 2013U.S. consumers should be able to reclaim control of their personal data from data brokers, websites and other companies, a member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday. Commissioner Julie Brill, a long-time privacy advocate, ...
Tags: Personal Data, FTC Commissioner
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Developers Find Firefox OS The Most Compelling Among New Smartphone OSes
Jun 26, 2013Developers find Firefox OS the most compelling among new smartphone OSes, generating more interest than Tizen and BlackBerry 10, even though no commercial products have been launched for it yet. For the first time, IDC and cross-platform ...
Tags: Developers, Firefox OS, Smartphone
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Microsoft Preview of The Next Version of Its Visual Studio IDE
Jun 26, 2013Microsoft kicked off its Build conference in San Francisco this week by releasing a preview of the next version of its Visual Studio IDE, as well as updates to other development tools. How user input and follow-up interactions are ...
Tags: Microsoft, Visual Studio Tools, App
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Microsoft Today Shipped Windows 8.1
Jun 26, 2013Microsoft today shipped Windows 8.1, the free upgrade to Windows 8, with CEO Steve Ballmer calling it "a refined blend" of what many critics had called a jarring disconnect between its two radically different user interfaces. The upgrade, ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8.1 Beta
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New York City Data Center Saved by a Fuel Bucket Brigade Is Not Told with Fondness
Jun 26, 2013The improbable story of a New York City data center saved by a fuel bucket brigade is not told with fondness, even if there is a sense of pride and humor in its retelling. Those involved recall the stink of diesel fuel in dark stairwells ...
Tags: Data Center, Fuel Bucket Brigade
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Nvidia Has Pushed Back The Launch Date of Its Shield Gaming Device Until July
Jun 26, 2013Less than a day before it was scheduled to go on sale, Nvidia has pushed back the launch date of its Shield gaming device until July. The delay is due to an unspecified "mechanical issue" that just came to light, Jason Paul, director of ...
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Microsoft Previewed an Office Application Designed for The Windows "Modern,"UI
Jun 26, 2013Microsoft today briefly previewed an Office application designed for the Windows "Modern," née "Metro," user interface (UI), and said it would launch the touch-enabled suite next year. "This is big," said Frank Gillett, an analyst ...
Tags: Microsoft, Office Apps, Windows
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Leaks About Surveillance Programs at The U.S. National Security Agency Show an Agency
Jun 26, 2013Recent leaks about surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency show an agency with little regard for the U.S. Constitution and laws on the books, two past NSA leakers said Wednesday. Leaks by former NSA contractor Edward ...
Tags: NSA Leakers, Privacy Violations
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Dish Network Has Dropped Its Offer to Buy Clearwire
Jun 26, 2013Dish Network has dropped its offer to buy Clearwire, probably clearing the path for a strengthened Sprint Nextel to complete its takeover of the struggling but spectrum-rich mobile operator. Both SoftBank's US$21.6 billion acquisition of ...
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Microsoft Should Boost The Functionality of Third-Party Windows Store Applications
Jun 26, 2013In its ongoing challenge to attract more users to Windows 8, Microsoft is offering bits of its Bing Internet search service to boost the functionality of third-party Windows Store applications. "We're opening up Bing as an application ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8.1, Bing
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American General Unveiled Its New Lifestyle Income Rider, Which Can Be Issued with AG
Jun 26, 2013AIG's American General Life Companies has unveiled its new lifestyle income rider, which can be issued with AG secure lifetime guaranteed universal life insurance (GUL) policies. The lifestyle income solution on AG Secure Lifetime GUL is ...
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Japan's Meiji Yasuda Acquires a 15% Stake in Thai Life Insurance, for Nearly $700m
Jun 26, 2013Japan-based underwriter Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance is engaged in advance negotiations to acquire a 15% stake in Thai Life Insurance, for nearly $700m. People familiar with the matter were quoted by Reuters as saying that the proposed ...
Tags: Service, Insurance, Life Insurance
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Israel's Supreme Court Has Given The Government 15 Days to Respond to an Appeal
Jun 26, 2013Israel's Supreme Court has given the government 15 days to respond to an appeal by four Knesset members and four environmental and political organizations against the government's authority to decide on the export of offshore gas reserves, ...
Tags: Gas Export, Supreme Court
