USA - Even at the supreme event of the biggest celebration in a city known for its huge excesses, the Ponchartrain Beach float takes bigness to new heights - or lengths. At 330'long, this tribute to the Big Easy's legendary Ponchartrain ...
Tags: Lighting, lighting design, LED lighting
Scott Sports will be providing luxury bike tour operator Velissimo Tours with Scott Foil road bikes for Velissimo's 2013 Tour of California tours. Velissimo, based in Hawaii, is one of the official Amgen Tour of California tour operators. ...
The Bicycle Trade Association of Canada is calling for nominations for its inaugural BTAC Awards. The awards will be presented at the annual ExpoCycle Bike Show in Montréal in September. The awards will be given in four categories: ...
Tags: Bicycle Trade Association of Canada, BTAC Awards, bike
UK - The TPi Awards, was a night of double celebration for LS-Live, which won two titles. The stage, set and studio company based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, picked up awards for Favourite Rehearsal Facility (sponsored by Showcase) and ...
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UK - Black Light's Open Day is now established as a key event for anyone in the Scottish AV, sound, lighting and stage industry. "Our Open Day brings together all the latest AV, sound, lighting and stage technology under one roof," says ...
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Australian-produced app Roamz is reaching out to the retail sector with analytics that will tell a store what customers are saying in real time. Developed in Sydney by entrepreneur Jonathan Barouch, Roamz uses the number-crunching ...
Tags: retail sector, Amazon cloud, social media
Harold Fitch, the man charged with overseeing Michigan's 15,000 oil and gas wells, told a House subcommittee Friday that growing hydraulic fracturing operations in his state have not caused any groundwater contamination or any other serious ...
Tags: Harold Fitch, gas, oil and gas wells
Web-based platforms provider Aleyant Systems is all set to exhibit its web-to-print and cross-media solutions including Pressero and eDocBuilder at PrintPack India to be held from 23-28 February 2013 in Greater Noida. Aleyant Systems ...
Tags: PrintPack India, printers, packaging
The UK government Friday gave its consent to Norway's Statoil to go ahead with the $7 billion Mariner oil field development which is set to be the UK's biggest new North Sea project in more than a decade. Statoil took the final ...
Japanese demand for heating kerosene appears to be passing out of its peak annual period, as the country starts to experience warmer temperatures against the same time of last year, industry sources said Friday. Japan's kerosene ...
Tags: kerosene, Japan, Warm Weather
Asia's polymer market has shrugged off China's new preferential import duties for polyethylene from some countries, as the minimum price for the tax reduction to kick in is seen as too high and trade flows from these nations are almost ...
Tags: Asia, polymer market, polyethylene
According to PAFA, the variable quality of recyclate has long acted as "a damper on the recycling sector in the UK". The association added that it will be working with other members of the recycling supply chain to ensure that action is ...
Tags: recyclate quality, recycling sector, materials recovery facility
An energy switching scheme to save people money on their monthly energy bills has been launched in Derbyshire, after extended talks over the last few months. The county council, which has been urging people to sign up to Derbyshire Big ...
Tags: energy bills scheme, energy switching scheme, energy companies
BIG business is being targeted by cyber-criminals in "ransomware" attacks, threatening deletion or freezing of crucial business files unless money is paid. A new national survey of Australian big business reports that in September last ...
Tags: TriQuint, IT security, firewalls
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has launched legal action against unknown traders over claims they broke rules when trading in Heinz options before the US$28bn deal to buy the food giant was announced. The SEC claims traders had ...
Tags: SEC, legal action, Heinz Options