The website for Reporters Without Borders was booby-trapped to deliver malicious software using the latest Java and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, security vendor Avast said on Tuesday. Reporters Without Borders, based in Paris, is an ...
Researchers from Boston University have invented a unique way of using LED lights to transmit location information to mobile devices within buildings. Researchers Dan Ryan and Aaron Ganick’s start-up, ByteLight, is based entirely ...
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On Tuesday, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping (AD) order on cut-to-length carbon quality steel plate from Korea. The review originally covered seven ...
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Japanese companies from Tamura Corp and Koha Co Ltd have created a white LED using gallium oxide (β-type Ga2O3) and exhibited it at Lighting Japan 2013 from Jan 16 to 18, 2013. The LED consists of a blue LED chip made on a ...
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According to the Metal Industry Indicators report released by the US Geological Survey (USGS), the US economic recovery is supporting the growth of activity in the primary metals industry with modest metals demand from the manufacturing and ...
Recently, the lighting sector has urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR program to address light quality, specifically color rendering, in its new lamp specification, in a bid to ensure the long-term ...
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On January 21, 2013, the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced the initiation of antidumping (AD) investigations of galvanized steel wire from China, Israel, and Spain and a countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of galvanized ...
On January 23, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that in 2012 its fixed asset investments amounted to RMB 13.3 billion ($2.13 billion), up 52.7 percent compared with RMB 8.709 ...
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According to a company statement, in 2012 the long steel division of Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) shipped around 1.4 million mt of rebar, including 1.3 million mt to the domestic market, up 16 percent, while its shipments for ...
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Port Hedland in the iron ore-rich Pilbara region in Western Australia was shut down on January 22, due to tropical cyclone Peta which is expected to make landfall on Wednesday, January 23, slowing down iron ore shipments to the Far East. ...
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On January 21, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) formalizing its ...
Douglas-Westwood conducts comprehensive industry study into Iraq and Kurdistan Drilling and Oilfield Services market 2012-2016 The potential scale of the Iraqi oil sector is unprecedented in modern times, and represents a significant ...
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Tuesday the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping (AD) order on stainless steel bar from Brazil. The review covers one company --Villares Metals S.A.--during the ...
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China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration (SASAC) have launched a merger and reorganization scheme for ...
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki held talks with ExxonMobil chief Rex Tillerson (pictured) on Monday. AFP reports that the meeting was the first between the two since the firm signed an oil exploration agreement with Kurdistan in October ...
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