It has been a big year for some tech luminaries, with several of them getting a nod from editors picking Time Magazine's Person of the Year. Calling him the "architect of the New America," President Barack Obama Wednesday was named Time's ...
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BASF and Gabriel Performance Products, LLC, a U.S. based specialty chemical company, signed a contract to transfer the BASF Capcure business to Gabriel Performance Products. Capcure mercaptan-based curatives are used in epoxy curing ...
International animal welfare organization Four Paws has announced that the chocolate bar Toblerone,which is owned by Mondelēz International,will now be produced only with eggs laid by cage free hens. This move comes after Mondelez ...
Healthcare products company Covidien has expanded production of its enteral feeding pumps and sets, Kangaroo ePump and Kangaroo Joey. Designed for use in institutional setting, the Kangaroo ePump enteral feeding pump features stepped ...
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Facebook is moving to fix one of its biggest problems - finding ways to make money from its growing base of mobile users. The social network Wednesday said that it's trying out a new mobile ad system and is calling on Facebook app ...
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Google+ is hitting a major milestone this week as its fledgling social network reaches its first birthday. Google launched its own social network a year ago Thursday. While it's a distant competitor to the world's top social network, ...
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One of the big disadvantages to using cloud-based office apps is that you have to be connected to the Internet to use them. Well, Google took care of that issue today. At its annual Google I/O developers conference on Thursday, Google ...
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Since the Hong Kong SAR government's establishment of the OGCIO--and its ditching of the ITSD (Information Technology Services Department)--in 2004, many local ICT pros and startups have slammed the government's lukewarm attitude towards ...
Even as the dog at the center of a global animal rights battle was put to death on Wednesday, social networks proved to be a massive weapon for protestors. Lennox, a seven-year-old black dog who lived with his family in Belfast, Ireland, ...
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Magasins de jouets sans frontières? Do you remember the TV game show It’s A Knockout or the Peter Gabriel song Jeux Sans Frontières? Now it’s toy shops’ turn to expand beyond traditional frontiers. ...
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Those of us of a certain age remember the early days of HBO, launched in 1972, when paying for TV was a novel idea. How quaint that seems in today's always-on, always connected world of three -- or is that four? -- screens (computer, ...
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After coming under loud and unrelenting fire from angry users,Instagram announced late Tuesday afternoon that the company is going to try to clarify changes it's making to its Terms of Use policy. And the company's co-founder is trying to ...
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With Intel unveiling a tablet processor this week, analysts say the chip maker may be on track to becoming less dependent on the struggling PC market. Intel on Thursday took the wraps off a new processor code-named Clover Trail. The Atom ...
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Google's Chrome OS-based laptops could now be on the shelves of a nearby Best Buy store. At the Google I/O developer conference here today, the company announced that its Chromebook laptops are now available at 100 Best Buy stores in the ...
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Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices yesterday announced high-performance graphics chips for supercomputers. Nvidia announced GPUs (graphics processing units) called K20 and K20X, with the latter being used in Titan, a 20-petaflop ...
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