More than 200 readymade garment (RMG) manufacturing units have shutdown for an indefinite period in Bangladesh’s Ashulia industrial belt, following labour unrest in the aftermath of the Savar building collapse, whose toll has now ...
Nokia has announced the long-rumored Lumia 928, which will be an exclusive to Verizon Wireless when it goes on sale next week. The phone is part of Nokia's effort to improve its fortunes in the U.S. market, where it sold only 400,000 ...
Proposed legislation in California aims to ban guns made using 3-D printing, after an organization Defense Distributed fired a handgun made with the technology, and said it would distribute its drawings online. California state Senator ...
Steven Stone stands by a banner promoting the back relief offered by his sleep sets. WILSONVILLE, Ore. - Steven Stone opened his first sleep shop more than two decades ago and has grown the business one mattress at a time, he says. An ...
Antibacterial textiles, e.g. products treated with silver, have an odour eliminating effect and are therefore very popular particularly for so-called first layer or sports clothing which is worn directly against the skin. In recent years, ...
New hydraulic fracturing rules being developed by the Obama administration will drive oil and gas development from federal lands, a panel of industry and state officials said in their prepared testimony to a House committee Wednesday. The ...
Israeli gas consumption is expected to rise to 7.25 billion cubic meters this year nearly triple the level of last year, the Energy and Water Ministry said on Friday. The sharp rise in use of natural gas follows the beginning of ...
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A Qualcomm executive Friday defended Windows RT tablets despite poor initial sales, saying the mobile device chip maker is "very optimistic with the future of Win RT." Qualcomm currently supplies ARM-based Snapdragon processors for ...
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Ivo Opstelten, Dutch minister of Safety and Justice The Dutch government on Thursday presented a draft bill that aims to give law enforcement the power to hack into computer systems — including those located in foreign countries ...
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The number of government requests that Google has received to remove certain types of content, often politically charged, reached its highest level ever during the second half of 2012, the company reported Thursday. For the period between ...
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Chinese rescue teams have reached some of the most remote areas of Sichuan province hit by Saturday's powerful earthquake, state media report. The rescuers have been travelling on foot into Baoxing County because of the damage to roads in ...
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Ofcom's auction of the 4G communications spectrum is to be investigated by the National Audit Office, amid claims that the process did not generate the intended revenue. The auction, carried out in June 2012, raised 2.3bn as mobile phone ...
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Intel's Atom processors designed for netbooks could be on their last leg, with analysts saying that the chip maker could be tweaking its product road map as PC sales tumble and tablet adoption widens. Intel's most recent Atom processor ...
HP demonstrated that innovation is well and truly alive as it announced the official release of its new revolutionary class of server, Moonshot, to an exclusive selection of press and analysts in London today. The second-generation server ...
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Apple has received a blow from the US Patent Office with the news that its "bounce-back" patent has been rejected, handing a victory to Samsung in the latest stage of the two firms' seemingly never-ending IP battle. The decision, which ...