One Laptop Per Child is redesigning its venerable XO-1.75 laptop, by adding a touchscreen, the nonprofit organization said in a blog post late last week. The next version, called XO Touch, will have a "tablet mode," the organization said ...
Tags: OLPC, tablet capability, XO laptop, touchscreen
Economy of China in 2010. China is the world's second largest economy after the United States. It is the world's fastest growing major economy, with average growth rates of 10% for the past 30 years. China's top trading partners. ...
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Research In Motion will launch BlackBerry 10 and the two first smartphones based on the operating system on Jan. 30, the company said yesterday. The event will happen simultaneously in multiple countries around the world, according to ...
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Brazil and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) signed a new South-South cooperation agreement worth $20 million that aims to channel Brazilian expertise in cotton production to other developing countries. The ...
First-time surprise entrant Wipro tops the list of rankings in the 18th edition of the Greenpeace “Guide to Greener Electronics,” with Apple dropping two spots to sixth compared to last year’s study. The guide, released ...
Tags: Apple, environmental, Greenpeace, sustainable IT, Wipro
African students who were given LearnKey's video-based training passed their Microsoft certification exam at a rate of 91 percent, compared with a 20 percent pass rate for students with no access to LearnKey training. ST. GEORGE, UT, ...
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As the battle between Apple’s iPhone 5 and Samsung’s Galaxy S III rages on – a study conducted by the disassembly firm iFixit and nonprofit organisation Ecology Centre has concluded that the iPhone 5 is less toxic than the ...
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Tim Berners-Lee,the British computer scientist credited with inventing the world-wide web,has launched a global index to track the social and political impact of his creation around the globe. Hosted at thewebindex.org,the Web Index calls ...
Tags: world-wide web, Web Index, Global Index, Social Impact
Barry Callebaut said today (12 December) it had become the world's largest cocoa processor after agreeing to buy Petra Foods' cocoa ingredients business for US$950m. The Switzerland-based group, which supplies cocoa and chocolate ...
Tags: Cocoa, Food, chocolate products
A growing middle class economy, high consumption rates, a large, urban population, and reduced political and financial risk has catapulted Brazil to first place of the 2012 A.T. Kearney Global Retail Development Index. Brazil tops A.T. ...
Continuing its effort to mark its arrival on the global stage, India will provide INR 11,294.6 crore to the International Monetary Fund's New Arrangements to Borrow facility. Government on December 7th sought Parliamentary approval towards ...
Market research institute Ceresana forecasts global revenues of the biocides market to be almost US$7.3 billion in 2019.The prices of biocides vary considerably depending on the type of product,thus constituting a crucial influence on ...
More than 70 percent of the total revenue in 2012 attributable to sustainable products Osram used the Sustainable Innovation Forum 2012, taking place alongside the UN Climate Conference in Doha (Qatar), to present its current ...
Spot polyethylene and polypropylene prices in Turkey were firmer this week as buying appetite picked up ahead of the increased duties that will take effect next month, sources said. From January 1, import duties for high density ...
Global insulation demand is forecast to rise 5.5 percent annually to 23.1 billion square meters of R-1 value in 2016, a substantial acceleration from the 2006-2011 rate. In developing countries, insulation demand is expected to expand at a ...
Tags: global insulation demand, 2016