To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online reviews of the banana-shaped piece of yellow plastic with their Facebook friends. Then ...
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Ahmed Butti Ahmed, Executive Chairman of Dubai Ports Dubai Customs this week announced that Dubai will host the Middle East debut of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) IT Conference and Exhibition, an event dedicated to IT solutions in ...
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In New Delhi, the Delhi Jal Board has awarded Degrémont a €29 million DBO contract to build an urban wastewater treatment plant with a capacity of 70 000 m3 per day at Delhi Gate Nalla. The new plant will take Degrémont ...
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In terms of efficiency and capability, CNC woodworking machines are the most useful type of woodworking equipment. Thankfully, industrial grade CNC equipment has a long lifespan, and is often resold in used condition for less than it ...
IT administrators now have more control over the usage of Chrome OS devices in their organizations, with new settings covering areas like Web browsing, cookie acceptance and plug-in management. IT staffers will find the new controls in ...
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Google has updated the IT controls for its Chrome operating system, meaning that IT administrators now have more control over the usage of Chrome OS devices in their organisations. New settings covering areas like Web browsing, cookie ...
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The Roulade sofa, despite its name and the way it's referred to as, is not a sofa per se. It's a piece that can be situated somewhere in between a mattress and a couch. More exactly, it's a couch-style chair. The concept is unusual but the ...
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It is no secret that we live in a global economy. The goods and services we enjoy come from all over the world: your car may have been designed in Germany, assembled in Mexico, and sold in the U.S. From a manufacturing perspective, this ...
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Direct Line Group (DLG) has appointed IT consulting firm Capgemini as a partner in a five year contract to design, deliver and run a new IT infrastructure, as it looks to move away from RBS's data centres. The £100m deal, which ...
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Computerworld - After seeing 18 key IT staffers suddenly quit to take new jobs at General Motors, Hewlett-Packard has asked a Texas court for permission to depose two former managers to find out if employment contracts were violated. HP ...
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IT hiring in 2013 will focus on jobs involving cloud computing, mobile technology and business intelligence, said staffing professionals. But cloud computing jobs for on-site infrastructure support and software management are likely to be ...
Unsatisfactory online grocery experiences-especially on special occasions-are a sure-fire way to undermine brand loyalty,writes Andrew Don. A typical suburban family home last Christmas Eve:presents around the tree,table laid in ...
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Hewlett-Packard reduced its workforce last year by 17,800 employees, more than half way to the restructuring goal it announced last year. Most of the departures came via layoffs, though some key IT workers left unexpectedly. The company ...
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Businesses that want to trade in their old systems for new IT should consider moving to open source first before thinking about a proprietary system, according to a report commissioned by transaction processing services provider Amadeus IT ...
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Health care provider Kaiser Permanente has begun hiring about 500 IT professionals to staff its new information technology campus in Englewood, Colo. Kaiser, which says it employs about 6,000 IT workers nationwide, said the Englewood ...
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