Bringing together the world's leading retailers and their business partners, Retail's BIG Show is set to commence next week, offering a speaker lineup never seen before. The four-day convention, held January 13-16, 2013 at the Jacob ...
Aaron Swartz, 26, hanged himself in his flat weeks before he was to go on trial on accusations that he stole millions of articles from an electronic archive to make them freely available. If convicted he faced decades in prison and a ...
Tags: electronic archive, Aaron Swartz, Electronic Frontier Foundation, hacker
Radio Runt,a Seattle-based technology company focused on introducing innovative communications solutions,today announced the launch of its new free Rallee walkie-talkie app as well as a$1 million investment from international business ...
Tags: new free Mobile WalkieTalkie, Facebook Friends, Rallee PushtoTalk App
Inrix, the company behind the traffic information appearing on many built-in and portable automotive navigation systems, announced at CES that they're adding parking information to their services. Inrix aggregates traffic-flow ...
SPINEXPO®,Indigo,Printsource and DG Expo have found New York City a good venue.At SpinExpo,yarn spinners,fiber companies and producers of textile machinery had news.Indigo and Printsource had new exhibitors.DG Expo,a biannual show ...
Tags: wool, fabrics, nanoparticles, design
A device which allows an optical detector to pick up on the rotation of a twisted light wave, called an optical vortex or vortex beam, has been developed by researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). ...
Tags: optical vortex, vortex beam, optical communication networks
Interbike is strengthening its ties with Triathlon Business International,a coalition of multi-sport industry leaders. Both companies will help promote triathlon at the IBD Summit,the TBI Conference and at Interbike 2013.The initiatives ...
Tags: Interbike, Triathlon, TBI, multi-sport industry
As part of its support to the Council of Representatives (CoR), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with support from the Inter-Agency Information and Analysis Unit (IAU), conducted a workshop on survey questionnaire design for ...
Tags: CoR, UNDP, IAU, survey questionnaire design
USA - The Long Reach Long Riders have confirmed the route for their 10th annual charity motorcycle ride. The rolling landscapes, deep forests and huge water of the upper midwest will serve as the backdrop for the 2013 version of the LRLR ...
Tags: Long Reach, Long Riders, charity motorcycle ride, LRLR ride
Computerworld - After sparring for users' attention and wallets, PCs and mobile devices are starting to converge in size, style and how they are used. That convergence will start to play out at the International CES show in Las Vegas next ...
Tags: CES, Computer, PCs, mobile devices, laptops
A half-million lines of custom code wasn't enough to produce a viable Dynamics AX ERP(enterprise resource planning)system for point-of-sale and RFID products distributor ScanSource,according to a lawsuit it has filed against Avanade,the ...
Tags: ScanSource, AX, Avanade, US
The light or city car segment had a modest sales increase of 3.9 percent overall in 2012 compared to 2011 with sales remaining relatively consistent across the field. For light cars under $25,000, the Holden Barina (up 50.5 percent to ...
Tags: Car Sales, Light Cars
In 2007 writer Jeff Giles closed shop on his Jefitoblog site. The website had amassed a loyal following and several cohorts across the Internet including his partner-in-Mellowmas-torture Jason Hare. Giles' big plan was to gather up such ...
Tags: Jeff Giles, Popdose website, ifth anniversary, 2013
Verizon's attempt -- unsuccessful so far -- to secure a patent for a so-called 'snooping technology,' which in this case would let television advertisers target individual viewers based on what they're doing or saying in front of their ...
Tags: Verizon, snooping technology, drones, phones, privacy threats
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) CIO Philip Langsdale has passed away at the age of 56. Langsdale, who is understood to have passed away suddenly on 22 December, was director of IT at Asda between 1992 and 1997, as well as chief ...
Tags: DWP, CIO, Philip Langsdale, BAA