Xylem Lowara UK has launched a new Triple-Duty Valve and Suction Diffuser which can cut installation costs on hydronic pumping systems by up to a third. Designed to perform all of the functions normally required on the discharge side of a ...
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Even as several states have put in place, or are planning, new laws barring employers from monitoring the social media activities of their employees, one Wall Street regulator is seeking exemptions to such rules for some financial services ...
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The Office in a Box from Toshihiko Suzuki is one of many portable office solutions cropping up as workers complain about the lack of privacy in open offices. Thanks to penny-pinching business owners who also want to see more ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
If you are really into woodworking you might be willing to spend 3 days salary on a really good block plane, but most of us probably won't. We will spend enough to get an OK plane and complained about the cut quality later. LeeValley has a ...
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PETA intends to monitor American hunters with drones. Be careful what you wish for. PETA has announced plans to film U.S. hunters with drones, declaring it "will soon have some impressive new weapons at its disposal to combat those who ...
Tags: PETA, Trophy Prize, Agriculture
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 ...
Tags: Facebook, social network
Salesforce.com will upgrade its Chatter enterprise social networking (ESN) application for iOS and release one for the first time for Android on Tuesday, delivering in both new capabilities to integrate them with its main CRM software. ...
Tags: CRM software, social networking, mobile apps
Listen to hallway and office chatter at Consumer Reports' Auto Test Center and you'll find widely divergent opinions about the BMW X1. They mostly fall into two camps, and it all boils down to the car's value. Camp #1 views the X1 as ...
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Jen Marissa Mayer was in the news again, and this time it wasn't for giving out free iPhones to employees. The flash point for the Mayer-related chatter this week was the recent announcement that Yahoo! employees would soon be expected ...
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Oracle has laid in out in detail how it intends to compete with the likes of Salesforce.com in the highly competitive arena for next-generation marketing software. The vendor spent $871 million in December to acquire marketing automation ...
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Sony is expected to reveal its vision of the future of home entertainment today by providing a glimpse at a new-generation PlayStation console that streams games, films, music and more. "Sony needs a big hit with this game console," ...
London-based theatre design consultancy Charcoalblue is a new sponsor of The Off West End Theatre Awards (Offies). Creative thinkers Charcoalblue is sponsoring the Award for Most Welcoming Theatre (Central, North, South East, East, North ...
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NewsGator is re-architecting its Social Sites enterprise social networking (ESN) suite so that it can be installed independently of Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration server. The decision isn't terribly surprising, given that Microsoft ...
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Reports circulating that Hewlett-Packard's board of directors is considering a breakup of the company are untrue, a source close to company said. The financial news site Quartz.com reported on Tuesday that HP's board is again discussing ...
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Facebook makes it easy to connect with people online,but some of its users say they got burned out on the site or grew tired of their friends'"drama,"a new survey shows. More than a quarter,or 28 percent,of those quizzed in a recent Pew ...
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