Even when the government is out of business, it is still messing with our business. It is interesting to see how the government shutdown impacts folks. Of course, congressmen and senators are still getting fat paychecks while 800,000 ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Football
Craftsman Fabricated Glass president Bob Lawrence says he has friends, family and golf in mind now that he has retired. Lawrence, who has been in the business for 45 years, delivered the news Monday in a widely-circulated e-mail to ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
You don't have to consume a lot of business news to see transparency as an issue in the food industry. Whether the topic is pink slime in McDonald's burgers, Whole Foods promising to label products with genetically modified ingredients, or ...
A Mexican man is suing Ford Motor Company for negligence, alleging that the car maker gave out key codes allowing criminals to use his Ford Focus as a drug mule. Ricardo Magallanes spent six months in federal prison in El Paso, Texas, ...
Researchers in the U.S. have managed to spoof GPS (Global Positioning System) signals to send a yacht hundreds of meters off course, while fooling the crew into thinking the yacht was remaining perfectly on course. The test, conducted ...
Tags: GPS, Electrical, Electronics
Students who visit the University Co-op at the University of Texas at Austin can now browse and buy top consumer electronics products and desired brands available in a new RadioShack-branded section of the college store. The new ...
Speciality pharmaceutical and diagnostic company, Prometheus is set to begin Proclivity02, a study that compares the sequence of Proleukin (High Dose Interleukin-2 (HD IL-2) therapy at multi centers in US for metastatic melanoma (mM). ...
Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today. "Beards, Birkenstocks, blue jeans, T-shirts," Metcalfe said earlier ...
Tags: Ethernet, Computer Products, Startup
The American Concrete Institute (ACI) introduced its 2013-2014 president, vice president, and four board members during the ACI Spring 2013 Convention in Minneapolis, Minn. last month. Anne M. Ellis was elected to serve as president of ...
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Virtual blueprints for the world's first 3D printable handgun have found a safe harbour at file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, dodging a US government attempt to pull them off the internet. Defense Distributed, a Texas nonprofit that ...
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Defense Distributed, the company that developed the Liberator 3D printed gun, today released a YouTube video demonstrating its first test firing of the weapon. With dramatic orchestral music setting the tone, the video shows a man firing ...
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After 42 years serving Austin-area cyclists, retailer Freewheeling Bicycles will close its doors at the end of May. Freewheeling was founded in a garage apartment in 1971 by Frank B. Cook, who passed away in 1999. The shop quickly outgrew ...
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, US, has purchased Elekta's two radiation therapy systems. Equipped with the Agility multileaf collimator, Versa HD linear accelerators provide high-speed, high-precision beam ...
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William “Doni” Riddle of the Sherwin-Williams Company was awarded the John D. Keane Award of Merit by the Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC). The award recognizes outstanding leadership and significant contributions to the ...
Tags: Coatings, Construction, Marine Coatings
Google Fiber with gigabit speeds will be coming to homes in Austin, Texas, by mid-2014, Google announced today. And in what could become a fierce competition over connectivity, AT&T also announced today that it is prepared to build its ...
Tags: Fiber, google, Computer Products