Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the banking group that owns NatWest, has suffered another embarrassing outage when its computer systems crashed last night, leaving its 7.5 million customers unable to withdraw cash, access their current ...
At the SteelOrbis 2013 Spring Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting held in Doha on March 3-5, Phil Eglin from World Steel Dynamics (WSD) has said that the recent slowdown in Chinese steel demand is a result of the slowdown in fixed asset ...
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Fibre deployment for homes in Western Europe continues to grow steadily but lags behind other countries. The FTTH Council Europe announced at a conference in London that Eastern Europe and Scandinavian countries have reinforced their ...
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A report released National Audit Office revealed that the UK IT skills shortage means that Britain could have trouble defending itself from cyber attacks over the next 20 years. The UK was hit by over 40 million cyber attacks in 2011 ...
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The chief information security officers (CISOs) of Network Rail, Commerzbank and law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse have slated bigger security software vendors for lagging behind smaller rivals in mobile security. In a panel discussion ...
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The Library of Congress is now storing 500 million tweets per day as part of its efforts to build a Twitter archive, and has added a total of about 170 billion tweets to its collection. Twitter signed an agreement in April 2010 to ...
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India Inc's aspiration for manufacturing sector is to be the Germany of the East and not Factory to the west CII-BCG Manufacturing Leadership Survey 2012 During CII’s 11th Manufacturing Summit 2012, the Confederation of Indian ...
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OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel announced that in 2012 the Company fulfilled its obligations with respect to the long term target program Relocation of Norilsk and Dudinka citizens to regions of the Russian Federation with more favorable natural ...
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The new-generation Mitsubishi Lancer has been delayed until 2014,around two years behind schedule. Although the usual five-year Japanese model lifecycle has been used for the past three generations of Mitsubishi Lancer–the 1992 ...
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Early uptake of Windows 8 appears to be lagging behind that of Windows 7 in the period after the older OS's launch back in 2009. A survey of online activity carried out by marketing intelligence firm NetApplications found that just one ...
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Small to medium-sized enterprises(SMEs)suffer more from malware than larger organisations,but their security procedures are lagging behind,says security firm,Kaspersky Lab. SMEs are typically more vulnerable to viruses,worms,spyware and ...
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Plexus Cotton Limited reported that New York (NY) futures dropped back to reality this week, as December fell 499 points to close at 72.73 cents. As anticipated the market was unable to sustain last week's upside momentum and started to ...
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First, ethanol use of corn is running behind the seasonal pace to meet current USDA expectations. Our models are indicating that if the current use of corn for ethanol continues we will fall about 125 million bushels short of current USDA ...
The FTTH (fibre-to-the-home) Council of Europe has blamed the tradition of one large incumbent provider and the lack of ambition from the government for the UK lagging behind when it comes to fibre broadband. This week sees the council ...
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LEDs - or Light-Emitting Diodes – are semiconductors that generate narrow-spectrum light when electrically biased in the forward direction of the p-n junction. This effect is a form of electroluminescence. A single LED is often a ...
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