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 ...
Tags: Managing Production, manufacturing, farm equipment maker
Fallbrook Technologies is donating 1,000 of its NuVinci continuously variable hubs to Worldbike for use in developing countries. Worldbike is a network of bicycle industry designers and others with ties to manufacturing resources ...
Tags: Fallbrook Technologies, NuVinci variable hubs, Worldbike
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
We are pleased to announce two new exhibitions for summer 2013. Milestones: Textiles of Transition will explore how historic and contemporary textiles have been created for and continue to signify moments of transition—birth, ...
Tags: SJ Museum, New Textile Exhibitions, Textile
Telefonica Digital is investing in a cloud-based HR system to manage its 6,500 worldwide workforce in a project that is expected to pay for itself in under two years. Telefonica Digital is to spend several million on Workday's cloud-based ...
Tags: Telefonica Digital, HR system, worldwide workforce, HR platform
BT Openreach's fibre to the premises (FTTP) is now available to communications providers, supporting 40Mbps to 330Mbps downstream and 2Mbps to 30Mbps upstream in a select few areas of the UK. The service will initially be available in the ...
Tags: FTTP, BT Openreach, rural broadband, network
Online social networks are gathering information about their users that those people never intended to disclose, and government regulation may be the only way to stop the practice, a researcher said Tuesday. People deliberately disclose a ...
Tags: online social networks, information, government regulation
The U.S. government needs a comprehensive doctrine addressing cybersecurity instead of the current patchwork of policies and agencies dealing with cyberthreats, according to a group of experts. The lack of an overarching cybersecurity ...
Tags: U.S.government, cybersecurity, cyberthreats, experts
In our over-consumptive society and in the season that exposes it, we buy too many gifts and go overboard with decorating. Lights outlining entire houses, garlands across doorways and up banisters, a wreath on every door, the tallest and ...
Tags: holiday decorating, white Christmas, ornaments, greenery
The hand of government is not all that heavy on businesses when it comes to notification requirements about data breaches that affect personal information. And it looks like it won't get much heavier, even if a bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. ...
Tags: data breaches, personal information, law, wiggle room
The Philippine Trade and Investment Center (PTIC) in Jakarta recently reported to the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) capital office that a renowned manufacturer and exporter of Philippine embroidery gained recognition for ...
Tags: Philippine Trade and Investment Center, Philippine embroidery
Hardly a day goes by without a story about the UK banking community messing up in some way or other. Some of the highest profile stories of the year have been around banks side-stepping regulation and fixing the markets for their own ...
Tags: UK banking community, profile stories, banks, benefit
The U.S. government needs a comprehensive doctrine addressing cyber security instead of the current patchwork of policies and agencies dealing with cyber threats, according to a group of experts. The lack of an overarching cyber security ...
Journeys. Wanderings in contemporary Turkey continues the cycle of exhibitions, initiated at the Espace culturel Louis Vuitton in 2006, exploring the contemporary art scene of a foreign country. After Indonesia in 2011, the Espace now turns ...
As the last remnants of summer fade into the autumn and the leaves begin to transform from green to stunning shades of red and gold,it's not just the trees that are changing their appearance.People across the country are breaking out their ...