German retailer Tengelmann has confirmed its Kaiser's supermarket chain has pulled frozen lasagnes from shelves amid concerns the lines could contain horse meat. A spokesperson for the group told just-food today (11 February) that it had ...
Tags: Horse Meat, Grocer Kaise, Pulls Lasagnes
Underperforming open industrial waste water treatment lagoons are on the way out after more than a century, as industry counts the cost of their pollution, odours, leakage, energy wastage and relative inefficiency in fixing the problems ...
Tags: Underperforming Waste Lagoons, The Environmental Risk Management
Australia - After an extensive $3m renovation, the Sutherland Shire's Miranda Hotel has reopened complete with a new outdoor garden bar and a totally refurbished Carmen's Nightclub. Compact Monitor Systems Australia designed and installed ...
Intel later this year will start offering a TV set-top box and service as the company tries to cash in on the fast-growing TV and home entertainment business. The company will offer its own TV box, which will combine live TV and on-demand ...
Genworth US Mortgage Insurance (USMI) has launched a new set of rules, Simply Underwrite (SM), which enables lenders to provide simplified and expanded national mortgage underwriting guidelines. Apart from offering one expanded national ...
Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium in a move that raises questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in Hewlett-Packard's high-end Integrity servers. In a short notice posted quietly to ...
Tags: Intel, Itanium, server chip
IBM's Watson supercomputer outperformed humans in the televised game show "Jeopardy." Now the company is moving some of its underlying technologies from the supercomputer into new entry-level servers. The company's new Power Express ...
Tags: IBM, Watson supercomputer, televised game
Earlier this week, the Consumer Reports TV crew was filming a segment on blenders, detailing the results of our recently updated Ratings of nearly 60 models. Our cameraman got too close to one of the blender blades and gave his thumb a ...
Tags: Consumer Reports TV, blenders, TV
ARM’s close collaboration with the foundries on next generation processes is paying off. Globalfoundries says that an ARM chip made on its 14nm finfet policy delivers twice the power efficiency of its ‘super low power’ ...
Tags: ARM, ARM chip, dual Cortex ARM A9 cores
Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium, raising questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in HP’s high-end Integrity servers. In a short notice posted quietly to its website on January ...
Tags: Intel, back plans, Itanium
Apple Australia says it is making some MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models more affordable with faster processors and lower starting prices. In Australia,the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display will now cost from $1,649 for a device ...
Tags: Apple, Processors, Consumer Electronics
Canada-based Guelph Food Technology Center has merged with US-based certification services provider NSF International. GFTC stated that the move will benefit its customers from NSF food safety training, auditing and certification services ...
Tags: Food Technology, food safety, food
IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard has announced the availability of its latest Pavilion laptop with Google's Chrome OS as the PC maker tries to improve laptop sales by offering an alternative to the Windows OS. The Pavilion 14 Chromebook ...
Tags: HP, Windows laptops, Windows OS
IDG News Service - Sony has started shipping two new Vaio ultrabooks with large screens starting at US$699 as the company expands its lineup of thin and light laptops. The Vaio T Series 14 and 15 ultrabooks have Intel's Core processors ...
Tags: Sony, laptops, Core processors
Based on the ARM Cortex A9 and A15 processors Texas Instruments (TI) has launched the TPS65090, the single-chip, front-end power management unit (PMU) chip which it is claimed can extend the battery life of tablets and other portable ...
Tags: ARM Cortex A9, Texas Instruments, TPS65090