6UK,the body set up to help UK organisations secure a competitive advantage through adopting Internet Protocol version 6(IPv6,)has disbanded citing government apathy to its work as the key reason. The not-for-profit organisation was set ...
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The steering board of the new European Cloud Partnership(ECP)has met in Brussels,kicking off the process to build an EU Digital Single Market for cloud computing. The board,which aims to make the most of the public sector's buying power ...
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The European Union launched an investigation on Thursday into alleged state subsidies for Chinese solar panel manufacturers, intensifying a trade war between the two centered on the multi-billion dollar solar power market. The EU's ...
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Europump's'Improvement of reliability of pumps by condition monitoring-consequences for MTBR/MTBF' is available on the Europump website The Europump Technical Commission has just published its guide on condition monitoring. It is ...
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Europe is failing to capitalise on its academic heritage,warns Fred Dart,CEO,FTDI As an engineer by trade,it worries me immensely that the UK and many other EU member states are not doing anywhere near enough to get school leavers to take ...
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By the 12th October the European Union is expected to confirm the continuation of anti-dumping measures, first applied in early 2009, on certain steel fasteners from the People's Republic of China but to reduce the levels of tariffs ...
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The European Commission(EC)has outlined a cloud computing strategy that aims to boost European business and government productivity. The strategy,dubbed Unleashing the potential of cloud computing in Europe,aims to deliver a net gain of ...
Tags: EC, cloud computing strategy, create 2.5 million new jobs, Kroes
A number of initiatives and funding programs in Europe continue to promote solid-state lighting as both a key enabling technology and a way to build industrial strength and create jobs,writes TIM WHITAKER. Solid-state lighting(SSL)is ...
Over the past years, the EU has put a lot of focus on designing legislations to increase the energy efficiency of buildings such as the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) and the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED). Now that ...
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Marking its 100th fair anniversary,T r e n d S e t's International Consumer Goods Trade Fair for Lifestyle will feature trends and new decorative products for Christmas and other festive occasions from July 7-9,2012 at the Munich Trade Fair ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Design, Accessories, Lifestyle
As the revised legislation of European Union (EU) Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) came into force from 13 August, the UK and other (EU) Member States have time until 14 February 2014 to bring themselves in line with the ...
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The British customs authority HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sent a letter to the Timber Trade Federation on 27 February promising to step up its inspections of softwood plywood imported into the EU against the duty-free quota. HMRC said ...
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Finland is “sceptical” of EU plans to draw up sustainability criteria for solid biomass. In a Finnish Forest Association article on forests web portal forest. Fi, Finnish forests official Heikki Granholm says the relevant issue ...
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Confusion still remains over what exactly nanomaterials are being defined as. The European Commission, the European Union's Brussels-based executive, has at last published a definition of nanomaterials. But both environmentalists and ...
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A meeting of EU Member States voted in favour of imposing provisional tariffs on imported tiles from China, with the UK having abstained on the vote. The EU Commission is likely to confirm this over the coming few days with provisional ...
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