Guardian Life Insurance, a mutual life insurer and a provider of employee benefits, has appointed Caitlin Pincus as senior vice president of Strategy & Guardian Labs and Dean Del Vecchio as senior vice president and chief information ...
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The Co-operative Bank has written down £148.4m after deciding not to go ahead with the implementation of a new core banking platform. The bank revealed the write down as part of its financial results for the six months to 30 June ...
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Uber, the transportation app that has?run afoul of taxi regulators?in the States, has set its sights on global domination. Next stop: the United Arab Emirates.? The company on Tuesday announced its first Middle East outpost with?rides in ...
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Job vacancies for IT workers are increasing at a faster rate in areas outside of London, despite an on-going drive by the government to promote Tech City and start-ups in the East End of the Capital. This is according to the latest data ...
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A proposed change to U.S. law that would allow state attorneys general to hold websites liable for content posted by users is a "dangerous path," a group of tech trade groups and legal scholars said Wednesday. A proposal by a group of ...
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China and the US are the top two countries with the greatest potential to drive technology breakthroughs and likely to have a global impact in the next four years, said KPMG that released results of a survey recently. KPMG’s 2013 ...
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Wearable Technologies Group, the pioneer and leading business platform for wearable technologies, has been successfully driving innovation and market development for more than five years, and organizes world-wide Wearable Technologies ...
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The federal government is making one of the most powerful supercomputers in its computing arsenal available to any U.S. businesses that can help make the country more competitive. The system is the 5 petaflop Vulcan (one petaflop equals ...
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Smart lighting is an advance technology in lighting that makes use of intelligent lighting control systems to intelligently control light based on various parameters like occupancy, movement, color temperature, amount of natural/daylight ...
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Yahoo will acquire Qwiki, a start-up behind a mobile app for creating videos on Apple's iPhone, as it continues to ramp up its mobile offerings. Yahoo paid about $50m (£33m) for the company, according to sources close to the matter, ...
Devices with wide-bandgap semiconductors will offer the greater competitive advantage in micro-inverters and small string inverters, reckons market analyst firm Lux Research. Wide-bandgap semiconductors – specifically, silicon ...
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Internet giant Google is to enter "the battle for the living room" with its own games console based on Android, which will connect wirelessly via Bluetooth to Google Glass, smart watches and other wireless devices. The aim of the ...
Lloyds Bank is to work with mobile payments company Monitise to develop a suite of mobile card acceptance services for small businesses. The services will be developed on Monitise's mPOS platform and aimed, in particular, at ...
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In its latest report ‘Global and China GaAs Industry Report, 2012-2013’ market analayst firm Research In China summarizes that in first-half 2013 the biggest news in the gallium arsenide industry was Qualcomm’s ...
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The IT department of 2020 could disappear as a separate entity and become embedded in departments throughout the entire organisation, according to analyst Forrester. Speaking at its CIO Forum event in London, analysts discussed some of ...
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