Sept machinery orders -4.3 pct vs forecast -1.8 pct Govt maintains view on machinery orders Current account surplus -68.7 pct vs forecast -51.9 pct Analysts say economy has been weakening since spring Service sector sentiment index hits ...
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The head of Deere & Company, the world's largest agricultural machinery manufacturer by revenue, says the US company is to invest further in China over the next few years, as the country strives to update and improve the agricultural sector ...
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Government bodies must now comply with Open Standard Principles for IT, minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has announced. The Open Standard Principles are an agreed set of standards designed to make government IT more open, ...
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Deputy Information Commissioner David Smith has told Computing that,while he does not dispute the accuracy of figures to suggest a 1,000 per cent rise in UK public and private sector data breaches in the past five years,he is unsure ...
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Public anxiety over data sharing is in danger of becoming of a major issue of the information age, and businesses and government need to act in order to reduce fears. That's according to The Data Dialogue, a newly launched report from ...
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Brazil will raise import tariffs on 100 foreign products to help struggling local industries,Finance Minister Guido Mantega said on Tuesday,in a move that could amplify concerns over growing protectionism in the world's No.6 economy. This ...
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Data security breaches across private-and public-sector organisations in the UK have risen by an average of 1,000 per cent over the past five years,according to figures obtained from the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO). According ...
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Recent research by the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Assn. Reveals the U. S. Kitchen and bath wood-based cabinet market size is $6.997 billion, based on figures for the year ending 2010. The information is based KCMA member companies’ ...
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The government recently published its white paper on open data,with the newly-created Open Data User Group having met to discuss the next phase.But despite these moves,campaigners are worried that plans to create a£16bn stimulus to ...
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Computerworld-Like many other India-based IT services providers,Mahindra Satyam is expanding its presence in the U.S. In its case,Mahindra Satyam is opening an IT delivery center in Fargo,N.D.,with the help of anchor client Cargill,a ...
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Twitter has received more government requests for user information in the first six months of this year than it did in all of 2011, the company reported this week. Taking a page from Google, the micro-blogging site released on Monday its ...
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New Program Helps Businesses Meet July 14th Department of Energy Ban on One Billion T12 Fluorescent Tubes PHILADELPHIA,June 14,2012/PRNewswire via COMTEX/--Independence LED lighting,a leading U.S.Manufacturer of energy efficient LED ...
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Japanese stocks rose for a third day after better-than-estimated data on the nation’s machinery orders. Oil and the New Zealand dollar declined as Chinese exports grew at a slower pace than economists’ forecasts. The Nikkei 225 ...
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OTTAWA - Canada and the United States have bought two extra years of relative peace on the lumber front. The two governments agreed Monday to extend the 2006 softwood lumber agreement by two years to October 2015 with no modifications to ...
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New Zealand's sawn timber exports to China have been 'hammered', while raw log shipments surged in the wake of Beijing's efforts to cool the economy. This is amid increased sales by rival forestry nations such as Canada, according to the ...
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