The Australian dollar was lower yesterday after worldwide confidence was dented by news on Friday of weaker than expected employment growth in the US last month. At 5pm, the dollar was buying $US1.0379, down US0.36c. The US jobs report ...
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The Australian dollar was lower today after world-wide confidence was dented by news on Friday of weaker-than-expected employment growth in the US in March. The Australian dollar was trading at $US1.0373 in late afternoon trading compared ...
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The HTC First smartphone will have native support for Facebook Home when it ships on AT&T April 12. Some analysts wonder how soon -- or whether -- native support for the app will be added to more smartphones. Given Facebook's enormous ...
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Microsoft today reminded customers running Office for Mac 2008 that support for the suite ends next Tuesday. "Support for Office for Mac 2008 will end April 9, 2013," Microsoft's Mac Business Unit (MacBU), the firm's OS X development arm, ...
A Scottish slaughterhouse has been fined £9,500 for breaking a law designed to keep Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) out of the human food chain. Risk material was not removed from slaughtered sheep before inspection ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, policy, human food chain
The ICE Brent front-to-second month spread fell into contango during afternoon US trade Friday, the first contango between the two contracts since July 2, 2012. ICE May Brent was down $2.50 at $103.84/b after hitting a fresh eight-month ...
Beverly Hills, California, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) April 1, 2013 -- The HP Pavilion batteries are composed of lithium-ion cells that are designed to hold power for extended amounts of time. This is manifested by ...
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Specialty sleep sets soar when it comes to consumers' sleep satisfaction. Innerspring beds, not quite as much. In a nutshell, those are some of the key findings from a consumer survey that Furniture/Today undertook with its research ...
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Hammock Design Hammock chairs are like hammocks in their design. The difference is that hammock chairs are designed to allow you to sit instead or lie down. Hammock chairs are designed to swing and sway, but they do so while you are in a ...
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Myntra, India's largest e-commerce platform for fashion and lifestyle products, announced the acquisition of San Francisco based FITIQUETTE (TechCrunch Disrupt Finalist), a technology solution which is a one of a kind virtual fitting room. ...
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You could blame the 2010 launch of the Volkswagen Polo GTI for the ongoing shift away from manual-transmission-equipped hot hatches to dual-clutch automatics. There’s a case to argue that it’s all going the wrong way ...
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The company shot down speculation yet again today that it has a phone under wraps. Instead, the social network unveiled a home screen, along with a family of apps, for Android phones. "There is no phone," said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook ...
Just as spring comes along every year, so, predictably, do new additions to certain sports video-games franchises, including baseball and golf games. This genre is great for the whole sports-loving family to play. Here's our take on several ...
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A(H7N9) influenza borke out in China recently. What is this A(H7N9) virus? H7N9 is a subtype of influenza virus. H7N9 viruses have been previously detected mainly in wild birds, though other H7 viruses been reported ...
OLED HDTVs made news earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show. But cameras have had OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays for years. Just how good are they? Camera companies claim these displays are clearer or brighter ...
Tags: OLED Camera Displays, Consumer Electronics, Display, OLED HDTVs