Australia is experiencing record rural exports, more opportunities from China’s urbanisation, and global supply chains are having an effect on Australia’s export profile, according to the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation ...
Tags: Australia, Rural Exports, Service
The Export Finance and Insurance Corporation’s (EFIC) Export Monitor newsletter considers the outlook for exports to Asia beyond commodities. "Tourism and education exports will continue their rapid expansion, driven by especially ...
The Export Finance and Insurance Commission (EFIC) has examined free trade deals clinched with Japan and Korea this month and the trade agreement currently being pursued with China. “These agreements offer unprecedented access to ...
Tags: Electrolytic Capacitors, Asian FTA
EFIC has examined the dynamics behind Australia's trade surplus that reached $1.4b in January, its highest level in nearly 2 years. "Export values have surged, driven by increases in rural and resource export volumes. This is despite ...
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC has announced three marketing appointments within its Bridgestone Commercial Solutions business unit. Matt Loos has been promoted to director of truck and bus marketing and Michelle Lane has been ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Tire
The tenth annual Safety Products Student Design Challenge winners were announced today by the Safety and Technical Products Division of Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI). The annual contest is developed and supported by ...
A study by analyst IDC shows how companies are using the open source Hadoop big data analytics systems alongside other systems to get value out of their data. IDC’s “Trends in Enterprise Hadoop Deployments” report, ...
Tags: Hadoop, Big Data Analytics
SHARES in specialist telecoms construction firm Service Stream crashed to an all-time low yesterday as the company failed to rally against the negative fallout of breaching its banking covenants. Service Stream shares touched a record low ...
In an effort to combine the best of two database technologies, startup FoundationDB has launched a new data store that it claims can offer the reliability of transactional databases and the scalability and speed of NoSQL. The data store, ...
Tags: database technology, FoundationDB, transactional database
The U.S. is dangerously unprepared to face a full-scale cyberconflict launched by a peer adversary, a report by the military's Defense Science Board (DSB) warns. The report, released in January, and first reported on by The Washington ...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has found that 25% of part-time workers want more hours, against an agency finding that promotes part-time work. According to an Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report, over a quarter of part-time ...
Tags: Australian Bureau of Statistics, part-time work, employment
IDG News Service - With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra. "We're in constant dialogue with our customers and users, ...
Tags: MySQL, NoSQL Competitors, company news
IDG News Service - Adjusting to changes in corporate hardware buying habits, the Apache Software Foundation's Cassandra NoSQL distributed database has been updated to better use larger servers through the introduction of virtual nodes and ...
Tags: fat Servers, hardware, software, Facebook, Cassandra
A number of high-profile outages that took place last weekend can be traced back to how the Linux OS kernel mishandled a leap second added to the official time,charges the CTO of DataStax,a company that manages the open source Cassandra ...
Tags: Linux, Leap-Second Lapses
IDG News Service - While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users who presented their ...
Tags: NoSQL, Oracle, relational database system, transaction system