The National Transportation Safety Board in the U.S.plans to drop the BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion for Apple's iPhone,citing performance issues. The iPhone 5 smartphone will replace the NTSB's existing BlackBerry ...
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The sales pitch for servers in the cloud has always leaned on the word"commodity."You push a button,and voilA,a root password is yours within minutes.The machines in the cloud may not be exactly what you would order if you were filling out ...
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South Carolina's governor faulted an outdated Internal Revenue Service standard as a contributing factor to a massive data breach that exposed Social Security numbers of 3.8 million taxpayers plus credit card and bank account data. ...
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With the appearance of more and more skyscrapers in the city, glass curtain wall also become the premium problem of urban safety. Experts of the industry also appealed the popularization of ultra-clear tempered glass and homogeneous ...
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U. S. Solvents demand will continue to rebound from its recessionary lows, rising 1.5% per year in volume terms through 2016 to 10.9 billion pounds. A strong rebound in construction activity will drive strong increases in solvent demand in ...
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ePharmaSolutions has launched PatientLive, a new patient recruitment application for the new Windows 8 platform. The new solution has a consumer and sponsor component, which will offer pharmaceutical companies and CROs a better return on ...
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BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- As building owners and managers seek ways to make their facilities more energy efficient, thereby lowering the costs of heating and cooling, the use of smart glass - which has properties that can be varied ...
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GSL Biotech's software product, SnapGene, has been selected by Clontech Laboratories for cloning simulation and plasmid map drawing. Clontech researchers, who have participated in SnapGene beta testing, have also assisted SnapGene's ...
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GoodSync is single-minded:It's intended to provide automatic synchronization and backup across folders and remote volumes.That narrow focus has two repercussions.First,the utility offers exhaustive,rich,and deep support for an array of ...
Tags: GoodSync, file-transfer, user interface, three popular standard protocols
The chairman of the U.S.Senate Judiciary Committee has not reversed course on email privacy and has not proposed to give U.S.agencies access to email and other electronic communications without search warrants,despite a news report to the ...
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U.S.efforts to develop the next-generation high performance computing(HPC)platform are lagging because they don't have government funding.In China,it's a much different story. China has impressed analysts with its rocket-speed commitment ...
Tags: U.S., China, HPC platform, Earl Joseph, Tianhe-1A system
Sales in Staples' international operations for the third quarter were down 12 per cent to US$1.1 billion, reflecting weak sales in Europe and Australia. Economic weakness drove declines in the company's European delivery businesses, as ...
One Laptop Per Child has cancelled plans to release its XO-3 tablet,although technology from that project could still be used in other products,OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said. "The XO-3 is by no means gone.It may emerge in its ...
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More specialist teachers in science and computer science are needed for primary school children,a report from CBI has called for today. The First Steps:A new approach for our schools report is being launched at the CBI Annual Conference ...
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Global demand for auto parts in the fourth quarter, the traditional high season, is expected to be strong, especially amid bad weather in North America. Tong Yang Industrial Co., Ltd., a major auto-parts supplier in Taiwan, announced ...
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