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A Beautiful Exhibition of Glass Sculptures by Mayo Artist Emma Bourke

Nov 23, 2012

Opening on Friday, November 30 at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar is Flora lucid, a beautiful exhibition of glass sculptures by Mayo artist Emma Bourke. Emma is a visual artist working mainly in the medium of glass. Her artistic ...

Tags: Glass Exhibition, Glass, Construction

Barnet Council Would Run Its Back-Office Services

Nov 23, 2012

Barnet council has recommended Capita as its preferred bidder for a32m euros-a-year contract to run its back-office services. The 10-year deal would see the outsourcing company operate London Borough of Barnet's new support and customer ...

Tags: Barnet, Capita, Outsourcing Deal, Public Services

Sears Canada Takes Too Long to Implement The Plan for The Multi-Channel Retailer

Nov 23, 2012

TORONTO --- Even though Sears Canada narrowed its net loss by almost half despite falling sales in the third quarter, its CEO said it's taking too long to implement his turnaround plan for the multi-channel retailer. Revenues for the 13 ...

Tags: furniture

Police System Raises Concerns About Privacy

Nov 23, 2012

Ailsa Beaton, CIO at the Metropolitan Police, the top IT job in the police service, is to leave her post in mid-2013 after 12 years in the role. Further reading Analysis: Police forces investigate new ICT strategies Met Police system ...

Tags: Ailsa Beaton, ACPO, PFI, mobile technologies

Premier Foods Announced Plans to Axe 900 Jobs

Nov 23, 2012

This week Premier Foods announced plans to axe 900 jobs and to close two bakeries,while Dutch meat group Vion revealed the sale of its UK food businesses?raising doubts about the future of 13,000 employees.Here,we capture a flavour of the ...

Tags: beef, lamb, BSE, food exports

Amazon Suffered Another Embarrassment as Web Services

Nov 23, 2012

Amazon suffered another embarrassment as web services hosted at its Virginia datacentre were subject to an outage, bringing websites of a number of high-profile customers down, and for not the first time. The cloud infrastructure was hit ...

Tags: Amazon, Cloud, AWS, Google

Zeppelins,Robot Slaves,an LED Lightbulb Are The Three Key Things in The Future

Nov 23, 2012

When in the past they predicted the future, three key things were imagined: first, zeppelins would be tethered to every tall building. Secondly,c. And thirdly, every lightbulb would be cc. But while we all float to work in our zeppelins ...

Tags: LED Bulb

Sheffield City Council Start a City-Wide Installation of LED Streetlamps in The UK

Nov 23, 2012

As announced earlier this year, Sheffield City Council became the first in the UK to begin a city-wide installation of LED streetlamps this week, as it aims to become one of the first areas in Europe to significantly drive down costs across ...

Tags: LED Streetlight

Art Van Plans Big Black Friday Bargains and Giveaways

Nov 23, 2012

Art Van's website conveys a time-sensitive message that encourages shoppers to beat the crowds and take advantage of deep discounts during Black Friday. The retailer is also giving customers a chance to win a new Fiat. WARREN, Mich. ...

Tags: Art Van furniture, Furniture

Luxeyard Reported More Than $3.6 Million of Operating Loss

Nov 23, 2012

LOS ANGELES --- Online retailer LuxeYard, which sells home furnishings and décor through online "flash sales," reported third-quarter revenue of $574,381, but had an operating loss of more than $3.6 million. The publicly traded ...

Tags: furniture, Luxeyard

Samsung and Lg Have Been Bitter Rivals Even Before Smartphones Enveloped Consumer Market

Nov 23, 2012

Samsung has filed a patent invalidation lawsuit against LG in an intellectual property (IP) tribunal in their homeland.The former now asks the tribunal to invalidate several LG OLED patents and consequently drop the patent infringement ...

Tags: OLED, Patent

Samsung Has Launched Their Own New Range of LED Retrofit Lamps

Nov 23, 2012

Samsung Electronics South Africa has released a new line-up of LED retrofit lamps include a total of 7 products, comprised of various LED light bulbs including L-Tubes GU10, MR16, E27, candle and golf ball types. Further solutions ...

Tags: LED Lamp

Ge Lighting with LED Luminaires Inspires New Commercial Ceiling Landscapes

Nov 23, 2012

GE Lighting continues to evoke the imagination of architects and lighting designers with LED luminaires that inspire new commercial ceiling landscapes. The Lumination™ LED Suspended Luminaire—a chic, ultra-thin fixture unlike ...

Tags: Panel light

Dialight Has Secured an Order to Provide in Excess of 1,000 LED Lighting Fixtures

Nov 23, 2012

Dialight has secured an order to provide in excess of 1,000 LED lighting fixtures, with a total contract value of approximately US$400,000, for installation at a 250 megawatt (MW) solar thermal power plant in California, US. The order ...

Tags: LED Lighting

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Has Outlined Her Strategy for The Company

Nov 23, 2012

New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has outlined her strategy for the company, with the focus firmly fixed on mobile and improving the "user experience" of the company's services. Further reading Yahoo's Mayer brings fellow ex-Google exec on ...

Tags: Marissa Mayer, Yahoo, Google, Bing, Microsoft