Cisco has revealed the six start-up businesses that have reached its BIG Awards final. The Cisco BIG Awards, in partnership with JP Morgan, Bird & Bird, DNX and Octopus Communications, aim to reward the UK's most innovative start-up ...
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Six London councils are undergoing an Oracle shared services implementation, in a move expected to save £18m over four years. The London Boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Brent, Lambeth, Lewisham, Havering and Croydon will be ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft today announced that it's wrapped up Windows 8 and declared that the operating system has met the "release to manufacturing" (RTM) milestone. "A short while ago we started releasing Windows 8 to PC OEM and ...
Computerworld-Twitter is looking to take the country's temperature when it comes to the presidential election in November. The micro-blogging site today launched the Twitter Political Index,a tool to show in real time the popularity of ...
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Computerworld-The Nexus 7 with 16GB of storage reappeared"in stock"on Wednesday in the Google Play online store after it was unavailable there and in many retail stores in the U.S.for about a week. Google launched its Nexus 7 tablet at ...
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When you think about open plan offices, you probably think of media companies, architecture firms, or advertising agencies — basically, any place where the need for collaboration and creativity make a lot of walls and closed doors a ...
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IDG News Service-Following a four-month beta period,Rackspace has started offering its hosted servers and databases using the open source OpenStack suite of cloud software. That OpenStack has been pressed into production use just two ...
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Computerworld-More than 1 million people had registered with the new Outlook.com email service on opening day,Microsoft said yesterday. The company announced the milestone in a tweet posted about six hours after Outlook.com went live."One ...
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Over the past six months FIRA reports a significant rise in membership and clients, across all areas of the business. FIRA continues to show growth with regards to attracting and retaining members. Since March, FIRA has welcomed 10 new ...
A common mechanism underlying charge traps in organic electronics has been discovered,leading to a theoretical framework for improved plastic electronics,OLEDs and organic solar cells. During their passage through semiconductors,a ...
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Rochester Electronics,the world's largest authorized manufacturer of mature,often referred to as obsolete or discontinued,semiconductors,has added more than 176m die to its inventory to extend the life of critical semiconductors through its ...
Intevac Photonics orders hit new high 01 Aug 2012 Record bookings largely due to$10 million deal to fit Apache helicopters with night-vision cameras. Intevac's"Night Port" Intevac Photonics,the optics-focused subsidiary of the ...
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Biolase strikes deal with Aachen Dental Laser Center 01 Aug 2012 Partnership will promote laser dentistry and facilitate training in the field. A long-term agreement struck between Biolase and Professor Norbert Gutknecht of the Aachen ...
Do you ever worry that your bathroom is too,well,dry?Wouldn't it be nice just to spray the shower head around the place,just going buck wild and hoping some of the warm water gets on you?Would you like your home to be more like a classy ...
Japan has decided to extend, for another year, punitive tariffs on tapered roller bearings imported from the U. S. In retaliation against a U. S. Anti-dumping trade law known as the Byrd amendment. The decision to extend the retaliatory ...
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