The non-profit Sustainable Performance Institute (SPI) has released version 3.0 of its Green Firm Certification criteria for public comment. Building industry professionals are invited to provide feedback on the proposed new criteria until ...
FCICA, the flooring contractors association would like to remind you about our exciting membership program, the Diamond Club. This is an incentive program for those members who support FCICA by bringing in a new member to the association. ...
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"It's elegant, it's time-refined, it's a fashion statement … it's the new look for Harris Wood," said Jamie Clingan, senior vice president of marketing. Harris Wood floors are a quality engineered product and have been for over 115 ...
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In the second of a series of three articles on the treatment of waters, oil and gas industry expert David Robinson discusses the treatment and discharge of produced and other waters from onshore oil and gas production. First stage ...
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Join two Computing journalists as they politely - and sometimes impolitely - disagree over key technology trends and subjects. In the third of Computing's Tech Tiff episodes, John Leonard and Sooraj Shah debate how necessary 4G is for ...
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Semiconductor giant Intel is to start producing mobile and embedded systems using its latest manufacturing process technology in a bid to muscle in on a market that it had previously ignored. The company is planning to launch a number of ...
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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has announced a global partnership between the social media network and other technology firms, with the aim of making internet access available to the two-thirds of the world that are not yet connected. ...
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Jolla, the mobile operating system start-up established by ex-Nokia employees, says that it has sold out the first batch of its forthcoming debut smartphone. Based on the Sailfish operating system, a refined version of Nokia's Linux-based ...
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Lloyds Banking Group is looking for 30 IT apprentices to take up specialist roles that it says cannot be filled by graduates. The group, which is the parent company of high street bank Lloyds TSB, is looking for school leavers with a ...
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PayPal has launched a chip and pin reader which allows small businesses to securely accept credit and debit card payments wherever they do business. Built for businesses which traditionally rely on cash, PayPal hopes the likes of market ...
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Notebook ODMs have recently started integrating their R&D resources from different departments and are using their idle capacity to develop tablets, smartphones or wearable devices, according to sources from the upstream supply chain. ...
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An initiative to help manufacturers reduce security risks to control systems in response to growing cyber-security threats is being introduced by Rockwell Automation. The initiative will help automation and IT professionals more effectively ...
Process plant designers and others requiring heavy-duty protection can turn to a range of fire-resistant shelters from Intertec including 1709 models designed to protect critical safety equipment from exposure to high-temperature fires in ...
Researchers at the University of Washington (UoW) in Seattle have claimed to have developed a self-powered computer chip technology that can draw wireless TV and Wi-Fi signals from around itself to store energy. The technique, called ...
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Smart machines, cognitive computing and the "internet of things" all feature highly in Gartner's latest Hype Cycle for 2013, the analyst group's long-range examination of emerging technologies. Innovative emerging technologies highlighted ...
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