OCZ Technology is offering beta testers the ZD-XL SQL Accelerator, a card that uses solid state drive (SSD) storage to improve the performance of SQL Server databases. For OCZ, the ZD-XL SQL Accelerator represents a new direction. Instead ...
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New Vision Packaging has developed an environmentally friendly Easter egg box for the luxury chocolate brand Elizabeth Shaw. The 200g egg box, which features the new packaging design, is being sold exclusively in Asda stores across the ...
Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) has reported February consolidated revenues of NT$923 million (US$31 million), representing an on-month increase of 13.6% but an on-year decrease of 0.2%. The accumulated revenues ...
UK-based SABMiller said that it will construct a new 260,000 hectolitre brewery in Namibia with $40m investment. The company expects to break ground on the new site in early April this year and the brewery is expected to be operational in ...
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Volvo has revealed its newest safety feature, a world-first cyclist detection system, at the 2013 Geneva motor show. A development of the safety-conscious Swedish brand’s existing detection and auto brake technology, the new ...
Renault is set to continue its growth path in Australia as the French brand aims to continue re-establishing itself as a prominent European marque. Last year saw Renault break the 5000 sales mark in Australia for the first time in the ...
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The new Xi’an, China-based building materials production plant of Australia’s biggest steelmaker BlueScope Steel will commence production operations in July of the current year, as reported by local media sources in Xi’an. ...
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Hunan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hunan Valin Iron and Steel Co. has announced that in 2013 its total planned fixed asset project investments amount to RMB 906.91 million($145 million). In particular, RMB 461 million ($73.5 million) ...
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Duisburg, Germany-based steel and metal distribution company, Klockner & Co., has reported a net loss of €198 million for 2012, including €77 million in restructuring expenditure and €55 million in impairments. The company ...
Microsoft has done something it's historically been loath to do: discount prices for the copies of Windows it sells to computer makers, online reports said today. Both the Wall Street Journal and the Asian electronics supply chain ...
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Samsung filed more patent applications in Europe last year than any other company, according to figures released by the European Patent Office (EPO) on Wednesday. In 2012, the EPO received a record number of patent applications, with ...
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Professional social networking service LinkedIn won the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of premium users who had their log-in passwords exposed as a result of a security breach of the company's servers last year. The data ...
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the banking group that owns NatWest, has suffered another embarrassing outage when its computer systems crashed last night, leaving its 7.5 million customers unable to withdraw cash, access their current ...
BT has created more than 1,000 engineering jobs at the company's infrastructure arm Openreach. The vast majority of the roles will be installing broadband in customers' homes, BT said, with the roles being occupied by a mix of ...
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Trader Media Group (TMG), which owns Auto Trader, could replace its iPhone estate with Windows Phones, while Android will not be considered as it "has too many security vulnerabilities". In an exclusive interview with Computing, TMG CIO ...
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