Robotic packaging line manufacturer in the UK, TekPak, has launched a pick and place case packer, a flexible high speed system for vertical case packing quad bags, pouches and doy packs. The new precision all stainless steel robot uses a ...
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Sterling Energy has announced that it is withdrawing from the Sangaw North Production Sharing Contract (“PSC”) in Kurdistan. Shares in the company were trading down 3.3 percent on Friday morning: Interpretation of the 2D ...
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UK / France - SSE Audio Group has acquired French lighting company M.E.S through its French subsidiary Melpomen. Both MES and Melpomen have bases in Nantes and Paris and have worked together extensively on sound and lighting projects in ...
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The Bayer Science and Education Foundation is teaming up with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to award joint research fellowships. Bayer will contribute around EUR 3 million (£2.57 million) to the laboratory work, which will ...
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Chemineer, Inc. launched a new interactive website. The new website provides extensive information on the company's design and manufacture of standard and customized fluid agitation equipment and systems. The new Chemineer website is ...
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UK-based insurer Aviva has launched a new iPad application for its online trading platform, Fast Trade, to enable brokers to ‘quote and buy’ online in less than five minutes. The new application has been designed to enable ...
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Toyota Motor Europe will use Nokia's mapping technology in its next-generation navigation and infotainment systems. The car company will use a tailored packaging of Nokia's Here platform called Local Search for Automotive, which as the ...
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SAP plans to extend its CRM offering with the acquisition of Ticket-Web, a German specialist in online ticketing for sports and entertainment venues. Ticket-Web has two main product lines: Entree Tickets and Entree CRM. Entree Tickets is ...
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Towers Watson has introduced OneExchange to provide exchange-based health insurance options for private and public full- and part-time workers, and for all retirees on a single platform. OneExchange enables employers to manage the ...
UNFCU Financial Services has purchased a privately-held, full service commercial and personal insurance agency, Industrial Coverage Corp (ICC), to offer competitively-priced insurance programs to its US-based members. Under terms of the ...
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Twitter said its site is back up and running after an outage worldwide knocked out access for some users for nearly three hours today. Starting at 10 a.m. Eastern time, Twitter suffered intermittent downtime and slow page loads that ...
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Today is the last day customers can purchase an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for the discounted price of $39.99. Starting tomorrow, Feb. 1, Microsoft will quintuple the price of the upgrade to $199.99. An upgrade to Windows 8, a less-capable ...
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ZTE and China Mobile have successfully tested carrier aggregation, and achieved peak download speed of 223Mbps in the Chinese operator's LTE TDD network. Carrier aggregation is one of the technologies that will be used to increase ...
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Hewlett-Packard researchers are developing a cloud-based "avatar" to manage all of a user's mobile devices and wireless networks. Their idea is to give individual users an identity that transcends the many smartphones, tablets and other ...
The general availability of Oracle's long-awaited, next-generation 12c database will likely occur within weeks or possibly even days, the IDG News Service has learned. Oracle had previously said the general release would come sometime ...
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