Following several breakout sessions last October and input from more than 250 Institute stakeholders, the Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) announced its new mission statement and strategic plan. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
UK researchers have found no link between the number of American drivers making phone calls while driving, and the number of collisions on US roads. The research team examined over eight million car crashes, and all road fatalities, that ...
Tags: Car Crash
Germany's EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) competent authority BLE has seized two of three known lots of allegedly illegal Wenge deliveries from the Kongo amid ongoing investigations. The timber was discovered on the premises of a sawmill in ...
Tags: Construction, timber
German telecommunication policy has contributed to the emergence of innovative services and new networks, while supporting the availability of fast internet access. However, at the same time, demand for high-speed connections has developed ...
Tags: telecommunication
Senator Kate Lundy, GS1 Australia's CEO Maria Palazzolo, GS1 Australia's manager consumer goods Sean Sloan, Catherine Caruana-McManus from Smarter Planet and cities executive IBM Australia and New Zealand. GS1 Australia and the Australian ...
Tags: logistices, customs, Service
Fleets and owner-operators will get a first-hand look at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company's Total Package Solution of products, services, and profitability tools at this month's Great American Trucking Show (GATS) in Dallas, Texas. ...
Tags: Auto Parts, tyre
Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus have announced ban on the import and sale of New Zealand-based Fonterra's products following a contamination scare. Earlier this month, Fonterra announced that the batches of whey protein, which is used for ...
Tags: Fonterra Dairy Products
Banners are important marketing tools in just about any advertising or marketing campaign. If you have a banner and wish to use it effectively, you most likely need to hang it. This is where most people waste a lot of time by depending on ...
In the three years following a cartel breakdown, the number of mergers is significantly higher than in the three years preceding the collapse. A recent study conducted by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim has ...
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Recently UK Energy Secretary Ed Davey announced the rollout of smart meters was to be delayed by a year. Pushing back the start is a smart move by the government as the delay looks to ensure that the functionality of the meters will be fit ...
China is still proceeding with its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy probes into polysilicon and wine imports from the European Union, a trade official said on August 7, 2013. Experts said that trade frictions between the two sides will keep ...
Tags: Polysilicon, Wine Trade Probes
The PRISM revelations and the National Security Agency's programme of obtaining data from web firms could cost the American cloud computing industry $35bn (£23bn) over the next three years, as wary customers switch to providers that ...
Tags: European Providers
Window's new Phone App Studio service has received 30,000 applications in the first 48 hours following its announcement. By the end of last week, the service had received a demand far greater than Microsoft expected, and the company had ...
Tags: Windows Phone, Phone App
Sales of tablets, including Apple’s iPad, slowed during the second quarter, according to a Monday report by IDC. But the real news may be the rise of “no-name” tablets, which are now the largest segment of the tablet ...
If US intelligence agencies ban the computers of a Chinese company from classified networks should companies also avoid the same products? What if the vendor is one of the world’s largest PC makers? Those questions are not academic. ...
Tags: China-Based Lenovo