While hardware and components makers face economic hurdles, the picture for software is getting brighter, according to earnings reports from major vendors and mid-year market research polls. Vendors and analysts lay much of the blame for ...
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Reuters quoted Anglo American Plc as saying that an injunction blocking installation of an electricity transmission line at its Minas-Rio iron ore project in Brazil has been lifted, clearing the final hurdle for the project. A ...
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The industry has welcomed the European Commission's (EC's) ambitious cloud computing strategy but insisted more efforts are needed in areas of cloud standardisation, security and data protection if the EC'sforecasts are to be met. The ...
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The true hurdle of solar technology is being able to produce solar cells efficiently and at low cost. The present world technology doesn’t make solar cell production a bargain, but a new prototype by researchers at Stanford University ...
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IDG News Service - Facebook has proposed a revised settlement in a lawsuit in which it was alleged to have used the names and likeness of the plaintiffs without their prior consent in "Sponsored Stories" advertisements shown to their online ...
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With the upcoming release of Microsoft Office 13, Microsoft is encouraging developers and administrators to use open Web technologies such as JavaScript, CSS and HTML to build their add-on apps. Microsoft wanted to "modernize the way the ...
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Bloomberg reported that First Quantum Minerals Ltd a producer of copper in Africa, raised its bid for Inmet Mining Corp for a second time to about CAD 5.1 billion (USD 5.2 billion) as it seeks control of the Cobre Panama project. ...
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Fiberlink, a global leader in software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for application management and secure mobile device management announced a free on-demand webinar titled "Squashing the Top 5 Mobile Security Threats." Enterprise ...
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European IT firm Bull SAS tailor-makes private cloud with security assured The research labs at Bull SAS – the European IT company that helps public sector organisations to optimise their IT architecture – handle development ...
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With the verdict in the Apple-Samsung trial delivered after less than three days it's tempting to think the jury just wanted to get it over with by the weekend, but that's not necessarily the case, one legal expert said Friday. "It's ...
To fill the market need for a consumer-friendly, real time, online debit payment method for Australia and New Zealand... Alternative Payments has added a new option to its extensive line of alternative payment solutions. PASADENA, CA, ...
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With approval from the Canadian government granted on Friday, China National Offshore Oil Corp. has crossed the biggest hurdle to its $15.1 billion takeover bid for Nexen and the deal should close by the end of the year, analysts said in ...
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BS reported that the National Aluminium Company has heaved a sigh of relief with Supreme Court condoning the delay in submission of its forest diversion proposal for renewal of bauxite mine lease. With this, the hurdles in the path of ...
For most of us, cupcakes are a pleasant treat. For Freed's Bakery, though, cupcakes are serious business -- big business. That's because Manchester, NH-based Freed's, a division of Maplehurst Bakeries, Brownsburg, IN, is one of the largest ...
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Bloomberg reported that Aluminium Corporation of China Limited is seeking to tap bauxite resources and build processing plants abroad after Indonesia the largest supplier to China, curbed exports. Mr Luo Jianchuan president of Chalca said ...
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