that need to be considered in the design of,and the installation and wiring of,electrical emergency escape lighting systems,in order to provide the lighting performance needed for safe movement of people in the event of the supply to normal ...
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:UCU)(OTCQX:UURAF) ("Ucore" or "the Company") is pleased to comment on the recent announcement that the Chinese government intends to implement a stockpile of critical rare earth oxides, including ...
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Netflix, which faced an interruption of its video streaming service on Christmas Eve, had problems again on Monday related to its DVD website. "Reports of an @Netflix outage today are wrong: Streaming is fine. DVD delivery is fine," said ...
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There's real-time drama unfolding at one of the data centers operating at 111 8th Ave. in NYC, a Google-owned building that occupies a full city block. There are a number of data centers housed in the nearly 3 million square foot building ...
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XL, a global insurance and reinsurance company has introduced a new risk transfer product, called XL Commercial Advance for the UK companies. The new product incorporates property, business interruption, money, employers', public and ...
Hacktivist group Anonymous claims it brought down government websites in protest at the UK’s handling of the asylum case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The group targeted the websites of No. 10, the Home Office, the Ministry ...
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The following have all combined to limit control of foreign minerals by US companies: In 2011, Resource nationalism became the number one risk for mining companies Nationalization Expropriation Increased taxation Constraints on the degree ...
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Mr Beni Prasad Verma minister of Steel said that Indian government has notified 16 steel products, which have direct bearing on consumer health and safety and critical to infrastructure, under the Steel and Steel Products Order, 2012, which ...
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Online dating site WhatsYourPrice.com has kissed Amazon Web Services goodbye after severe East Coast thunderstorms knocked out one of Amazon's data centers last weekend causing a services outage. The service interruption, which began last ...
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Window's cloud service, Azure, suffered an outage on 26 July because of a "safety valve" configuration error, Microsoft has said. The outage, which affected parts of Western Europe for more than two hours, meant that customers experienced ...
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Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA says that its technology facility in Glenrothes, Scotland, UK has successfully tested silicon carbide (SiC) mixed-signal devices at temperatures up to 400°C. “Raytheon UK’s aim is to ...
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Expressing concern about looming gas deliverability problems and diminished electric reliability, representatives of the US manufacturing sector on Thursday called on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to initiate an in-depth analysis ...
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The VMworld Europe 2012 winners are: Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: Tiger Wheel & Tyre Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: The National Trust Best virtualisation for disaster recovery project: ...
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This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. The latest challenge confronting IT organizations is managing the ...
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Users of Microsoft’s cloud-based Azure compute platform have been affected by an availability issue. The service was down for 2.5 hours. Microsoft said: "The recent Windows Azure service interruption in the Western Europe ...