With cold weather fast approaching, right about now would be a great time to think about outfitting your car with a winter survival kit or updating the one you already have. A few common sense items like a blanket and flashlight can ...
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Although Lady Gaga has its own fashion house, the singer turned again to the imagination and the talent of Giorgio Armani. For her massive tour of Asia, Lady Gaga wanted a new series of mirrored, sparkling and memorable costumes. The fans ...
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Each year, car reliability trends begin surfacing as we look at data by brand and car type, with periodic spikes common around redesigns and new technology. As is often the case, the muscle and otherwise sporty cars are seeing much ...
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Winter demand for natural gas in Shanghai is expected to rise by 50% year on year to nearly 30 million cubic meters/day (1.06 Bcf/day), Chinese state company PetroChina said Thursday. The company said the increase is due to rising gas ...
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Even with gas prices approaching record levels, there's good news for fuel-economy champions: Cars have never been more efficient than today. That's the conclusion of a new study by the University of Michigan, which finds that more ...
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The US Senate on Thursday voted 54-41 to reverse a plan included in a larger defense policy bill that would have ended the Department of Defense's participation in an agreement aimed at boosting the supply of biofuels available to the ...
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Six US senators Tuesday asked the Justice Department's Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group to conduct a "refinery by refinery probe" into spikes in West Coast gasoline prices in May and October. The request, from Democratic senators ...
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Lighting LEDs are a route to energy efficiency that also allow creative effects that were not possible with incandescent bulbs and fluorescent tubes. But the output spectrum, like that of fluorescent tubes, is nothing like the sunlight ...
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Halloween is designed for kids – dressing up, candy, staying up late…but the toys tend to let this holiday down. So the Toy Hype crew would like to thank Lego for stepping up to the plate this year. Lego have 'toyed' with ...
Puma,the global Sportlifestyle brand,launched its first TV campaign since early 2011 with evoSPEED.The quirky commercial features the one and only Usain Bolt alongside a galaxy of Puma sports stars such as cricketer Yuvraj Singh,golfer ...
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LAS VEGAS-With good reason,Simply Amish's first licensing agreement prompted the purchase of a keg of railroad spikes. The company is introducing a B&O Railroad Museum product line,according to Kevin Kauffman,co-founder and owner of the ...
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Liverpool FC, the most successful club in English football history, has migrated its website to a public cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS). The club's website experiences major peaks of traffic around match days and when major news ...
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Service providers taking steps to solve expected mobile congestion problems at the Democratic National Convention this week are addressing issues that are likely to grow in many areas over the next few years. Time Warner Cable said Monday ...
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Computerworld Hong Kong - At a Computerworld Hong Kong event years ago, I heard a senior executive explain how online retailer Amazon re-engineered their e-commerce process for the Christmas gift-giving season. Like many retail ...
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The Bank of Israel is using Google search data to find clues to the state of the Israeli economy,analysing keyword counts reported by Google,before it releases its own official statistics. And the Bank of England,the Federal Reserve in ...
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