Cellular coverage for some carriers approached normal levels in the northeastern U.S. a week after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, but some areas remained cut off from mobile service because of ongoing power and telecommunications outages. ...
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Thai blow molding machinery maker SMC Corp. Ltd. is spending 40 million euros ($51.7 million) on an expansion that will roughly double its capacity, reflecting what it said was demand from increasing population and economic growth in ...
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Australia’s only remaining solar PV panel manufacturer, the Adelaide-based Tindo Solar, has called on the federal government to enforce anti-dumping legislation to stop the flood of cut-price panels from China. The Tindo Solar ...
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An IT recruitment expert has criticised government pay thresholds for overseas IT workers in the UK, claiming it groups vastly different jobs together and sets salaries too low, presuming an IT director in the UK can earn as little as ...
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Following three straight months of declining manufacturing output,the Institute for Supply Management(ISM)reported today that the manufacturing sector grew in October for the second straight month. The PMI,the index used by the ISM to ...
Infoworld-Every transition in computing spawns a new market in management tools--the evolution to highly virtualized data centers and the cloud is no different.Virtual Instruments is squarely focused on delivering the next generation of ...
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BAC Sag & Hyvleri filed for bankruptcy at the responsible district court in Luleå. In an interview with the Swedish press, managing director Gosta Gustavsson said the situation was due principally to a decline in sales figures. On ...
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Valve,the company behind the popular games platform Steam,has opened its Linux-based Steam portal for beta registration. The private external beta–which the company is requesting that only experienced Linux developers ...
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Computerworld-The apps for Microsoft's new Windows operating systems are good enough to entice early buyers of tablets and other touch devices,analysts said Sunday. But the jury remains out on Microsoft's long-term chances of winning its ...
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IDG News Service-The U.S.Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Monday completed the deployment of a 20-petaflop supercomputer called Titan,which the lab hopes will give the U.S.an edge over China and Japan in the race to ...
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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — October 9, 2012 — (NYSE:GE) — Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE ...
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Insufficient wool production is the main hindrance in the growth of international wool industry, said Chris Wilcox, chairperson of the marketing intelligence committee of the International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO), in an interview ...
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The cloud played a pivotal role in separating insurance group Direct Line from parent company the Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)to launch on the stock market. Direct Line had less than 6 months to re-engineer its HR process to prepare for an ...
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Businesses are stepping up their investment in sophisticated IT systems to manage the training and development of their workforce. Spending on learning management systems(LMS)technology,which allows businesses to manage the skills ...
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Global trade patterns from August to September showed sequential declines and annual gains, according to data released by Panjiva, an online search engine with detailed information on global suppliers and manufacturers. U.S.-bound ...
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