A majority of the city council in Freiburg,Germany,has voted in favor of ditching the open source suite OpenOffice to return to Microsoft Office after severe problems and complaints from employees. The council voted 25 in favor and 20 ...
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Germany-based Oerlikon Schlafhorst, a business unit of Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG, has awarded Belcoro® certification to Prilla 2000 (PTY) Ltd., a South Africa-based spinning mill. The certification is presented to textile companies ...
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December 17, 2012 - Ontario’s Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) presented Georgian College with an award for improving electrical safety through participation in its Continuous Safety Services (CSS) Program, which allows the college ...
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IDG News Service-Samsung on Thursday announced a new 64GB memory chip for smartphones and tablets,which it says is 20%smaller and a third faster than current technology. The company said its new 64GB eMMC(embedded multimedia card)reads ...
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A pilot project between the shipping company Lauritzen Bulkers and Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos has significantly reduced energy consumption on a cargo vessel. The project, which was carried out on Lauritzen Bulkers’ Durban ...
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Computerworld - The best move Microsoft could make after Steven Sinofsky's departure is to ditch the culture of secrecy he brought to Windows, analysts said today. "One thing that may be a benefit to Microsoft is to drop the belief that ...
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) plans to consolidate its data warehousing estate in a bid to cut costs and improve its effectiveness. It will create a consolidated data warehouse to support its burgeoning range of business intelligence ...
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing(HKEx)is the nervous system of the city's financial industry.It operates the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is one of the world's premier exchange-owners based on market capitalization of its shares. ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted that sales of its new Surface RT tablets have started "modestly". Ballmer, who took over from Bill Gates as Microsoft chief in 2000, told French newspaper Le Parisien that the new tablets' first ...
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The readymade garments(RMG)industry,the main export revenue earner for Bangladesh has been excluded by the US Department of Labor from the list of the sectors suspected of producing goods with child labor. The 11th edition of the ...
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Virtual Piggy Inc., an innovator in safe-online youth purchasing, announced that the Virtual Piggy service will be integrated into Lipstik Girls ecommerce operations. Lipstik Girls has been offering fun, wearable and fashionable clothing ...
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Nicolas Ghesquiere,the Creative Director of Balenciaga fashion house since 1997,will be parting ways with the brand at the end of the month.PPR,the owners of La Maison Balenciaga since 2001,announced that the fashion designer will leave the ...
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AT&T will be the exclusive provider of a limelight yellow 8GB version of the Windows Phone 8x.Computerworld-AT&T today announced prices for the three Windows Phone 8 smartphones it will sell in the coming holiday season,including a$99.99 ...
If there is one word that has defined this year, it's "uncertainty." It has been hanging over almost every economic and job growth analysis related to IT. Blame the elections, the fiscal cliff and Europe. But with less than two months to ...
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Under the deal, which completed on 8 October, Reflex has taken on some 90 staff and Labelsco's 6,400sqm factory in Leicestershire. The business will continue to trade under the Labelsco name. Labelsco has made losses for a number of years ...
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