The looming retirement of Windows XP won't stem the dramatic drop in PC sales this year, but it may help bolster Microsoft's revenue, analysts said today. Although experts expect some business laggards to buy new hardware as they try to ...
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After a month of trial operation and functional verification, Baosteel Co.,Ltd. 9672 new system is under overall normal operation since puting into operation and supports online production stably. It achieves unified control, process ...
John Johnson considers the use of FPGAs to tackle the design challenges of smart metering systems Legacy power infrastructure is intrinsically inefficient, aging and the operation of it is often harmful to the environment. ...
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The worldwide capital equipment market fell 15% last year to $36.9bn from $43.5 billion in 2011, says SEMI. SEMI expects a flat to single-digit decline trend this year and a strong recovery in 2014. ...
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Microsoft has released the latest version of its Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) suite of IT management tools, an upgrade that deepens its ability to manage Windows 8 PC deployments. MDOP 2013, available now via download for the ...
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YAKIMA, Washington -- Some new street lights are helping the city of Yakima cut its electric bill. The lights have been up for about a year and have already saved thousands of dollars. About 400 lights throughout the city have already been ...
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It appears the luckiest police force in the world is now in Dubai, with images of a fully-marked Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 police car hitting the web. Apparently intended for ‘patrols’ in high tourist areas to show how ...
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Security software vendor?Bitdefender?has launched its 'Antivirus Free' app on the?Google?Android?platform to combat the growth in mobile malware.? The app promises a "fast and powerful antivirus solution that taps the latest in-the-Cloud ...
Spring signals the return of warmer weather, blooming flowers and trees, baseball, and more. And for many of you, it's also when your state or federal tax refund will arrive. Truth be told, you're better off not getting a tax refund. That ...
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The US Department of Energy has released a report on the third part of its LED Environmental testing research, has published a new study covering LED and fluorescent sources in commercial ambient lighting, and has revealed National Academy ...
With embedded control systems, the risk of software defects becomes evermore critical and qualification of test and development tools is a useful approach for designers, writes Jeremy Twaits Oil and water - fire and ice - complexity and ...
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Increased spending in NAND and flash by Micron, LEDs by Philips and Osram, and continued investments by GLOBALFOUNDRIES will create new opportunities for equipment and materials suppliers in Southeast Asia. These trends will be explored at ...
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M&S delivers strongest quarterly sales growth in the last two years -Group sales +3.1% -Total UK sales +2.6%: Food +6.3%; GM –2.2% -Like for like UK sales +0.6%: Food +4.0%; GM –3.8% -Multi-channel sales +22.9% ...
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The Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) will upgrade its supercomputer with Nvidia graphics processors so the system can more accurately predict the weather in the Swiss Alps. By upgrading the Cray XC30 system, the CSCS wants to ...
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Microsoft today kicked off a new promotion aimed at Windows XP customers, who have just one year to ditch the 12-year-old OS before it's retired from support. Small- and medium-sized businesses still running Windows XP and Office 2003 -- ...
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