UK supermarket group Morrisons has booked a "disappointing" set of results for the quarter to 30 December, with trading over the key Christmas period lagging the overall weak market. In its trading update, released this morning (7 ...
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The UK Government has sent a warning shot across the bows of the food industry by launching an advertising campaign to highlight hidden levels of salt, sugar and fat in products. The government's Change4Life scheme, which includes many ...
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Morrisons today (7 January) hinted that an announcement regarding its long-awaited launch into online retail could be nearing. The supermarket operator, which earlier this morning booked a 2.5% drop in like-for-like sales in the quarter ...
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Morrisons has once again booked a decline in like-for-like sales worse than the overall market, as the group struggles to maintain its share in the face of a highly price-focused consumer. According to management, the "greatest headwinds" ...
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Monday flexed its 7-foot-long robotic arm for the first time since it landed on Mars. Monday's robotics maneuver had the rover checking its motors and joints by unstowing the arm, extending it using all five ...
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Computerworld - The jury's decision Friday in the landmark Samsung-Apple patent battle doesn't relate to the core of the Android mobile operating system, Google said in a brief statement Monday. The jury ordered that Samsung pay Apple ...
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Ubuntu Linux may be all over the news recently, but anyone who's ever perused DistroWatch has a pretty good sense of just how many other Linux distributions are out there as well, ready to be tried at will. Next month, however, that list ...
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PC World - Fans of Linux may recall the "31 Flavors of Fun" project I wrote about last month through which ambitious developer Todd Robinson planned to "create, and release, a complete desktop operating system each and every day for the ...
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Whistle-blowing site Wikileaks on Thursday released the Syria Files, a database of more than 2.4 million emails to and from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012. The ...
North Billerica, Mass. — BTU International, Inc., a leading supplier of advanced thermal processing equipment for the alternative energy and electronics manufacturing markets, announces that PRUF LED has installed a PYRAMAX? 125A at ...
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Cornwall County Council has voted in support of an IT outsourcing and telehealth partnership with BT after rejecting a controversial plan to privatise a much broader range of council services. After councillors threw out their executive's ...
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Computerworld - Research In Motion (RIM) today set Jan. 30 for the launch of BlackBerry 10, when it will also unveil its first two smartphones on the OS. The announcement was greeted with some surprise by longtime BlackBerry fans who ...
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After a month on the surface of Mars, NASA rover Curiosity has driven more than the length of a football field and has started gearing for some real scientific work. "We've been on the surface of Mars for about a month and Curiosity ...
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UK retailer The Co-operative Group has appointed Kingfisher executive Euan Sutherland as its new CEO. Sutherland, 43, will take up the role in May next year, the UK's fifth largest grocer said today (19 December). Sutherland, COO at home ...
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EasyIT today announced it has been named to the Ingram Micro SMB 500. Unveiled at the Ingram Micro 2012 "Turn the Tables" Fall SMB Invitational in Rancho Mirage, Calif., the inaugural list celebrates the top 500 fastest-growing Ingram Micro ...
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