A three-year groundwater quality assessment programme in Cyprus found increased arsenic levels in drinking water.A novel field-based arsenic speciation separation technique determined that arsenate was the predominant species. The ...
Tags: Groundwater, FAO
A new battery technology may pave the way for cheap,long-lived power storage that can quickly pump electricity into the grid to compensate for fluctuating renewables like wind and solar. Developed by Yi Cui and colleagues at Stanford ...
British computer hacker Gary McKinnon will not be extradited to the US after the move was blocked by Home Secretary Theresa May. McKinnon admits accessing American government computers in 2002, but says he just was looking for evidence ...
Tags: Gary McKinnon, hacker, Theresa May, Kier S
This study demonstrates that the anodic Fenton process could be integrated with a microbial fuel cell to develop a self-sustained system for energy-efficient electrochemical treatment of organic wastewater pollutants. ...
Tags: Fenton, Microbial Fuel, wastewater
Eyeing capacity building of the country's cotton industry and to enable it to produce quality output and thereby to boost exports and raise profitability of farmers and ginners, Pakistan's Ministry of Textile Industry has decided to ...
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Taipei,Sept.13,2012(CENS)--The Ministry of Economic Affairs(MOEA)is seriously evaluating whether to suspend the second-stage power-rate hike scheduled for December,said Shih Yien-shiang,economics minister,yesterday(Sept.12). The statement ...
Tags: Second-Stage Power Hike, power-rate hikes, Ma Ying-jeou
Change in approach to the network Ethernet fabrics Software-defined networking Combining Ethernet fabrics and SDN to cut complexity In an age of innovation in the technology industry,we are blessed with new infrastructure on what feels ...
Tags: Network Complexity, Ethernet Fabrics, SDN, Brocade, networking
Taipei, Sept. 10, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwana's export dropped, for the sixth consecutive month, 4.2% year-on-year to US$24.69 billion in August, reported the Ministry of Finance on Sept. 7. Exports in the first eight months reached US$196.34 ...
Tags: Taiwana, Export, Consecutive Decline
Amazon will create more than 2,000 permanent jobs in the next two years with the opening of three more distribution centres. Another 3,000 temporary jobs will also be created at the new centres during the Christmas peak period. Further ...
Tags: UK, Amazon, Hemel Hempstead
The U.K.'s Home Office will decide by Oct. 16 whether to block the extradition to the U.S. of Gary McKinnon, who has admitted to hacking into U.S. government computers, McKinnon's attorney said on Thursday. McKinnon, 46, of north London, ...
Tags: U.K.'s Home Office, NASA Hacker Extradition, cyberwarfare, USA
Microsoft has launched Windows Server 2012 to general availability with a strong message that the operating system will capitalise on the growing importance of cloud and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) computing. "This is one of the most ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows Server 2012, cloud, bring-your-own-device computing
During the Olympics, the BBC and NBC studios used PRG Trucolor HS fixtures with Intematix ChromaLit panels to deliver up to 98 CRI at color temperature of 3200K. If you watched any of the recent Olympics TV coverage and thought you noticed ...
Tags: Professional Light, PRG, Trucolor HS Fixtures, LED
IDG News Service - Some AT&T customers are being affected by a failure in the carrier's DNS (Domain Name System) servers that began Wednesday morning. Initial reports indicate the failure is hitting companies across the U.S., but few ...
Tags: DNS outage, Digital Media, Solutions
Macworld - Google Currents, the free news-reading app for iPhone and iPad, is elegant and useful. But the app from Google suffers from a perplexing failure to integrate more fully with Googles RSS-reading service. Like other news-reading ...
Tags: Google, free news-reading app, app for iPhone, app for iPad
Turnover of the Swiss plastics industry declined by 1.8% to CHF 15.5bn (€12.9bn) in 2011, alongside a 1.6% reduction in the number of employees in the industry to 34,530, it was announced on 28 June by the industry’s trade ...
Tags: market view, plastics