As presidential election day unfolded on Tuesday,people spent time posting photos of long lines at polling places,tweeting about casting a vote and commenting on a viral video of a malfunctioning voting machine. Obama victory tweet ...
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While more than 75 percent of suppliers are confident in their ability to meet their customers’ needs in 2013, one-third of respondents to ASQ’s 2013 Manufacturing Outlook Survey say they anticipate a problem with a supplier ...
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An effort by three U.S. senators to add an Internet sales tax amendment to a military spending bill has failed, at least for now. Last week, Senators Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican, and Lamar Alexander, ...
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Pacemakers from several manufacturers can be commanded to deliver a deadly, 830-volt shock from someone on a laptop up to 50 feet away, the result of poor software programming by medical device companies. The new research comes from ...
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Wiltshire council will be using LED bulbs as part of its new energy saving initiative. The local authority is trying to save around £380,000 a year and is looking at switching some of its traditional street lamps to those that can ...
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Anti-malware vendor Webroot has bet the company on cloud. In October of last year, the company stopped selling packaged software and moved to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. CEO Dick Williams says the switch improves the customer ...
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Twitter is getting a new look and it's looking a lot like Facebook. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on Tuesday showed the site's redesign on the Today Show and talked about putting a new focus on user photos and profiles. Users will be able to ...
The Finish Line, Inc. a leading national retailer of athletic shoes, apparel and accessories, announced that Harvey Bierman has joined the company as vice president, digital technology. Bierman has more than 20 years of retail experience, ...
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Dick's Sporting Goods, the largest U.S.-based full-line sporting goods retailer, announced "The Jersey Report," a dynamic ranking system that tracks sales of pro football jerseys at DICK'S Sporting Goods stores. Updated daily throughout ...
Twitter is getting a new look and it's looking a lot like Facebook. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo showed the site's redesign on the Today Show in the U.S. yesterday and talked about putting a new focus on user photos and profiles. ...
Tags: Facebook, redesign, Twitter, user's Twitter page
As presidential election day unfolded on Tuesday, people spent time posting photos of long lines at polling places, tweeting about casting a vote and commenting on a viral video of a malfunctioning voting machine. This year marked the ...
Tags: America, Barack Obama, Election, social media, Twitter
LabCorp has signed a definitive merger agreement to purchase a provider of specialized toxicology testing services, Medtox Scientific. The transaction includes a purchase price of $27.00 per share in cash, representing a total ...
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AtriCure, a developer of cardiac surgical ablation systems, has named Michael Carrel as the company's new president and chief executive officer (CEO). Initially, Carrel served at Vital Images, a medical imaging software company, as ...
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Resurgens Orthopaedics has entered into a collaboration agreement to deploy Merge Healthcare Honeycomb cloud-based solution, designed to provide a long-term storage option that houses images securely in multiple locations. The solution, ...
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CSC customers are being urged to boycott the supplier over allegations that it took part in illegal CIA rendition flights in the US "war on terror". CSC has been linked in court documents to the rendition of German citizen Khaled ...
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