A long time ago, when Web 2.0 was just Web 1.0, we had to ask people for directions, copy them down, and hope we had a foldable map to help us find our way. Then along came MapQuest, followed by Google Maps in 2005. Today, it seems ...
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WesternZagros Resources has announced that it and the operator, Talisman, are preparing to complete the Kurdamir-2 well after successfully finishing an additional cased-hole test in the Oligocene Formation (DST#7). The test was conducted ...
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A European aeronautical supplier's website has been infected with a state-sponsored zero-day exploit, according to security firm, Sophos. Business IT administrators and other computer users should use caution in the light of the discovery ...
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The US House of Representatives has voted unanimously to approve a resolution aimed at preventing any efforts to hand the United Nations more power to oversee the Internet. The resolution by the lower house of the US Congress had ...
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HP today declared itself back on the up with what it referred to as its biggest storage announcements in over a decade. On the eve of the HP Discover 2012 conference in Frankfurt, the company gathered international press to reveal ...
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Many of us have known that currently China is the largest furniture exporting country. For example in last 2009 the export of China furniture reached to almost 26 billion USD. No wonder that around 30% furniture of the world is manufactured ...
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More than half of office workers don’t follow their company’s IT security policies, or aren’t even aware of the policies, according to survey results collected by Xerox and McAfee. The joint data survey held by the two ...
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IDG News Service-Researchers at Rice University in Houston have developed a prototype spray-on battery that could allow engineers to rethink the way portable electronics are designed. The rechargeable battery boasts similar electrical ...
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Teleflex Incorporated has introduced a new continuous peripheral nerve block catheter for clinicians who use ultrasound-guidance when placing nerve block catheters. The echogenic, coil-reinforced catheter, Arrow FlexBlock, is made of ...
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Teleflex Incorporated, a provider of cardiovascular solutions, has introduced new Arrow FlexTip Plus closed epidural catheter. The new Arrow FlexTip Plus closed device is a multi-port epidural catheter designed for anesthesia providers to ...
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A cyber gang thought to be based in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is recruiting dozens of people to participate in a scheme to steal millions of dollars from 30 major U.S. banks, according to RSA. The organisers are thought ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared 510(k) pre-marketing notification application (PMA) of ETView Medical's Viva EB Endobronchial blocker. Viva EB comprises a sterile, single-use, steerable, balloon tipped catheter ...
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Microsoft has patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company’s popular Word programme and another already used to attack ...
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Dell has announced servers based on designs the company is implementing in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed next year. The PowerEdge C8000 servers use standard Intel x86 CPUs and offer ...
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A year-long investigation by a U.S. congressional committee has reportedly concluded that Huawei Technologies and ZTE pose a security threat to the nation, and the committee is advising U.S. firms to buy networking gear from other vendors. ...
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