Crowdsourced funding website Kickstarter,which lists projects that are seeking financial backing,has expanded to the UK. The site,which operates on a 5%commission on each successful pledge,has raised more than$340m in the US,where it was ...
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A new space to share views and knowledge of fine timepieces opened its doors in Shanghai.Swiss watch company Patek Philippe inaugurated first boutique in Shanghai in 2005,now to be replaced by the first Maison Patek Philippe,and of a ...
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While the risk of being hacked,conned or having sensitive information stolen is possible all through the year,most security experts agree that the holiday season brings a spike in fraudulent activity,both online and off. CSO compiled a ...
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Back in the day before DVR's and 200 channels,there were 4 to 10 channels on your large rectangle tv.There was no recording your favorite shows,and no way to watch your favorite shows online.When Halloween arrived the tv stations would ...
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Michael Van Gilder, the CEO of Van Gilder Insurance Company over his alleged role in insider trading during the stake acquisition of Delta Petroleum by Tracinda. The market watch dog ...
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The growing use of virtualisation has really helped many organisations. Not only have the average utilisation rates of servers and storage improved, but the use of applications and other software packaged ready for installation – ...
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Plessey has designed its contactless electric field sensor, dubbed EPIC, in to a hand held ECG monitor which it will launch at next month's Electronica exhibition in Germany. The UK-based firm has gone into the medical terminal ...
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Contents HR lags behind in consumerisation of IT Useability a driving force behind HR technology Big data can be a powerful HR tool Read more on SaaS HR Read about cloud-based HR implementations Read more on big data in HR Businesses must ...
Tags: unfair SaaS HR contracts, HR technology Big data, SaaS-based HR, Otter
The Long Island Glass Association(LIGA)has once again agreed to co-sponsor the welcoming cocktail party for Glass Expo Northeast™2013 with USGlass magazine.The two-day architectural glass event is scheduled to take place March ...
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Not everyone likes skateboarding,but for those who do watch out because skateboard furniture is on the rise.In a design trend that doesn't seem to mind if the skateboard is new or old,whole or broken,or just the scraps of the boards,all ...
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Steve Laub CEO of Atmel believes that given the increasing proliferation of smart devices throughout the world and the role microcontrollers play in it the company's day has come. If you subscribe to the idea of intelligent devices ...
The name Foxconn has become shorthand for the human costs of building the iPhone in China, linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides, deaths from a plant explosion and rioting factory workers. But many other companies besides ...
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IDG News Service-Marten Pieters,MD&CEO,Vodafone Essar,says IT has helped the company serve more customers,conquer rural India,and make Vodafone India's second largest mobile service provider. CIO:What do you think of the low tariff rates ...
First came the heavy adoption of Apple's mobile platform by consumers whose heavy use of the devices for business tasks forced the IT operations at their companies to support them. Android was the next mobile platform pushed onto IT and ...
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Participants in this year's 65th Annual Troy Turkey Trot events will have the opportunity to support up to three outstanding local non-profit organizations when they register online. SportSignup,a national leader in online registration ...