The U.S. agricultural sector faces the difficult task of developing new policies that will meet the necessary budget constraints. Furthermore, the U.S. cotton industry also must devise policy that will resolve the World Trade Organization ...
Tags: Effective Stax, Textile
About 50,000 tons of beef across Europe is being recalled by the food safety authorities in the Netherlands amid fears that it may contain horsemeat. The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) said that it alerted more ...
Tags: Beef, Horsemeat Concerns, Food
Virtualization and cloud services are making it easier for companies to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many organizations are doing. The trend is most prevalent among small and midsize ...
Tags: Pulling, Data Centers
At universities today, Cobol is mostly taught as an elective, and even then it's likely offered at less than one in four schools. For most students, this means the odds are high that they will attend a school that does not offer Cobol. ...
Tags: Universities, Cobol Classes, Computer
The issues with sharing confidential patient information needs to be tackled before the NHS attempts to go paperless, according to Dr Jonathan Richardson, clinical director of informatics at the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation ...
EMEA is anticipated to be the largest market for the mobile wallet industry Global mobile wallet market forecast to reach $1,602.4bn by 2018, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.7% between 2012 to 2018, according to a ...
Tags: Mobile Wallet Market, EMEA
BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Woodside Petroleum jumped between 1.4 per cent and 3.5 per cent after commodities including copper, oil and iron ore rose between 0.6 per cent and 1.3 per cent early yesterday. Among iron ore pure plays, ...
Tags: economy
Italy's Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal by Taranto-based prosecutors who sought to have production at local steel producer Ilva halted due to environmental concerns. The court stated that the so-called ‘Save Ilva' decree ...
Tags: Mineral, Constitutional Court
The FairSearch coalition, whose members include Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle, has filed a complaint with the European Commission against Google and Android, saying that the company is using the OS as a Trojan horse to deceive partners and ...
Schaefer Systems International has redesigned its automation web site: automation.ssi-schaefer.us. The new site design provides resources to visitors and reflects the significant changes that the picking and storage industry has seen over ...
The Australian dollar surged against the US dollar to its highest level in 2 1/2 months on the back of data that showed solid growth in exports to China, the nation's largest trading partner, over the past year. Australian exports to ...
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President Barack Obama's nominee for energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, on Tuesday reiterated the Obama administration's position that decisions to license liquefied natural gas exports from the US should be based on a transparent, analytic ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Northern Ireland has introduced a 5p levy on the sale of all plastic shopping bags in the region in order to stop their usage. The tax, which will apply to all single use bags including plastic, paper and other natural materials, is ...
Tags: Plastic Bag Tax, Packaging
Metal polishing can be classified as a metal finishing procedure. Metal finishing entails subjecting the exterior surface of a metal to buffing, coating, or chemical treatment so as to improve its durability and/or appearance. Generally, ...
A handful of Samsung smartphones infringe an Apple patent on text selection, according to the initial determination of a U.S. International Trade Commission judge. The patent in question concerns the selection of text on the browser of a ...