Cuba's Internet speeds increased on Tuesday, and the country appears to be routing more traffic through a previously dormant undersea fiber-optic cable, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys. Renesys noticed last week that ...
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Last Saturday, Heimtextil, the world's largest textile fair for home textiles, closed its doors in Frankfurt am Main. The 2013 exhibition took place from January 9 to 12. According to the organizers, 2,658 exhibitors from 62 countries ...
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Japanese automaker Toyota is planning to sign an agreement with the Germany-based BMW to license its fuel-cell vehicle technology. As part of the agreement, the company will provide the drivetrain and hydrogen storage technology, ...
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As published in the December 20 issue of Nature, an international consortium of scientists has assembled a 'gold standard' sequence of the simplest cotton variety (Gossypium raimondii) and compared it to 'draft' sequences of three other ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has announced the first successful demonstration ...
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Online encyclopedia Wikipedia may encounter service disruptions as it is migrated to servers at a data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Wikimedia Foundation, the host of Wikipedia and other websites, said on Saturday it will move this week ...
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Cities around the U.S. will have gigabit-speed Internet access by 2015 if the FCC's wishes come true. All 50 states should have at least one community where consumers can get 1Gbps or faster Internet access by 2015, U.S. Federal ...
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A change in Internet traffic patterns over the past week suggests that Cuba may have turned on a fiber-optic submarine cable that links it to the global Internet via Venezuela, according to Internet routing analysis company Renesys. ...
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An old saying references ‘thick-skinned people,’ those who handle controversy fairly well and allow any criticism of their beliefs to simply ‘roll off their backs.’ Thick skin came to the forefront during a ...
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US-based Gorham Paper and Tissue has announced the full commercialization of a portfolio of barrier packaging papers. The papers have functionality requirements including oil and grease resistance, wet strength, printability and surface ...
Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd., the Teijin Group's fiber-product converting company, announced today that it will showcase high-comfort, high-performance polyester products at two leading international sports trade fairs: the Outdoor Retailer ...
In the year of 2012, in face of the increasingly complicated and severe international situation and arduous tasks of domestic reform, development and stability, the Central Party Committee and the State Council took scientific development ...
Firecomms Ltd of Cork, Ireland, a manufacturer of fiber-optic solutions and optical transceivers (including its OptoLock technology, licensed worldwide) has appointed Colrud-Lowery as its sales representative in the Mid-Atlantic/Chesapeake ...
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As part of the recent Plant and Animal Genomic Conference held in San Diego, Dr. Don Jones of Cotton Incorporated presented the 2012 Cotton Biotechnology Award to five outstanding researchers that were instrumental in mapping the cotton ...
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Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. announced that researchers, working pursuant to Kraig's collaborative research program, utilizing customized spider silk genetic engineering sequences, succeeded in creating a new type of recombinant spider ...
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