Xylem Inc. announced the election of Robert F. Friel, chairman, president and chief executive officer of PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), to its Board of Directors. His appointment to Xylem’s board is effective immediately. Friel, 57, ...
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Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are using "loopholes and gimmicks" to avoid paying millions of dollars in U.S. taxes, the chairman of a U.S. Senate subcommittee said Thursday. Microsoft is shifting a disproportionate amount of its profits ...
BlackBerry 10 smartphones, delayed until early 2013, will have the "best browsers in the industry" and will come in touchscreen-only models as well as those with traditional physical keyboards, a Research In Motion executive said Thursday. ...
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Gerber Technology, a world leader in automated CAD/CAM and PLM solutions for the apparel and flexible materials industry, supported up-and-coming Dutch fashion talent through its sponsorship of the Dutch Fashion Awards 2012 and Fashion ...
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Lenovo on Tuesday announced a new range of Windows 8 and RT hybrid computing devices that can function as tablets or laptops. The devices include the IdeaPad Yoga 11, which is the company's first hybrid laptop/tablet with an ARM processor ...
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Oracle touted what it called strong early adoption of its next-generation Fusion Applications on Monday, but also discussed how it will continue to support and add new features to the company's other business software lines, such as ...
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With an eye for better serving big data projects, Oracle and partner Fujitsu have commenced building the next generation of Sparc64 processors, in a project called Athena. The new design will feature a number of new features, including a ...
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Oracle on Monday gave attendees of the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco a deeper look at its new 12c database and Exadata X3 machine, which were initially announced Sunday by CEO Larry Ellison . The key feature of 12c, which is set ...
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc announced that @WalmartLabs operation is expanding in Bangalore with the hiring of 100 additional developers and a move into a new facility. @WalmartLabs, a unit of Walmart Global e-Commerce, is the company's hub for ...
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Unpatterned wafer defect inspection tools provide broad capability to enable critical infrastructure development Today KLA-Tencor Corporation(NASDAQ:KLAC)announced the installation of its first process control systems capable of handling ...
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Demandware Inc announced its new Multichannel Commerce Solution, a comprehensive and prescriptive framework that enables high-growth retailers to extend the power of digital commerce to point-of-sale, kiosks, smart phones, tablets and other ...
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EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centers and is developing software to tie all those components together. The company is using technology it gained through its acquisition of XtremIO earlier this year to build an ...
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In a rare admission of error, Apple said Friday that it's back in EPEAT, the environmental standards group for electronics products that it withdrew from earlier this week. "We've recently heard from many loyal Apple customers who were ...
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Sound Physicians Chairman Edward G. Murphy, MD will share key opportunities and challenges for providers and hospitals considering forming an ACO and the role of hospitalists in that delivery model at the 3rd National Accountable Care ...
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IT managers in businesses and governments are taking steps to ensure that the Summer Olympics do not bust networks or budgets. The opportunity for problems is there. The Olympics will be live streamed, and London's time difference means ...
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