A small band of upstarts is chipping away at Google's mighty Android, hoping one day to overthrow the system that runs eight in 10 smartphones sold worldwide. Mozilla's Firefox OS and the Samsung-promoted Tizen staked a small claim to the ...
Tags: smart watches, Google's popular platform, smart devices
Smartphone makers are fighting for space on your wrist and your head, lucrative real estate for a new wave of high-tech devices if only they can persuade you to wear them. Manufacturers unleashed a battery of new wearable devices at the ...
It's been a good start to the financial year for Telstra,with half yearly results placing the telco giant on track to meet forecasted end-of-financial-year targets. Half-yearly results,released today,indicate that total income for Telstra ...
Tags: Telstra, Telstra Sales, Telstra mobile users
After the excitement of winning a SheerLuxe Online Shopping Award last month, Occa-Home has scooped another prestigious award, taking home the prize for Best Use of Ecommerce in the UK Market at the Ecommerce Scotland Awards. The ...
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Fans queued from 2am to meet and greet the X Factor foursome at the Regent Street store Hamleys has reported its "best signing ever" when Union J attended a VIP doll signing event at the flagship Regent Street toy store. Over 800 Union ...
At its foundations, The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) is an educational body with a broad mission to impart packaging expertise to the wider industry. So, early in 2013, the AIP worked with the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) ...
A biologist at the University of York is part of an international team which has shown that advanced DNA sequencing technologies can be used to accurately measure the levels of inbreeding in wild animal populations. The research by senior ...
Tags: DNA Advance, Dutch beach, PNAS, animal population
Microsoft continues to target the enterprise with the introduction of a private on-ramp for Windows Azure cloud services. The service, called ExpressRoute, allows organisations to directly connect their data centres to Azure without using ...
Tags: Windows Azure cloud services, Enterprise Push, Private on-Ramps
The Hydraulic Institute named Randy Bennett, Vice President of Technology & Operations, Leistritz Advanced Technologies Corporation, as its 2013 Member of the Year. The award was conferred to Mr. Bennett at the Hydraulic Institute’s ...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A Washington food advocacy groups questions Coca-Cola's TV ad suggesting Olympic skier Ted Ligety's success is due to his consumption of it soft drink. The Center for Science in the Public Interest said Ligety ...
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Case Construction Equipment has appointed a new UK dealer,CBL, a company based in the south of England, that will provide sales, parts and service from its sites in Bristol, Newbury and Maidstone. This latest addition follows the recent ...
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Biosense Webster has obtained an approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Thermocool Smarttouch catheter that enables direct and real-time measurement of contact force during catheter ablation procedures for patients ...
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Suez Cement and Italcementi s first waste treatment plant in Egypt was inaugurated this week. The project uses 45,000t of household waste to produce 35,000t of alternative fuel annually. Given Egypt s on-going fuel concerns the project will ...
Tags: Cement, Fuel, Suez Cement, Italcementi
Land O'Lakes, Inc., today announced record annual sales of $14.2 billion, up 4.4 percent from the prior year, and record net earnings of almost $306 million, a 27 percent increase over the prior year. The strong 2013 results continue a ...
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Tony Leach will work in close consultation with clients in key sectors such as toys and games Freight forwarder and logistics provider Horizon International Cargo has appointed Tony Leach as its supply chain development manager. Leach ...
Tags: Horizon, Development Manager, logistics industry, Cargo