European antitrust officials have widened their investigation into Microsoft's browser practices to include four different allegations against Windows 8 and Windows RT, a government spokesman said Wednesday. Antoine Colombani from the ...
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A consortium of companies and research institutes from five European countries has joined forces to improve the brightness of high-power direct-diode laser . Having started in September, the three-year project 'BRIDLE' (Brilliant ...
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Enrico Salvatori, president of Qualcomm Europe, has called for the UK to roll out LTE as soon as possible. The roll-out has problems on a number of fronts: the auction of 4G spectrum has not happened because incumbent operators have ...
IT trade body Intellect is calling for the chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne to abandon the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). Intellect argues that, since datacentres underpin a modern digital economy, the growth in data volumes ...
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MIRAGE - a new project supported by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of the European Commission (EC) - was launched recently with the goal of developing next-generation optical ...
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The industry has welcomed the European Commission's (EC's) ambitious cloud computing strategy but insisted more efforts are needed in areas of cloud standardisation, security and data protection if the EC'sforecasts are to be met. The ...
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The European Commission (EC) is considering making it mandatory for companies to report cyber attacks to harness the benefits of open dialogue, says vice-president Neelie Kroes. Despite industry opposition, open discussion about cyber ...
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The ecodesign requirements imply that only circulators with an Energy Efficiency Index (EEI) of not more than 0.27 are allowed after 2013 and only circulators with an EEI of not more than 0.23 are allowed after 2015. In the guideline, ...
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Gastronome Madjid Djamegari opened Germany's most innovative nightclub Gibson and for the musical aspect chose experts Sascha Schwind, Michael Herberger and Xavier Naidoo (Sone Mannheims GmbH) as his partners. Moreover, the ex-owner of the ...
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After a final “speed dating” round, Saint-Gobain, the world leader in the habitat and construction markets, and the U.S. Green Building Council – Northern California Chapter (USGBC-NCC) announced today the three winners of ...
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Huddersfield-based Innovation Productions with Martin Professional are hosting an Engineered for the Eye Road Show bringing Martin Products closer to its Yorkshire customers. This event allows for an informal personal look at the Martin ...
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Auburn Hills, Mich. – November 12, 2012 – Architects looking for glass innovations that maximize the efficiency and performance of their commercial building projects need look no further than Guardian Industries’ SunGuard ...
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IDG News Service-Samsung's efforts to seek injunctions against Apple for standards-essential patents in the mobile phone market may be an abuse of its dominant position and a violation of European Union antitrust rules,the European ...
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Two Yale University researchers have developed epitaxial distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) in nitride semiconductors with reflectivities of more than 98% [Danti Chen and Jung Han, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol101, p221104, 2012]. Further, the ...
2012 was the year cloud computing hit the mainstream.More users started adopting cloud-based services and vendors intensified competition by launching aggressive price wars for market share. Enterprises and public sector organisations ...
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