Following the conclusions of yesterday's European Council on energy, Glass for Europe releases its contribution to the debate on a 2030 energy and climate package to highlight how such an instrument can be designed to foster growth ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, glass
High-Frequency traders who bombard the stockmarket with trade messages should wear a higher share of the supervision costs than genuine traders, according to Australia's retail fund managers. The Financial Services Council said it would ...
Automotive supplier Continental has unveiled its 'Simplify your Drive for Electric Vehicles (EV)' concept vehicle technology. The technology acts a navigation device, fuel gauge and displays the range to be travelled by the remaining ...
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Horizon Oil has agreed to sell 40% of its assets in Papua New Guinea, which it hopes will underpin a mid-scale LNG project, to Japanese utility Osaka Gas for $204 million, the Australia-listed company said Thursday. The purchase price ...
Tags: Australia's Horizon, Osaka Gas
Researchers at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, have found that unprocessed low-micronaire cotton surpasses other, higher grades of cotton in its ability to absorb oil, making it the most effective cotton-based solution for cleaning ...
To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the ...
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Forza Motorsport 5 has been teased at Microsoft’s official unveiling of its new gaming console, the Xbox One. The latest iteration of the video game that Microsoft claims is the highest-rated racing franchise of the past 10 years, ...
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Microsoft has today announced the Xbox One, its new entry in the home videogames console market. The device is supposedly intended to answer a question that Microsoft asked itself for the project: "Can we improve a living room that's ...
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VMware today announced that its dual persona mobile device software is now available on some Android OS-based mobile devices sold by Verizon. Dual persona technology creates two OS instances, one for business use and the other for ...
Tags: VMware, Verizon Smart Phones
UK oil and gas major BP has sought environmental approvals from the Australian federal government for a $600 million exploration program in the frontier waters of the Great Australian Bight, off the continent's south coast. BP holds four ...
Few flooring materials have stormed the industry ramparts like luxury vinyl tile. At home in commercial as well as residential settings, LVT is expanding options for designers and specifiers alike. For a firmer grasp on this fast-growing ...
Infrastructure developers’ lobby group Infrastructure Partnerships Australia says the 2013 Federal Budget has made some important project funding commitments, but with around half of the money beyond the forward estimates, it did too ...
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How do you see what you can’t see? With thermal imaging, you view the radiation or infrared wavelengths emitted by objects. Infrared wavelengths — too long for the human eye to detect — are part of the electromagnetic ...
Tags: Invisible Visible, Thermal Imaging, Industrial Equipment
The dollar continued to test fresh 11-month lows, extending a week-long decline built on rising concerns about the outlook for the resources-rich economy and renewed strength in the US dollar. Late today, the Aussie was trading at ...
Tags: Dollar Down, Service, Economic Outlook
Grenoble-based CEA-Leti (the French government’s Laboratory for Electronics & Information Technology) reckons that Europe is strongly positioned to design and manufacture volume silicon photonics devices because of the success of the ...