Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is the Canadian government department responsible for monitoring and enforcing the Energy Efficiency Regulations, which provides minimum energy-performance levels for all kinds of energy-using products, as ...
Food manufacturers and producers welcomed chancellor George Osborne's autumn statement yesterday(December 5)highlighting changes to the tax system as benefiting the food and drink manufacturing industry. The Food and Drink ...
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In ancient China most of people got married with the help of a matchmaker and the arrangements of their parents. The man's side, led by the matchmaker, would visit the girl's family to confirm each other's stance. The step is called ...
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The one per cent of GDP spent on IT needs to be reduced, according to deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell, during a keynote speech at the Business Cloud Summit in central London today. "One per cent of GDP is spent on IT, and that's much ...
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After a lengthy and often heated consultation, the government has finally released its new open standards principles intended to level the supplier playing field and avoid product lock-in. But is the document a blueprint for a radically ...
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HM Revenue&Customs has become the first government department to sign a contract for G-Cloud storage services,which will see data moved from on-premise ssytems to the cloud. Hampshire-based Skyscape Cloud Services has been awarded the ...
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HMRC is the first major government department to use the G-Cloud to procure centralised data storage,in a deal with Skyscape. Phil Pavitt,CIO of HMRC(pictured),said:"This change will save over 1m pounds a year in running costs and will ...
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First production order comes from Solar Junction–in which the UK-headquartered wafer foundry has a$5M equity stake. Semiconductor wafer featuring multi-junction cells The advanced semiconductor epiwafer foundry IQE is to ...
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