Fallbrook Technologies is donating 1,000 of its NuVinci continuously variable hubs to Worldbike for use in developing countries. Worldbike is a network of bicycle industry designers and others with ties to manufacturing resources ...
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A luminaire which harnesses gravity to produce light has been designed in the UK for use in developing countries. Jim Reeves and Martin Riddiford, directors at product design consultancy Therefore, were challenged to design an LED lantern ...
Municipalities around the world will spend $24.3 billion for wastewater flow control and treatment equipment in 2013. This is the latest forecast by the McIlvaine Company through aggregating data in a number of its market reports. ...
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One Laptop Per Child is back in the tablet race, announcing a new 7-inch tablet with the Android OS that will be sold commercially and include its learning software. The XO Tablet was announced at the International CES show in Las Vegas. ...
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Stirred by a likely boost in demand from countries like the US and Japan, Indonesian textile manufacturers see their exports rising by six percent to US$ 13.4 billion during the current year, Indonesian Textile Association (API) has said. ...
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Municipalities around the world will spend $24.3 billion for wastewater flow control and treatment equipment in 2013. This is the latest forecast by the McIlvaine Company through aggregating data in a number of its market reports. ...
Tags: Municipalities, wastewater, flow control, treatment equipment, 2013
IDG News Service - Intel has announced plans to release its first quad-core Atom processor before the end of the year, as the company tries to capture a bigger share of the tablet market dominated today by ARM-based processors. Code-named ...
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Intel has announced plans to release its first quad-core Atom processor before the end of the year, as the company tries to capture a bigger share of the tablet market dominated today by ARM-based processors. Code-named Bay Trail and ...
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"Work and life"is to be the theme developed at the fifth Made in Steel,the conference and exhibition of the steel industry that will be held in Milan at the exhibition halls of fieramilanocity on 3-5 April 2013. The decision taken by the ...
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“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone) Commodities have experienced a renaissance after the bursting of the internet bubble at the end of the ...
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China's competition officials are still weighing Dole Food Co's deal to sell its global packaged food and Asian fresh businesses to Japan's Itochu Corp, forcing the two firms to delay completion of the sale. Dole had hoped to sign-off ...
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The fortunes of the Australian Cotton Growing industry are largely determined by global cotton demand, the world price of cotton and domestic growing conditions. Australia is a small cotton producer on a global scale; however, nearly all ...
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IDG News Service - Dell announced an aggressive schedule last year to roll out cloud-based application services, but it now looks like the schedule was a little too aggressive. Dell said last August that it planned to launch an online ...
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Floor covering designer and manufacturer Tandus Flooring Inc., Dalton, Ga., has been acquired by sustainable flooring and sports surfaces manufacturer Tarkett Group, France, for an undisclosed price. Tandus's roots go back to 1803. In ...
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Apple today said it has sold 2 million iPhone 5 smartphones in China since Friday, setting an opening weekend sales record for the country. The announcement was Apple's first to trumpet sales in the People's Republic of China (PRC), as ...
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