Vinyl is a terrific floor covering. Its lower cost, its durability, and its ease of maintenance make it a very popular choice for kitchens, bathrooms, and any place in a home or office that might see a nice bit of traffic or spills. Though ...
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Bosch Automotive Service Solutions has unveiled new electric vehicle (EV) charging station, the Power Max in the US. Costing less than $450, the charging station is claimed to provide 240V charging and also reduces the charging time to ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2013 (to end-March), LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $348.9m, up 1% on last quarter and up 23% on $284.8m a year ago (and at the high end of the ...
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New tablet shipments will outnumber laptops for the first time in 2013, as touch display capabilities drive buying patterns rather than new operating systems like Windows 8 and Windows RT, research firm NPD DisplaySearch reported on Monday. ...
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Charging motorists to use roads would decrease traffic congestion and improve the efficiency of our capital cities, a report claims. The report, ‘Productive cities: Opportunity in a changing economy’ by the Grattan Institute, ...
Many tech companies have called for Congress to ease restrictions on high-skill immigration because they can't find qualified tech workers to fill open positions. Yet, many veteran IT tech workers say they can't find jobs. More than a ...
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Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information. Hadoop distributor MapR has integrated the LucidWorks Search into its own distribution. And Cloudera ...
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You can safely bring a newborn home from the hospital in any one of the 29 infant car seats from Consumer Reports' tests. Some of the seats we tested cost $200 or more but others are half that price. Spending less can still buy you a seat ...
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Energized by demand from power supplies, photovoltaic (PV) inverters and industrial motor drives, the emerging market for silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors is forecast to grow a remarkable factor of 18 ...
In daily life Around the turn of the 20th century, bicycles reduced crowding in inner-city tenements by allowing workers to commute from more spacious dwellings in the suburbs. They also reduced dependence on horses. Bicycles allowed ...
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From December to March, Apple's iPhone lost ground to smartphones from rival Samsung in a survey to assess consumers' future purchase plans, a market research firm said last week. According to 451 Research's ChangeWave, of 4,000 consumers ...
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Infor's CEO, Charles Phillips, on Monday said that the vendor has no intention of owning its own data centres for cloud services, despite having a desire to offer more cloud-based products in the future. Instead, Phillips said, Infor's ...
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Theradiag has received a CE mark approval for its anti cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) in vitro diagnostic (IVD) kit in rheumatoid arthritis. The test further expands the Fidis portfolio of diagnostic tests for auto-immunes ...
IT support services firm Caleris has this message on its homepage, "Outsource to Iowa. Not India," against a picture of a corn field and farm houses. Caleris' message could not be clearer. The company is competing from rural Iowa, with ...
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Intel's outgoing CEO took a few parting shots at Microsoft's Windows 8 Tuesday as he explained a slump in both revenue and profits for the first quarter. Paul Otellini, who will retire from Intel next month, joined a chorus of others, ...