Every second counts Over a million twenty-foot equivalent units(TEU)of cargo go through the bustling Port of Bangkok each year.This harbour in Thailand's capital city has become a major centre of commerce in the political and economic ...
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Even before considering the extreme nature of its sub-arctic climate,Fairbanks International Airport is unique in many ways.While serving a local population of only 82,000,the airport offers non-stop passenger service to Europe,Asia and ...
Computerworld - General Motors, which is insourcing the majority of its IT work, Friday said it is hiring 500 IT positions in Austin to staff a new "innovation center." The announcement is part of far-reaching GM plan to hire as many as ...
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Data-center networking vendor Emulex plans to acquire Endace, a maker of network performance management hardware and software, for about $130 million, the companies announced. The buyout will add Endace's network monitoring appliances, ...
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Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce event is coming up in just a few weeks, but during Thursday's second-quarter earnings call, CEO Marc Benioff couldn't help but share some of the big announcements the cloud software vendor has planned for ...
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Facebook said Monday it has defenses in place to detect click fraud despite one company's claim it detected suspicious clicks on its advertisements billed to it by the social-networking site. Limited Run, a company based in Manorville, ...
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Five years after German retail giant Otto provided investment capital for a start-up analytics software supplier, it achieved a 40% improvement in demand forecasting from the resulting technology. Otto derives revenue of €11.6bn ...
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One-fifth of UK companies are assigning financial value to their data, according to Dynamic Markets, a UK-based market research firm The firm's research is one of three pieces sponsored by analytics software and services company SAS. The ...
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A majority high-level IT managers and data storage professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics, according to a new data storage survey by market research firm TheInfoPro. Fifty-six percent of respondents indicated they will ...
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Searchmetrics has released 2 studies on US and UK newspapers use of Pinterest the Social Media bookmarking and content sharing site with a growing engaged audience and very desirable demographic for marketers. Marcus Tober, founder and ...
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HP today announced new and enhanced information optimisation solutions that help enterprises manage, understand and act upon the variety, velocity and volume of organisational data. During a press conference at the HP Discover 2012 ...
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SAP has announced a new family of products that marry its Business Objects BI (business intelligence) software with the Sybase IQ analytic database and include specialised business content for use by various industries. The four offerings ...
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The global market for business analytics software grew roughly 14% in 2011, fueled by pervasive hype about "big data" as well as new technological innovations, according to a report unveiled by analyst firm IDC on Wednesday. Between now ...
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Cisco plans to expand its services business over the next several years, seeing a more important role for itself in a world of connected machines and devices. The company will build up its managed services and consulting services, ...
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Online retailers are losing business because they are failing to exploit the full potential of search technology, analyst group Gartner has claimed. Despite improvements in search technology, retailers only rate a B- when it comes to ...