Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) saved about £74m on IT costs between 2011 and 2012, according to the National Audit Office (NAO). In its report, the NAO found that HMRC had saved a total of £296m over the period, with ...
Tags: IT costs, National Audit Office, IT industry
The Southern African Clothing & Textile workers’ Union (SACTWU) has pledged R1m towards a COSATU-run fund, to unionise farm workers. SACTWU General Secretary, Andre Kriel, made the announcement at a recruitment planning meeting of ...
Tags: SACTWU, Farm Workers, R1m
The National Retail Federation issued the following statement from Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy Jonathan Gold in response to this week’s rejection of a labor contract between the International Longshore and ...
Tags: NRF, following statement, Supply Chain
A woman’s underwear drawer costs three times more than a man’s. The average woman’s knicker drawer holds a jaw dropping £836 worth of lingerie, whereas, the price of a man’s underwear drawer is a cheaper ...
Tags: underwear, costs, knicker drawer
Electric vehicle owners in Oakville, Ont., are now able to charge their cars while enjoying a Tim Hortons coffee, as the restaurant chain installed its first EV charging stations as part of a new pilot project. Charging stations are now ...
Beginning February 11, Newfoundland & Labrador’s Department of Advanced Education & Skills will offer the first of 15 public information sessions on the Journeyperson Mentorship Program: the latest government initiative ...
Tags: public information sessions, Journeyperson Mentorship Program
Popular denim specialist Republic has joined the league of other British high-street fashion chains to buckle into administration post-Christmas. The Leeds-based youth fashion chain, which owns nearly 121 stores nationwide, has ...
Tags: Popular denim specialist, Republic, British high-street fashion chains
EBMag has learned that Electro-Federation Canada’s (EFC’s) Government Relations department launched a new initiative with the aim of improving member interaction with government: the MP Awareness Program. Under this program, ...
Tags: Electro-Federation Canada, Parliament Hill office, electro
The repetitive and often-tedious sample review process for companies in the retail, apparel, footwear, luxury and consumer goods industries will become much easier, faster, and more accurate and effective with the new Sample Review Mobile ...
Tags: Centric Software, Sample Review, Mobile Apps
A team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed an etch stop technique to improve performance of recessed-gate nitride semiconductor metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MISFETs) [Bin Lu et al, IEEE Electron ...
Tags: GaN MISFET GaN MOCVD, Electronics, Etch
University of Notre Dame (UND) in the USA and epiwafer maker IQE have claimed record-breaking balanced frequency performance for a nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) using indium aluminium gallium nitride ...
Ubiquisys is working with Guildford-based networks company Quortus to demonstrate a small-cell-based mobile PBX at Mobile World Congress, which takes place in Barcelona later this month. According to the companies, the all-mobile PBX ...
Tags: Ubiquisys, mobile PBX, Mobile World Congress
What will be the trend of the distribution market in 2013? The lines between engineering and purchasing will continue to blur, validating the importance of a next generation distribution model. This next generation approach is less ...
The SIA and SRC are trying to persuade the US Congress not to cut funds for basic semiconductor R&D. SIA president Rich Templeton argues that funding for bodies like the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of ...
Tags: SIA, SRC, semiconductor
The trade gateway and ‘barometer’ to the Chinese market opens again in April. The China Import and Export Fair, commonly known as the Canton Fair, will be held from April 15 to May 5 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex ...
Tags: Chinese market, trade gateway, barometer