By John Lee. Oil exports from Iraq’s southern Basra terminals were restored to 2.35 million barrels on Saturday bad weather on Friday, according to a report from The National. Output was said to have fallen to just 1.32 million ...
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The Ministry of Defence(MoD)has pointed to software development issues as a key reason for delays in many of its major projects,a National Audit Office(NAO)report has revealed. The MoD:Major Projects report 2012,which gives a progress ...
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Recently,the first nickel-based alloy large-size strip coil goes off the assembly line in Baosteel Special Material.This marks that Baosteel Special Material,through domestic first continuous casting-steckel hot rolling-cold rolling ...
NICKEL is on track to end 2012 as the worst performing base metal and 2013 doesn't look much better. In fact, the only hope for existing nickel producers is that some of the emerging operations strike technical problems in their ...
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Computerworld - The problem: You want to send images into space and you want them to last 5 billion years. The solution: A gold-plated disc. That's the idea behind The Last Pictures project, which is scheduled to blast off in the next few ...
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IDG News Service - Swedish police confiscated three servers allegedly connected to copyright infringements during a raid on PRQ, a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. The main target was the Swedish torrent site ...
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The Nasdaq stock exchange in New York is to pay$40m compensation for technical problems that caused confusion on Facebook's first day of share trading. The stock exchange plans to pay$14m to its affected member firms,with the balance to ...
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Swiss bank UBS is planning to take legal action against Nasdaq OMX Group to recoup losses it made related to the Facebook IPO, the company said on Tuesday as it reported its second quarter results. As a result of "the gross mishandling of ...
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White light There are two primary ways of producing white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs), LEDs that generate high-intensity white light. One is to use individual LEDs that emit three primary colors— red, green, and blue — and ...
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The industry that you expect to hit the IT headlines on a regular basis has not let us down in the last 12 months,despite continued tough market conditions. With customer demands changing,banks have to innovate around things like mobile ...
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Internet access in Syria has been shut off nationwide, and network watchers Akamai and Renesys have issued charts illustrating the dramatic traffic collapse. RELATED: Anatomy of an Internet blackout Syria has experienced partial ...
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Apple kick-started pre-orders of the iPad Mini early today, and within hours, sold out the white model in all three Wi-Fi configurations. Pre-sales for the iPad Mini -- at 7.9-in., Apple's first downsized tablet -- started just after ...
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$4 billion agreement will see the world's leading chip maker fund R&D and take an equity stake in ASML. Eric Meurice:pushing Moore's law Intel is set to acquire up to a 15%equity stake in the semiconductor equipment specialist ...
NETFLIX says it restored streaming video services a day after an outage triggered by technical problems at web service provider Amazon stretched across the Americas. The outage affected customers in the Americas starting about 12.30pm PST ...
Former Pirate Bay host PRQ.se went down in the middle of a police raid on Monday, affecting hundreds of hosted sites and thousands of users of PRQ's other services. But the raid and the outage are unlikely to be related, according to PRQ's ...
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