A person in the know revealed that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has nailed down how to grant 4G licenses. TD-LTE licenses will be concurrently granted to top three carriers while LTE FDD licenses later. The ...
Some of the changes that can be expected in the next edition of Part L of the Building Regulations have been announced at a launch event hosted by BRE in Watford. At the event, it was confirmed that the minimum luminaire initial efficacy ...
The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) announced today that a five-year extension will be granted to the transition period for most Phase 3 Safe, Productive and Infrastructure-Friendly (SPIF) vehicles, the Ontario Trucking Association ...
Tags: Transportation, Truck
Less tax for small businesses and more financial support for local government are on the cards as the Chinese leadership considers to start reforming the fiscal system. On August 1, the turnover tax was replaced by a value-added tax (VAT) ...
Tags: Fiscal Reform
On 30 September 2013, GPG announced the sale of its entire shareholding (33.6%) in TOWER Limited for £60.7million (NZ$118.3 million). TOWER Limited represented the last material investment for GPG (excluding Coats) and the imminent ...
Chinese drivers will have to pay more in fuel prices amid the country's drive to reduce air pollution through upgraded fuel quality. In the next two years, the prices of motor gasoline and diesel which meet the national 'fourth-phase' ...
Tags: Pricing Policy, Greener Fuel
Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. says it is assessing its options after an arbitrator blocked the sale of two of its plants to Apollo Tyres Ltd. The arbitrator upheld two grievances filed by the United Steel Workers (USW) in a ruling issued on ...
Tags: Cooper Tire, tyre, Auto Parts
The UK's busiest train station, Clapham Junction, is set to achieve significant energy savings with the introduction of an intelligent lighting control system. Clapham Junction in London is one of Europe's busiest train stations in ...
Apple to unveil its next iPhone on September 10, according to sources cited by the AllThingsD blog. AllThingsD in a Saturday blog post, operated by the Wall Street Journal – pegged September 10 as the launch date for the new ...
Analysts argued today over the significance of Apple's falling market share, reflecting the uncertainties the Cupertino, Calif. company faces in a transition to lower profits. "The current iPhone portfolio is under-performing and Apple is ...
Tags: iPhone Share, Low-Price Model
Desalination has become an essential tool to enable effective management of water strategies in the 21st century. To celebrate 50 years of Filtration+Separation we take a look back at the last 50 years of desalination by discussing major ...
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The US has blocked proposals for tough new global rules intended to reduce the tax avoidance policies of multinational companies, such as Apple, Amazon and Google. Instead, watered down proposals will be presented to the G20 summit this ...
Tags: LED, Computer Products
Microsoft will release Windows 8.1 to computer and tablet makers in late August, a company executive said today. Tami Reller, the CFO of the Windows group, announced the date during the opening keynote address of Microsoft's Worldwide ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Windows 8.1
Two years after virtually dropping out of the mobile business, Hewlett-Packard is working on a new smartphone, an HP executive told Press Trust of India. Asked if HP is working on a smartphone, Yam Su Yin, HP senior director of consumer ...
Tags: Smartphones, HP, Computer Products
Microsoft today confirmed that Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) will be ported to Windows 7, but declined to name a release date. The announcement, made during a Wednesday session at the company's BUILD developers conference, was first ...