The chairman of the Australian Securities & Investments Commission has broken ranks with Treasurer Wayne Swan on reform of the bond market, saying that any move to establish a retail corporate bond market must wait until there is a deep and ...
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Email is a commodity, says Chicago CIO Brett Goldstein, and that's why city officials have decided to shift to cloud-based mail services as part of a broad effort to improve IT operations. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel this month disclosed ...
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, announced that West-coast based specialty retailer Tilly's has launched a state-of-the-art mobile commerce app powered by MicroStrategy's Alert ...
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An exploit for a previously unknown and currently unpatched vulnerability in Java is being used by cybercriminals to infect computers with malware, according to security researchers. An independent malware researcher who uses the online ...
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Those using the Ruby on Rails web application framework on their websites are being advised to update the software immediately after multiple new vulnerabilities were found. It's the second time this month that Rails has been patched ...
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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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Fit Brains, a top brain training product with over 75 million brain games played, today announced the launch of its Fit Brains Trainer app for iPhone and iPad. This new app brings an entertaining, yet cognitive training experience to the ...
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Single-serve coffeemakers are one of the hottest gifts of the holiday season. Not only can you make everyone their own special blend of coffee but the perky machines come in interesting shapes and bright colors so they look good on your ...
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Asian benzene prices crashed through the $1,400/mt support level Wednesday, shedding $45/mt or 3.1% day on day to settle at $1,397.50/mt FOB Korea as factors supporting a bullish benzene market collapsed, market sources said. Benzene ...
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Driving the entry-level BMW 520d GT,it feels like the Germans have produced a quirky French car.While Mercedes-Benz delivered the swoopy CLS-Class,and Audi followed with its wedgy A7 Sportback,in 2010 BMW created a taller,hatchback version ...
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Ever since it erected its first lamp posts in the late 1890s,with electricity generated from its own municipal power plant a decade later,street lighting in the City of Pasadena,California,has undergone many changes in the ensuing decades ...
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Canada The provincial government of Nova Scotia stated in February 2007 that it would like to move towards preventing the sale of incandescent light bulbs in the province. In April 2007, Ontario's Minister of Energy Dwight Duncan ...
Norway's Statoil and its partners are going ahead with the development of the major Aasta Hansteen natural gas field project in the Norwegian Sea, as well as the planned Polarled pipeline linking it to shore, at a combined cost of NOK57 ...
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Digital rights and privacy advocates have welcomed Yahoo's decision to provide its users with an option to enable HTTPS (HTTP Secure) for their entire webmail sessions. "We're really happy that Yahoo! is starting 2013 right by letting ...
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Yahoo has started providing webmail users the option of using a secure connection, matching a similar feature Google and Microsoft have offered for several years. Yahoo’s delay in providing a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection ...
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