There's little doubt that multi-sourcing enterprise IT services. The average U.S. IT shop is working with 13.5 service providers overall, according to Gartner. But managing multiple providers remains a challenge for most IT organizations. ...
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Bloomberg reported that steel reinforcement-bar futures dropped for a second day after a leading indicator for China's economy rose at a slower pace, boosting concern that demand growth for the construction material may slow. Rebar for ...
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Reuters cited a research report published Wednesday by the State Information Centre, China’s leading think tank, China's exports are likely to grow 8 % in 2013 from the previous year while imports could rise 7.8 %. The report ...
The coatings industry in Europe has been bracing itself for an extremely difficult 2012 in which much of the region will be suffering from the effects of a severe economic downturn mainly due to the impact of the troubles with the euro on ...
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Sheffield Resources announced the commencement of field work at its Red Bull Nickel and Copper Project following grant of key exploration licence E69/3052. The Red Bull project is located within 20 kilometers of Sirius Resources ...
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LED, a kind of semiconductor diode, can transfer electrical energy to optical energy, and emit yellow, green, blue and other visible light as well as infrared and ultraviolet invisible light. Compared with small incandescent bulbs and neon ...
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Nicira is a start-up right out of the Silicon Valley playbook with a $1.26 billion ending, in just five years. VMware's decision, announced Monday, to buy this network virtualization company will likely be cited as a starring example of ...
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Tech stocks have been climbing recently as key vendors such as Cisco and Lenovo report positive quarterly earnings and the U.S. economy offers glimpses of good news. So far this year, shares in IT companies rose steadily until April and ...
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It would offer Airtel's customers the ability to make retail payments and do basic banking using their mobile phones and Airtel's network. You've heard Samua Munda's story before. He's a migrant laborer in Mumbai, who hails from Harubeda, ...
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The latest figures of the annual IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index have revealed that online sales in November are up 18 per cent from last year as the festive rush has encouraged consumers to reach into their digital pockets. In ...
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The dead can't speak for themselves. But they can apparently file U.S. tax returns. A new audit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has found the agency paid refunds to criminals who filed false tax returns, in some cases on behalf of ...
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In the wake of his Belize neighbor's unsolved murder, John McAfee's lurch through the news damaged the reputation of his namesake, the security company McAfee Inc., a brand expert said Thursday. McAfee, 67, founded the firm in 1987 as ...
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Australian Wool Industries Secretariat Inc (AWIS) releases wool sales report for week ending November 16. The Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) Regional Indicators finished 1.5% higher, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle ...
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Australian Wool Industries Secretariat Inc (AWIS) releases wool sales report for week ending November 2. The Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) Regional Indicators finished 0.3% lower, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle ...
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Spatial pattern recognition Spatial pattern recognition (SPR) looks for relationships among defect locations on the substrate surface. When detected, spatial patterns can often lead to rapid identification of the defect's root cause (Fig. ...
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