The concrete industry's Strategic Development Council (SDC) has announced its upcoming meeting, Technology Forum #34, this fall to continue work on several issues and initiatives facing the concrete industry. The one-and-a-half-day ...
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Insurance provider WellPoint has agreed to pay a $1.7 million fine for exposing more than 600,000 personal records online due to weak database security, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) said Thursday. WellPoint, based ...
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The versatility of polyurethane chemistry and its benefits for the building and construction industry will be the focus of three separate technical sessions at the 2013 Polyurethanes Technical Conference, presented by the Center for the ...
From Sept. 1 through Dec. 31, 2013, Falken Tire Corp. will be running a national consumer rebate promotion on the popular Ziex ZE912 tire -- featuring a $50 cash back mail in rebate. Available in 93 sizes, including CUV fitments, the ...
Microsoft is shutting down on Sept. 30 its MSN TV service that allowed users to browse the Web from their TVs, as there are now new ways to access the Internet including mobile phones, tablets and its own Xbox console. The Redmond, ...
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Playtex Bras, one of America’s best-selling bra brands, is launching its most comprehensive marketing effort with a new campaign, Be Uniquely You. The campaign celebrates women’s uniqueness and individuality and reinforces ...
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Yahoo is slimming itself down again by axing 12 of its products, part of an ongoing effort to sharpen its focus on services it thinks people need in their daily lives. The list includes AltaVista, the granddaddy of search engines, and ...
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PMMI: The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies will take a select group of packaging students and professors on a six-day tour of packaging industry end users and manufacturers in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas in the "How ...
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PMMI: The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, the owner and organizer of Pack Expo, is making substantial changes to the education program at Pack Expo Las Vegas 2013 (Las Vegas Convention Center, Sept. 23–25). ...
Is your car watching your every move? Can the cable company track your DVR habits? Those two privacy issues are bubbling up in Congress, where lawmakers this week filed bipartisan legislation that would give car owners control over data ...
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As the Rupp Report already informed some weeks ago, this year's annual conference of the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) will take place in Bregenz, Austria, Sept. 8-10, 2013 (See " The Rupp Report: Vorarlberg In The ...
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The New York State Assembly on Wednesday approved a measure that allows the New York City Board of Elections to replace state-of-the art optical scanning voting machines around the city with decades-old mechanical-lever machines for the ...
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Schneider National is installing new tracking technology across its fleet of van trailers and intermodal containers. The new technology from Qualcomm is designed to provide continuous, real-time information regarding the location and load ...
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Facebook is phasing out its Credits virtual payment system and will be transitioning all games integrated into the social network to a new local payments API by Sept. 12, the company announced Wednesday. The migration is part of a larger ...
Durango Mountain Resort recently held a grand opening for Purgatory Cycle Works, a full-service retail, service and rental shop on the resort grounds. The shop, which is owned and managed by Durango Mountain Resort, has three employees, ...