A further step towards the development of the planned High Speed 2 north - south high speed rail network came on December 24, when the government’s development company HS2 Ltd announced the award of framework contracts covering ...
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Business Standard reported that GAIL has started issuing compensation to land owners who have lost their land to the gas pipeline project, connecting the Kochi LNG terminal to Bangalore and Mangalore. The first set of cheques were ...
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Azerbaijan and Georgia are going to discuss cooperation between the two countries in the energy field. Georgian Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Kakha Kaladze is in Azerbaijan on a working visit, Georgian Energy Ministry told Trend. ...
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Microsoft has acquired a small home entertainment technology start-up called id8 Group R2 Studios, which recently launched a Google Android application enabling users to control home heating and lighting systems from their mobile devices. ...
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The WiebeTech UltraDock v5 is a multi-interface dock with a number of different connections, enabling users to connect drives mechanisms to a Mac. Targeted at IT professionalsbut very handy for technical users who work with hardware ...
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It's no secret that enterprise collaboration is on the rise: Research firm Gartner predicts that by 2015, 40 percent of large businesses will have the equivalent of a corporate Facebook network. That prevalence, coupled with the many ...
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A year ago,we saw the first Samsung Chromebook and we were left feeling pretty underwhelmed with it.Not only was the hardware clunky and slow,but Google's much-anticipated Chrome OS was far more basic and limited in what it could do that we ...
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CIO - There's no question, we're at an inflection point in the digitization of our world. In every domain and dimension, the substitution of digital for analog is racing ahead. A couple recent examples illustrate the power of this trend. ...
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Watch out, LinkedIn. Facebook is getting in your space. The social network announced Wednesday that it's launching an app to help users find jobs. The app, as of Wednesday afternoon, included 1.7 million job listings, in areas including ...
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Microsoft is adding mobile connectivity between Windows applications and the Windows Azure cloud platform with the introduction this week of Windows Azure Mobile Services. The technology will enable users to connect client and mobile ...
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PC World - Lazarus (so named because it's an older project, reborn) is a full-featured graphical IDE for Free Pascal, an open-source implementation of Object Pascal. While the Lazarus developers politely ask that it not be called a Delphi ...
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Google said Tuesday it is starting to connect homes in Kansas City, Kan., to its Google Fiber broadband service. The installation will have two phases, starting with pulling fiber-optic cables from the street to the side of the home, and ...
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Computerworld - American Airlines Wednesday said it plans to deploy 17,000 first-generation Samsung Galaxy Note devices to flight attendants for use onboard its planes. The flights attendants will use the smartphone-tablet Notes device to ...
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Supermodel, style icon and OpenSky Insider Veronica Webb has teamed up with OpenSky.com to create her first fashion line. The iconic supermodel known as a muse and favorite runway model of designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Azzedine Alaia ...
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The UK is missing out on huge social and economic benefits,according to Go ON UK,as the charity reveals that there are an estimated 16 million people who are lacking basis online and skills. A report from Booz&Company,in conjunction with ...
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