Hardware manufacturers met in Silicon Valley last week to continue drafting new open standards for data centres and servers with components that can be put together like Lego. The Facebook-sponsored Open Compute Project summit in Santa ...
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Queenland utility company Energex has long required a device able to withstand extreme temperatures, dust and rain for its staff working in harsh weather conditions. It first turned to the Panasonic Toughbook CF-18 in 2006, but the need ...
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UTAH-based Fusion-io is making waves in Silicon Valley. With companies such as Facebook and Apple as clients, the $US2 billion ($1.9bn) start-up produces so-called NAND flash boards that are becoming a building block of modern data centres. ...
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VODAFONE has renewed calls for a review into how much telecom companies pay one another when their customers make calls to mobile phones, claiming that consumers have been ripped off to the tune of $1.3 billion by Telstra's intransigence to ...
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THINGS are getting increasingly touchy in the computer world. Touchscreens, which most of us have on our smartphones or tablets, are spreading to the full-size personal computing arena. They're increasingly common on notebook PCs, ...
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LAS VEGAS — The mattress recycling issue is heating up. The International Sleep Products Assn. is sponsoring an educational session on the controversial issue at the Las Vegas Market. Set for Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 3 p.m. in World ...
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Infoworld - Nearly 15 years since the term "open source" was first applied, the trends driving the open source movement are not the same. Back then, price advantage, direct differentiation on licensing versus proprietary software, ...
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Speech of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General at the MOHR Conference, National Centre for Human Rights, Baghdad 19 December 2012. Minister for Human Rights, Engineer Shiya Al Sudaani, Excellencies, Ladies and ...
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ, July 31, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Fantasy Football Starters announced today that its Draft Analyzer now includes enhanced scoring capabilities for the 2012 Season. In addition to the system's fantasy football projections ...
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The Chinese people's main goal in most negotiations is to establish a relationship for future business opportunities. Guanxi is more important in these cases. The Chinese will spend considerable time on bargaining, drafting agreements, ...
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The Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) will soon forward a proposal to the state government regarding drafting of bylaws on the use of glasses, ensuring safety of people in residential and commercial buildings. The Confederation of ...
Reuters reported that Libya could proceed with a new round of oil exploration and production agreements in the current transitional period but the priority for now is to maintain pre war output levels and future targets. Mr Abdelbari ...
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The enormous interest of the Indian yarn manufacturers in new technologies and production processes clearly illustrates that the Indian textile industry is strongly innovation-driven. The high number of visitors to the ITME 2012 and in ...
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After almost a year of preparation, The OpenStack Foundation has launched as a stand-alone nonprofit organization, freeing its namesake stack of open source cloud hosting software from the management of hosting provider Rackspace. ...
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Gerber Technology presented awards to students at two prominent Canadian fashion design institutions during year-end student fashion shows. As in years past, Gerber Technology recognized two graduating students from the School of Fashion ...