Success in cutting costs quicker than expected, as well as an increase in underlying half-year sales and profits, helped drive Premier Foods plc's shares this morning (7 August). The UK food group said it now expects to cut costs by ...
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The Metropolitan Police Service's IT director talks to Computer Weekly about the Olympian challenges facing IT transformation at the Met now the London 2012 Games are over. Steve Whatson(pictured),director of ICT for the Olympics and ...
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Rookie USA uses an LED lighting solution from Osram Opto Semiconductors and Phoster Industries Rookie USA, a premium brand specializing in innovative sportswear for children, is equipping its first retail location in New York City with a ...
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The antique rug world has seen many changes over the past few years and while the economic atmosphere would seem detrimental to the demand for these luxury items, in reality there has never been a better time for these works of art. ...
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Government bodies must now comply with Open Standard Principles for IT, minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has announced. The Open Standard Principles are an agreed set of standards designed to make government IT more open, ...
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Tarmac Pavement Solutions, part of the company s National Contracting division, aims to help customers beat the rising cost of bitumen on highways schemes. With bitumen prices up 60% in the last two years, Tarmac Pavement Solutions has been ...
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Holland-based LeaseWeb has opted for storage software from Nexenta on commodity hardware as a platform for its cloud computing platform. The company chose Nexenta over HP, IBM, NetApp and open source storage products for the project, which ...
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Epistar, Taiwan's largest manufacturer of packaged LEDs has decided to trial silicon-based wafers. The company is hoping to take advantage of cost savings in the backend of the LED manufacturing process to in turn broaden SSL deployment. ...
Manufacturer Domino Printing Sciences is cutting costs by putting its IT service desk in the cloud. The maker of printing technologies'service desk supports 25 offices across the world as well as 200 distributors in 120 countries.It ...
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Government’s addiction to mega-contracts has been pegged as a key factor in the exclusion of small to medium-sized enterprises (SME) from the public sector IT market. Deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell (pictured below) and a number ...
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DU QUOIN--One of the state fair's main attractions has made some major,earth-friendly improvements. Rides,lights,and booths operate for hours each day in the carnival midway.That equipment can use a lot of power. However,one small ...
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There is an art to effective drying, and the more information you can bring to the table when purchasing a dryer, the better equipped a manufacturer or distributor will be to assist you in finding the perfect convection dryer for your ...
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It's easy to understand why,too.AWS represents a disruptive innovation within IT,and it's important to understand the basis of that disruption to understand what it means for IT going forward. Clayton Christensen coined the term ...
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Many businesses will be concerned with cutting costs wherever possible at the moment,and it's been found that one of the biggest costs within a small business can be printing.Businesses all over the country are likely to rely heavily on ...
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Germany-based GaN-on-Si wafers manufacturer Azzurro Semiconductors, has received Euro 2.6 million in government funds from the European Regional Development Fund and the Free State of Saxony. The funds will be used to drive ...
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