Advanced Micro Devices had no plans to release low-power x86 server chips until the release of its ARM-based servers in 2014, but sagging server fortunes have changed the company's direction. The company is introducing two low-power ...
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Modern business infrastructure of today depends a lot on good power backups. Hence a substantial investment part goes in obtaining uninterruptible power supply systems in industries. A wider inverters and batteries range offered for hire ...
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The National Retail Federation and a broad cross-section of retailers asked a federal judge to reject a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit over credit card swipe fees that drive up prices for consumers by $30 billion a year, ...
Clean Clothes Campaign activists are set to stage protests across Europe on 24th May calling on major brands to pay compensation for fire and building collapse victims in Bangladesh. The protests take place exactly one month after the Rana ...
The BBC is to abandon a £98m digital production system and suspend its chief technology officer (CTO), John Linwood, after the organisation's chief executive Tony Hall said it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money". ...
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Seeing a “404 error” or the Twitter “Fail Whale” can really kill a good online buzz. Those kinds of service outages, though, occur on the Internet on a daily basis, as the latest numbers from Outage Analyzer ...
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Electric vehicle network provider Better Place has filed for liquidation, effectively switching off its global operations. The Israel-based EV infrastructure start-up filed a motion with the Lod District Court near Tel Aviv on May 26 ...
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The BBC has closed its multimillion pound Digital Media Initiative (DMI) that was meant to create new digital production tools and link them with a central, digital archive that would allow BBC staff to access a seamless digital chain ...
Japanese carmaker Nissan is planning to recall about 841,000 vehicles worldwide after complains about a defective steering wheel. The recall affects 133,869 models of the Nissan Micra that were built during 2002-2006 in Sunderland, UK, as ...
Inspired by the latest James Bond movie, Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass) is pushing a bill that would require all U.S. handgun manufacturers to include "personalization technology" in their weapons. The Personalized Handgun Safety Act of 2013 ...
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US-based medical device company St Jude Medical has commenced its EnligHTNment clinical study. The EnligHTNment study will assess whether the EnligHTN Multi-Electrode Renal Denervation System can minimize the risk of major cardiovascular ...
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The federal government’s opening of the tender process for the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal (as reported on Transport and Logistics News) has drawn praise from the rail industry, but also attracted criticism for its questionable ...
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After being accused of a lack of transparency by an independent watchdog, the European Privacy Association (EPA) has confirmed that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are backers. The Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), which works to expose ...
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Tempered glass is about four times stronger than "ordinary," or annealed, glass. And unlike annealed glass, which can shatter into jagged shards when broken, tempered glass fractures into small, relatively harmless pieces. As a result, ...
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There has been a great deal of comment in the press about the new regulation EUTR that is designed to help stamp out the global problem of illegal logging and, especially in the tropics, deforestation. The law covers timber and timber ...