JPMorgan, Forrester and IDC all recently lowered their IT spending forecasts for the year. Gartner did so in June. Analysts don't agree on the extent of the problem, but most broadly blame Europe and a slowdown in China, along with a ...
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According to the latest quarterly economic forecast from the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation(MAPI),deceleration in the U.S.manufacturing recovery in the second quarter of 2012 foretells slow economic growth in coming ...
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The government's spy agency,GCHQ,is to launch a programme today that aims to help business leaders in their attempts to tackle the growing threat of cyber attacks. The programme,dubbed Cyber Security for Business,will be the first time ...
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Computerworld - Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Mitt Romney's platform describes government's basic research efforts as an area Romney "plans to cut."Romney says research is important to innovation and ...
Furniture Insights Monthly Results New Furniture Orders As we expected in last month's issue of Furniture Insights, new orders in May improved significantly over April orders according to our recent survey of residential furniture ...
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The Public Accounts Committee(PAC)has criticised public-sector organisations that dump raw data into the public domain insufficiently formatted to enable people and companies to analyse and make use of it. Further reading Open Data ...
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Development and manufacturing agreement with Hyundai will enable Australia's Electro Optic Systems to scale production in Asia. "CROWS"system in operation Electro Optic Systems(EOS),the Australian company that develops and makes ...
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The government will permanently keep a tight rein on spending controls, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said. The announcement acts a rubber stamp for the procedures already in place, said a Cabinet Office spokesman. All ...
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Pretoria Portland Cement Co. (PPC), Africa s biggest cement maker is seeing significant progress on some African projects, with demand in southern Africa continuing to improve. PPC may announce two projects on the continent in the next few ...
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A warm winter is rare in the Arkhangelsk region, an inhospitable, vast Russian tundra bordering the Barents and Kara seas. But this year it came close, with temperatures rarely dropping below -6C until the middle of January. Welcome relief, ...
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The inability of the state to deliver on basic services has nurtured many a business: Inverters and bottled water, to name just two. A third one is beginning to flourish: Water purification and waste-water treatment. As the state ...
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Saudi Cement Company rose to the highest in more than three years after the producer of the building material said cement companies are in talks to sell as much as 600, 000 tonnes of extra clinker supplies. The shares advanced 1.8 per cent ...
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American and European plastics firms are stepping up their investments in medical manufacturing in China, as that country undertakes a major expansion of its health-care system. The investments are driven both by global medical-device ...
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Oman Cement is weighing moves to boost its cement grinding capacity to keep pace with escalating demand for a commodity deemed vital for the nation s continuing infrastructure modernisation. Towards this end, the company has floated a ...
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