Amcor Tobacco Packaging is all set to shut down its US manufacturing facility in Danville and is expected to lay off about 35 employees. Including the Danville location, Amcor operates four manufacturing plants in the US along with ...
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Ericsson last week announced that it had acquired Microsoft’s Mediaroom TV solution business, which, the firm claims, holds a 25 percent market share over the IPTV and multi-screen market. The deal is expected to be finalised during ...
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The volume of data centre projects continues to rise in the Middle East, but experts believe that the education level of what’s required to run and maintain these centres is fairly low, allowing vendors to take advantage of smaller ...
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is used in food packaging such as tins, bottles (including baby bottles until recently), and boxes as well as in dental fillings. Its use has been a concern among food and health officials and governments for several ...
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ABB's successful central inverter seriesis no, PVS800 w available in larger sizes. The new 875 and 1000kilowatt (kW) central inverters reduce overall system cost and have even higher total efficiency with one of the most compact and ...
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To make server upgrades easier, Intel introduced a rack reference architecture that speeds up data throughput while reducing energy and maintenance costs in data centers. The architecture, announced on Tuesday, calls for decoupling ...
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Like Paul Hewson and Declan MacManus—Bono and Elvis Costello, respectively—Boxee is hoping there's some magic in a name change: The company is rebranding its Boxee TV media player as the Boxee Cloud DVR. The price will remain at ...
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Software-defined networking, a set of technologies to help networks better adapt to user needs with less manual effort, may at last be getting the common foundation it has needed for interoperability and efficient development. Most of the ...
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Oracle's Unveiling of a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors late last month marked what could be the start of an expected shift toward standardizing the vendor's two families of Unix servers on a single chip architecture. ...
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The three main light bulbs from which consumers find themselves needing to choose are incandescent bulbs,compact fluorescent lights(CFLs)and LEDs.But what are the main differences between the three and how do people know which one is right ...
The consumerâEUR(TM)s world is changing rapidly. Till the other day, there were some premier warehouses that stocked the best quality trailer parts, truck parts, parts for boats and caravan parts. These parts included just about any ...
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For many consumer goods and beverage companies, labels allowing customers to effectively interact with their brand, are considered the Holy Grail. Similarly, they are seeking solutions to allow their boxed products to communicate with the ...
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Thanks to CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission in the States) for letting us know about a recall by The Home Depot involving 1000-ft CE Tech riser cable sold in boxes of 1000-ft lengths. The cable is intended to run between floors of ...
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Yakima announced the hire of Stephanie Bastin-Wells as global director of human resources and the promotion of Emily Davis to director of supply chain. Bastin-Wells becomes a key member of senior management and is responsible for the ...
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Complementing the SK 200E line of frequency inverters, Nord Drivesystems introduces the SK 180E which is mounted on asynchronous motors, just like its larger counterparts. Featuring proven ISD vector control, the SK 180E is even more ...
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