IBM announced a collaboration agreement with the University of Mauritius to help meet the demand for Computer Science skills in the Indian Ocean island region. The joint academic initiative will provide technology and training resources ...
The U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, in Madison, says it's opening a $1.7 million pilot plant that will support an emerging market for wood products derived from nanotechnology. The products could be stronger than Kevlar and lighter than ...
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The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has called for immediate action to ensure enough young people study science,technology,engineering and maths(STEM)subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Without ...
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The government is hoping to shore up its defences against cybercrime through post-graduate training,and has asked universities to apply for funding to run training courses for post-graduates. Through the Engineering and Physical Sciences ...
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The Internet address registry for North America expects to start allowing transfers of IPv4 addresses to qualified users in Asia by the end of this month, possibly providing an escape valve for pent-up demand in that region. Carriers, ...
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Approval from the MHRA allows testing of the technique as a means to detect breast cancer tissue. THz spots the difference in breast cancer tissue The application of terahertz(THz)spectroscopy to the in vivo detection of cancerous ...
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A conductive material grown from hollow carbon tubes at the micro and nano scale which can support 40,000 times its own weight has been discovered by Professor Karl Schulte and Professor Matthew Mecklenburg at the Universities of Kiel and ...
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IDG News Service - Ask any Silicon Valley entrepreneur about their startup and they'll usually tell you the sky is the limit. For some, it's not just the limit but the goal. Combining advances in electronics and new sources of funding with ...
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Organisations must prevent women from excluding themselves from the top jobs in IT, according to Jane Moran, global chief information officer of Thomson Reuters, and winner of Computer Weekly’s “Most Influential Woman in UK ...
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Yokohama launch:Dr.Peter Leibinger,Vice Chairman of Trumpf at the opening. Laser giant Trumpf has opened an Asian production location for disk lasers at Trumpf Japan in Yokohama.Dr.Peter Leibinger,Vice Chairman of the Managing ...
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Recently, Philips has signed a partnership contract and agreement with Gold Biotechnology Inc., a supplier of molecular biology research chemicals based in St. Louis, MO, to designate GoldBio as a certified Philips LED Horti Partner. ...
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Premier Farnell has bought China-based Shenzhen Embest Technology which makes embedded system development boards and tools and supplies design engineering services. The addition of Embest's products and services enables Premier Farnell to ...
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IDG News Service-A mixture of intense excitement and skepticism followed the launch a year ago of Office 365,as backers and critics debated whether the cloud collaboration,productivity and communication suite would succeed. Skeptics said ...
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Ofcom today set out proposals to cap the prices BT can charge for leasing its telecoms infrastructure, which it claims will lead to real-time price reductions for most customers. The regulator said the lines, which are rented by companies ...
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The University of Oxford and a consortium of UK academic institutions have deployed what is believed to be the nation's most powerful GPU-accelerated supercomputer. The supercomputer,which uses 372 Nvidia Tesla M2090 GPUs,will be used for ...
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