A beef ready meal manufacturer is fighting to preserve the 750 jobs at its Somerset site, as sales fall in the wake of the horsemeat scandal. Oscar Mayer supplies chilled ready meals to Sainsbury, which has seen reduced sales of ...
The Maritime Union of Australia and thousands of its members around Australia are rallying outside the offices of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) and its affiliates to call on the business community to cease its ...
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Cree’s latest SiC 1200V mosfets have been designed and fabricated to offer lower cost than previous generation mosfets. The product range has been extended to include a much larger 25mOhm die aimed at the higher power module market ...
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Bosch has come out with a new ½-sheet orbital sander that they say delivers the "smoothest handling" and a "fine finish", thanks in part to their new vibration control system. Personally, I just think the new Bosch OS50VC ...
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Microbes lurk almost everywhere, from fresh food and air filters to toilet seats and folding money. Most of the time, they are harmless to humans. But sometimes they aren't. Every year, thousands of people sicken from E. coli ...
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) celebrates the nation's longest running public health campaign: National Poison Prevention Week (NPPW), from March 17 to 23, 2013. As a longtime supporter of NPPW, one of the CPSC's ...
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Recently, Baosteel achieves mass production of world's advanced level high strength non-quenched and tempered cold heading steel as the first in the country and offers bulk supply to a well-known domestic auto manufacturing enterprise for ...
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Buying traceable, local and British food has risen “substantially” up consumers’ agendas since the horsemeat scandal, according to the latest research from Mintel. The horsemeat scandal had made consumers more aware of ...
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Tineka Smith caught up with Trevor Healy, CEO of Amobee, to talk about the growth of mobile advertising and what this means for the PC. Amobee is the mobile advertising company for the big guys. We drive mobile campaigns for very large ...
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BlackBerry chief executive Thorsten Heins has taken a swipe at rival Apple's iPhone, claiming that its user interface is five years old and suggesting that it is in need of a refresh. "Apple did a fantastic job in bringing touch devices ...
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Crystal IS, Inc., a manufacturer of proprietary, high-performance ultraviolet light emitting diodes (UVC LEDs) for monitoring, purification, and disinfection applications, has announced today that they achieved more than 65mW in optical ...
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Fujitsu has developed a 16-core SPARC processor for high-reliability servers. Called SPARC64 X and made on a 28nm high-k metal-gate CMOS process, the 10th generation SPARC64 processor has three billion transistors and 13 layers of ...
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Agile development specialist Alistair Cockburn acknowledges that "agile is not for every project, but the hard part is to name which projects it's not for." Broadly, anything where a need for 100% reliability exceeds the need for ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has expanded its optical infrastructure portfolio with five new transimpedance amplifiers (TIA), enabling it to now serve both the ...
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Aquafil, ECNC Land & Sea Group and Star Sock have together established the "Healthy Seas, a Journey from Waste to Wear" Initiative. The main objective of this Healthy Seas Initiative is to remove waste, in particular fishing nets, and ...
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