Xeros Ltd., the UK innovator responsible for the development of “virtually waterless” laundry cleaning, has set its sights on the North American commercial laundry industry, starting in New England. On August 20, 2012 the Xeros ...
Tags: laundry sector, environmentally friendly cleaning system
Italian sports car manufacturer Lamborghini will incorporate Maxwell Technologies' ultracapacitors into its stop-start idle-elimination system equipped in Aventador sports cars, in a bid to reduce CO2 emitted by its vehicles by 35% by 2015. ...
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Government IT is no longer in a "19th century" state, but there's still much work to be done especially when it comes to G-Cloud. That's the view of the programme's director and director of Home Office IT, Denise McDonagh, who was ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
Tags: UK IT, UKtech50, ARM, GCHQ, Government Digital Service, Salesforce.com
At a time when cyberattacks on America's critical infrastructure have increased 17-fold(between 2009 and 2011),the need for highly trained cybersecurity professionals is acute.However,83%of federal hiring managers in a recent survey said it ...
The government is to test the feasibility of moving to a single enterprise resource planning(ERP)platform across Whitehall. In a GBP100,000,four-month tender as part of the Next Generation Shared Services programme,the government said it ...
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What is the solution to building the most efficient water pump?That was the question over 100 high school students from Rochester,NY,recently tried to solve as part of the inaugural Let's Solve Water Challenge sponsored by Xylem. ...
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Government’s addiction to mega-contracts has been pegged as a key factor in the exclusion of small to medium-sized enterprises (SME) from the public sector IT market. Deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell (pictured below) and a number ...
Tags: SME procurement, mega-contracts, Victor Baldorino, UK
GS1 US and the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions (VICS) Association, two leading supply-chain standards organizations serving multiple industry sectors, said they have signed a memorandum of understanding to merge their operations. ...
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Peanut butter just got a makeover,as Planters introduces a new PB that has a bit of a punch.Created for adventure-seekers,the new line is the first national brand to add wholesome ingredients like bananas,granola,berries,raisins,cinnamon ...
Tags: Kraft Foods, peanut butter line, adventure-seekers, NUT-rtition line
Kraft Foods has said the split of the company in two, creating a North American grocery company and a global snacks manufacturer, will take place in October. The establishment of US grocery business Kraft Foods Group and international ...
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Kraft Foods is injecting further impetus behind its Milka chocolate brand in Europe with the launch of a biscuit and cake range in France. The new lines include three cake products and two biscuit variants. The launch proves Kraft is ...
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Mike Bracken, executive director of the Government Digital Service, talked to Computer Weekly about what UK public services could learn from Estonia's open source model and why a dose of its IT leaders' humility wouldn't go amiss in ...
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Microsoft has become the first major IT supplier to publish its submission to the government's consultation on the use of open standards. The consultation closed on 4 June, with the Cabinet Office IT team under deputy government CIO Liam ...
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UK - On 22 and 23 May, Robert Bosch's ProSound Team UK invited their sales partners from the United Kingdom to Birmingham for its third Big Day Out. The team led by Robert Hesse, vice president sales communication EMEA and managing director ...
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