BATEXPO 2013, the country's largest garments export fair, kicked off on Thursday. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the annual three-day expo, hosted by Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, at Sonargaon ...
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While industrial performance has stabilised, industry's share in Europe's GDP has declined from 15.5% of GDP one year ago to 15.1% in summer 2013. The two industrial Competitiveness reports published today by the European Commission ...
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Lisa Raitt, Minister of Transport, today addressed participants at the 33rd Women's International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA) Conference about the important role that women play in the marine sector. Minister Raitt stressed the ...
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The creator of the Zafety Lug Log wheel-locking device that prevents wheel-offs has won a prestigious Ernest C. Manning Innovation Award. Ilfor 'Taffy' Caine Davies of Oakville, Ont. won $10,000 as part of the award program. His device ...
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Coca-Cola has partnered with DEKA R&D, IBM, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), McCann Health, NRG Energy, Qualcomm Technologies and UPS to supply water purification kiosk EKOCENTER to 20 nations by the end of 2015. Coca-Cola stated ...
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European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, has announced the need for new measures in ICT education across Europe, in the hope that better education will enable young people to fill more jobs in the industry. In a speech at ...
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Today, Ericsson released the first edition of its Networked Society MENA City Index at the Networked Society Forum in Dubai, UAE. The report analyzes the levels of ICT-driven benefits created in 11 of the Middle East and North Africa ...
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Tablet applications have the potential to so engage school kids that the time it takes to teach a subject could be cut from four years to six months. That's what Nolan Bushnell, the "father of modern video gaming", founder of Atari and ...
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Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear has signed into law House Bill 315 at Alltech’s Lexington Brewing and Distilling that enables breweries to serve complimentary samples of malt beverages. Earlier this year, the General Assembly has ...
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There are too few data scientists in the world and education needs to change in order to maximise the true potential of data science, one of the leading authorities in the field has told Computing. "The answer is 'no', there aren't enough ...
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We're in the "decade of data" and it will "dwarf the revolution that came from the internet" and change every part of society across the globe. That's what one of the world's top data scientists, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, founder and ...
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Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA, which provides crystalline gallium nitride (GaN), aluminum nitride (AlN) and aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) materials and related products and services, has announced the participation of its ...
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Some people think that China is not only a country, but also a big factory. Especially in textile production, China has the image of being a land of extremely large companies with tens of thousands of employees in every factory. For the ...
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AlterG, a US-based medical device company, has launched its AlterG Bionic Leg, a wearable, battery-powered, robotic mobility assistance device activated by a patient's intent to move. Designed for patients with impaired mobility, the ...
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John Lewis outlined its support for UK manufacturing by setting a two-year 15 per cent growth target for all sales of goods in its shops that are made in the UK. Sales of UK-sourced products at John Lewis totalled £480m in 2012, ...
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