President Barack Obama is expected to issue a cybersecurity executive order in the days after his Feb. 12 State of the Union address. The long-expected executive order will create a voluntary program that will call for companies in ...
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The inventor of popular drawing toy Etch A Sketch has died. Andre Cassagnes passed away aged 86 on January 16th, the Ohio Art Company told BBC. The cause of death has not yet been revealed. The Ohio Art Company picked up the drawing ...
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More than 160 people from all levels of the supply chain traveled to New Orleans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Tencel®, Austria-based Lenzing AG's sustainable lyocell fiber derived from wood pulp. The "Tencel@20" seminar included ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says the company plans on a big comeback in the Internet search business, which means directly taking on industry giant Google. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last ...
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HPLighting is proud to officially announce that HPLighting has passed LM80 testing with flying colors. Both HPL H28 and C70 series packages have been approved by the LM-80 Energy Star Test -6000hrs under NOT 85 deg. Celsius but under the ...
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The National Retail Federation released its 2013 economic forecast today, projecting retail industry sales (which exclude automobiles, gas stations, and restaurants) will increase 3.4 percent, slightly less than the preliminary 4.2 percent ...
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Scientists at ASU are celebrating their recent success on the path to understanding what makes the fiber that spider’s spin – weight for weight – at least five times as strong as piano wire. They have found a way to obtain ...
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Just one in seven homes passed by the government's National Broadband Network have connected to the superfast fibre-based service. The NBN Co revealed late yesterday that while construction of the $37.4 billion project had passed 72,400 ...
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Residents of cliff-top homes that are under threat of demolition thanks to land slippage are claiming that the cliff’s instability is caused by a waste pipe running from a nearby McCain frozen food factory to the sea. McCain said ...
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The AWEX Regional Indicators finished 0.5% lower, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle this week when the US exchange rate rose by 0.1%. Overall, it was satisfactory market. The EMI finished down by 6¢ (5¢ ...
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Seidio, a manufacturer of premium mobile technology accessories, begins shipping the OBEX case for iPhone 5. Using advanced technology and durable materials, the OBEX, (Latin for “barrier”) offers unbeatable, extreme protection ...
Editor's note: The following article appeared in the January 2013 issue of Bicycle Retailer & Industry News. WASHINGTON, D.C. (BRAIN) — While the industry’s three prominent advocacy groups decided to continue to work ...
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More order, more production and more supply; less order, less production and less supply. After Baosteel's visualized supply chain management system (VSS) is adopted, the whole supply chain of automobile plant is likely to install the nerve ...
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Solar panel installations across the UK are set to increase in 2013, the minister for climate change Greg Barker predicts. Mr Barker believes that as the cost of manufacturing panels has been reduced, more people are expected to invest in ...
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The UK Food Standards Agency has admitted that it found traces of a cancer-causing drug in horse meat exported to Europe in 2012, but there is no link to the recent cases of horse DNA in burgers. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said today ...
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