China's competition officials are still weighing Dole Food Co's deal to sell its global packaged food and Asian fresh businesses to Japan's Itochu Corp, forcing the two firms to delay completion of the sale. Dole had hoped to sign-off ...
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The difficulties in opening different types of packs are of far greater concern to most consumers than environmental criticisms such as perceived over-packaging. This is one of the findings of a major quantitative research study1 ...
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Computerworld-Now that NASA's rover Curiosity has safely landed on Mars,it's time for the robot to get to work. And that's exactly what NASA engineers say is happening today. "The surface mission of Curiosity has now begun,"Michael ...
Recording at high altitudes is not something most sound engineers tackle every day, so when Danish producer and engineer Hans Nielsen, of Focus Recording Studios, was asked to record a choir of 500 monks in a Chinese temple that was over ...
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Osram, Bergische Universitt Wuppertal, the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Airbus, and Diehl Aerospace partnered to study how chronobiologically-adapted LED lighting can enhance passenger wellbeing on long-distance ...
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UK-based Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT) reports that its first workshop held at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), Cambridge, MA in December was well attended. The workshop addressed the latest research and ...
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Samsung is building a tablet based on Windows RT for release sometime in October, according to unnamed sources who spoke to the Bloomberg news service. Samsung joins Acer and Asus, among other device makers, to build the touchscreen ...
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Wholesalesarong.com, which has been popularly associated to a dazzling array of wholesale beach themed wears, has outdone itself again by bringing in yet another range of impressive wholesale beachwear, the men’s tropical Hawaiian ...
In initial tests, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered that Martian soil is an awfully lot like Hawaiian sand. The super rover, which has been working on Mars since this past August, ran its first soil samples over the past few ...
Texas Instruments has partnered with AllGo Embedded Systems to announce a reference design that will allow Android 4.0 tablets to be built for under US$70, the companies announced Wednesday. The Etab reference design is for a basic tablet ...
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IDG News Service - Weak economies in the U.S. and Europe together with a slowdown in manufacturing in China hurt semiconductor sales during the second quarter this year, and the market will deteriorate further in the coming quarters as ...
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The rover Curiosity wrapped up its first full day on the Martian surface and is functioning perfectly,NASA officials said Tuesday. "Curiosity is asleep right now getting ready for tomorrow,"said Michael Watkins,a mission systems manager ...
IDG News Service-Emerging chip technologies that Arm Holdings announced on Wednesday could help to power mobile networks that are being asked to handle more traffic with more fine-tuned controls. The provider of the dominant architecture ...
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A week after downplaying reports of a major discovery on Mars, NASA on Monday announced that the rover Curiosity has found complex chemicals on the surface of the planet. The space agency noted that it has yet to find definitive evidence ...
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