Quick: when I say Agile or Scrum, what's the first thing that comes to mind? If you said sprints, backlogs or user stories, then you're either a veteran software developer or ... a public radio employee. Wait, wait don't tell me that Carl ...
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December 19, 2012 -- Victoria, London, 19 December 2012: Here is the great news for budget travellers. Hanover Hotel Victoria is one of the well-known hotels in Central London that provides bed and breakfast accommodation to the visitors at ...
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Nothing can sour a new pet-owner relationship like a shredded shoe or a chewed-up remote control. A dog's appetite for inedible objects can be exasperating and dangerous. Animal behavior consultant Arden Moore, author of "What Dogs Want: ...
Public Wi-Fi is beginning to find its way into every corner of the UK. It is no longer the domain of the American-style coffee shop, with pubs, retailers and even theme parks offering their own connections. However, this is not enough for ...
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South Africa - The Jesus Culture Conference came to South Africa from the 2 - 9 March 2012, visiting Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. The focus of this conference is "to encounter Jesus through worship, equip a generation ...
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More than one in four Wi-Fi networks in London are poorly secured or not secured at all, a scanning experiment by security firm Sophos has revealed. The experiment was conducted over two days by the firm’s director of technology ...
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ONE of Boston’s oldest buildings that has been sitting disused for about five years is being given a new lease of life. Entrepreneur Jason Brackenbury has a team of craftsmen working on the Church Keys building in Church Street, ...
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Texas Instruments Wednesday unveiled its first single-stage wireless charging integrated chip (IC). TI said the new IC is 60% smaller than its predecessors. The company today also added a power controller chip that it said increases the ...
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Computerworld - Imagine sitting down at work, plopping a mobile device on the desk and having it wirelessly charge itself while, at the same time, synchronizing new data to your PC. In that world, one could also wirelessly charge a phone ...
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Bob Wolf, Alliance LLC vice president, doesn't believe everything he reads. Manufacturers claim they can swap out rare earth elements for cheaper, more accessible materials, while some miners insist they can fill every gap in the rare earth ...
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Macworld - While Apple may have complicated the field of to-do and reminder apps with the introduction of its own Reminders app in iOS 5, that doesn't mean other developers have given up. Checkmark, a new app from developer Snowman, has ...
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Starbucks said Friday it will update Passbook in iOS 6 at the end of September, presumably meaning it will integrate its existing Starbucks digital payment card into the new app for users to pay for coffee. In a tweet, the company said: ...
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Respect Your Universe, Inc. announces two new board members. Steven Eklund and Bill Marcus bring with them a breadth of experience in the sports apparel and equipment industries, as well as finance, sales and business development. "Steven ...
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We are in the season of festivities, with many celebrations for the holidays and New Year's. But the sobering reality is that it's also a time of year when many people die on our roads due to drunk driving. In 2011, 9,878 people were ...
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Taipei, Dec. 22, 2012 (CENS)--To tap China’s domestic market, Wei-Chuan Food Corp., a leading Taiwanese foodstuff firm, plans to expand its existing factory in Hangzhou and build new factories in Beijing and Guangzhou, as a result of ...
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