Application drives customer satisfaction with paint brands, while availability and courtesy of staff drives customer satisfaction with paint retailers, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2013 U.S. Interior Paint Satisfaction Study. ...
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Although we're just a few days away from posting new TV ratings—which include both smart TVs and more bare-bones models from LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Vizio, among others—our engineers are already hard at work testing the next ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug exclusivity to Hyperion's Ravicti (glycerol phenylbutyrate) liquid. Hyperion Therapeutics president and CEO Donald Santel said that the orphan drug exclusivity further ...
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Attacknids has picked up The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval. It's another award for Wow Stuff's Combat Creatures brand. "It's great to see Attacknids getting such an amazing response," commented Chris Hood, Marketing ...
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Our latest tests show that shopping for a car battery by brand name alone can be a big mistake, both in terms of performance and in cost. But our latest Ratings make it easy to find the best one for your needs and budget, no matter what you ...
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A proposed new ASTM International standard will offer guidelines for selecting wood substrates for the evaluation of the weathering performance of architectural coatings, such as exterior paints, primers and deck finishes. The proposed ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption features, as it looks to increase the level of protection users can get in its cloud. For ...
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Keeping your electrical systems in top shape entails commissioning regular tests and evaluations to spot existing and potential faults. However, the conventionally used method of physically inspecting and testing electrical equipment can be ...
"Abstractions drive automation," Tom Feist of Xilinx told the Globalpress Summit in Santa Cruz this week. "A thousand evaluations of the technology are going on right now," said Fiest referring to the company's Vivado FPGA design tool ...
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After spending some time with Facebook Home and the HTC First smartphone, I now have a better understanding at what Facebook is trying to build with its new app designed to replace your phone's home screen. In a nutshell,Facebook Home and ...
There aren't many cars that make my heart flutter more than a Corvette. And over the last 20 years, I've been lucky to have driven many. This redesigned 2014 model—which we first saw in Detroit—might turn out to be one of the ...
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Hakata Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., of Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, have agreed to collaborate in the joint development of a 1,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) container carrier. On March 18 the two ...
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The Office of Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has disputed a finding by the agency's Inspector General that several VA centers routinely transmit unencrypted sensitive personal data over the public ...
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Many factors complicate a company's decision to test the markets and determine fair prices for goods and services: Resource constraints—does the procurement organization have the resources to manage a full sourcing process? ...
After some mixed results from early models tested in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's (IIHS) new small overlap crash test, the latest batch of vehicles earn top scores. The Volvo XC60 and two- and four-door versions of the ...
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