UK employers, across the IT sector, have come together to back a new skills framework from the National Skills Academy. Free for IT professionals to use, the online IT Professional Profile enables individuals to benchmark their skills ...
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In a bid to cut tension between mobile operators in the battle to bring 4G to the UK,communications regulator Ofcom and Culture Secretary Maria Miller are holding peace talks with the networks today that could result in 4G services becoming ...
Switzerland's largest retailer is working with IBM to use business analytics to turn its refrigerated warehouses into part of a future smart electricity grid in the country. Migros, the Swiss supermarket, is part of a project involving ...
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IT services company Capita has purchased business travel company Expotel for £16m to "add reach and scale" to Capita's existing operations in the business travel market. The deal, which is on a cash-free, debt-free basis, will also ...
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Huddle co-founder and CEO Alastair Mitchell talks about the simplicity of cloud-based collaboration, the technology that came before, and resurrecting dead content. The application service provider (ASP) model was a buzz in the dot com ...
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International utility, National Grid has selected email delivery and strategy specialist, Striata to provide email billing and transactional email services NEW YORK, NY, July 29, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- International utility, National ...
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Squeezed school IT budgets The changing landscape of school IT investment The emergence of education consortia The repercussions of greater autonomy for schools The profound changes in the education sector promise to cast long ...
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Sudan has opened its much-delayed$1bn sugar plant in White Nile state,as part of its effort to achieve self-sufficiency and boost sugar exports. The new plant,known as White Nile Sugar,has an initial white sugar output of 150,000 tons ...
Energy firm National Grid has chosen software from human resources consultancy firm Towers Watson as it moves towards a single integrated system for all major HR processes for its 30,000 employees. National Grid will combine the use of ...
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UK-22 April saw Grammy winner Imogen Heap stage a live show that was as close to completely'green'as possible,including electricity generated entirely from renewable sources on site and with zero noise pollution.Sennheiser UK supported the ...
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Ford Motor Company has switched from metal-halide to LED lighting at its stamping plant in Woodlawn, NY, reducing plant-wide energy use by 10 percent. Ford Motor Company and the National Grid have unveiled a $2.7 million energy-efficiency ...
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KARACHI: The replacement of conventional streetlights with that of light emitting diode (LED) lights across the country could save 1,600MW, suggests a presentation on LED technology to Capital Development Authority (CDA). Based on the ...
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KARACHI: The replacement of conventional streetlights with that of light emitting diode (LED) lights across the country could save 1,600MW, suggests a presentation on LED technology to Capital Development Authority (CDA). Based on the ...
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Things are looking brighter inside Ford Motor Co.’s stamping plant in Hamburg. The massive Route 5 complex has installed 1,740 LED tandem fixtures that are 70 percent more efficient than the metal-halide light fixtures they replaced. ...
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Things are looking brighter inside Ford Motor Co.’s stamping plant in Hamburg. The massive Route 5 complex has installed 1,740 LED tandem fixtures that are 70 percent more efficient than the metal-halide light fixtures they ...
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