Google's donation of 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers and last week's decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove to add computer science to the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) are a mere "diversion" from the UK's real problems in IT education, ...
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US-based radiology company MDH Radiology has announced that it has signed an agreement with IT systems and services for radiology company Sectra to provide Telemammography Solution in the country. Under the agreement, MDH will utilize ...
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Windows 8 fell further behind the pace of Windows Vista's uptake last month, a metric company said today, even as usage share of the new operating system continued to slowly climb. Statistics from Net Applications showed that Windows 8's ...
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Apple topped Samsung as the leading cellphone vendor in the U.S. in the last three months of the year to become the number-one U.S. vendor by volume for the first time, according to data published on Friday by Strategy Analysis. Apple, ...
The Spanish company, Jeanologia, renowned for its environmental awareness and focus on the health of workers in the Jeans finishing industry, will be presenting their latest sustainable technologies for processing finished garments in an ...
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Researchers at the University of Oxford have found a way to make wafer-sized graphene with good electrical characteristics. Grown on copper using chemical vapour deposition (CVD), the material is not mono-crystalline, but crystal ...
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Hasbro is to release a new range of Star Wars figurines that are larger, more detailed and with more articulation. According to USA Today, the new Black Series is designed to transition the gap between the traditional 3.75-inch toys ...
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Throughout last year the Chester West and Chester Council installed more than 400 LED lights in place of traditional incandescents in a bid to cut its energy use. It is estimated that the new illuminations will save somewhere between 65 ...
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In 2012, the global core drill market reached a plateau. And industrial players including Atlas Copco, Sandvik and Boart Longyear have been in a firm position to dominate the global market after a series of M&As, laying the foundation to ...
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The four paraxylene Asia Contract Price-based sellers, ExxonMobil, Idemitsu Kosan, JX Nippon Oil and Energy and S-Oil, who typically lower their nominations to meet bid levels have not done so for the February ACP as spot prices have ...
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Domainex Ltd, specialists in drug discovery solutions and translational research support, has announced that it is launching its Discovery STAR Award to support academic groups at the early stages of drug discovery. Domainex’s STAR ...
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Doba, one of the largest providers of drop shipping technology and services in the United States, has introduced over 100 new data integration partners, making it easier for online retailers to load Doba drop ship products into their ...
RSA has unveiled a new tool designed to let enterprises detect security threats more quickly than current technologies permit by combining big data management and analytics approaches with traditional network monitoring and threat ...
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Researchers in the USA have developed radio frequency switches based on nitride semiconductor voltage-controlled capacitors (varactors) [F. Jahan et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 9 January 2013]. The team, consisting of engineers from ...
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Once vehemently opposed to open-source software, Microsoft has warmed to the development model over the years and will now take the unusual step of incorporating an open-source program developed by Linus Torvalds into its own development ...