According to the Santa Monica Pier?engineers it was time for those old outdated fluorescent, incandscents, and metal halide lights to be replaced. The constant burn outs left the pier with gaps in lighting and high maintenance cost. The ...
Firestone and North America's owner/operators and small fleets have much in common: they've both been essential to getting trucking to where it is today, and they both deserve a lot more respect and attention than they've been getting of ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts, tire
Apple may acquire the Israeli chip design company that provided the motion sensing technology used in Microsoft's popular Kinect video game controller, the Israeli business daily Calcalist reported today. In a Tuesday story, Calcalist ...
Tags: Apple
There are two ways analysts report hiring trends in the tech: Some focus on the half-empty, others on the half-full. For the half-empty view, there is this new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., which claims that layoffs in ...
Tags: Computer Products, IT economy, telecommunications industries
With major parts of the U.S. under an intense heat wave, opting for less cooling may seem like a bad idea. But it isn't. The U.S. General Services Administration, as part of data center consolidation and efficiency efforts, has ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Data Center
Hoping to save money on labor, China's Foxconn Technology Group could also be ushering in a new era of manufacturing as it sets its sites on putting 1 million robots to work. The world's largest contract electronics maker already has ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Silicon Valley veteran Diane Greene, one of the co-founders of VMware, is returning to the industry with a new start-up called Datrium, a company that is only now emerging from "stealth mode". Datrium, according to Greene, will provide an ...
With major parts of the US under an intense heat wave, opting for less cooling may seem like a bad idea. But it isn't. The US General Services Administration, as part of data centre consolidation and efficiency efforts, has recommended ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Steam-operated machines are used in a number of industrial sectors. When moisture mixes with steam, it can have a detrimental on the internal elements of such machines, thus affecting their overall performance and productivity. Such steam ...
Chinese automaker Build Your Dreams (BYD) has commenced the testing of its new Pure Electric Bus in Uruguay. The bus will be tested by the La Compania Uruguaya de Transportes Colectivos (CUTCSA), the Uruguay transport authority, on ...
Tags: Electric Bus, automaker
Expect to hear a lot about the BMW i3 in the coming months. A four-seater about the size of a Nissan Juke, BMW's first electric car for sale will combine several cutting-edge technologies, potentially making it one of the most advanced ...
US-based Kajima Associates/Architects & Engineers, PC (KA/AEPC) has secured a contract from Japanese firm Yokohama Tire (YTC) to design its new commercial tire manufacturing plant in West Point, Mississippi. Under the deal, the KA/AEPC ...
The first stage that geotechnical instrument such as a tilt monitoring is used is for site investigation. These aide engineers describe the starting site conditions. Pore-water force and incline strength are around the regular parameters of ...
Rat meat passed off as lamb meat, dead pigs dumped in the Huangpu river, milk tainted with melamine and rice contaminated with cadmium – living in China, it sometimes seems like our food comes from the infamous factories of Upton ...
Tags: Domestic Firms, Food Safety
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has selected the recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program. The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Construction