Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has joined the Cabinet Office in welcoming eight new countries to the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The OGP was launched in September 2011 by the UK and seven other founding ...
Tags: Computer Products, Sir Tim
A leading group of trade associations and organizations announced today that the second annual "Imports Work Week" will take place during the week of May 6-10, 2013. Imports Work Week is an effort to draw attention to the essential role ...
Tags: Textile
A leading group of trade associations and organizations announced today that the second annual "Imports Work Week" will take place during the week of May 6-10, 2013. Imports Work Week is an effort to draw attention to the essential role ...
Tags: Textile, Textile Industry
Democratic Alliance (DA) has called on the government to establish an ad hoc committee in a bid to control the mislabeling of meat products in South Africa. DA MP Annette Steyn said it will request that the ad hoc committee institute a ...
Following recent democratic elections in Burma, which have transformed the country into a democracy from an authoritarian State, UK's Sheffield Chamber of Commerce has joined an international pact aimed at reviving the Burmese textile ...
PIQUED by what he called the Inspector-General of Police’s (IGP) insistence on the ban against the use of tinted glass vehicles, a Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Malachy Ugwummadu, has written to IGP, Mohammed Abubakar against his ...
Tags: Tinted Vehicle Glass, Vehicle Glass, Glass
Over the past two weeks, glass manufacturing workers at CSR Viridian’s plants in Sydney and Melbourne have spoken to World S ocialist W eb S ite correspondents about the closure and merger of facilities that will cost more than 200 ...
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Internet connectivity to North Korea was restored Friday after a day-and-a-half-long outage that the country's official media blamed on international hacking. Connections to the Star, North Korea's sole Internet service provider, hit ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The African Development Bank Group this week announced the launch of what it calls an open data platform in 20 African countries. The move comes as part of the group’s Africa Information Highway initiative, which is aimed at ...
Tags: data platform, data management, African Bank
Internet connectivity in North Korea was restored on Friday following a 36-hour outage that the country’s official media blamed on international hacking. Connections to the Star, North Korea’s sole Internet service provider, ...
Gaming fans will soon be able to navigate Nelson Mandela's South African apartheid prison on Robben Island in a new computer game, developers have announced. The game, designed to be an educational tool, will be modelled on life on the ...
Tags: computer game, Gaming, game
To suggest to all of us how to make a habitat more livable and elegant, where you can combine style and design, the first week of November, in Milan and Rome are held two major exhibitions devoted to furnishing and open to the general ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, sofa
On Tuesday, Democratic California Congressman John Garamendi joined other transportation leaders in supporting legislation that would ensure all Federal transportation and infrastructure investments support American jobs and domestic ...
Opinions expressed on Twitter differ from public opinion measured by surveys on key political events and policy issues, reflecting that users of the Internet service are demographically very different from the public, according to a study ...
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Kemet has announced that it has received Conflict-Free Smelter (CFS) certification from the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) Conflict-Free Smelter Audit Review Committee ...