Brent Crude oil has, despite times of elevated uncertainty, been trading within a relative stable trading range during the last couple of years, especially compared with previous years where extreme peaks and troughs appeared. Looking ...
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As the federal budget is debated and the lame duck session hurtles towards an end,there is high intrigue on Capitol Hill. Having been in Washington,D.C.,the week of Dec.10,Jeffery Hall says the farm bill is still receiving much discussion ...
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Google has added a feature to its Webmaster Tools search engine optimization (SEO) service that will alert publishers about sudden changes in their site's Google results and click-throughs. In this way, publishers will be notified ...
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Spatial pattern recognition Spatial pattern recognition (SPR) looks for relationships among defect locations on the substrate surface. When detected, spatial patterns can often lead to rapid identification of the defect's root cause (Fig. ...
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The number of IT contractors expecting growth in public sector job opportunities has doubled since last year, as public sector organisations turn to IT contractors for sudden spikes in workloads. A survey by employment provider Giant ...
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Here in the states we’re entering the final week until Christmas and so far jewellery sales have been strong in all markets, according to a couple of surveys. Two surveys of independent retail jewellers reported that business got ...
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Apple's cryptic invitation on Tuesday to an event set for next week triggered another surge in trade-in activity by consumers wanting to unload older iPhones in time to buy the new model. Some trade-in companies registered spikes on ...
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Skype has been battling wily adversaries who are abusing the Internet calling application to direct people to scam websites, but the Microsoft-owned service says the sham calls are decreasing. The automated calls feature a ...
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The color rendering index (CRI) has been used to compare fluorescent and HID lamps for over 40 years, but the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) does not recommend its use with white light LEDs. A new metric is under ...
Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are real and all companies should be taking them seriously, says telecommunications company AT&T. In the past year, the company has set up an IT security team dedicated to researching APTs and making ...
Reuters reported that Saudi Arabia's first aluminium smelter will reach full production more slowly than planned due to long delays to a power plant it needs to run flat out. Saudi Arabian Mining Company expects to begin operations at ...
Matt Albright, Product Manager, The Lincoln Electric Company Today's manufacturers face a daunting challenge: running a production line that not only delivers quality product on time and on budget but also meets various demands for energy ...
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Twelve months ago, when curator Donna Loveday went to visit the shoe designer Christian Louboutin in his Parisian atelier to discuss the retrospective exhibition which opens on Tuesday at the Design Museum, her eye kept wandering to the ...
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Three of Japan's tech giants will work together to increase data transmission speeds over optical fiber,aiming for 400Gbps per channel by 2014. Fujitsu,NTT and NEC said Tuesday they will aim to combine 60 channels using the new ...
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UK retailer Morrisons lost ground to its bigger rivals Asda and Sainsbury's, Kantar Worldpanel claimed today (11 September) as they issued their latest sales data on the country's grocery sector. The UK's fourth largest grocer saw its ...
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