Computer giant IBM is being sued by chemicals company Avantor Performance Materials over a software project that, it claims, went wrong. Avantor, which produces chemicals and raw materials for the pharmaceutical industry, as well as ...
Tags: IBM, Avantor Performance, RBS, FoxMeyer
Once the lonely crusade of astronomers, the dark-sky movement is finding increasingly vocal support in the lighting community; and is gaining regulatory traction with the sustainability and conservation movements. Plants and animals, ...
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Campaigners welcomed the news that more British companies are committing to paying UK workers a living wage, but said it was scandalous that firms are not forced to ensure a living wage in their overseas supply chains. The call for a ...
Tags: living wage, overseas, supply chains, fashion industry, garments
IDG News Service - Intel gained PC microprocessor market share over Advanced Micro Devices during the third quarter, but worldwide shipments of x86 chips declined at rates not seen in more than a decade, according to Mercury Research. ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has developed a private cloud to support its application development process, using Amazon best practices. The project has enabled RBS to determine running costs of its IT infrastructure, and provide ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency has set up a "rumor control" section on its website to counter misinformation on social networks that has affected relief efforts after Hurricane Sandy. "Fema.gov/sandy now ...
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted orphan drug status to AlphaCore Pharma's ACP-501 (rhLCAT) to treat familial LCAT deficiency (FLD). FLD causes lipid deposition in eyes, red blood cells and kidneys which can lead to corneal ...
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Geotechnical Instrumentation and Structural instrumentation are processes that are of great help for the engineers, as it helps them in each and every stage of a project. The various applications that include in this process are, spot ...
In their second debate, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama each tried to outdo the other's love of fossil fuels: Obama extolling his record on oil and natural gas production, Romney vowing to take "advantage of the oil and coal we have here. " ...
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In a sign of increasing anxiety over the use of electronic voting machines,the Republican National Committee this week alleged problems with e-voting machines in six states that use them for early voting. John Phillippe,general counsel of ...
Plans to use electronic voting machines in Tuesday's presidential election appear to be largely unaltered in states that were hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. Despite widespread power outages and other hurricane related damage,election ...
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An unexpected bug cropped up after new hardware was installed in one of Amazon Web Service's Northern Virginia data centers,which caused the more than 12-hour outage last week that brought down popular sites such as Reddit,Imgur,AirBNB and ...
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An endless stream of tweets and blog posts have noted,described and bewailed last week's Amazon Web Services outage.Some people characterized the outage as an indictment of public cloud computing in general.Others,some of whom work at other ...
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IDG News Service-Notices will be sent out to developers of up to 100 mobile apps that are not compliant with California privacy law,starting with those who have the most popular apps available on mobile platforms,the office of the state's ...
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Cheshire Constabulary has adopted software from SolarWinds to monitor and track the performance of its IT systems across the county. The police force has headquarters in Winsford, between Manchester and Liverpool, and serves almost one ...
Tags: software, SolarWinds, IT systems, monitoring and management system