We are in the season of festivities, with many celebrations for the holidays and New Year's. But the sobering reality is that it's also a time of year when many people die on our roads due to drunk driving. In 2011, 9,878 people were ...
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Winter has arrived, and with the change of seasons comes the threat of nasty weather. Before winter strikes in full force, make sure you and your car are ready. As you head to the roads during this busy holiday travel season, following our ...
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The company that invented NAND flash, Toshiba, plans to become the third hard drive manufacturer to offer a hybrid drive. Hybrids combine a spinning disk with flash cache to offer near solid-state drive (SSD) performance at a fraction ...
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Microsoft today said it would open nearly three dozen 'pop-up' stores this fall in U.S. and Canadian malls and shopping centers to sell its own hardware and software. Although the company declined to confirm that those stores will sell ...
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Computerworld - Research In Motion (RIM) today set Jan. 30 for the launch of BlackBerry 10, when it will also unveil its first two smartphones on the OS. The announcement was greeted with some surprise by longtime BlackBerry fans who ...
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The newly launched BMW Car Hotspot LTE is now bringing LTE high-speed mobile internet access to the road. Just like a router in the home, the BMW Car Hotspot LTE provides internet access for mobile client devices. All that is required ...
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The government could see an exodus of IT contractors, as guidelines out next month will force freelancers earning more than 220 a day onto departmental payrolls. News site Exaro has obtained a copy of draft “assurance ...
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The children in front press their noses against the windows, staring slack-jawed and wide-eyed at the magic of the department store window at Christmastime. Behind, kids are hoisted — careful with that hot chocolate! — on the ...
Luc Peumans from Genk, Belgium-based creative visual design practice, Painting With Light, has designed lighting for the new Ice Age Live show, a vibrant stage adaptation of the 20th Century Fox Ice Age animation movies featuring the same ...
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AUSTRALIAN shares ended a holiday-shortened trading session modestly higher today,with gains in the mining and financial sectors pushing the market to an 18-month high. The rise sets the market up to end the year almost 14 per cent ...
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Liseberg in Gothenburg maintains its position as one of Europe's top amusement parks by offering a steady stream of new attractions while keeping the visual look of the park engaging and fresh. Dynamic lighting schemes from Martin ...
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To celebrate 50 years of their music, The Rolling Stones kicked off this year's holiday festivities on London's Carnaby Street, switching on the annual Carnaby Street lighting display with a rock n' roll twist. For the temporary ...
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Organic LED materials specialistUniversal Display Corporation (UDC) has slashed its sales guidance for 2012, blaming push-outs of OLED TV production for the shortfall. Nearly one-third of the stock value of New Jersey-based UDC was lost ...
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ValeGift aims to shift the Brazilian gifting culture from traditional products to personal experiences. BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZIL, December 05, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- If you live in Brazil, your gift options are usually limited to ...
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Internet news now, and the internet is still a pretty important factor in our lives. And that, according to one expert, means that more homeowners are actually sculpting their homes around their wireless router. Yes, seriously. "We're ...
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