Microsoft Corp. today announced that the company has talked 10 K–12 school districts and higher-education institutions into adopting Windows 8 for more than 540,000 students and faculty to prepare students for futures in college and ...
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Threshold Pharmaceuticals has signed a global agreement with Siemens Healthcare to purchase its investigational radiolabeled hypoxia positron emission tomography (PET) tracer, [18F]HX4 [flortanidazole (18F)]. The US-based biotechnology ...
Golden Bear's former sales director, Julie Taylor, has returned to the company. Taylor will take up her old post as head of the sales team. She left the company at the end of 2012 to pursue new challenges at Worlds Apart, but after much ...
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Yesterday, Chancellor George Osborne delivered his Budget statement. He pledged to scrap a 3p rise in fuel duty, cut national insurance payments and raise the personal allowance to £10,000 next April. Every business in the country ...
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Volcano, a US-based developer of precision guided therapy tools, has introduced Valet microcatheter in the US and Europe. The high performance microcatheter is designed for use in highly stenosed lesions for guidewire support, wire ...
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Definition: Eglomise is a decorative furniture technique used in case goods, which was popular in the 18th and 19th Centuries. It involves painting or gilding on the back of glass. This was usually done on a glass panel which was ...
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New ways in which people can use their voices, hand gestures and head-and-eye movements to operate computers are being developed by software engineers using Intel tools, it was reported last week. In coming years, their research is ...
Software engineers are using Intel tools to explore new ways people can use their voices, hand gestures and head-and-eye movements to operate computers. In coming years, their research is expected to yield tools that could help developers ...
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Gov. Bobby Jindal, South Louisiana Methanol CEO Barry Williamson and Todd Corp. Group CEO Jon Young announced that South Louisiana Methanol LP will invest $1.3 billion in a new methanol production facility on the banks of the Mississippi ...
EMC today released its first, purpose-built, all-solid state drive (SSD) array that is based on its XtremIO acquisition last year, as well as new software that identifies server flash throughout a data center and allows it to be managed ...
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Photo courtesy of Sydney Ports Corporation. Opinion – Greg Cameron This week, the Prime Minister offered the NSW Premier $1 billion towards a road project for reducing traffic congestion caused by trucks accessing Port Botany ...
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IGI Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of global insurance holding company AmTrust Financial Services, has purchased Car Care Plan (Holdings) (CCPH) from Ally Insurance Holdings, in a deal valued at nearly $70m. Commenting on the ...
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Blue Chip Technology has designed a multicore Cortex-A9 based computer board with a dual display, CAN and Mini PC-Express peripherals in a fan-less embedded computer. Designated the RE3, it is available as a Cortex-A9 single core, dual ...
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Chairish is a new website that is an online consignment marketplace for furniture, art and other home accents. SAN FRANCISCO — Chairish an online consignment marketplace featuring primarily upscale furniture, art, lighting and other ...
Software engineers at Intel are exploring new ways people can use the human voice, gestures and head-and-eye movements to operate computers. Intel's Barry Solomon uses hand gestures in a demonstration of a perceptual computing toolkit ...
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