Next year will see demonstrable evidence of the Internet of Things, real-time communications on the Web, and SDN-enabled platforms with killer applications for them, says Cisco. The first is the Internet of Things, a market that includes ...
Tags: internet of things, SDN
Since 2010 the government began reducing corporation tax in stages, falling from 28% to 23%. This will be cut to 21% from April 2014 and will reach 20% in 2015. The small profits rate has also been cut to 20%. While the government ...
Sugar and sweetener consumption are changing across many markets globally, driven by governmental taxations, health concerns and a shift in consumer sentiment, according to global market research organisation Canadean Ingredients. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
From 2005-11, ecstasy-related U.S. hospital emergency department visits rose 128 percent for those age 21 and younger, mental health officials said. A report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, part of the ...
The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources of Pakistan has withdrawn its summary on suspending gas supply to textile mills in the state of Punjab during winter season, owing to the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association's (APTMA) ...
Tags: gas supply, textile mills, gas cut, withdrawn summary, supply suspension
Almost 7-in-10 U.S. parents say they are concerned their children don't receive adequate physical education in school, a survey indicates. The NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health survey of 1,368 U.S. parents ...
Tags: physical education, school, childhood health, physical activity
China's hunger for natural gas has pushed its shipbuilding and energy industries to build more liquefied natural gas carriers and import terminals, to give the nation an edge over other countries. "China will need more than 35 LNG ...
Tags: Energy Industries, LNG
LONDON, Dec. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifty-five percent of private equity (PE) executives cite the growing capital requirements of the oil and gas industry as the foremost driver of their investment activity in the industry, according to a ...
Tags: the oil and gas industry, private equity, major capital investment
NanoViricides has received results of detailed lab analysis studies from the initial non-GLP toxicology studies of intravenously administered FluCide. No overt adverse safety and toxicology effects were observed in this study of the ...
Here's a construction project that will be ready three years sooner than expected – the St. Lawrence Bridge. It will be ready to replace the Champlain Bridge in 2018 rather than 2021. "Concrete actions to move the project ahead ...
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Fear of being single is a meaningful predictor of settling for less in relationships among both men and women, researchers at the University of Toronto say. Lead author Stephanie Spielmann, a post-doctoral researcher in the University of ...
Tags: Being Single, Anxious, Fearful
There is insufficient user demand to include support for Windows Phone on BlackBerry's mobile device management platform, the company has told Computing. While echoing the company's latest "back to its roots" enterprise-focused message, ...
Tags: Blackberry, Windows Phone
Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei has said that the company is quitting the US as a result of repeated official accusations that its networking hardware is used for cyber-surveillance by the Chinese government. In a rare interview, with ...
The CO2 EOR market is a well established sector of the oil and gas industry in the United States with the first commercial projects dating back to the early 1970s. The key enabler of this success has been the availability of a large volume ...
Tags: CO2, Oil Recovery
Britain's biggest retailer Tesco has delivered "poor" third quarter results – with like-for-like sales down 1.5% – 18 months after launching its £1bn turnaround plan, according to City analyst Shore Capital. Tesco's ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food