China has built glittering metropolises in the span of roughly three decades of reform and opening. But in an equal span of time, shiny urban centers risk losing their shining façades or even descending into slums thanks to poor ...
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In its submission to the Phase 2 High-Speed Rail Implementation Study, the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has called for the high-speed rail project to be put to market. The ARA submission acknowledges the recommendation for a ...
Some websites and mobile app developers are confused about how to comply with revised rules governing the online collection of personal information from children that took effect in the U.S. Monday, critics said. The U.S. Federal Trade ...
TelefA3nica will be the first to offer a commercial smartphone based on Firefox OS. The Spanish operator will start selling the ZTE Open on Tuesday for a!69 (US$90) with a prepaid subscription. Firefox OS is built around applications ...
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The first Web-based Firefox mobile OS smartphones will be released soon in Spain and Poland, with more coming soon to other regions of the world, Mozilla announced Monday. ZTE will begin selling the ZTE Open smartphone on Tuesday for the ...
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According to reports, Apple recently applied a trademark "iWatch" in Japan after having applied the same trademark in Russian regions. According to one patent official familiar with the situation, Apple submitted the iWatch trademark ...
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Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden says that the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA), the national authority for energy policy issues, has provided a $6m conditional loan (one of the largest it has ever issued to a company) to ...
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Nutrinova, the food ingredients business of Celanese, has developed a new sweetener system – Qorus which is designed for yogurt manufacturers as well as the flavored milk and beverage industry. According to the company, Qorus allows ...
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Submissions to Microsoft's Windows Store, after stalling earlier this year, are again on the increase, perhaps because developers have been reinvigorated by talk of Windows 8.1 and this week's BUILD conference. According to the MetroStore ...
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The creation of Android malware is now mature enough for there to be development cycles that mimic those of the legitimate software world, a report from Juniper Networks has concluded. According to the?firm's annual survey of the ...
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Given Android and iOS together control 90% of the worldwide smartphone market, what chance does Mozilla have to find success with its new Firefox OS for smartphones? Will Firefox OS even matter, given the struggles Windows Phone, ...
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Yahoo is slimming itself down again by axing 12 of its products, part of an ongoing effort to sharpen its focus on services it thinks people need in their daily lives. The list includes AltaVista, the granddaddy of search engines, and ...
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As one of the hottest topics in global technology and with the first products starting to appear on the market, element14 is challenging engineers and developers to design and develop their own piece of wearable technology. The global ...
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How SCHOTT developers are producing ever stronger, yet thinner glasses -- The industry is demanding ever thinner, yet sturdy, transparent materials. Applied Research at SCHOTT is therefore pursuing a clear objective: to develop glass that ...
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Microsoft's had a tough year, and it's not even half over. The software giant has retreated from flubs in licensing, the design of its flagship Windows operating system and most recently, innovations it wanted to bake into its new game ...
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