"It will be possible to return Phoenicia America-Israel(Flat Glass)Ltd.to profitability within 18 months,"said a source close to Fortissimo Capital,which is bidding for the troubled company based in Upper Nazareth."If the business plan ...
The UK’s Draft Data Communications Bill – aimed at making it easier for authorities to spy on electronic communications – will be ineffective against terror, says the Information Commissioner’s Office. Information ...
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Microsoft and Google are to feel the full force of EU regulations this month as antitrust and privacy concerns threaten to catch up with the technology giants. The EU could issue Microsoft with a formal antitrust complaint, after it ...
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Bad data visualisations threaten to spoil the promise of the new data journalism,Aron Pilhofer,head of the interactive news team at The New York Times told delegates at the London Strata conference this week. The role of data scientists ...
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A number of glass companies traveled to Las Vegas last week to take part in GlassBuild America.While the show primarily targets glazing companies,exhibitors reported that they were also seeing a few architects walking the show,and were ...
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A hacker group said to be connected to Hamas has claimed responsibility for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on US banks in retaliation to the controversial video "The Innocence of Muslims" posted on Google's YouTube service. ...
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Facebook has rejected claims that private direct messages sent between users of the social network were appearing publicly on the recently-introduced timeline feature. According to reports in France,private messages sent between 2007 and ...
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The Russian glass manufacturers remained untouched by the global economic slowdown and the current Euro crisis because of increasing internal demand for glass. The macro scenario of the industry looks bright. The growth of the Russian glass ...
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''If you are still here,then you have survived one of the most challenging economic cycles of our lifetime,''said Oliver Stepe,senior vice president of sales&marketing,YKK AP America,during the State of the Industry panel at GlassBuild ...
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Energy was the topic of discussion this morning when Energy Division committees convened today in Chicago as part of the Glass Association of North America's(GANA)Fall Conference.Both the technical committee and advocacy committee met to ...
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UK-Entertainment lighting specialist White Light has been involved with what The Guardian newspaper has described as an'innovative art project'-NVA's Speed of Light,running in Edinburgh for the duration of this year's Festival. An ...
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The US is collecting huge amounts of data on its citizens, according to former National Security Agency (NSA) official Bill Binney. While at the NSA, Binney led the development of secret software he now believes is being used to carry out ...
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Glen Allen Virginia:Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has begun shipping its latest report on the building-integrated photovoltaics(BIPV)market titled,"BIPV Wall Markets–2012."This report quantifies the potential for wall-attached ...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has slammed as"technologically incompetent"the Draft Data Communications Bill,which will make it easier for security and police services to spy on e-mails,phone calls and internet activity of UK citizens. ...
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The basics:Glass artist and Seattle native Dale Chihuly joined with the Seattle Center to create a glass installation located at the base of the Space Needle in Seattle.It includes the existing arcade building,which is now the exhibition ...
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