The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN body that has played a standards-setting role for global telecommunication networks over the decades, Wednesday night suffered a website attack that severely disrupted a conference to ...
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By grouping several big data, software development, and cloud efforts under a single operation, VMware and parent company EMC have developers and devops in mind, analysts say. The vendors' Pivotal Initiative, announced Dec. 4, is about ...
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Judges have compiled their shortlist of the most innovative and exciting lighting products and projects for Lighting Design Awards 2013. Entrants in the Product Innovation section of the Lighting Design Awards gathered at Lighting’s ...
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Apple has been granted patent rights for a new process using high temperatures to shape and mold a curved glass casing, similar to the one currently on newer Samsung devcies, as opposed to the very flat screen found on the iPhone 5. ...
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Spiral-wound ultrafiltration performance has been enhanced for direct drinking water treatment through improved operational procedures, as a feasible option for the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region in Brazil. Specific operational procedures ...
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December 19, 2012 - The 2007 National Apprenticeship Survey (NAS) is the third survey to collect detailed information on apprentices in Canada, and focuses on the experiences of apprentices before, during and after their training. In ...
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Furniture manufacturers in China are showing lots of problems, such as miscellaneous brand, low-end grade, unguaranteed quality, unpractical techniques, small-scale enterprises and substandard industry. Moreover, there are quite a small ...
The Ministry of Defence awarded CSC a £303m contract after learning of allegations the supplier was involved in the illegal rendition and torture of German citizen Khaled El-Masri. The department dismissed the allegations as ...
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A court in California has denied Samsung Electronics a retrial in a patent dispute with Apple, and also refused Apple a ban on the sale of some Samsung products. A jury decided in August that the South Korean company must pay Apple ...
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At the end of a long court hearing in California on Thursday that saw Apple and Samsung argue over a $1 billion damages award granted to Apple this summer, Judge Lucy Koh had a simple yet optimistic request: global peace. "When is this ...
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Employees who are offered bring-your-own-device(BYOD)initiatives and input into IT decisions are likely to be more productive in the workplace,according to research. Also known as the consumerisation of IT,such flexibility may enhance ...
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Google is hoping that when you go on your next vacation, you'll be relying not only on Google search and Maps but on Google's own content to go with you. Less than a year after Google bought the restaurant review guide publisher Zagat, ...
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White light There are two primary ways of producing white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs), LEDs that generate high-intensity white light. One is to use individual LEDs that emit three primary colors— red, green, and blue — and ...
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IDG News Service - Violence in video games and other aspects of pop culture in the U.S. will be among the areas examined as part of an investigation aimed at reducing gun violence in the country. The investigation, headed by U.S. Vice ...
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Recent PCI Security Standard Council's North American Community Meeting revealed PCI compliance changes. PCIHosting.com helps individuals and organizations prepare for the changes. New standards in PCI compliant services and ...
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