There is something gratifying about building and reconstructing something that was once in shambles. It's almost like giving that item a whole new chance, and that is exactly what Xsite Architecture and Philips Lighting did. Part of a ...
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Hewlett-Packard has joined Nvidia's growing Grid alliance, equipping a Gen8 Proliant blade server with graphics boards that can speed up and lower the cost of virtual desktop deployments. Nvidia's Grid boards consist of multiple graphics ...
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The Tower House was designed as a vacation home for Gluck+ architect Thomas Gluck and his family. Image: Paul Warchol The home is four stories and 2,500 square feet. Image: Paul Warchol A staircase zigzags through the house, connecting ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has introduced the GENxplor molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) deposition system, which is said to be the industry's first fully-integrated MBE system ...
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When Microsoft shipped Windows 2000 and Active Directory, Apple didn't really have a solution for identity management or for linking Macs to an enterprise network. The company was just beginning the transition from its classic Mac OS ...
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The worldwide leading award for wearable technologies, WT Innovation World Cup, has a new partner: Allianz Digital Accelerator, a company of Allianz. The Allianz Digital Accelerator develops new digital business models and accelerates ...
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Intel, increasingly customising server chips for customers, is now tuning chips for workloads in big data. Software is becoming an important building block in chip design, and customization will help applications gather, manage and ...
US based radio services provider SiriusXM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the connected vehicle services business of the telematics provider Agero for $530m. After the completion of the transaction, SiriusXM will offer ...
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The LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI®) 2014 Call for Speakers opens today in a global invitation seeking responses from top lighting and design practitioners looking to participate in the world’s largest annual architectural and ...
Dubai has its famed Burj Khalifa, but the world’s tallest building is getting a lot of company these days with the business of building skyscrapers suddenly booming as the global economy recovers. The Shanghai Skyline (photo by ...
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Google is distributing patches for a cryptography flaw in Android that may affect hundreds of thousands of applications. The patches have been passed to partners belonging to the Open Handset Alliance, a trade group dedicated to ...
IBM has signed an agreement to acquire security company Trusteer, and plans to set up a cybersecurity software lab in Israel. The financial terms of the proposed acquisition were not disclosed. With offices in Boston and Tel Aviv, ...
Intel is looking to use light and lasers to shuffle data faster among servers, and is proposing a new optical interconnect, MXC, that could change the way servers are implemented in data centres. The chip maker is pitching MXC as a ...
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Software giant Microsoft is being sued by a group of stockholders who claim the company misled them over the true parlous state of Surface RT tablet computer sales. They claim the company had led shareholders to believe that the launch of ...
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The Citroen C4 Picasso will reach Australian showrooms in the second quarter of 2014 following a backflip from the local division on the stylish French MPV. Citroen Australia general manager John Startari admitted the five-seat C4 Picasso ...
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