Watch the magic of this science-based process begins to unfold, in a series of stages on a float line that may be nearly half a kilometre long. Raw materials enter at one end. From the other, plates of glass emerge, cut precisely to ...
Tags: Float Glass, Construction Glass
The Texas Operations of Eastman Chemical Company has received the 2012 "Sustained Excellence in Caring for Texas" award from the Texas Chemical Council (TCC.) Eastman was one of two Sustained recipients among TCC member facilities with more ...
Tags: Textile
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 ...
Tags: Yahoo, Yahoo RSS Alerts
German publishers will disappear from Google News on Aug. 1 unless they opt in to the service as Google seeks to comply with a new German law. But the publishers said on Monday that this is not good enough, they want a share in Google's ...
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The complexity of existing IT systems is acting as a major barrier to the adoption of cloud, with many CIOs unsure as to how to adapt to the technology, warns a report by ICT services provider NTT Europe. Based on the views of 300 CIOs ...
Tags: Computer Products, Cloud Adoption, software
Earlier this year, I wrote about how I considered the ICO's meagre £250,000 fine handed out to Sony for losing control of its servers and risking the theft of every man, woman and child's data on there as "a slap on the wrist". ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
TWELVE hours, 15 minutes. That's the video playback time the new MacBook Air delivered in our tests - conducted at 75 per cent screen brightness on a 13-inch model. Last week, we pitted the 2013 MacBook Air against its predecessor, the ...
Tags: Apple, Computer Products, Consumer Electronics, MacBook
Western Digital plans to acquire sTec to boost its presence in the market for enterprise solid-state drives. The two companies have signed a definitive agreement under which sTec will be acquired by HGST, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...
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Last year, the exports of electric light source and lighting fixture in Xiamen reached US $ 800 million. The export of high-end products in Xiamen was the first and the industrial chain in Xiamen was the most complete in China. Reporters ...
Tags: LED Enterprises, Xiamen Government, Breakthrough, LED
"Some of the best creative work results from a gradual progression of ideas. David's Manuka Light is an example of this."?David Trubridge's lighting designs incorporate raw nature coupled with geometric design. Drawing inspiration from his ...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that Australia’s population grew by 1.8 per cent during 2012, returning to the excessive growth seen three years ago. This is the level advocated by then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s ...
Tags: Service, Immigration, Population Growth
Blue Diamond Growers, a US-based agricultural co-operative, has opened a new almond processing facility in Turlock, California. The 200,000ft2 facility is located on an 88 acre land at N. Washington and Fulkerth roads. The products from ...
Tags: Blue Diamond, Food
The first time Zero Motorcycles stopped by our headquarters four years ago, we were intrigued by the promise of electric motorcycles, but our team felt they needed more work. Fast forward a few years, and the new line from Zero comes across ...
Apple didn't try to fix or raise the prices of electronic books when it entered into the market in 2010, according to Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue. Rather, he says, the company was only working to ensure a profit for itself. ...
Tags: Apple, Electronic Book Market
Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world's enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said. Annual sales of storage capacity ...
Tags: Computer Products, software