As Dell works with three possible investment suitors to take itself private, it has consolidated itself internally while also planning to build a bridge across its storage platforms. Over the past three months, Dell has consolidated its ...
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Over the past two weeks, glass manufacturing workers at CSR Viridian’s plants in Sydney and Melbourne have spoken to World S ocialist W eb S ite correspondents about the closure and merger of facilities that will cost more than 200 ...
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Hybrid gas-electric power, a built-in generator, and a blistering 17-mph top speed helped make Raven's new $3,000 MPV-710 lawn tractor a brisk seller at Lowe's, where it's sold exclusively. Then Lowe's brought Raven sales to a screeching ...
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Construction and mining equipment manufacturer, Caterpillar has opened a new powertrain manufacturing facility as well as expanded its existing component facility in Wuxi, China. The new 23,000sqm powertrain plant will produce axles, ...
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THE Australian sharemarket rose yesterday, with the financial sector accounting for much of the strength, after eurozone finance ministers approved a new agreement on Cyprus and the so-called troika of international lenders. The benchmark ...
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Gateway Electronic Components has invested in increased levels of inventory of capacitor products from supplier Epcos. The Cheshire-based distributor has decided to increase its portfolio of general purpose polyester film capacitors with ...
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Paint manufacturer Lechler S.p.A. is celebrating major improvements to its production process thanks to a successful project to introduce Preactor scheduling software. Based in Como, Italy, the firm has achieved an impressive 20% reduction ...
Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc (APEI) of Fayetteville, AR, USA, a developer of technology for power electronics systems, electronic motor drives and power electronics packaging, and GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, ...
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Feedly, a free Web-based RSS service that also offers iOS and Android apps, has added half a million new users since Google announced it would pull the plug on its Reader RSS feed this summer. "More than 500,000 Google Reader users have ...
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There are opportunities for big data in cyber security, according to technology specialist at BSkyB Jamie Randall. Speaking at Computing's Big Data Summit 2013 today, Randall said that big data could be used to interpret alerts and ...
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PepsiCo and its independent bottlers Pepsi Bottling Ventures (PBV) and the Honickman Group's Pepsi-Cola Bottling (PCNY) have announced their intent to transfer certain franchise ownerships in New York, North Carolina, Idaho and Vermont. ...
QLogic's technology for clustered cache storage on SAN adapters will hit the market this month in the form of adapters with integrated 200GB or 400GB flash cards. The company announced the technology last year and called it Mt. Rainier. ...
According to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel), in February this year the crude steel output of 63 countries surveyed across the globe reached 123.26 million mt, increasing by 1.2 percent compared to February 2012 and up four percent ...
The Mazda 6 Celebrity Challenge at the weekend’s Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne resulted in a lot of smiles, a lot of fun and a lot of carnage. With 21 celebrities battling it out in identical 129kW/420Nm Mazda 6 diesels in ...
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Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA has introduced the EPC9010 development board to make it easier for engineers to start designing with a 100V enhancement-mode gallium nitride (eGaN) field-effect transistor (FET) ...
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