BlackBerry's appointment Monday of former Sybase CEO John Chen as its next executive board chair and interim CEO could be the best news in months for the struggling smartphone company. Chen is seen as someone who can give business ...
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With its powerful data mining capabilities, Hadoop is bringing together people across different places and even across different generations. While Hadoop continues to grow in popularity, most reported use cases around the open-source ...
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Teledyne DALSA is helping a company in China to realize the full potential of machine vision. By incorporating the Canadian firm's multi-camera embedded machine-vision technology into its products, Shangdong-based Mingjia Packaging ...
Sofradir of Chatenay-Malabry, near Paris, France, which makes infrared (IR) detectors based on mercury cadmium telluride (MCT/HgCdTe), indium antimonide (InSb), quantum-well infrared photodetector (QWIP) and indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) ...
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Weak commodity prices, a shifting investment environment, and problems with governments and workers prompt Chinese mining companies to slow their expansion abroad, reports Du Juan from Tianjin Chinese investors in overseas mining projects ...
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Systems giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced plans to migrate its mission-critical HP NonStop technology to the Intel x86 server architecture, providing customers with an alternative to Intel Itanium-based systems. At the same time - ...
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Retail Velocity, formerly Vendor Managed Technologies, Inc. (VMT), announced its Velocity Data Streaming Service has achieved certified integration with the SAP Demand Signal Management application, which is powered by the SAP HANA ...
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In a panel discussion on fuel surcharges at the CITT's National Conference on Supply Chain & Logistics today, Lou Smyrlis, editorial director of Truck News, asked shippers, carriers, and oil industry experts to weigh in on the discussion ...
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For third-quarter 2013, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $11.1m, down 45% on $19.9m ...
When Google Apps arrived in 2006, it stood on the cutting edge of Web-hosted email and collaboration suites for businesses, a bold pioneer clearing a path in the new, wild frontier of enterprise cloud computing. Seven years later, ...
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HP has transformed its position in the networking space from a year ago and is now ready to do the same with Big Data, according to the head of its Middle East operations. The company has now reached around 11 percent market share in ...
A partnership between Apple and Google in which the firms share technology, software and ideas would be beneficial to both companies, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has said. Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computers alongside Steve Jobs in ...
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Few fleet managers will be surprised to learn that a modern lift truck can collect data about every facet of its operation, well beyond the simple hour meter. Many are familiar with the concept that microprocessors onboard even the most ...
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If you like research, and you know we do, then you're going to love this issue of Modern. This month we offer the results of two annual studies conducted by Peerless Research Group (PRG) on behalf of Modern and the supply chain publications ...
The SnoClaws tire traction system, from the maker of GoClaws, features a ratchet fastening system. Bristol, Tenn.-based Flex-Trax Inc., marketer of the GoClaws tire traction system, has introduced SnoClaws with a ratchet fastening system. ...
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