The Saudi Gazette reported that UAE energy giant TAQA's billion dollar vote of confidence in Scottish oil and gas has been further strengthened by a new report which says some USD 70 billion of investment in the sector is expected by 2016. ...
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A succession of 'top-down' initiatives to improve public services have been general, time consuming and unnecessarily expensive and disruptive according to Colin Coulson-Thomas author of a new report Transforming Public Services on better ...
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The government could save up to £33bn a year by applying big data analytics to departmental information, claims a new report from think tank the Policy Exchange. The Policy Exchange estimated up to £22bn could be found by ...
Manufacturing employment has been a job bright spot for the economy, but IT workers aren't benefiting from it, a new report finds. In the manufacturing sector, research firm Computer Economics found that about half of the manufacturers in ...
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Computerworld - Manufacturing employment has been a bright spot for the economy, but IT workers aren't benefiting, a new report finds. Research firm Computer Economics found in its latest study that more than half of all manufacturers are ...
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A new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) says the financial performance of global mining companies and their stock prices headed in opposite directions last year. The Toronto-based consulting firm says the top 40 global mining firms ...
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The majority of chronic diseases Russian kids contract are caused by toxic toys,a new report has claimed. A team tested over 500 randomly selected toys bought in shops and markets in towns across Russia,and almost a third were proven to ...
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Most Chinese takeovers in the resource sector do not pose a threat to national security, says the author of a new report on Chinese investment in Canada. Theodore Moran, a professor of international business at Georgetown University, says ...
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The policies designed by the US federal government in a bid to promote electric vehicles (EV) will cost $7.5bn through 2019, according to a new report. The US Congressional Budget Office report revealed that have 'little to no impact' on ...
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Despite the fact that technology plays an increasingly important role in the economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. This may be tech's inconvenient truth. The still sluggish U.S. economy gets most of the blame for this wage ...
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UK users download the most data on their mobiles, according to a new report from UK telecoms regulator Ofcom. The International Communications Report for 2011 compared 17 countries around the globe, but found the average 424MB download by ...
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Infoworld - Demonstrating increased independence, individual business units -- and not IT -- have been taking the lead in paying for mobile application projects, a new report reveals. Meanwhile, the march toward BYOD (bring your own device) ...
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There is increasing demand for data center space in multi-tenant facilities driven by a number of trends,according to a new report. In the top 20 markets in the U.S.,which include Northern Virginia,New York,Boston,Seattle and Silicon ...
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Wide-bandgap semiconductor materials such as gallium nitride (GaN) offer far higher performance than traditional silicon but cost significantly more. However, by 2020 GaN costs will drop enough for it to become competitive based on ...
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Despite the fact that technology is playing an increasingly important role in the U.S. economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. "IT salaries have not really kept pace with inflation," said Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco Associates, ...
Tags: technology, IT wages, inflation, still-sluggish U.S.economy, running index