LED lighting plays prominent role in Olympic Games 13 Aug 2012 LED lighting played a major role in the London 2012 Olympics, particularly in the celebrations surrounding the Opening and Closing ceremonies. Many of the events at the Olympic ...
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A folding chair is a light, portable chair that that folds flat, and can be stored in a stack, row, or on a cart. Uses Folding chairs are generally used for seating in areas where permanent seating is not possible or practical. This ...
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Brazilian food company BRF Brasil Foods has reported that its net earnings for the second quarter totaled BRL6.4m($3.16m),compared to BRL498m($246m)for the same period in 2011. The company posted 8.7%increase in net sales to ...
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The government reduced its IT spend by £249m in 2011/12, with savings of £104m coming from its move to digital services and contract renegotiations, and £145m from its moratorium on contracts above £5m. The ...
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Cree, a market leading manufacturer of LED products, is set to announce its Q4 2012 earnings on Tuesday, August 7. Plagued by a persistent oversupply and consequent pricing pressure in the LED market, the company posted weak Q3 2012 ...
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IMPORTS of sawn timber have grown 30% in the past two years, creating a temporary threat to Australia's domestic sawn timber industry, research by industry analysis firm BIS Shrapnel revealed on Wednesday. The research showed that while ...
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The Cabinet Office claims that a "ruthless approach" to "eradicating wasteful spending" across central government has helped generate £104m in savings in IT spending out of more than £5.5bn in total efficiency savings it claims ...
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The ETC Source Four'classic'incandescent spotlight will be 20 years old in autumn and has now shipped 3m units.Introduced at the 1992 LDI tradeshow and sweeping that year's product awards,the fixture is now a mainstay of conventional ...
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Complaints over the past several weeks from Dropbox users whose email addresses have been targeted with spam have finally been answered by the company,which has admitted the possibility that an employee's company email was hacked,and a list ...
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During the first half of 2012, Georg Fischer faced uneven economic conditions. Whereas the Corporation increased its sales in Asia and even more in North America, the eurozone woes had a dampening effect on customer demand in that region. ...
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At the Olympic opening ceremony,Crystal CG has thrilled audiences as it displayed a range of computer-generated images on a giant video screen stretching across the entire expanse of audience seating. The giant video screen was made ...
IDG News Service-Following a four-month beta period,Rackspace has started offering its hosted servers and databases using the open source OpenStack suite of cloud software. That OpenStack has been pressed into production use just two ...
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UK-Set in the courtyard of one of London's most celebrated historic buildings,Summer Series at Somerset House featured a programme of diverse music acts playing a series of special shows between 7 and 19 July. Working with production ...
The creative agency behind the animated pixels at the Olympic opening ceremony has described how it delivered the spectacular 'human powered' screen at Friday night's event. Crystal CG, a company which calls itself as one of the biggest ...
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Dropbox said Tuesday one of its employee's accounts was compromised,leading to a raft of spam last month that irritated users of the cloud-storage service. A stolen password was used to access the employee's account,which contained"a ...
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