BP is to establish a $100 million international research center known as the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials, or BP-ICAM. This center will lead research aimed at advancing the fundamental understanding and use of materials ...
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Novosoft, an acclaimed provider of data protection solutions for Windows and mixed OS networks, announced the release of a new version of Handy Backup software. The product is reported to be oriented high backup speeds featured via renewed ...
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Nicira is a start-up right out of the Silicon Valley playbook with a $1.26 billion ending, in just five years. VMware's decision, announced Monday, to buy this network virtualization company will likely be cited as a starring example of ...
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Both Google and Oracle said Friday they did not pay any journalists or bloggers for coverage or commentary of their high-profile copyright infringement battle that recently concluded in a California court, but the companies disagreed on ...
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The “Industrial Internet” (or Internet of Things) has the potential to add $10-15 trillion to global GDP by 2030 and reduce billions of dollars worth of waste across major industries such as healthcare, energy and ...
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The University of West Sydney(UWS)is planning to distribute 11,000 iPads to students that enroll next year. According to reports,this is part of a"comprehensive curriculum renewal strategy"which includes more interactive learning. ...
Despite vocal mistrust of e-voting, 151 Flemish municipalities in Belgium will use new electronic voting machines in October 14 elections. More than 60 percent of the country's Flemish citizens as well as voters in the Brussels region ...
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When the recession hit in 2008, Congress put the idea of a "skills shortage" and a need for more H-1B visas in a closet. That didn't mean, however, that interest in raising the H-1B cap went away for everyone. New York City Mayor ...
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KPMG International announced record high combined revenues of USD 23.03 billion for the fiscal year ending 30th September 2012, representing a 4.4% increase over the previous year in local currency terms. When adjusted to US dollars, ...
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Evidencing the meaningful implementation of its well established National Emiratization Policy, Dubai Aluminium has successfully achieved its goal for the year by securing recruiting 120 UAE Nationals during ...
The availability of supercomputing applications to small and medium sized businesses will be the next big thing to happen in the cloud computing market, according a senior systems consultant at IBM. Tikiri Wanduragala told Computerworld ...
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Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the final speaker line-up and agenda for its annual Xen Summit North America conference. The event will be held, August 27-28 in San Diego, California and is co-located with ...
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The University of Texas at Arlington and Thermo Fisher Scientific have been granted a United States patent for a novel charge detector for ion chromatography. The technology was jointly developed by the two companies,and has been ...
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University researchers are studying the brains of honey bees in an attempt to build an autonomous flying robot. By creating models of the systems in a bee's brain that control vision and sense of smell, scientists are hoping to build a ...
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Dell has made a deal to acquire data-protection vendor Credant Technologies and plans to add the company's technology to its enterprise IT security offerings. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal.Credant,founded in 2001,is ...
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