Blackboard today unveiled Mosaic, a unique platform that gives schools and universities a radically different approach to deploying mobile apps. While institutions can spend months developing apps and lack flexibility to make changes once ...
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CERN is making the infrastructure that handles the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) more flexible by upgrading it with OpenStack for virtualization and Puppet for configuration management. The research organization's objective is ...
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Microsoft today confirmed that it has heavily discounted the Surface RT tablet to universities and K-12 schools, cutting the price of the entry-level model by 60%. It was the third time within a month that Microsoft has launched a Surface ...
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Demand for SAS-based higher education courses is so high that only a small percentage of prospective students who apply for qualifications in the subject at university actually get a place at an institution, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight has told ...
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Fixtation, which has been selling public-use outdoor bike repair stations for several years, is now complementing its repair stations with a new durable and theft-resistant public bike pump intended for outdoor use. The High Security Bike ...
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Electric Mobility Canada's 5th annual electric vehicle conference and tradeshow (EV2013Vé)—the only national event dedicated to the electrification of transportation—is being held in Gatineau, Que., at the Hilton Lac ...
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At 10 o'clock on June 4th in Shanghai New International Expo Centre, under drum beats and music,Former Vice Chairman of the National Committee of CPPCC, Former President of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chairperson of the Chinese ...
Seven large companies in east Netherlands have formed industrial partnerships with the aim of accelerating technological innovations relating to new high-tech materials, products and systems and of rolling these out in international ...
Tags: Apparel, high-tech materials
Much of the architectural coatings market in Europe is in the doldrums at the moment because of a slump in the region's construction sector stemming from a general slowdown in its economy. During the first quarter of this year, European ...
Today (Monday) is the first full day of PACRIM 10. The meeting was kicked off with the welcome address from H.T. Lin, the chairman of the conference. He briefly reviewed the history of PACRIM and introduced the technical programs held in ...
Tags: Ceramic Materials, Construction
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, has been granted a power purchase ...
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In the afternoon of June 4, the seats in the conference hall of Pudong Kerry Hotel are fully occupied. More than 650 senior executives, specialists and professors from the iron & steel associations, enterprises and research institutes, ...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific, a US-based healthcare equipment provider, has announced that its SureTect Salmonella Species Assay has received Performance Tested Method from the AOAC Research Institute. The SureTect Salmonella species PCR ...
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Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA says that its advanced plasma processing workshop, held at KANC (Korea Advanced Nano Fab Center), attracted nearly 100 engineers and researchers from 25 companies and ...
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The Obama Administration recently announced that it is launching competitions to create three new manufacturing innovation institutes with a Federal commitment of $200 million across five Federal agencies – Defense, Energy, Commerce, ...