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Australia Is Experiencing Record Rural Exports
Aug 27, 2014Australia is experiencing record rural exports, more opportunities from China’s urbanisation, and global supply chains are having an effect on Australia’s export profile, according to the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation ...
Tags: Australia, Rural Exports, Service
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EFIC's Export Monitor Newsletter Considers Outlook for Exports to Asia Beyond Commodities
Aug 25, 2014The Export Finance and Insurance Corporation’s (EFIC) Export Monitor newsletter considers the outlook for exports to Asia beyond commodities. "Tourism and education exports will continue their rapid expansion, driven by especially ...
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Brokered Trade Deals Should Mitigate Declines Seen in Australia's Trade Competitiveness
May 9, 2014The Export Finance and Insurance Commission (EFIC) has examined free trade deals clinched with Japan and Korea this month and the trade agreement currently being pursued with China. “These agreements offer unprecedented access to ...
Tags: Electrolytic Capacitors, Asian FTA
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EFIC Has Examined The Dynamics That Reached $1.4b in January
Apr 4, 2014EFIC has examined the dynamics behind Australia's trade surplus that reached $1.4b in January, its highest level in nearly 2 years. "Export values have surged, driven by increases in rural and resource export volumes. This is despite ...
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Bridgestone Has Announced Three Marketing Appointments Within Its Business Unit
Mar 5, 2014Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC has announced three marketing appointments within its Bridgestone Commercial Solutions business unit. Matt Loos has been promoted to director of truck and bus marketing and Michelle Lane has been ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Tire
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Challenge Winners Were Announced Today by The Safety and Technical Products Division
Nov 25, 2013The tenth annual Safety Products Student Design Challenge winners were announced today by the Safety and Technical Products Division of Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI). The annual contest is developed and supported by ...
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How Companies Are Using The Open Source Hadoop Big Data Analytics Systems
Nov 5, 2013A study by analyst IDC shows how companies are using the open source Hadoop big data analytics systems alongside other systems to get value out of their data. IDC’s “Trends in Enterprise Hadoop Deployments” report, ...
Tags: Hadoop, Big Data Analytics
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Shares in Specialist Telecoms Construction Firm Service Stream Crashed to an All-Time Low
May 28, 2013SHARES in specialist telecoms construction firm Service Stream crashed to an all-time low yesterday as the company failed to rally against the negative fallout of breaching its banking covenants. Service Stream shares touched a record low ...
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Foundationdb Launched a New Data Store Offering The Reliability of Transactional Databases
Mar 8, 2013In an effort to combine the best of two database technologies, startup FoundationDB has launched a new data store that it claims can offer the reliability of transactional databases and the scalability and speed of NoSQL. The data store, ...
Tags: database technology, FoundationDB, transactional database
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The U.S. Is Dangerously Unprepared to Face a Full-Scale Cyberconflict Launched
Mar 8, 2013The U.S. is dangerously unprepared to face a full-scale cyberconflict launched by a peer adversary, a report by the military's Defense Science Board (DSB) warns. The report, released in January, and first reported on by The Washington ...
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25% of Part-Time Workers Want More Hours
Feb 22, 2013The Australian Bureau of Statistics has found that 25% of part-time workers want more hours, against an agency finding that promotes part-time work. According to an Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report, over a quarter of part-time ...
Tags: Australian Bureau of Statistics, part-time work, employment
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Oracle Updated Open-Source Database to Make It More Competitive with NoSQL Data Stores
Feb 5, 2013IDG News Service - With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra. "We're in constant dialogue with our customers and users, ...
Tags: MySQL, NoSQL Competitors, company news
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Cassandra NoSQL Has Been Updated to Better Use Larger Servers
Jan 8, 2013IDG News Service - Adjusting to changes in corporate hardware buying habits, the Apache Software Foundation's Cassandra NoSQL distributed database has been updated to better use larger servers through the introduction of virtual nodes and ...
Tags: fat Servers, hardware, software, Facebook, Cassandra
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High-Profile Outages That Can Be Traced Back to How The Linux OS Kernel Mishandled a Leap
Dec 31, 2012A number of high-profile outages that took place last weekend can be traced back to how the Linux OS kernel mishandled a leap second added to the official time,charges the CTO of DataStax,a company that manages the open source Cassandra ...
Tags: Linux, Leap-Second Lapses
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In Many Cases an Old Fashioned Relational Database, May Work Just as Well If Not Better
Dec 31, 2012IDG News Service - While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users who presented their ...
Tags: NoSQL, Oracle, relational database system, transaction system