IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard has announced the availability of its latest Pavilion laptop with Google's Chrome OS as the PC maker tries to improve laptop sales by offering an alternative to the Windows OS. The Pavilion 14 Chromebook ...
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For occasional and accent suppliers, this week's Las Vegas Market should be a good indicator of business to come in 2013. Coming out of an election year and a partial resolution to the "fiscal cliff," many suppliers are hoping that the ...
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Ann Veronica Janssen’s ‘Rose’ Lumenpulse has signed an agreement with Lutron Electronics Light Show, which takes place from 30 January until 28 April, features art created from 1960 onwards by artists such as David ...
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What does an advertising legend such as McDonald's do when it decides to shift (at least temporarily) from the live-action world to a rendered wonderland to promote its famous Happy Meals? It calls the experts, Kompost via DUCK, to create ...
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Canada-Electric Aura Projects set the design in motion for Rick Hansen Celebration 25 which honoured the 25-year achievements of Paralympic athlete Rick Hansen.Patrick Roberge Productions(PRP)produced the 22 May event at the Pacific ...
Czech Republic-"Showlight 2009 was a superbly organised event which inspired me from the first minute until the very last.To hear so many diverse approaches to solving innumerable problems reminded me of why I first entered this ...
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Model and actress Lily Cole is to join the panel of judges for the Young Rewired State Competition, for budding young computer programmers. The competition aims to encourage young children and teenagers to team up and write their own ...
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AkzoNobel today announced that the Supervisory Board and Board member Leif Darner have mutually agreed that Leif will step down from the Board of Management at the 2013 AGM in April.Conrad Keijzer,currently Managing Director of AkzoNobel ...
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Researchers based in the USA and France have created graphene nanoribbon structures with regions that have relatively large energy bandgaps of about 0.5eV [J. Hicks et al, Nature Physics, published online 18 November 2012]. Flat graphene ...
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SCG s vice president for corporate affairs, Tanawong Areeratchakul, said the company had signed a contract with SAP (Thailand) to upgrade its ERP project to boost growth domestically and in countries such as Vietnam and Indonesia. Under ...
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Gulf News reported that Arabtec Holding, UAE’s largest contractor has acquired 24% stake or 149.55 million shares in Depa Limited, a Dubai based leading interiors contractor from investment funds. Depa said that Arabtec has paid ...
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Kohl's Department Stores invites customers to wear bows and polka dots while joining the fight against breast cancer this holiday season with a new collection from the Kohl's Cares cause merchandise program. The newest collection,designed ...
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Freescale Semiconductor CEO Gregg Lowe is pushing forward a major restructuring of the loss-making chip firm. "We conducted a thorough and extensive review of all our businesses,markets and regions during my first three months,"said Lowe. ...
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University of Utah, in collaboration with CONRAD, has developed an intravaginal ring that delivers water soluble drug, tenofovir (TFV), for 90 days to prevent HIV infection. The intravaginal reservoir ring is composed in part of plastic ...
Hewlett-Packard on Thursday announced an Envy X2 tablet-laptop hybrid device with the Windows 8 OS,signaling the company's re-entry into the consumer tablet market,which it abandoned after the highly publicized failure of its TouchPad ...