The American Institute of Architects (AIA) today issued the following statement in reaction to the House and Senate votes approving the “Fiscal Cliff” deal negotiated by Congressional leaders earlier this week. The statement ...
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Green Bay-based packaging solutions company Green Bay Packaging has acquired a new 269,000ft2 facility in Lebanon, Ohio, to replace its existing location in Cincinnati, Ohio. The firm is planning to move its office in January 2013, while ...
IDG News Service-We had the opportunity to go hands-on with the Nokia Lumia 920 before the device was officially unveiled in Australia last week.What did we think?We've always been fond of the build quality of Nokia handsets and the Lumia ...
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Nestlé registered the shape as far back as 2006 but Cadbury won an appeal against the move. However an appeal at the Community Trade Mark Office has ruled that the four-fingered, three-dimensional shape of the bar can be trademarked. ...
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Network World-Canonical community manager Jono Bacon has announced that testers and developers are needed to help bring Ubuntu 13.04 to the Nexus 7 tablet,as part of an effort to move the Linux-based operating system onto multiple ...
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IDG News Service-U.S.government agencies have long used open-source software.Now,some agencies are embracing the collaborative development model of open-source software development and are releasing code back to the wider community. The ...
The deal, which was first announced in November, will see four Contego facilities – in Leeds and Gillingham in the UK, Hoogerheide in the Netherlands and Portlaiose in Ireland – transfer to the US-based cartons giant. It then ...
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The co-chairman of the Ohio Green Party and editor of FreePress.org,Bob Fitrakis,on Monday filed a federal lawsuit over software that was allegedly installed on central vote tabulation machines in 39 Ohio counties without being tested or ...
Nestle has won the latest legal spat in its chocolate war with Cadbury after it stopped its rival from copying the shape of its KitKat fingers. Nestle was protecting KitKat's four-fingered design Rowntree launched the KitKat in the ...
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In the bad old days, going to work meant commuting for hours to a freezing cold office building to slave away under fluorescent lights for eight-plus hours a day. Often, you were tethered to your desk by wired computer networks and landline ...
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Dastkari Haat Bazaar – a crafts and skill exchange programme between India and Pakistan, has begun at Delhi Haat, in New Delhi. The intention underlying participation of Pakistani artisans in the 15-day skill exchange programme, ...
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Microsoft is modifying its Office 365 sales agreement with partners to motivate them to push the product more aggressively, the company announced on Monday. Microsoft wants to make Office 365 easier to sell and more profitable for its ...
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Usually, when we reference the offices of yesteryear, we’re pointing out how much better things are today than they used to be. After all, who among us would trade a flexible work schedule and wireless networking for the 9-to-5 grind ...
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The Wi-Fi Direct standard may get a much-needed boost next year from work by the Wi-Fi Alliance to make it easier to use for both consumers and developers. The specification for peer-to-peer links among devices debuted in 2010 and has ...
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Dell completed its acquisition of Wyse Technology just last month and is now hiring, and not cutting, employees. Over the next year or so, Dell plans to add more than 200 employees, from engineering to marketing, to the approximately 525 ...
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