Buyers of ancient Chinese art will reappear in Sotheby's salesroom in Hong Kong next month. The last time Sotheby's auctioned classical ink art in the city was some 15 years ago. More than 50 lots of ink paintings and works of ...
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The General Office of the Ministry of Commerce has recently issued the Notice of the Guidance Opinions on Promoting the Construction of Modern Logistic System of Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials (No.[2014]809, hereinafter referred to ...
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The US will set up its first strategic gasoline reserve, creating 1 million barrels of storage in the Northeast to protect against storms like Hurricane Sandy, which wreaked havoc on fuel supplies in the region, officials said Friday. But ...
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What is the Xbox One? If you're a video-game aficionado, you know the answer: It's Microsoft's latest game console, and it arrives in North America and Europe on Friday. To gamers, Xbox means cutting-edge adventures such as "Halo" and ...
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IBM is developing software that will allow organisations to use multiple cloud storage services interchangeably, reducing dependence on any single cloud vendor and ensuring that data remains available even during service outages. Although ...
What is the Xbox One? If you're a video-game aficionado, you know the answer: It's Microsoft's latest game console, and it arrives in North America and Europe on Friday. To gamers, Xbox means cutting-edge adventures such as "Halo" and ...
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Amazon Web Services this week released its new cloud-based data analytics tool Kinesis, which can analyse large amounts of data in real time and be paid for by the hour. Kinesis is an application that sits in the cloud and receives data ...
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The model of buying cloud computing resources is different from that of buying traditional hardware and software. Instead of buying licences and investing in equipment, in a cloud computing model, users pay for the resources they use ...
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While Windows 8.1 promises many changes from Windows 8, one thing that will remain the same is the price to U.S. consumers. For people who are on Windows 7 and previous editions of the OS, the standard version of Windows 8.1 will cost ...
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Leading global network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is proved to have been badly affected by the disclosure of PRISM of the US in the Chinese mainland. China Telecom Corp. Ltd. (NYSE: CHA and SEHK: 0728), the biggest ...
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Google's services, including its search service used by nine out of 10 people in the UK, went down for just five minutes over the weekend - but web activity plunged by 40 per cent as a result. The rare outage in Google's services, which ...
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IDG News Service-Amazon Web Services has announced Glacier,a low-cost storage service that has been customized for data archiving and backup,the company said on Monday. Areas that are a good fit for Glacier include media ...
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Google said Thursday it will by default encrypt data warehoused in its Cloud Storage service. The server-side encryption is now active for all new data written to Cloud Storage, and older data will be encrypted in the coming months, wrote ...
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The much-anticipated update for Windows 8 will begin shipping on October 17, delivering a set of changes that Microsoft hopes will calm critics and improve sales of the tablet-optimized OS. Windows 8.1, previously known as Windows Blue, ...
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Lenovo will open its Reach consumer cloud service beta to anyone who wants to sign up later this quarter in North America, which could boost the Chinese company's hardware sales by tying that portfolio to the cloud service. A date for ...
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