981. Washington urged to loosen curbs on exports to china
June 10, 2012
The trade imbalance between China and the United States should beattributed to US industrial structural problems and internationaltrade transfers, rather than China and its currency policy, saidZhou Shijian, a senior trade expert and a professor at TsinghuaUniversity. The US should loosen its cu...
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982. Socgen first-quarter fixed-income surge offset by charges
June 10, 2012
PARIS - French bank Societe Generalereported a 20.1 percentdrop in quarterly net profit, as the cost of selling assets in aweak economy and other one-off charges offset a surprise surge inbonds, currencies and commodities revenue. Like European peers, France's second-biggest lender is slashingco...
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983. Green agenda on forestry peace shafted says milne
May 28, 2012
The Greens are fuming about the Federal Government’s latest change to the forest peace deal.
The first $20 million in regional development funding under the deal is no longer conditional on the success of legislation to create new forest reserves.
Greens Senator...
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984. Mythbusters blocked from revealing rfid myths
May 28, 2012
If you were ever hoping to see an episode of Mythbusters busting the myths behind RFID security, you might be saddened to hear it looks like that will never happen, and not due to a lack of interest either.
Adam Savage of Mythbusters, when
After some cheers fro...
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985. U k research project studies impact of electric vehicles on grid
May 27, 2012
IBM is teaming up with the Energy Technologies Institute in the United Kingdom to figure out what sort of charging infrastructure will be required for the rollout of electric vehicles there. Other organizations involved in the study are EDF Energy, E.ON and Imperial Consultants.
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986. State fears losing grip on space
May 27, 2012
the biggest growth in the space industry in the next decade would come from small commercial launches and private space flight
TALLAHASSEE — Industry and agency leaders Wednesday laid out the case to lawmakers for state help to keep Florida’s leading position in space matters.
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987. Air products ccs project selected for phase ii doe funding
May 26, 2012
Air Products’ Port Arthur, TX carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project is among three selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE; Washington) to go forward with additional funding. Air Products will partner with Denbury Onshore LLC to capture and sequester more than 1 million tons/year of ...
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988. Apple consoles iphone 3g s customers with 30 itunes store credit
May 26, 2012
Let’s do a little reenactment. You’re one of the eager Apple fanboys (or girls) and camp out the night before the iPhone 3G S is released so you can be one of the first to have a new iPhone. You’re cold and wet, but you have your new iPhone, and you stumble back to your home to hook it up to iTunes ...
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989. Dell opts for performance with r5400 data center-hosted desktop
May 26, 2012
Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn’t build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called theDell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation.
“By not putt...
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990. Two cae members win xi an s & t outstanding contribution awards
May 24, 2012
Xi an awarded S & T Outstanding Contribution Awards for the first time at the S & T Xi an award ceremony on July 11, and two CAE members, Zhou Lian and Zhang Jinqiu, won the awards. Each of them receive 500,000 yuan, of which 100,000 yuan is for the award winner personally, and 400,000 yuan is to be...
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