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05/01/2009 09:55 am
A detailed post on Microsoft's Engineering Windows 7 blog explains what HomeGroup -- the new networking interface for Windows 7 which aims to make it easier to share printers, storage and media without hassle in a home environment -- hopes to achieve. Given my experience with networking in Windo ...
31/12/2008 01:48 pm
SANTOS Ltd and Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) have appointed Bechtel as the front-end engineering design (FEED) contractor for the downstream components of the Gladstone liquefied natural gas (GLNG) plant in Australia. In a statement, Santos said the contract is valued at A$40 million (RM96.4 mil ...
30/12/2008 10:20 am
AP - South Korean company SK Engineering and Construction has signed a $187 million contract to help Ecuador upgrade its largest oil refinery. ...
27/12/2008 08:34 am
WHEN Brisbane lawyer Elizabeth Nosworthy was handed the chair of ailing financial engineering group Babcock & Brown as it ... The countless billions of dollars in value blown up by the clutch of listed companies in the Allco Finance and B&B groups put their leaders David Coe and Phil Green ...
27/12/2008 12:10 am
WHEN Brisbane lawyer Elizabeth Nosworthy was handed the chair of ailing financial engineering group Babcock & Brown as it teetered under $50 billion of group debt in August this year, eyes were rubbed in disbelief. ...
26/12/2008 07:08 am
the_kanzure points out this AP story on amateur genetic engineering, excerpting: "The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself. Using homemade lab equipment and the wealth of sci ...
21/12/2008 03:39 am
Start with a heaped serving of ignorance, add equal measures of industrial inertia and mediocre engineering, add a dash of petulant, not-invented-here intransigence and you’ll have a lucid understanding of how the airplane industry looked at the mundane world of engine management 10 years ago. Or, ...
20/12/2008 12:00 am
ENGINEERING firm Macmahon Holdings has provided another stark illustration of how quickly the recent boom in mining services is turning into a bust. ...
19/12/2008 10:25 pm
Swiss engineering group says credit conditions have made it harder for clients to finance projects. 19 Dec 2008 10:25 PM ...
19/12/2008 10:05 pm
AP - Swiss engineering group ABB Ltd. announced Friday it has set aside $850 million to prepare for possible costs related to price-fixing and bribery investigations. ...
19/12/2008 02:51 pm
Macmahon Holdings has cut its first-half profit forecast by as much as 35 per cent as slowing activity in the mining sector affects it. The engineering contractor said on Friday that profit after ... ...
19/12/2008 02:46 pm
Macmahon Holdings Ltd has cut its first-half profit forecast by as much as 35 per cent as slowing activity in the mining sector affects it. The engineering contractor said on Friday that profit ... ...
18/12/2008 06:30 pm
The international competition "Fly Your Ideas" launched by Airbus on 14th October 2008 is proving to be a great success. The competition challenged student teams worldwide to come up with innovative ideas to shape the future of aviation and to develop eco-efficient ideas to bring further e ...
18/12/2008 05:51 pm
AGL ENERGY has announced the imminent purchase of the Gloucester coal seam gas (CSG) project in New South Wales for $370m in cash. The company will buy 70% of the project from engineering and ... ...
17/12/2008 05:39 pm
Airbus has started flight-testing of Blended Winglet devices on an Airbus A320. The Blended Winglet technology, developed by Aviation Partners Inc. (API), has been specially adapted for these tests on the A320 Family. The objective of these tests and the subsequent evaluation is to identify both the ...
17/12/2008 04:00 pm
Global warming can be reversed, some are arguing, with a "geoengineering" fix, such as flying a giant blimp and spraying liquefied sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere. Richard Turco, professor in the UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and founding director of UCLA's Ins ...
17/12/2008 02:00 am
UPDATE: This seminar is now fully booked. A free one day seminar presented by the Australian Writers’ Guild in association with the International Film School Sydney. Writing a great movie, writing a scintillating and compelling experience, involves a specific understanding of the screenwriter’s ...
16/12/2008 04:16 pm
India`s largest engineering and construction conglomerate, L&T has secured major orders aggregating to Rs 13.72 billion from various customers like Vedanta Aluminium, Utkal Alumina International ... ...
15/12/2008 11:47 pm
Brisbane, 15 th December, 2008 On Friday the 5 th of December, the 2008 Australian Export Awards were announced in Melbourne at the National Gallery of Victoria. In the presence of the Prime Minister, Mr Kevin Rudd, and other federal and state ministers, Xstrata Technology was awarded the 2008 Austr ...
12/12/2008 12:42 pm
Ausenco Limited (AAX) has signed a deal with Uranium One Australia to use its engineering procurement and construction management ("EPCM") services on Uranium One's Honeymoon uranium project in ... ...
12/12/2008 12:38 pm
The market is down 62 – down 66 at worst - underperforming the 46 point fall predicted by the SFE Futures this morning. RIO under pressure with major brokers talking about $2-3bn in asset sales required next year to lower its debt position $10bn by 2009-end.  Oz Minerals continues to be downgrade ...
12/12/2008 10:00 am
Air New Zealand&aposs Australian-based aerospace engineering services company TAE has added to its stable of businesses with the purchase of well-known aviation service provider Tenix Aviation Pty Limited. ...
12/12/2008 09:37 am
A brief note on a thesis worth reading.  The thesis is by Courtney Fidler and was written as part of her degree in master of applied science in mining engineering at the University of British Columbia.  The title is Aboriginal Participation in Mineral Development: Environmental Assessment and Impa ...
12/12/2008 12:00 am
Ausenco has signed a deal with Uranium One Australia to use its engineering procurement and construction management services on Uranium One's Honeymoon uranium project in SA. ...
10/12/2008 10:05 pm
Rating agency, CRISIL has assigned its ratings of BBB/Stable/P3+ to the various bank facilities of Austin Engineering Company (AEC). The ratings reflect AEC`s established market position in the ... ...
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