20th September, 2005
Soaring Natural Gas Prices Push Up Costs for Chemicals and Resins
Consumers could start paying more for everything from automobiles to lawn chairs, as prices of raw materials used to make plastics rise at a rapid clip.
Blame much of it on resins and chemicals materials used to make plastics that have surged as much as 40% in price since June. ......
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20th September, 2005
Canadian Transportation Company Changes Lanes Without Signaling
ShipNorthAmerica Transportation, a Mississauga freight management company specializing in crossborder (Canada/US) shipping, switched into the fast lane today and was ranked 35th in the prestigious sixth annual PROFIT HOT 50 list of Canada’s Emerging Growth Companies.
Mississauga, Ontario (PRWEB) September 20, 2005 -- ShipNorthAmerica Transportation, a Mississauga freight management company specializing ......
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20th September, 2005
Webcom, Inc. Announces New Release of WebSource CPQ Configuration, Pricing, Quotation, Proposal Solution
Enhancements have been implemented to focus WebSource CPQ on further reductions in quote-to-order cycle time and the handling of varying levels of complexity.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (PRWEB) September 20, 2005 -- Webcom, Inc., the leader in simplified quote-to-order enablement for the selling of complex products and services, announced today the availability of ......
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15th September, 2005
Engineering Jobs Are Being Outsourced
You have carried several Op/Ed and Commentary columns bemoaning the supposed shortage of engineers and scientists in the U.S., most recently Ann Tate's column expressing concerns about shortages in these technical fields in 15-20 years unless we push students into math and science classes now.
Get real. According to the ......
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15th September, 2005
Contracts for Recovery Work Raise Controversy
Two of the first companies that got emergency no-bid federal contracts for Hurricane Katrina recovery work have faced questions over past business practices, court and government records show.
A division of Fluor, a California firm awarded a housing contract worth up to $100 million, has paid millions of dollars to ......
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10th September, 2005
Spaceport Lands First Series of Launches
New Mexico's long-promised commercial spaceport has landed its first customer.
Connecticut-based UP Aerospace Inc. plans a series of suborbital space flights from the facility beginning March 27.
The company's 15- and 21-foot rockets will carry experimental and commercial payloads into space at a fraction of the cost of launches at ......
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28th August, 2005
Grid Computing Gets NSF Grant Boost
Grid computing--a form of next-generation high-performance computing--is getting a boost in the United States and in Britain through recently announced grants.
The National Science Foundation this month said it would award $150 million over five years to expand the Extensible Terascale Facility, also known as the TeraGrid, a form of ......
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18th August, 2005
Nuclear Industry Hopes to Capitalize on Surge in China
Within weeks, the Chinese government is expected to announce an $8billion nuclear-reactor order that is just the beginning of a commercial bonanza the beleaguered nuclear industry has long craved.
Straining to keep pace with soaring electricity demand, China plans to spend a staggering 400 billion yuan -- nearly $50 billion ......
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6th August, 2005
NASA Signs Off on Discovery's Return to Earth
Aug. 5--HOUSTON--NASA officials cleared the space shuttle Discovery for its return to earth next week after deciding Thursday that the risks of a spacewalk to try to fix a damaged thermal blanket beneath the cockpit window far outweighed any danger the torn piece might pose during the shuttle's descent.
After ......
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5th August, 2005
A New X-Ray Eye on the Cosmos
ASTRONOMY
To study some of the hottest regions in the universe, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency has launched the coldest instrument ever flown. Chilled to six-hundredths of a degree above absolute zero, the X-ray Spectrometer-2 is one of six devices carried by a Japanese-NASA satellite now gearing up to study ......
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