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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Out of range?
Comment Anything from a plastic canteen cup to a plastic bag should do the trick - depending on how professional you would like it to appear. One last warning; watch out for the sun and the UV rays that degrade plastic and for the full enclosures that... [15 Jul 2008]
MPC Industries Headquarters Travel with CEO
White Paper MPC Industries is a 52-year old, family-owned manufacturing company with 42 employees, offering plastic injection molding as well as precision machining of both ferrous and non-ferrous alloys including aluminum and copper in cast and forged forms... [10 Jul 2008]
Automatic Dynamic Load Balancing for a Crack Propagation Application
White Paper This paper demonstrates the successful application of a measurement-based dynamic load balancing concept to the finite element analysis of elasto-plastic wave propagation and dynamic fracture events. Automatic, adaptive load balancing is essential... [10 Jul 2008]
Photos: Shopping just got high-tech
Photo Contactless payments are gradually becoming a reality, mainly through plastic cards. A number of adventurous technologies were on display at the Retail Solutions Show, which this year relocated from Birmingham to the ExCel Centre in London. [27 Jun 2008]
Solo Cup Replaces Information Systems and Optimizes Manufacturing and Production Processes
White Paper It has wide experience with plastic, paper, and disposable foam products. Solo Cup is the Mexican subsidiary of the Solo Cup Company. Solo Cup wanted to replace obsolete information systems with a solid and reliable IT infrastructure for quick and... [21 May 2008]
Chesapeake Standardizes Its Global Production Operations on PECAS Vision ERP/MIS From Radius Solutions
White Paper Founded in 1918 in West Point, Virginia, Chesapeake Corporation is a leading international supplier of value-added specialty paperboard and plastic packaging. The organization has undergone significant organic and acquisitive growth, and needed to... [16 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...
Comment I can remember not so long ago when being given a plastic pen or a mug was a big deal. Written in a coffee shop in Ipswich UK and dispatched via a company wi-fi service. Today I was in a well-known electronics store buying an audio connector for... [14 May 2008]
Cheques go up in smoke but plastic is fantastic
News It found plastic cards accounted for 65 per cent of all UK spending last year, rising by 11 per cent in value in 2007. She said in a statement: "We are becoming increasingly reliant on our plastic cards at retailers as they offer us convenience... [12 May 2008]
Does the ZX Spectrum deserve its crown?
News He added: "I built mine from a kit which cost £299 (and came with plastic bags of components and a bare circuit board and required many hours of soldering). Amstrad or Spectrum? Commodore 64 or Acorn Electron? [30 Apr 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo Pictured are the different layers of the cable, including the fibreoptic itself, a protective steel sheath, copper sheet which carries 12kV of charge to power the optical amplifiers, and finally white plastic insulation. [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive
Photo This is coated in a flexible white plastic, which forms the outer layer. The final layer is the white plastic insulation that protects the cable. Installing an internet connection can be difficult - especially if the cable is about 9,000km long and... [14 Apr 2008]
Plastic Manufacturer Uses Virtualization to Mold New Hardware Management
White Paper Master Molded Products (MMP), a 150-employee manufacturing company based in Elgin, Illinois, designs, engineers, and manufacturers custom value-added plastic products. According to Dodd, MMP's IT crew faced its most challenging exercise when... [23 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: An everyday tale of e-crime
Comment A bit of credit card statement checking later, it became clear that his identity had been stolen - or at least borrowed - by someone who had managed to buy three or four mobile phones on his plastic. A little while ago a friend of mine got a mobile... [13 Mar 2008]
Card fraud up by a quarter to £535m
News In terms of UK regions, the South East tops the league with £178m lost on plastic card fraud on UK issued cards - almost the same as the previous year. Card fraud rose by 25 per cent in 2007, according to the latest figures from payment clearing... [12 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08
Round-Up The Round-Up likes to imagine the 'complex choices' of the bumblebees might be something along the lines of: "That one's plastic, that one's plastic, so is that one. What a surprise, this one's plastic, as well. [29 Feb 2008]
