Mayor talks about Daytona Beach's present, future

The city is assembling blueprints it hopes will transform the downtown riverfront and beachside core tourist area into huge draws buzzing with energy. At the helm of all the planning is Glenn Ritchey, the man who's been in the mayor's chair since 2007.

Holy Horology

Everything began by a mass or service on Tuesday April 10, the day before the opening of BaselWorld. At the end of the day, a small el-egant crowd gathered at the Elizabethan Kirche in Basel, squeezing together on the church benches under the high and colourful stained glass windows.

Investing in competitiveness now

Business for many moldmakers is picking up and some are finding that the time to add new equipment is now, in preparation for more new business they see coming.   Tagging Options Domain:  Plasticstoday Issue Date:  PT - July 2010 Keywords:  tooling, automation, moldmaking, mold building, robots read more

Brooks and Marcus on Fallout From Immigration, Rangel, WikiLeaks

Listen to the Audio Columnists David Brooks of The New York Times and Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post speak with Jim Lehrer about the week's biggest news including part of Arizona's immigration law being struck down, ethics charges facing Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., and the implications of WikiLeaks publishing military secrets online. JIM LEHRER: And to the analysis of Brooks and Marcus, New ...

California is the primary US stop for LHC's ALICE data

( DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ) One month a year, the nuclei of lead atoms traveling near the speed of light will collide in the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) ALICE experiment. Ten percent of all of the data collected in this month will travel from Switzerland to NERSC at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Northern California ...

NICE to Present its Next Generation 9-1-1 Solutions at APCO 2010

RA'ANANA, Israel, July 30, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NICE Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE), a leading global provider of intent-based solutions that enable enterprises and security organizations to extract Insight from Interactions, transactions and surveillance to drive business performance, reduce risk and ensure safety, today announced that it will be highlighting its industry-leading IP ...

Shadow Technology Announces Summer Bundles Offer For Leading Call Management Software, Call-Shadow

Also Targets APAC & Middle East Resellers

Avis Goes to War for Dollar Thrifty

Avis has finally arrived. Almost three months after the Avis Budget Group first declared its willingness to make a competing bid for the Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group , the rental car company has put its formal offer on the table . Aviss offer is priced about 17 percent above Hertz Global Holdings existing offer, although the companys bid was below Dollar Thriftys closing stock price on ...

Maoists in India Blow Up Pipelines, Putting $78 Billion at Risk

At the heart of the Bailadila Hills in central India lie 1.1 billion tons of raw ore so pure and plentiful that half a century after miners first hacked at it with pickaxes, it remains the richest, and one of the largest, iron deposits on the planet.

Internet upgraded to foil cyber crime

LAS VEGAS, July 29, (AFP): The Internet has undergone a key upgrade that promises to stop cyber criminals from using fake websites that dupe people into downloading viruses or revealing personal data.