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Clipped to the Drawing Board by JW
BMW and DaimlerChrysler are threatening legal action against a Chinese carmaker they claim is producing copies of some of their models.
BMW is said to consider Shuanghuan Automobile's CEO model to be too similar to its own X5.
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Thursday 30 August, 2007 10:26 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
India's Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (MAHM.BO: Quote, Profile, Research) is doing due diligence on Ford's (F.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Jaguar and Land Rover units, the Financial Times said on Thursday, citing people close to the situation.
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Thursday 30 August, 2007 10:10 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
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The Precision Engagement modification is the largest single upgrade effort ever undertaken for the USA's unique A-10 "Warthog " close air support aircraft fleet. when complete, it will give them precision strike capability sooner than planned, combining multiple upgrade requirements into one time and money-saving program rather than executing them as standalone projects. Indeed, the USAF has accelerated the PE program by 9 months as a result of its experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Wednesday 29 August, 2007 11:59 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
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NASA awarded a contract worth up to $1.13 billion Tuesday to aerospace giant Boeing Co. to build a key part of its multibillion-dollar rocket system to send astronauts back to the moon.
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Wednesday 29 August, 2007 11:55 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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New Delhi, Aug 28: Business software major SAP AG on Tuesday said emerging countries like India will play a key role in its target to sign one lakh customers globally by 2010 and affirmed plans to invest one billion dollars in the country over the next few years.
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Wednesday 29 August, 2007 11:49 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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Mumbai, Aug 29: Ashok Leyland and Nissan Motor Co have agreed to form a partnership for light commercial vehicles (LCV), the latest in a series of cross-border ventures to tap India's cheap manufacturing prowess.
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Wednesday 29 August, 2007 11:48 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
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NEW YORK–General Mills Inc. said yesterday it is cutting more than 500 jobs and closing two plants in Canada and the United States due to deteriorating financials.
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Wednesday 29 August, 2007 11:45 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
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Low-Volume Layered Manufacturing, LVLM for short, is a design-through-manufacturing method already known by different names in the short time is has been an option. Whether you call it ‘Rapid Manufacturing’ (RM) or the term coined by The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), ‘Direct Digital Manufacturing,’ LVLM has the potential to re-define the way machines and products are designed.
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Wednesday 29 August, 2007 01:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
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Although open-source software has, strictly speaking, only been available for less than ten years, it has resulted in products that rival mainstream packages and operating systems from the world's leading software houses. Now, as Paul Stevens reports, open-source principles are being applied in several ambitious automotive projects.
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Wednesday 29 August, 2007 01:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu
Packaging and cleaning products giant Bunzl has seen profits climb as acquisitions helped lift sales in the UK and Ireland.
Profits rose to £60.9m in the six months to June 30 from 60 million pounds in the first half of 2006, Bunzl said today in a statement to the London Stock Exchange. Sales climbed 7.6pc to £1.73bn.
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Wednesday 29 August, 2007 01:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
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Bill, your missing the point - I'm attaching an article which probably gives a better description of nano technology - read it through. We are already using the technology, without most people realising it. have a good day
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Tuesday 28 August, 2007 11:43 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu
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China still has a long way to go toward its goal of becoming an "innovation-oriented economy" by 2020, and what it wants most is a better return on its fast-growing investments on research and development , the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in a report on Monday.
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Tuesday 28 August, 2007 11:28 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
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SEATTLE - The first 787 Dreamliner , which Boeing rolled out with great fanfare July 8, is sitting in the assembly bay in Everett, Wash., missing big structural pieces -- though Boeing says its first flight is just over a month away.
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Monday 27 August, 2007 10:52 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
Chinese lawmakers convened on Sunday to discuss the draft amendment to a key science progress law which further clarifies the country's strategy of boosting science development through innovation.
Science workers will be given more incentives and high-tech enterprises more favorable policies, as a way to encourage innovation, according to the draft amendment to the Law on Science and Technology Progress.
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Monday 27 August, 2007 10:47 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dillon Smatcher
The government Wednesday declared a four-month "special war" against poor product quality and supervision after a spate of safety concerns over Chinese products worldwide.
Eight categories of products are involved: Pork, drugs, agricultural products, processed food, food in the catering sector, import and export products, and other products related to public health such as toys and electric wires.
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Monday 27 August, 2007 01:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu
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The owner of the Hoover and Vax household appliances brands warned yesterday that growing inflationary and cost pressures in China were forcing it to look elsewhere for future manufacturing capacity.
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Thursday 23 August, 2007 09:18 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
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"Bushmaster Bonanza at Bendigo" reads the Australian DoD headline, as The Hon. Dr Brendan Nelson, Minister for Defence, announces that Australia will buy another 250 vehicles. This brings Australia's total Bushmaster orders to 668.
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Thursday 23 August, 2007 01:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
China Southern Airlines said on Tuesday that it has signed a deal with Boeing to buy 55 Boeing 737s to meet rising market demand and renew its fleet.
The aircraft, including the 737-700 and 737-800 models, would be delivered between May 2011 and October 2013, said a statement from China Southern, the country's largest carrier in terms of fleet size.
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Thursday 23 August, 2007 01:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
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NEW DELHI, Aug. 20 — When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan touches down in India this week, it will be the highest-level step yet in what analysts say is a long-term effort to balance, if not contain, China’s growing economic and political might.
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Tuesday 21 August, 2007 10:16 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
THE narrow, pot-holed roads of this boomtown on India’s southwestern coast are a sea of humanity on wheels. Here, as in most of India, right of way is accorded by a vehicle’s size - motorcycles stop for cars, cars stop for trucks, trucks stop for buses, and buses stop for cows.
So, in a country where size does matter, an Indian car maker is set to roll out the world’s cheapest car next year, enabling those at the bottom of the traffic pecking order to move up a notch.
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Tuesday 21 August, 2007 09:34 AM |
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