The FCC Thursday issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), which seeks comment on rules to help address problems in the completion of long-distance telephone calls to rural customers. The NPRM is specifcally aimed at intermediate carries that complete long-distance calls for long-distance providers, such as wireless providers, cable companies, interexchange carriers (IXCs), local exchange […]
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New Concrete to Increase Bridge Life Span
Purdue University research is enabling Indiana to improve bridges in the state with a new “internally cured” high-performance concrete. “This material will reduce maintenance costs and allow bridge decks to last longer,” said Jason Weiss, a professor of civil engineering and director of Purdue’s Pankow Materials Laboratory. “Our testing indicates that internally cured high-performance concrete […]
Charter bags former Bresnan systems for $1.625B
Yesterday afternoon, Charter Communications, which is the nation’s fourth-largest cable operator, emerged as the sweepstakes winner for the former Bresnan systems with a winning bid to Cablevision of $1.625 billion. The deal is slated to close in the third quarter of this year. Charter will fund the acquisition of Optimum West with $1.5 billion of […]
Super Bowl Outage Traced to Faulty Device
The failure of a device meant to protect the power supply to the Superdome caused the Super Bowl blackout, the stadium’s power company said Friday as it took the blame for the outage that brought the game to a halt for more than a half-hour. Officials of Entergy New Orleans, a subsidiary of New Orleans-based […]
EU Pushes Plans for Safer, More Secure Internet
EU officials are pushing a plan to make the Internet safer — more resistant to cyberattacks, freer from cybercrime and safer for children to use. The proposal unveiled Thursday would require each of the European Union’s 27 nations to designate an authority to prevent and respond to Internet risks and incidents. It would require the […]
Chuo Spring: Chinese Joint Venture to Make Car Springs
TOKYO, Feb. 8 (Kyodo) — Chuo Spring Co., a Nagoya-based suspension spring supplier affiliated with Toyota Motor Corp., said Friday it has signed an agreement with China Spring Corp. to form a joint venture to manufacture automobile coil springs and stabilizers. Under the accord with the Shanghai-based firm, Chuo Spring will set up the fifty-fifty […]
$1.4M Bill for Fixing Rowan Atkinson’s McLaren
Everyone who’s had a fender bender knows the cost of repairs is going up. But few cars can be as costly to fix as “Mr. Bean” actor Rowan Atkinson’s rare McLaren F1. It took more than a year — and more than 900,000 pounds ($1,400,000) — to get his supercar up and running after a […]
Nissan Earnings Update
TOKYO, Feb. 8 (Kyodo) — Nissan Motor Co. said Friday its group net profit dropped 12.7 percent from a year earlier to 232.39 billion yen in the April to December period, due to sluggish sales in China in the wake of anti-Japanese protests in the country as well a drop in sales in Europe amid […]
For drug makers, new 3-D control opens wealth of options
A team of scientists anchored at Yale University has demonstrated a new, highly versatile approach for quickly assembling drug-like compounds, establishing a broad new route to drug discovery and medical treatment. They report their results in the journal Science on Feb 8. Drug molecules interact with their targets, such as proteins or enzymes, by attaching […]
China’s January Auto Sales Surge
China’s auto sales rose 46 percent in January to a monthly record on strong demand for SUVs in pre-Lunar New Year shopping, an industry group reported Friday. Customers bought just over 2 million vehicles last month in China, the biggest auto market by number of vehicles sold, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. […]