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The Little Trade Organisation (LTO) needed to show its members that it had their interests at heart. So when many of them started to complain of skills shortages and high recruitment costs, it came up with an initiative that, it proposed, could solve all of their problems in one fell swoop. (more…)
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It seemed like the economic miracle that was transforming the economies of India and China was having a backlash effect in the UK. (more…)
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In his film The Day After Tomorrow, director Roland Emmerich paints a picture of a world where a radical change in the temperature of the world’s oceans cause deadly storms and set a new ice age in motion. (more…)
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When the folks at the National Express Group discovered that they had lost GBP20m on their East Coast rail franchise in the first half of this year, they decided they’d had enough of the railway business and would pull out. (more…)
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The sales representative needed some help explaining the advantages of his company’s new system to one of his clients. So he asked the engineering manager if he could spare one of the company engineers to accompany him on a sales visit. (more…)
Engineeringtalk and this Editor's Blog is now edited by Dave Wilson
Dave was the Editor of Digital Design, Electronic Systems Design and The OEM Integrator in the US between 1980 and 1990. More recently, he founded e4engineering (now The Engineer Online) at the start of 2000 and Technology Horizons in 2006, both for Centaur Media. His mood varies with the fortunes of the NASDAQ and Nikkei indices.
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