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If 2012 is the year of Big Data, it will likely be the year vendors and consultants start to over-promise, under-deliver, and put processes in motion that will generate insights and potential risks for years to come. This year will be the year of Big Data.

Triumphs Inside the Watch Industry’s Eastward LeanSIHH (Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie), the most luxury oriented of the annual Swiss watch shows, has always been a tantalizing experience for the few high-end collectors lucky enough to get through the door.

Plants have been using a green pigment for billions of years to capture sunlight, turning it into a flow of electrons and storing its energy in the chemical bonds of big organic molecules (also known as food). Given that successful history, chemist Michael Graetzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and his colleagues turned to a compound similar in shape and color to chlorophyll when they set out to build a better solar cell.

High voltage cables are typically insulated with special water-resistant polymers that have high-dielectric strength. When the cables get whacked by an especially strong rain or snow storm the insulation may not block all of the moisture. The leaks can lead to a loss of electrical current or even damage to the cables.

A shoal of herring may be an apt metaphor for Swiss watch companies, which can turn their designs on a dime in unison at a sign of an approaching threat. Thus, when the financial crisis of 2008 struck, wheels were set in motion in product development offices across Switzerland, and ...

Thursday, November 3 Last year , the Detroit-based automaker adopted the tagline "Chevrolet runs deep." Boy, are they right. Over the past century, the all-American automobile manufacturer has zoomed from low-cost Ford alternative to sports-car pioneer to surprisingly brisk seller overseas. Here, how a car company that began as a thumb of the nose at rival General Motors became one of GM's postbankruptcy bright spots

If you're like anyone else, you have no idea how much you pay for electricity. A new app will let you use your phone to see when it's the cheapest, and pick that moment to charge your car.

After teaming up last year to celebrate Ermenegildo Zegna’s centennial, the Italian fashion house has paired yet again with acclaimed Swiss watchmaker Girard-Perregaux, this time to release the new Monterubello Collection. Named after the founder of the Zegna brand, Conte di Monterubello, the collection includes two new timepieces: the Solo ...

Labor Day’s over, and Americans fortunate enough to have jobs are getting back to work. But all work and no play might make us, well, less productive. That’s the finding of a study that looked at the effects of an employee exercise program in which workers worked out during office hours.

Now that a major online role-playing company has effectively created a functioning market for in-game currencies, gold farming is going to become a viable part of the global economy.

By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine Cyclist Borut Bozic drew his hands to his chest with a look of joy, disbelief and exhaustion after defeating some of the world's best sprinters in the Swiss village of Tobel.

Leaving water out in a clear bottle in the sun is a free and easy way to kill pathogens. Now it's time to let the people who bad water is killing know that the solution is at their fingertips. Researchers in developing countries have discovered a free

Flying Food Group has seen steady growth since Sue Ling Gin founded the company in 1983 to bring a higher quality of food service to commercial airlines. As applications for the 2011 Inc