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Swedwood, the industrial group within IKEA, the leading home furnishings retailer, announced plans to build a manufacturing facility in Danville, Virginia. The factory will be the Swedish companys first furniture production location in the United States, and will produce a variety of wood-based IKEA products such as EXPEDIT bookshelves, LACK coffee and side tables, MAGIKER modular entertainment systems and PAX wardrobe frames. Pending permits and construction, the facility will open in early 2008, and will create up to 740 jobs.
The 810,000 square-foot future Swedwood factory will be built on 209 acres in Cane Creek Centre, in the City of Danville, VA in Pittsylvania County, VA approximately 50 miles north of Greensboro, NC. The close proximity to many IKEA stores and distribution centers, coupled with good regional infrastructure and available land, make Danville ideal for this North American production facility, said Bengt Danielsson, North American president of Swedwood.
Gov. Haley Barbour has called a special session of the state legislature for today (Thursday) when he will ask legislators to cut the state tax on modular homes for Gulf Coast residents to by $4,000, thereby reducing the total cost of the homes to $6,000.
At least one state representative beleives the issue could meet some opposition in the House and drag the session out over a number of days.
Barbour said that reducing the cost of modular homes is one of the most effective ways to remove barriers to housing for those whose residences were destroyed or damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
The proposal was part of a bill during the last regular legislative session this year that passed the Senate, but was not brought to the floor for a vote in the House of Representatives.
Staff and students at the University of Moncton have a new way of keeping in touch with colleagues when they're roaming around campus: Wi-Fi phones that use the wireless LAN. The university, which is in Canada's New Brunswick province, had planned an IP telephony roll-out after upgrading its wired network last summer. Adding a campus-wide wireless LAN and using it to carry voice traffic was not part of the plan - it just seemed to fall in place, says Jocelyn Nadeau, IT director at the Edmundston campus. "With the infrastructure we had, deploying wireless at the same time we deployed voice over IP just made sense," Nadeau says. For example, the upgrade included Power over Ethernet, so getting electricity to the wireless access points was simple. "We took a big project and made it bigger.
October 27, 2006 - Built on XiIIIPlus(TM) platform, R110Xi high frequency (HF) radio frequency identification (RFID) tabletop printer/encoder offers 4 in. print widths, 203 and 300 dpi print resolution, and XML encoding. It encodes passive inlays using multi-protocols such as ISO15693 and ISO18000-3 mode 1, and provides MIFARE ultralight support. Industrial, multi-protocol RFID solution is suitable for high-volume and on-demand smart label printing and RFID tag encoding. .
ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Insystcom, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ISYJ) provides interactive entertainment and communication solutions to the luxury resort, hotel and timeshare markets. ResortLynx™ delivers Video on Demand at MPEG2 and MPEG4 encoded rates, high speed Internet access (HSIA) to the room/suite TV screen, WiFi to the guest Notebook and Mobile TV to cell phones, PDAs and Pocket PCs. The use of ADSL as transport for ResortLynx™ allows high video data rates combined with ease of installation since existing telephone cabling is used. The use of ResortLynx™ in thousands of suites & rooms prove the success of this unique technology combination. "Our company has released a number of business announcements in 2006 and is updating our shareholders to them.
Mississippi lawmakers return to the Capitol Thursday for a special session to work on the critical issue of rebuilding housing destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. There have been far too many special sessions of the Legislature in recent years, but Gov. Haley Barbour was right to call lawmakers back to Jackson to consider a proposal to cut sales taxes on modular homes. Barbour wants to cut the sales tax rate from 7 percent to 3 percent on modular housing, which is needed to give distressed Gulf Coast homebuyers a break on this type of housing. Barbour says the cut could reduce the price of the homes from $4,000 to $7,000. Modular housing can be a significant help for the Coast, which is in dire need of housing quickly. It is estimated that up to 81,000 housing units were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
You re-did the kitchen with professional-grade appliances. Check. You've outfitted a home theater with a big-screen, high-definition TV and surround-sound system. Double check. Still, there's one more room in the house that's craving a high-tech makeover with a state-of-the-art, high-efficiency "system." The laundry room. Long hidden away in dank basements or cold garages, the laundry is being relocated to more visible and accessible spots as a place of honor and excitement. "Walk into a new model home, and you'll find the laundry located next to the kitchen, as part of the family/home theater room, or set up in the baby's room," noted Jill Notini, spokeswoman for the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers. Making these moves possible is a growing crop of high-tech clothes washers and dryers boasting dramatic styling and high-efficiency (HE) operation.
On a per capita basis, we use about 15,000 kilowatt hours a year, more than twice as much as California or New York and well ahead of any other state. We've been gorging on electricity since the 1960s, back when the state's per capita usage was about 4,000 kilowatt hours a year, but we haven't really noticed much until this summer. Power was pretty cheap and our bills were relatively low. Not anymore. For many of us, our electric bills this summer mirrored our mortgage payments. One aspect of this problem, energy efficiency, is becoming a hot topic after being relatively dormant in Texas for years. And the area's energy-efficiency program, run by TXU Electric Delivery, still has $4 million available to homeowners to use by year's end for upgrading insulation and other weatherization measures -- sometimes with built-in rebates or, for those with low income, at no cost.
RESTON, Va., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Synchronica plc, an international provider of mobile synchronization and device management solutions, today announced the Automated Device Management Hotline which is based on its SyncML DM Server. The Hotline is designed to help device manufacturers and mobile operators combat spiraling customer care costs. The automated hotline, realized with Synchronica's proprietary Sydemas scripting language, can be used by mobile operators and device manufacturers to identify and resolve configuration problems over-the-air (OTA) and, where appropriate, send firmware updates over-the-air (FOTA). Customer care costs are rising fast because modern phones are more complex to configure and are more likely to have firmware defects, which sometimes require an expensive and brand-damaging product recall.
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