Speirs works under David Donatelli, a former EMC executive in charge of servers, storage and networking.

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London-based light design firm Speirs and Major unveiled an LED-based streetlamp design of its own last year.

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As far as Speirs knows, no other school in the U.K. much less the world, is deploying iPads to all its students in this way.

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Speirs says the project is having a positive effect on learning.

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"The move to a purpose-built factory will reinforce our position as a leading UK sub-contractor in precision machined plastic parts, " said Ensinger's managing director, John Speirs.

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One is the Cedars School of Excellence outside of Glasgow, Scotland, whose 105-student deployment has captured most of the publicity due to the eloquence of its head of IT, Fraser Speirs.

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Rics Scotland director Sarah Speirs said while it was encouraging that the housing market appeared to be moving away from the highly negative figures witnessed in previous years, activity was still much lower than the pre-crisis norm.

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"This country, whose workers have done so much to create National Semi's huge profits in the good years, are entitled to expect a clear commitment to Scotland from the company now that times are better", said Mr Speirs.

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