Technology

DeWalt has launched a new 12-in. Sliding Compound Miter Saw, designed to be precise enough for fine woodworking, and durable enough for framing and deck building. 

The DWS780 is made for a variety of end users, including cabinetmakers, trim carpenters, framers, installers and many other professional contractors.

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Ace Hardware storeowners across four Rocky Mountain states unveiled an interactive new website, myhelpfulace.com.

The new site features several ways for consumers to more easily interact with their local Ace Hardware store in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico.

The 2012 Summer Olympics will offer a technologically unprecedented opportunity for workers to plug in and slack off to watch live-streaming games on smartphones, tablets or company computers. That doesn’t necessarily mean, however, that the London games, which get under way July 27, will hurt productivity much more than previous Olympics.

Oak Brook, Ill.-based Ace Hardware Corp. has unveiled the redesigned acehardware.com for consumers.

The website features new functionality designed to greatly enhance the consumer’s online experience, prominently featuring product reviews, tips and advice, store locator, enhanced “My Store” pages and Ace’s “Red Hot Buys.”            

Called etoolbox.net, the new dealer-exclusive website enables orders through the Internet and the latest product information for the 105-year-old distributor.

House-Hasson Hardware has inaugurated a new dealer-exclusive website, etoolbox.net, which enables dealers to order via the Internet and get up-to-the-second information on House-Hasson’s more than 50,000 products. 

Young Lumber, a dealer based in New Castle, Del., has closed, according to an article in The News Journal.

Founded in 1935, the family-owned business served builders in the Delaware, Philadelphia and New Jersey markets. In 2008, the company did $50.4 million in sales out of two locations, according to the Home Channel New Top 350 Pro Dealers Scorecard. 

Crain Lumber, a one-unit pro dealer in Northeastern Pennsylvania, has decided to shut its doors by the end of the year, according to an article in the Centre Daily Times.