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Cree Has Launched The XSPR LED Residential Street Light
Aug 6, 2013LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has launched the XSPR LED Residential Street Light, which delivers better lighting while consuming over 65% less energy at an initial cost as low as $99 for common ...
Tags: LED street light, LED, Street Lights, LED chip
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Con Edison of New York Is Offering Substantial Rebates on Its LED MR16 Retrofit Lamps
Aug 6, 2013Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, says that, to accelerate the adoption of energy-efficient LED lighting, Con Edison of New ...
Tags: LED, Lamp, Electrical
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Veeco Has Reported Selected Financial Metrics and Business Highlights for Second-Quarter
Aug 6, 2013Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported selected financial metrics and business highlights for second-quarter 2013 (excluding revenue and earnings, due to the firm's ongoing ...
Tags: Veeco MOCVD MBE, Electrical, Electronics
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BASF Is Building a New Polymerization Plant with a Capacity of 100,000 Metric Tons
Aug 6, 2013BASF is building a new Ultramid polymerization plant with a capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year in Shanghai, China. The new plant is planned to start up in 2015. "As part of our long-term strategy, we aim to locate production close ...
Tags: BASF, engineering plastics, plastics, Construction
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RAPEX Issues Warning on LED Light Chain for Electric Shock
Aug 6, 2013On Aug. 2, the Rapid Alert System for Non-food Consumer Products issued a warning on LED lighting chain once again. It is understood that this warned product is LED lighting chain from China-based "B10Cod'Events", the notifying country of ...
Tags: LED Lighting Chain, Electric Shock
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Intel Is Now Also Inviting China-Based Suppliers to Join Its 2-in-1 Product Supply Chain
Aug 6, 2013In addition to Taiwan-based component suppliers, Intel is now also inviting China-based suppliers to join its 2-in-1 product supply chain, hoping to leverage their cost advantages to compete in the IT market, according to sources from the ...
Tags: Component Suppliers, Intel 2-in-1
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The EU Is The World's Second Largest After The U.S. Toy Consumer Market
Aug 6, 2013According to Voice of China “peak evening news” reported today, “the new EU Toy Safety Directive” into effect. The EU is the world’s second largest after the U.S. toy consumer market, while the EU market, more ...
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Toy Safety Directive Will Be Fully Implemented on December 20
Aug 6, 2013Reporters learned from the Guangdong Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, known as 'the most serious,' the EU toy new regulations - Toy Safety Directive will be fully implemented on December 20, which accounted for 60% of toy exports of ...
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Android Has Now Captured 80 Per Cent of The Global Smartphone Market
Aug 6, 2013Android has now captured 80 per cent of the global smartphone market, according to second quarter results analysed by research firm Strategy Analytics. According to the research, the Android operating system now accounts for 79.5 per cent ...
Tags: Android, Smartphone Market
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O2's Chief Operating Officer Claimed The Company's 4G Network Will Be Better Than EE's
Aug 6, 2013O2's chief operating officer, Derek McManus, has claimed that the company's 4G network will be better than EE's, even though it will not work with the Apple iPhone 5. In an interview with Computing, McManus said that the £550m the ...
Tags: 4G Network, iPhone 5
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IBM Is Being Investigated by The US Securities and Exchange Commission
Aug 6, 2013Systems and services giant IBM is being investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the reporting of its revenues from cloud computing. The news was buried within one of the company's latest regulatory filings. ...
Tags: Cloud Computing, IBM
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Government Requests to Twitter to Reveal Private Information About Users
Aug 6, 2013Government requests to Twitter to reveal private information about users has rocketed by 40 per cent in the first six months of this year, the social media company has revealed as part of its bi-annual transparency report. The report, ...
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The Bid by Michael DELL to Take The Eponymously Titled Company
Aug 6, 2013The bid by Michael Dell to take the eponymously titled company he founded private looks to be heading for failure after the special committee set up by the company to handle the buy-out rejected a request to change the voting rules. ...
Tags: Michael Dell
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There's a "Lump in The Learning Curve" for Some Organisations
Aug 6, 2013There's a "lump in the learning curve" for some organisations to overcome in the adoption and use of NoSQL databases. That's what James Tomkins, Met Office Portfolio Technical Lead, told Computing while discussing the organisation's use of ...
Tags: Met Office, learning curve
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Mobile Network O2 Has Announced That Its 4G Service Will Launch in The UK on 29 August
Aug 6, 2013Mobile network O2 has announced that its 4G service will launch in the UK on 29 August. The new network, which it claims will be up to five times faster than 3G, will be switched on in London, Leeds and Bradford first, followed by a ...
Tags: Mobile network, O2
