A recently patched Java remote code execution vulnerability is already being exploited by cybercriminals in mass attacks to infect computers with scareware, security researchers warn. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2013-2423, was ...
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Microsoft has inked an agreement that adds China-based ZTE to its Android and Chrome patent licensing program. Financial details of deal were not disclosed. But the agreement gives ZTE access to Microsoft patents covering phones, ...
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The merger of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS cleared its last major hurdle on Wednesday as MetroPCS shareholders overwhelmingly approved the deal. The merger, first proposed last October, had faced opposition from some large shareholders until ...
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According to the data provided by the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat), in the first quarter of this year, there is no ferrous scrap among the most exported products from Georgia to Turkey, the country's main trading partner. ...
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Cisco today announced upgrades to its director-class and multiservice fabric switches The new Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director delivers six times the bandwidth of its predecessor, while the Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice Fabric Switch is ...
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Holden Special Vehicles has confirmed its new HSV Commodore range based on the new VF model will be called Gen-F when they go on sale in June. The performance arm of Holden called its VE Commodore-based cars E Series 1 to 3 through their ...
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According to the monthly sectoral confidence survey released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the confidence index* for the construction sector in Turkey, which stood at 94.9 points in March this year, decreased by 2.4 percent ...
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Welwyn started making resistors in Bedlington Northumberland in 1946, and it is still making resistors there, in a growing facility, with technology that is in demand worldwide. When Mercedes needed power resistors for its SLS sports car, ...
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Distributors Digi-Key and Mouser are taking orders for "Raspberry Pi competitor" the BeagleBone Black $45 computer based around a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor. The BeagleBone Black board is aimed at educational, hobbyist and professional ...
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Micrel has introduced a +/-0.5% accuracy voltage supervisor, with manual reset input, watchdog timer and dual outputs in 1.6mm x 1.6mm thin DFN package. The MIC826 offers eight reset threshold options and is intended to monitor 1.8V to ...
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A solar-powered aircraft has this week been plying the skies around Moffett Field in San Francisco, California, as its inventors rehearse for their next ambitious move: a coast-to-coast sunshine-fuelled flight across the US. Since 2006, ...
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We must give engineers to draw on their experience when starting new designs, writes Robert Huxel When an electronic design engineer creates a working environment, they don't first make a bench, and then a power supply, and then a DMM, ...
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Semiconductor design for automotive systems is an important and growing technology capability for European companies, according to Jean-Marie Saint-Paul, European director at Mentor Graphics. "Europe's strong car industry is a big ...
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Amprius, the Stanford University spin-out specializing in battery technology, has got its first products out according to the company's founder, Prof Yi Cui Associate Professor at Stanford University's Material Science and Engineering ...
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Luxembourg-based steelmaker ArcelorMittal has announced that its Romanian unit ArcelorMittal Galati will supply 7,500 mt of steel plates for a new, 32-tower wind farm in Romania, which has the potential to generate the most megawatts of any ...
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