A group of U.S. senators has offered a nonbinding amendment to a fiscal year 2014 budget resolution allowing states to collect sales taxes on Internet sales and end the tax-free shopping that many shoppers enjoy online. The amendment, ...
Tags: Internet Sales, Budget Resolution, nonbinding amendment
Two security vendors have released temporary fixes for a flaw in some Samsung Android phones that could allow an attacker to bypass a locked screen. The problem comes from Samsung's implementation of the emergency call feature, which ...
Tags: Samsung, Android, Consumer Electronics
Google envisions a future when your computerized glasses will turn on your coffee maker even before you roll out of bed. Google on Thursday filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for technology that enables ...
Last week, the Rupp Report wrote about the initiative against rip-off artists, as it is called in Switzerland, or against Fats Cats, as called misleadingly in some other countries (See " The Rupp Report: Is Enough Now Enough?" ...
Spartanburg-based textile machinery supplier Zimmer America Corp. is now the exclusive agent in North America for ARTEC (Advanced Recycling Technology) Machinery GmbH — an Austria-based developer and builder of high-performance ...
Technology distributor Tech Data has admitted accounting irregularities originating in a UK subsidiary over the past three years. After the close of trading on Nasdaq today, US-based distributor Tech Data announced that it will need to ...
Tags: Tech Data, Computer Products, 2e2
Pictures of the Twitter wall at the 2012 Lighting Design Awards 2012 It’s now less than one week to go until the 2013 Lighting Design Awards and the team at Lighting have been busy preparing for the event. The comic is booked, the ...
Tags: LDAs, Ben Cronin, Lighting
At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19–21 March), California-based Reflex Photonics, which provides high-speed optical connectivity solutions for semiconductor ...
At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (17-21 March), Kotura Inc of Monterey Park, CA, USA, which designs and makes silicon photonics application-specific integrated circuits ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the record for energy conversion efficiency of a commercial-ready production solar cell reported in October by Solar Junction was ...
In booth 2405 at the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19-21 March), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA is ...
Tags: Optical Fiber, Fiber Optic Engineers, optic communications component
At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19-21 March), ClariPhy Communications Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which develops high-speed mixed-signal digital signal processing (MXSP) ...
At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim, CA, USA (19-21 March), it has been announced that five leading global companies - Avago Technologies, Brocade Communications Systems ...
Tags: standard transceiver, Optical Fiber, Communications Systems
Avago Technologies has introduced four new sets of Atlas Optical Engine 12-channel parallel optics transmitter and receiver modules, each containing an 850nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) array in transmit and a PIN array ...
The Association of Industries of Haiti has become the 31st trade group to join the Textile and Apparel Alliance for TPP (TAAT), which comprises trade associations advocating strong and fair textile rules in the Trans-Pacific Partnership ...
Tags: Textile