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Apple v. Samsung Heads to Supreme Court: What You Need to Know

Oct 12, 2016

The biggest patent case to hit the modern tech world is back again. Apple and Samsung will appear before the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to argue why their opponent was wrong when it came to a patent case from 2012. This is the first time ...

Tags: US Supreme Court, Apple, patent case, Samsung

Electrically Driven Single-Photon Emission From Atomically Thin Diodes

Oct 12, 2016

The UK's University of Cambridge and Japan's National Institute for Materials Science have developed single-photon emission devices using layers of graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), and transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) [Carmen ...

Tags: single-photon emission devices, hBN

RIT Awarded NSF Grant for ICP-RIE Etch System for Photonics and Nanoelectronic Device R&D

Oct 12, 2016

Jing Zhang, an engineering faculty member at Rochester Institute of Technology, has received a $305,000 grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to acquire an inductively coupled plasma reactive-ion etching (ICP-RIE) system for ...

Tags: RIT, NSF, ICP-RIE system

NCSU's Freedm Systems Center Develops Low-Cost SiC High-Voltage Switch

Oct 12, 2016

Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have created a high-voltage and high-frequency silicon carbide (SiC) power switch that could cost much less than similarly rated SiC power switches, it is reckoned. The findings could ...

Tags: NCSU, Low-Cost SiC High-Voltage Switch

The First Overseas Pre-Show Press Conference for COMPUTEX 2017 Takes Place in India

Oct 12, 2016

TAITRA held the first overseas pre-show press conference for COMPUTEX 2017 in India (photo courtesy of TAITRA). In a view of Taiwan's increasingly close economic ties with India, Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), a ...

Tags: TAITRA, overseas pre-show press conference, COMPUTEX 2017

Taiwan's Wooden Furniture Sector Struggling, But Undaunted

Oct 12, 2016

Persistent makers in Taiwan’s wooden furniture sector adopt different strategies to survive a severe recession caused by insiders continuously migrating. Taiwan's wooden furniture manufacturers experienced a golden age back in the ...

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Global and China Service Robot Industry Report, 2016-2020

Oct 12, 2016

In 2015, the global market size of service robots reported USD8.49 billion, surging by 42.2% on a year-on-year basis, and it is expected during 2016-2020 to show an annual average growth rate of 16.5%, which will be mainly driven by: (1) ...

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Business Is Looking Forward to a Mostly Merry Christmas

Oct 12, 2016

Australian business attitudes are upbeat as we head into the year-end holiday trading period. According to Dun & Bradstreet’s September Business Expectations Survey, companies are anticipating increased sales, profits, employee ...

Tags: business, Dun&Bradstreet, merry Christmas

Australians Back Uber-Type Services

Oct 12, 2016

Despite strong opposition from traditional taxi operators and some governments, Uber and Uber-type ride sharing services, have proven very popular amongst travellers, according to a University of Sydney Business School survey. The ...

Tags: Uber-type service, TOPS, University of Sydney Business School survey

Airfreight up, Albeit Slowly

Oct 12, 2016

WorldACD reports that after a volume growth of 1.8% year-on-year (YoY) in July, we witnessed a slightly higher figure for August: +2.3%. Taken together with the volume growth in June (+3%), one could say that the (Northern Hemisphere) ...

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TWU Celebrates

Oct 12, 2016

Truck drivers are celebrating a major win over industry lobby group NatRoad in its bid to pay them less by seeking an exemption from rules in NSW setting minimum pay rates. The rules have been in place for over 30 years, bringing ...

Tags: TWU, NSW, celebration

Fair Work Commission Orders Customs to Stop Striking

Oct 12, 2016

The Fair Work Commission has made an order to terminate Protected Industrial Action (PIA) in the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP). This means that PIA can no longer be taken by DIBP employees, including those in the ...

Tags: Fair Work Commission, PIA, DIBP

Victoria Releases Draft 30-Year Strategy

Oct 12, 2016

Infrastructure Victoria is calling for community feedback following the release of its draft 30 Year Infrastructure Strategy. In the development of the draft plan, Infrastructure Victoria says it consulted the community on over 200 ideas ...

Tags: Victoria, draft 30 Year Infrastructure Strategy

UK Gin Exports Increase 166% Since 2000

Oct 12, 2016

British gin exports have increased in value by 166% since 2000, with exports to the US rising by 553% in the last decade, according to the Wine and Spirit Trade Association's (WTSA) latest annual spirits report. The report details the ...

Tags: gin exports, growth, WTSA

Macao 'to be' Traditional Chinese Medicine Hub

Oct 12, 2016

Macao in southern China -- renowned as Asia's Las Vegas -- has tabled plans to become a hub to make traditional Chinese medicine more standardized and scientific and to further develop it to enable its products to be sold around the world. ...

Tags: Medicine, Chinese Medicine

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