ANDROID and Apple account for more than 90 per cent of the surging smartphone market, and third place is being contested by BlackBerry and Microsoft's Windows Phone. But phones using operating systems based on the open-source platforms ...
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HTC finally has an Android smartphone capable of taking the fight to Samsung's Galaxy S4 and other recently announced handsets. That's our assessment after spending time using the HTC One smartphone; the new fourth-generation, LTE-capable ...
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To celebrate the launch of the new Silver Series range of Disney-Pixar Cars, life-size models of some of the most popular characters are set to tour Toys R Us and Smyths stores across the country. The tour kicks off on Friday March 29th ...
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Working with the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Crystal IS Inc of Green Island, NY, USA, which makes ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UVC LEDs) grown pseudomorphically (strained) on aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates, has achieved more ...
Effective 27 February 2013, Optronik Berlin GmbH was merged with the parent company Instrument Systems GmbH. Since 2010, Optronik and Instrument Systems have been working closely together on joint product developments and production ...
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Mouldable chocolate product Magic Choc has scooped the Creative Services accolade at The Irish Times Inter-Trade-Ireland Innovation Awards. It beat two other finalists to win - vStream Group's 5D video product and a Fire-Blast Protection ...
The LED industry has been in an oversupply following the large capacity expansion in 2011; how will the landscape shift in 2013? As the LED-related applications make their way into various areas and receive increasing interest in the ...
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A number of LED lamps manufactured by Lighting Science Group are the subject of an official recall due to potential fire risk, although the relevant manufacturing issues were resolved in March 2011. Lighting Science Group Corp. (LSGC), an ...
The most popular toy products and retailers during Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the US have been listed. During the last two weeks of November, nearly 24 million consumers shopped online for toys, a rise of 18 per cent year-on-year, ...
Short-wavelength UV LEDs with higher output are likely to be used increasingly in applications such as disinfecting water, sterilizing surfaces, and spectroscopy. Crystal IS, Inc., a manufacturer of ultraviolet LEDs for monitoring, ...
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Cree introduced a new member of its 19-mm CXA family that exceeds 8000 lm and a new 23-mm COB LED array the outputs more than 10,000 lm with both targeting retrofit of high-output ceramic or pulse-start metal halide sources. Cree has both ...
Greetings specialist Carte Blanche says toys could go on to make up around 25 per cent of its turnover within five years. Licensing and business development director Paul Haines told ToyNews in an exclusive interview: "We've been [in the ...
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Blizzard has revealed its latest extension of the World of Warcraft video game series, with a new collectable card range. Called Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, the digital/physical game will be based upon a range of cards that players ...
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FORMER Australian schoolboy Nick D'Aloisio is set to become one of the world's youngest self-made multi-millionaires after selling his Summly news summariser app to internet company Yahoo!. The 17-year-old, born in London to Australian ...
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KEN Boal has taken the reins at Cisco Australia and New Zealand, replacing Richard Kitts, who has been moved upstairs to a broader Asia-Pacific role for the networking giant. Boal joined Cisco in 2004, handling the public sector, and his ...
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