Off-the-shelf consumer handheld computers are showing up in some of the most precarious of workplaces. For instance, about 1,700 NextEra Energy wind turbine technicians recently began using Apple's iPod Touch handheld devices to help them ...
Tags: Ipod Touches, Computer
The toy industry should not underestimate the value of mummy bloggers, says Playmobil. The company was talking to ToyNews as part of a feature on the rise of mummy bloggers, along with other suppliers' marketing execs and bloggers ...
Tags: toy industry, toy, mummy bloggers
Oracle has rolled out version X3-2 of its Database Appliance for small and medium-sized businesses that it says delivers up to twice the speed and more than four times as much storage as the first edition, which was launched in 2011. In ...
KCC Packaging has developed a new biodegradable barrier meal tray that will enable retailers to move away from CPET and aluminium throughout ready meal retail. The ovenable, microwaveable and compostable tray performs similar to the trays ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, KCC Packaging
Loubilou opens doors in April, selling toys, gifts, accessories and clothing. A new website offering parents a global emporium featuring individual sellers of children's toys, gifts, accessories and clothing is hitting the UK in April. ...
Tags: toys, children toys, toy industry
China signaled it wants to reduce its dependence on Google's Android OS, alleging that the U.S. company has discriminated against local companies over the use of the mobile operating system. "Our country's mobile operating system research ...
Tags: China, Google, Android OS
Southern China's largest ever pro audio and lighting show ProSound + Light Guangzhou will take place from 9 to 12 March 2013 at the China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex in Guangzhou, China's largest pro audio and lighting ...
Tags: lighting show, ProSound+Light Guangzhou, lighting manufacturing
Country superstar Jason Aldean is back on the road with Bandit Lites for his Night Train Tour. The stadium tour kicked off 21 February in Bossier City, LA and will continue through September. "It's bigger than anything we've ever had out ...
Tags: Jason Aldean, Bandit Lites, Night Train Tour
Arup and Artec have announced the integration of their practices, with immediate effect. The move combines two of the world's premier practices specialising in the planning, design, and engineering of venues for performing arts, ...
Tags: Arup, Artec, Global Practice
Stage Audio Works has opened a new regional operations office in Cape Town, in order to better handle clients located in both the Western and Eastern Cape regions. The new base will offer these clients a more direct link to Stage Audio ...
Tags: Stage Audio Works, Cape Town, turnkey product portfolio
Flair will launch Australian Toy of the Year this summer with heavyweight marketing campaign. The 2013 Australian Toy of the Year, Glitzi Globes, will launch in the UK this summer. Created by Australian toy giant Moose Enterprises, the ...
Tags: toy Glitzi, Globes, toy giant
GP Flair will hold a National Bug Survey with schools and parents in conjunction with its outdoor brand Backyard Safari. Launching on March 15th and running until July, the survey will be promoted with advertorials in children's newspaper ...
After an earlier complaint against Nichia was rejected, Everlight has uncovered additional details to bolster its claim that fictitious results were included in a Nichia patent application. Further activity has taken place in the patent ...
Tags: Nichia, Everlight, LED Patent
A four-year contract to install LED lighting across the transport network in Paris will see work begin in April this year. RATP, the company that runs the transport network in Paris, France, has awarded multi-year contracts worth a total of ...
Tags: LED lighting, Philips, Step, Soitec
The British Toy & Hobby Association has welcomed feedback to this year's Toy Industry Awards and says this will help shape the next event. The news comes following the toy industry's call for an Awards shake-up. The BTHA's committee has ...
Tags: Toy Industry, Toy Fair, Toy