Plans are underway to unveil a bike sharing system in Philadelphia in the fall of 2014. Mayor Michael Nutter has committed $3 million of the city's capital budget toward bringing the system to life, and a request for proposals is ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Stages Cycling has appointed Saddleback Ltd. its exclusive United Kingdom distributor of its Stages power meter products. Saddleback will become the first international distributor for Stages. Doug Crawford, Stages' vice president, said, ...
Tags: Transportatio, bike
PepsiCo Beverages Italy, has selected Rexam's FUSION aluminum bottle as its pack of choice for their limited edition Pepsi Beyoncé bottle. Chosen for its stand out shape and the graphic potential available from Rexam's high ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched a single-pole, double-throw (SPDT) switch-limiter suitable ...
Tags: M/A-COM, Electrical, Electronics
Japan's Sharp Corp and Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany have entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement covering light-emitting diodes and laser diodes. The agreement grants each party the right to use inventions related to LEDs and ...
Tags: Sharp, Osram, LED, Electrical, Electronics, Laser
Opto Diode Corp of Newbury Park, CA, USA (a division in the Photonics Group of ITW) has launched the OD-669-850 high-power gallium aluminum arsenide (GaAlAs) infrared light-emitting diode (IRLED) illuminator. Suitable for night-vision ...
Leather upholstery resource Simon Li is moving to a larger showroom in the Plaza Suites building for next month's Premarket here. The new 26,000-square-foot space in PS-210 is adjacent to the company's former 15,000-square-foot showroom. ...
Tags: Leather Furniture, Furniture, Furnishing
Mass-produced 3D printer, the Makerbot Digitizer, has gone on pre-order sale today, its $1,400 (£900) price tag making it an accessible early model for the home or office user. While it reportedly takes 12 minutes to successfully ...
Tags: 3D Printing, 3D Printer
Yahoo has scored higher web traffic to its portfolio of sites and services than Google, for the first time since May 2011. According to analytics company ComScore, Yahoo attracted 196.6 million unique visitors to its pages in July 2013, a ...
Financial software expert Lev Lesokhin, who works for analysis and measurement software provider CAST Software, believes that stock exchanges are playing Russian roulette with their trading systems. "We're loading up a bunch of bullets or ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Nokia's credit rating has been cut even further by ratings agency Moodys, over concerns about the company's cashflow. The company's credit rating now stands at B1, four levels below "investment grade". Further reading Nokia to launch ...
Canonical will produce its Ubuntu Edge smartphone for launch in early 2014, despite failing this week to achieve the $32m funding it sought on crowd-funding website Indiegogo. According to CEO Jane Silber, the company will push ahead ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The UK's GCSE results came out this week and, on the whole, it's been positive news for the IT industry, with a 38 per cent year-on-year rise in students aged 14-16 taking the ICT exam - 73,847 exams sat this year compared to 53,197 last ...
Tags: Computer Products, Service
HP CEO Meg Whitman has revealed that the company is still in the market for technology industry acquisitions - but "only" up to $1.5bn in value. Speaking in a US television interview after unveiling lacklustre financial results, Whitman ...
Tags: HP, Computer Products, software
The UK runs a secret internet surveillance station in the Middle East which it uses to capture and process huge quantities of emails, telephone calls and internet traffic on behalf of GCHQ and the US National Security Agency (NSA). The ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, data