At the SIL conference, Atmel announced a driver IC family designed specifically for high-CRI lamps and luminaires that use a mix of phosphor-converted white LEDs and red or amber LEDs that combined deliver good light quality and high ...
Tags: Atmel, LED Driver ICs, High-CRI Color-Mix SSL Applications
Nestle has recalled two beef ready meals on sale in Spain and Italy after tests returned positive for horse DNA. The company is recalling its Buitoni beef ravioli and beef tortellini products on sale in the two markets because tests ...
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Gold is still trading at more than US$1,600 an ounce, a figure far too high to make a profit selling gold jewellery. But according to the latest World Gold Council report, a change in the price of the precious metal may be on the horizon. ...
Tags: WGC, Comeback, Gold Jewellery Demand
Structured Materials Industries Inc(SMI) of Piscataway, NJ, USA, which provides chemical vapor deposition (CVD) systems, components, materials, and process development services, has announced three updated products for process control ...
Tags: CVD Computer, Distribution Box, CVD Process
Apple says it has been hit by hackers who wormed their way into the California company's system but evidently failed to steal any data. The maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macintosh computers said it is working with law enforcement ...
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A very interested and international public has turned BAU 2013 into a successful and thrilling event for the CANTOR team. It also confirmed some of the trends the A+W windows and door specialists had been dealing with during the time ...
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Adobe last week announced it would add a new security feature to Flash Player in an attempt to block some of the exploits hackers are hiding inside older Microsoft Office documents. The new feature -- a pop-up warning -- will be triggered ...
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Fairchild Semiconductor, will demonstrate LED driver applications, including the highly integrated PFC and PWM controllers, during Strategies in Light 2013, February 12-14, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif., ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED lighting solutions, LED
Apple sold more phones in Japan than any other manufacturer last year, rising above local manufacturers for the first time, according to a research firm. The report from Counterpoint Research, based in Hong Kong, said Apple had a 15% ...
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A team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed an etch stop technique to improve performance of recessed-gate nitride semiconductor metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MISFETs) [Bin Lu et al, IEEE Electron ...
Tags: GaN MISFET GaN MOCVD, Electronics, Etch
SureFire, LLC. is an American company based in Fountain Valley, California. Their main products are flashlights, headlamps, weapon-mounted lights and laser sights. In addition, Surefire also manufactures knives, sound suppressors, Picatinny ...
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Based on the ARM Cortex A9 and A15 processors Texas Instruments (TI) has launched the TPS65090, the single-chip, front-end power management unit (PMU) chip which it is claimed can extend the battery life of tablets and other portable ...
Tags: ARM Cortex A9, Texas Instruments, TPS65090
Twitter's servers have been breached by "extremely sophisticated" hackers who may have made off with user names and passwords for about 250,000 users, the company said Friday. Twitter said unusual access patterns led it to identify the ...
Tags: Twitter, Passwords, Computer Products
It’s everyone’s least-favorite time of year again: tax time. For the less-tidy among us, this means a mad scramble to pull together receipts and documents and forms. But no matter how well-organized you are, there’s always ...
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The passwords of about 250,000 Twitter users were stolen in a "sophisticated" cyber attack similar to those that recently hit major Western news outlets. "This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated ...
Tags: cyber attack, media companies, network