New York Life Insurance Company has promoted Michael Secolo as its senior vice president and chief technology officer, who will report to senior vice president and chief information officer Sue Ericksen. In his current role, Secolo will ...
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Apple and Philips have teamed up to sell iPhone-controlled LED house lights. Colour is widely-tuneable, and DIY install takes minutes. Called Hue, made by Philips, and only sold through Apple at the moment, the system is based around a ...
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Start to look into LED lighting and quickly it becomes obvious that one type of LED will not suit all situations. After a while, you get sophisticated enough to take colour-rendering index (CRI) and colour temperature into account, ...
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Increasing brightness capability has seen coloured LEDs move into applications that were previously the domain of filtered incandescent light. Perhaps the most obvious example is in car rear light clusters where red-emitting LEDs ...
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Facebook has been ordered by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner,Billy Hawkes,to turn off its face recognition feature. However Facebook intends the disabling of the face recognition tool to be only temporary."Our intention is to ...
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LSI and ARM are addressing the data deluge gap–the perennial gap between the demand for bandwidth and the capacity provided by the network operators. Jeff Richardson,LSI's COO,points out that network traffic is growing at 32%CAGR ...
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Globalfoundries says it will match Intel in having 14nm finfet chips taped out next year and volume production in 2014.PDKs are available now. The process is running in GF's new fab in Saratoga County near New York. 14nm is the ...
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Maxim is staking its future on integrated analogue in the belief that sales of analogue SoCs will overtake discrete analogue sales within two years. Asked by EW what integrated analogue means,Maxim responded:'Analogue has traditionally ...
The University of Edinburgh played host to the second annual UKESF Summer Workshop, a joint industry-university engineering business skills initiative. Companies taking part included ARM, Dialog Semiconductor, Jaguar Land Rover, Linn and ...
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CrayoNano of Norway has grown GaAs nanowires on graphene, a patented hybrid material with competitive optoelectronic properties. "We have managed to combine low cost, transparency and flexibility in our new electrode," says Professor ...
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Lumileds has boosted the efficiency of its'high-voltage'H50 lighting LEDs,and released details of its Luxeon Z range of small footprint high power density devices for white and coloured lighting. Designed for use in LED replacements ...
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Simply choosing the cheapest LED components has its risks and a better approach is to take a system-level perspective, aiming for the most cost-effective design, writes Mark Pinkney, divisional marketing manager, Anglia Lighting LED ...
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Power Integrations has introduced chips for mains-powered LED lighting up to 75W. The single stage design has both power factor correction (PFC) and a constant current regulation, and is aimed at high-bay, car park and street lamps. ...
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University of Strathclyde micro-LED spin-out mLED has secured £378,000 of growth cash, adding to £150,000 seed funding it received in June 2010. Lead by Braveheart Investment Group, the round came from Braveheart's ...
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Manufacturing in the U. S. Grew in January at the fastest pace in seven months, adding to signs of a global pickup from Germany to China. The Institute for Supply Management’s index climbed to 54.1, from 53.1 in December, the Tempe, ...