This week may have seen the network heavyweights of the U.S. celebrate the achievement of inventing Ethernet 40 years ago, but they’re wondering where the next funding is coming from. At the NetEvents conference in San Francisco to ...
Tags: 3Com, Bill English, Bill Spencer, Bob Metcalfe, Bridge Networks, cash, CNME
The boss of Tesla has revealed plans for an affordable compact electric vehicle that is set to go on sale early in the second half of the decade. Fresh from the announcement that the company had paid back its US government loan in full, ...
Tags: Tesla Planning, Nissan
LASER 2013: China's competitive nature 16 May 2013 Still dependent on high-tech imports, China is learning on customer experience, but home-grown laser sales and exports are on the up. By Matthew Peach in Munich Asia calling: Laser ...
The European Cycling Federation’s Cycling Industry Club has announced six grant recipients for 2013 as part of its Leadership Program. The six organizations selected for grants, in Italy, Austria, Sweden, Ukraine, Ireland and the ...
Tags: Cycling, Cycling Industry
The European Cycling Federation's Cycling Industry Club has announced six grant recipients for 2013 as part of its Leadership Program. The six organizations selected for grants, in Italy, Austria, Sweden, Ukraine, Ireland and the Czech ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
The former boss of Ford’s global operations says the death of the Australian automotive manufacturing industry appears “inevitable”. Ex-Ford Motor Company CEO and now BHP Billiton chairman Jac Nasser says a combination ...
Tags: Automotive Industry, Ford CEO
ABB has been awarded contracts to supply solar inverters for two large-scale greenfield PV projects in the United Kingdom. The inverters are to be installed in bespoke containers designed by the client. ABB in the UK will supply 14 x 630 ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, ABB, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, solar inverters
At least $200 million will be invested into early stage, high growth Australian companies by three new venture capital funds supported by the federal government’s Innovation Investment Fund (IIF). The IIF is a Government vehicle ...
Tags: venture capital funds, Bionomics, Pharmaxis
Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has received $1.3m in Australian government funding as part of the Clean Technology Food and Foundries Investment program. The funds will be used to install PET bottle self-manufacture or 'blow-fill' technology. The ...
Prime Minister David Cameron led the largest ever trade delegation to India during February as part of the UK Government's determined effort to promote British business abroad and to help Britain succeed in the global race. Over 100 ...
BT has announced the next stage of its £2.5bn fibre broadband rollout, which will extend availability to a further 1.2 million premises. The company said 99 new fibre-enabled exchanges will bring fast broadband to 600,000 premises ...
Tags: BT, Fibre Rollout, company news
Raytheon of Waltham, MA, USA has officially opened a new manufacturing facility for silicon carbide (SiC) foundry at Raytheon Glenrothes in Scotland (part of subsidiary Raytheon UK, a contractor to the UK Ministry of Defence). Developed ...
Tags: Raytheon, manufacturing facility, SiC
In conjunction with the National ICT Australia (NICTA), container transport booking software provider 1-Stop Connections will launch its latest product called ‘Container Control’ on 6 February, 2013. While container terminals ...
China-based LED firms Sanan Optoelectronics entered the Taiwan market in 2012, heating up competition and causing LED chip prices to fall. Some firms believe Sanan may become relatively slower in improving technology and others believe the ...
Tags: LED firms, LED, LED market
The UK Defence Committee is urging the Government to be more vigorous in its approach to cyber threats. A new report released by the Committee says that the British military is now too dependent on information and communications ...
Tags: military, IT, cyber threats, information, communications technology