Keith Emery, a principal scientist at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been awarded the William R. Cherry Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Emery received the award ...
Tags: Solar cell, cell, Electrical, Electronics
Howden Broking Group has purchased a 25% shareholding in Chilean insurance broker, Patagonia Corredores de Seguros (PCS), for an undisclosed sum. Based in Santiago, PCS provides an array of property, energy, liability, construction, ...
Tags: Howden, Chilean Broker
In partnership with contract microelectronic and optoelectronic packaging design & assembly firm Optocap Ltd of Livingston, Scotland, UK, Cambridge Nanotherm Ltd of Haverhill, UK says that the first commercial order for its ...
Tags: packaging, heat-sink, Electrical&Electronics
Ocado plans to develop as a grocery retailer not a logistics firm for hire, insisted its boss, as the firm reported bigger losses in the first half of this year. Ocado is a grocery retailer not a logistics firm for hire, insisted its boss ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
NYMEX August crude settled $1.43 higher at $97.99/barrel Monday on Middle East tensions and as better-than-expected manufacturing data from Europe helped boost US equities. NYMEX's rise outpaced ICE August Brent's 84-cent gain to $103/b, ...
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NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems, has announced the first shipments ...
Comcast, a global media and technology company, and OSRAM SYLVANIA, a leader in lighting solutions and services, announced today the companies have entered into an agreement to offer energy efficient light bulbs that can be controlled ...
EnWave has entered into an agreement with US-based Hormel Foods to support the production and sale of certain products dehydrated with its Radiant Energy Vacuum (REV) technology. Under the agreement, EnWave and Hormel Foods have agreed to ...
Tags: Hormel Foods, Rev Technology
Turkey’s steel export values totaled US$1.14 billion in June, falling by 22.9% year on year, decreasing by 10.45% from May, according to data released by the Turkish Exporters' Association (TIM). In June, the country’s ...
Tags: Steel Export, Mineral
According to reports, Apple recently applied a trademark "iWatch" in Japan after having applied the same trademark in Russian regions. According to one patent official familiar with the situation, Apple submitted the iWatch trademark ...
Tags: Apple Iwatch, Consumer Electronics
Microsoft needs "to do a better job of telling the world" about Windows 8's features as a "fully-fledged" HTML 5 application platform, the company's general manager of platform strategy, Tim O'Brien, said today. Speaking at a session on ...
Tim Berners-Lee, the engineer who invented HTML, has warned that the internet must be safeguarded against attempts to control it by governments and major organisations. Berners-Lee was speaking as he and five other internet engineers were ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Crude oil futures settled slightly higher Tuesday as a pipeline shutdown in Alberta, Canada, and escalating tensions in the Middle East lent the complex a bullish note, amid rising equities markets. NYMEX August crude settled 14 cents ...
Tags: Crude Futures, Crude oil
Facebook has admitted that it exposed six million users' private phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorised viewers over the last year. The social media network blamed a technical bug for the data breach, which has resulted in ...
Tags: Facebook, Private Data, Social Media Network
More than 30 computer scientists signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and make technology more expensive. The amicus brief was filed by the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software