Facebook turned on a key security feature by default on Wednesday that scrambles data sent by users to the company's servers, following similar moves in recent years by Web services such as Google and Twitter. Two years ago, the social ...
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Google has announced the company is in the process of migrating its SSL [Secure Sockets Layer] certificates from 1024-bit to 2048-bit levels of encryption. Google Identity Team's Tim Bray describes the decision as "part of our continuous ...
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The US Department of Energy has made slight revisions to the LED PAR38 L Prize competition including eased beam angle specs and requirements in the origin of components, and the agency announced a new OLED funding opportunity. The US ...
Avago Technologies Ltd of San Jose, CA, USA and Singapore (a designer and supplier of III-V-based analog components for communications, industrial and consumer applications) has completed its acquisition of CyOptics Inc of Lehigh Valley, ...
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LANXESS, a leading specialty chemicals company, has developed a new polyester material based on polyethylene terephthalate (PET), Pocan TP 555-001, which is perfectly suitable for manufacturing housings, sockets and other components for ...
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Manufacturing giant Foxconn Technology Group is on track with its goal to a create a "million robot army", and already has 20,000 robotic machines in its factories, said CEO Terry Gou on Wednesday. Foxconn headquarters in Taipei. ...
Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August. IBM, Oracle and Fujitsu -- the main suppliers of ...
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LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced a 102 lumen-per-watt linear LED upgrade kit to replace fluorescent lamps. The new UR Series LED Upgrade Kit is easy to install, saves over 50% in energy, ...
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Yes, now lightbulbs can glow red when your squeeze arrives The Philips Hue lightbulbs are the Internet of Things made real: multicoloured light bulbs with network connectivity and cloud control, with only the outrageous price preventing ...
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One year after its US toy market launch, the Lexibook Junior Tablet has won an important award from the magazine The Toy Insider - the annual holiday consumer toy guide. In May 2013, the Lexibook Junior Tablet received "The Toy Insider's ...
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Breakthrough Technology Delivers Contractors Quick Retrofit to LED Lighting DURHAM, NC -- Linear fluorescent lighting may have seen its last days thanks to the inventive, new Cree® UR Series LED Upgrade Kit that can deliver payback in ...
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Breakthrough Technology Delivers Contractors Quick Retrofit to LED Lighting Linear fluorescent lighting may have seen its last days thanks to the inventive, new Cree® UR Series LED Upgrade Kit that can deliver payback in less than ...
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Light-emitting diode (LED) technology has the potential to light up the African continent if the political will can be found, a major producer has said. LED technology was invented by Oleg Vladimirovich Losev in 1927, though it was ...
CH Hanson has announced that they are teaming up with ITL (Insulated Tools Limited) of Great Britain, to bring a full line of their 1,000-volt rated fully insulated hand tools to North America. The range of professional tools will include: ...
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Energy efficient lighting leader recognized for 5-inch Aperture Eco-Downlight LED and Eco-Invizilite CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting), pioneers of recessed downlighting and leaders in energy efficient lighting, has received the ...