Kobo, a global leader in eReading, today announced its Android? 4.1 Jelly Bean firmware update for Kobo's award-winning 7" Google-certified Kobo Arc tablet. This update optimizes the user experience with faster performance, improved search ...
Lighting giant Acuity has bought a specialist manufacturer of LED drivers to extend its focus on solid-state lighting. Light manufacturer Acuity Brands (NYSE: AYI) has acquired eldoLAB Holding BV, a designer and manufacturer of ...
Tags: Lighting, LED, LED drivers
HP officially announced the ElitePad 900 tablet in the Middle East today, following months of waiting since the company announced Emirates Airlines as the global launch partner back in December. The ElitePad 900 was presented to ...
The fourth ElectroTest Expo is taking place on Tuesday 26th March at the Rose (Ageas) Bowl in Southampton. The exhibition and seminar sessions focus on PCB debug and test technologies and is organised by a group of test and measurement ...
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Microsoft has issued a detailed mea culpa about the lengthy and ill-timed outage that affected its webmail services on Tuesday and Wednesday, an incident that undermines the company's push for its new Outlook.com as a better alternative to ...
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Acuity Brands has announced it has acquired eldoLAB Holding B.V., (eldoLED), a player in the design and manufacturing world of intelligent drivers for LED-based lighting systems. Founded in 2003, eldoLED is a privately-owned company ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics, Consumer Electronics, lighting
Acuity Brands, Inc., a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and controls solutions, today announced it has acquired eldoLAB Holding B.V., ("eldoLED"), a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance, intelligent ...
Are we getting lazy - lazy enough to spur an entire industry dedicated to eliminating cables for transferring photos from cameras to our desktops? The work involved in plugging in a USB cable to a camera port, and the other end into a PC, ...
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The vast majority of 3G and 4G USB modems handed out by mobile operators to their customers are manufactured by a handful of companies and run insecure software, according to two security researchers from Russia. Researchers Nikita ...
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Eye Lighting International has named Jeff Walters (in photo) director, controls technology, where he will be responsible for the design of wired and wireless controls, including hardware, firmware and software. “As Eye Lighting ...
Jordan - the country, not the model - has unveiled a 25-teraflop supercomputer based on Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) hardware. The IMAN1 computer had its first public outing at the MENA ICT Forum in Amman last week, unveiled by Zaid Abudayeh, ...
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A U.S. senator has proposed a bill that will allow consumers to unlock cellphones for use in other networks, after the administration of President Barack Obama backed over 114,000 petitioners who asked the government to legalize the ...
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Seagate today announced upgrades to its 2.5-in. laptop hybrid drives and released its first 3.5-in. desktop hybrid drive. Hybrid drives combine a relatively small amount of NAND flash with traditional spinning disks along with firmware ...
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BlackBerry has started rolling out the first software update for its flagship Z10 smartphone. The Z10 running on the BlackBerry 10 operating system has got its first firmware upgrade based on user feedback. BlackBerry 10.0.10.85 brings a ...
General Dynamics is looking to bring U.S. government-level security to consumer smartphones, allowing organizations to benefit from the type of strong data protection only available on expensive and clunky mobile terminals. The company is ...
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