The U.S.Federal Aviation Administration is taking a new look at the use of portable electronics on airplanes,seeking public comments starting this week and forming a government-industry group to study when smartphones,tablets and other ...
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IDG News Service - Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in the U.S. made more than 1.3 million requests for cellphone records in 2011, according to carriers' responses to a congressman's investigation. Those requests included ...
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Sales of CMOS image sensors will grow 8%this year to$6.3bn compared to$5.8bn in 2011,when the market climbed 29%from$4.5bn in 2010,says IC Insights. The 2011 increase pushed CMOS image sensor sales above the previous record of$4.6bn set ...
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Last December, Nokia, once the world's dominant mobile phone provider, unveiled its plans to dispose of "non-core assets" and signalled its intention to sell the luxury arm Vertu. The cellphone maker talks with private equity group Permira ...
In a brand-new factory here, Eric Kim, chief executive of Soraa Inc., cradles a palm-size light that he refers to as “LED 2.0.” The light has a circular snowflakelike cooling frame surrounding a lens that emits a bright white ...
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In a brand-new factory here, Eric Kim, chief executive of Soraa Inc., cradles a palm-size light that he refers to as “LED 2.0.” The light has a circular snowflakelike cooling frame surrounding a lens that emits a bright white ...
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Bridgelux will cut about one-fifth of its workforce in Livermore, a move brought about by its decision to shift to cheaper ways to produce light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. Livermore-based Bridgelux is cutting 53 out of 250 jobs at its ...
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Gertrude Neumark Rothschild,whose research helped improve light-emitting and laser diodes now used in many cellphones,flat-screen televisions and Blu-ray disc players,and who waged a successful patent-infringement battle against some of the ...
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