When it comes to smartphone safety, the single most important thing a mobile phone owner can do is lock the device with a unique, four-digit PIN. That's been the opinion of many experts for years, but the advice still holds, including ...
With the full Senate starting its debate on a comprehensive immigration bill, Republican lawmakers in the House have released a plan of their own. The Skills Visa Act, by Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), isn't completely new and is based on ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently applauded Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) for introducing bipartisan legislation to encourage residential construction lending, spur job growth and keep the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The creative flair and design talent of graduating students from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)'s Institute of Textiles and Clothing (ITC) have won applause from the industry at the annual Knitwear Fashion Show held (22 May) ...
With the H-1B fight over and lost, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) lashed out, almost flailing in the minutes before the Senate Judiciary Committee's final vote Tuesday. The tech industry had won. It was getting late in the day and the ...
Tags: Stinky Onion, Computer Products, H-1B
30 minutes of play with this soccer ball can create up to 3 hours of light, but how? It’s just a soccer ball. The creators of Soccket have figured out how to harness the kinetic energy created within the soccer ball as is it kicked ...
Know someone who's collecting a degree this year? All graduates deserve a reward for making it through school (and before they have to face the rather scary job market that awaits them). Here are some electronics suggestions that should put ...
Tags: Geeky Gifts, Consumer Electronics, Graduates
High-tech's leading advocate in the immigration bill fight, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), has bought himself some time, perhaps until Tuesday, to try get the immigration bill changed to the liking of the tech industry. Negotiations are ...
Tags: Computer Products, H-1B Politics
A session on market insights at BlackBerry Live aimed at providing an overview, as well as an insider’s perspective, to developers about the future of BlackBerry 10 applications and what target audiences want. The session started ...
Tags: Blackberry, App Customers, Computer Products
Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine. The Tibco Enterprise Runtime ...
Bakery ingredients firm British Bakels is splashing out 2.5M on new plant, equipment and premises at its Bicester site, bosses have revealed. Bakels’ investment programme includes this new tumble mixing system, supplied by Matcon, ...
Tags: Ingredients Firm, Food
The Future of Fashion was unveiled Wednesday evening, May 1, when the Fashion Institute of Technology’s top graduating Fashion Design students showcased 91 fashion-forward looks at FIT’s annual end-of-year runway show. This ...
Engineering skills initiative the UK Electronics Skills Foundation has added three more universities to its programme. The initiative is working with universities to address the declining number of electronic engineering degree students ...
Tags: Universities, UK Skills Initiative, Consumer Electronics
Red Bull?has signed its first-ever female racing driver to its Junior Team development squad. Eighteen-year-old Beitske Visser from the Netherlands started karting when she was five years old before karting competitively at age seven. ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Transportation
Florence Lam (holding her award) celebrates her win with colleagues and comic Ed Byrne (c) Phil Weedon Florence Lam is the first woman to receive the accolade of Lighting Designer of the Year at the Lighting Design Awards The ...
Tags: lighting, Lighting Designer