The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted more than $3.5m to various pediatric device consortia to encourage the development and availability of medical devices for children. This grants program is administered by the FDA's ...
Tags: Pediatric Medical Device, Medicine
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks, ...
Tags: NeoPhotonics PICs, Electrical, Electronics
Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA says that its highly integrated, low-noise amplifier front-end modules are being used by various OEMs to enable global positioning systems (GPS) and global navigation ...
Furniture Brands Canada has declared bankruptcy and all of its salaried employees have been let go. The move was made after its U.S. parent company sought Chapter 11 court protection from its creditors earlier this week. Furniture Brands ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Yakima's 2014 line includes two new hitch-mast bike rack models, the FullSwing and the FullTilt. ? Both new models feature a function that puts?all controls for the arm, fold, and mast tilt on top of the unit, eliminating the need for the ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has expanded the amount of chicken products being recalled by the Chilean Ministry of Health over dioxin contamination concerns. After receiving official ...
Tags: Dioxin Concerns, Chicken Products
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks, ...
Tags: optical modules, Electrical, Electronics
For its fiscal first-quarter 2014 (to 28 June 2013), Advanced Photonix Inc of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation) has ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, optical receivers
We’re now into our sixth year since the amended Canadian hours-of-service regulations came into effect on Jan. 1, 2007. Remember those heady days? I remember being impressed by the sleep research that had been done leading up to those ...
Tags: Rulemaking Process
Clearance of the airwaves earmarked for 4G mobile broadband will be completed by regulators today, enabling new 4G services to launch in the UK. Communications regulator Ofcom said that a large section of radio spectrum previously used ...
Tags: 4G, software, Computer Products
Researchers in the U.S. have managed to spoof GPS (Global Positioning System) signals to send a yacht hundreds of meters off course, while fooling the crew into thinking the yacht was remaining perfectly on course. The test, conducted ...
Tags: GPS, Electrical, Electronics
Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has introduced a family of CATV infrastructure products that is optimized for the proposed data over cable service interface specification ...
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The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) is calling for more fairness in how the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CIFA) levies fines on livestock haulers when it comes to the in-transit death of hogs and lost tags in-transit. Currently, if ...
Tags: Transportation
Australia-based organic poultry business Inglewood Farms has entered into administration after the company's directors announced their intention to resign after shareholders indicated that they would not provide funding to continue ...
Tags: Organic Poultry, PPB
It's been a long-time coming, but what looks to be one of the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched tools to help with fatigue management has been launched. Yesterday, the American Transportation Research Institute, along with ...
Tags: Transportation