Apple and Samsung Electronics hurled strong statements at each other in the opening rounds of their Silicon Valley patent trial on Tuesday,kicking off a case that could result in billions of dollars in damages. In a packed federal ...
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Elekta has entered into a collaboration agreement to integrate Brainlab's ExacTrac patient positioning system into its radiation therapy machines. Field-proven ExacTrac system, which is designed for supporting frameless stereotactic ...
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Veeco Instruments announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012. The firm reported second-quarter 2012 revenues of US$136.5 million with net income of US$11 million. Both figures are lower than second-quarter ...
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IDG News Service-Working conditions at some electronics manufacturing factories in China continue to be terrible,with some employees beaten by guards,some docked pay for missing production targets and many working hours beyond legal ...
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UK-based Plessey Semiconductors Ltd has taken delivery of a CRIUS II-XL metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactor (in 7x6-inch wafer configuration) from deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany (which ...
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Engel Austria GmbH recently launched a new line of injection molding machine, the e-mac all-electric machine, for precise production of technical parts. Machines with clamping forces of 50, 75 and 100 are already available in the market, ...
Philips Lighting has donated a range of state of the art LED lighting solutions towards the creation of the Sydney Story Factory and Martian Embassy. The Sydney Story Factory is a not-for-profit creative writing centre for young ...
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Unilever has offloaded its frozen meals business in North America to ConAgra Foods, the consumer goods giant announced today (30 July). The US$265m sale of products sold under brands including Bertolli and P.F. Chang's was part of ...
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Many businesses will be concerned with cutting costs wherever possible at the moment,and it's been found that one of the biggest costs within a small business can be printing.Businesses all over the country are likely to rely heavily on ...
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IDG News Service-The health care industry's increased use of electronic medical records(EMRs),wireless medical devices and personal mobile technology has turned hospital networks into important components in patient treatment.Practicing ...
IDG News Service-Mobile malware is rising fast,infecting nearly 13 million phones in the world during the year first half of 2012,up 177%from the same period a year ago,according to Beijing-based security vendor NetQin. In a report ...
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IDG News Service - , which Microsoft is positioning as a reinvention of its Hotmail and of competing consumer webmail services, appears at first glance more evolutionary than groundbreaking, according to several industry analysts. "This ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft's new email service, Outlook.com, is more than an update to its free email offering. It's also a one-two punch against major rival Google. On Tuesday, Microsoft took the wraps off its new webmail service, which ...
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Macworld - Reader Nick Hamilton finds himself stuck between old hardware and a new operating system. He writes: I have an older AirPort Express Base Station. I recently installed Mountain Lion and have found that its version of AirPort ...
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IDG News Service - With the latest release of its Tuxedo transaction processing server (TPC), Oracle is hoping to lure mainframe users onto the cloud. Moving a mainframe application to an Oracle Exalogic system, where it would run on the ...