Twitter is exploring ways to sell products directly from the 140-character missives the one-to-many text messaging service site is famous for, a technology news site has reported. Re/Code on Friday posted a screen shot of what this new ...
Tags: Twitter, e-commerce site, boost usage
Stryker has announced the global launch of its new Trevo XP ProVue retriever, which expands the ProVue retriever line with additional size and shape options for physicians. Stryker claims that the Trevo ProVue retrievers are the ...
Company has been fined £16,500 for breach of safety regulations A discount store company has been fined £16,500 for selling children's toys containing toxins 70 times the legal safe level. 99p Stores in Loughborough was ...
Tags: Toys, children's toys, high levels of phthalates, containing toxins
The acquisition of UK-based Briton EMS by US electronics manufacturing provider, OSI, has opened a new door for developing electronic products in the UK, with strong IP-protection and close links to low-cost Far East manufacturing. ...
Tags: IP Security, OSI, NPI, Far East production
Showyin's OAM, he said, honoured and humbled him. That he was reinforces that Showyin deserved the recognition. Let's look at the honour. Before stepping down late last year, Showyin had served as the Aerosol Association’s ...
Tags: Showyin's OAM, Spray, Aerosol Industry, Packaging
TUESDAY Feb. 11, 2014, 2014 -- Experimental glasses that seem to improve a doctor's ability to see cancer cells during surgery may help reduce cancer patients' need for follow-up operations, according to a new study. The researchers said ...
Tags: cancer, Experimental Eyewear, high-powered magnification
Yes, the metal keg remains the industry standard. But it is not necessarily the most economical option for a growing craft brewer. The one-way plastic beer keg, aka the new kid on the block, has arrived with an arsenal of forward thinking ...
Tags: metal keg, microbreweries, functional detail
TUESDAY Feb. 11, 2014, 2014 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it will investigate possible links between the diabetes drug saxagliptin and a heightened risk for heart failure among users. In a statement, the ...
Tags: FDA, Diabetes Drug, Heart Failure, NEJM
TUESDAY Feb. 10, 2014, 2014 -- The science isn't convincing enough to say that naproxen -- the key pain reliever in Aleve -- is safer for the heart than other popular anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen (Advil and Motrin), U.S. health ...
Victoria University has a big act to follow. At last year’s IAPRI World Packaging Conference, a record 170 delegates from 24 countries were represented. There were 93 presentations for the oral and poster categories, produced by some ...
Tags: environmental performance of packaging, packaging ecodesign tool
West Marine recalled about 4,600 folding bicycles because their frames can break during use. This recall involves the Jetty Express 2 and the Port Runner 2 models, which are designed for use in and around docks and marinas. The Jetty ...
Tags: recalled, bicycles, Jetty Express, frame breaking
Cochlear implants are among the most successful hearing devices out there. They have been around for about 30 years and more than 220 000 people worldwide enjoy restored hearing because of them. But they require clunky hardware mounted onto ...
Tags: Hearing Device, MIT, piezoelectric sensor, MEMS
Dirty diesel is the most common form of electricity generation throughout Caribbean island nations, but that will change if billionaire Richard Branson has anything to do with it. Branson is using his private island in the British Virgin ...
Tags: NRG Energy, LED lighting, Swap Diesel, Caribbean
Differences in industry can be an important factor to consider when ordering furniture and deciding which office design will work for you and your employees. It can be easy for business owners and managers to look at office designs as some ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Office Design
Haier has claimed a 9.7 per cent global market share in home appliances during 2013, up from 8.6 per cent in 2012, to retain its Number One ranking for the fifth consecutive year, according to UK-based research firm Euromonitor ...
Tags: Haier, Yvonne Hong, Euromonitor, local market