The Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY)—organizers of LEDucation—say the exhibit floor for the latest installment on March 20 is completely sold out with 150+ manufacturers of LED products and technology. “Given ...
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Net income in Q4 2012 shrank for global pipe and tube producer Tenaris but full year earnings improved. Q4 net income of $350.3 million was down 20 percent from $437.5 million in Q3 2012 and down 18 percent from $426.3 percent in Q4 2011. ...
Quebec’s Bell Centre, home to the Montreal Canadiens, is the newest member of The Electric Circuit, and is set to deploy two public charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) in its parking lot in the coming weeks, said ...
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Electro-Federation Canada (EFC) is now accepting applications for the 2013 EFC Scholarship Foundation program, which provides Canadian post-secondary students with funding support for their education. “The industry is challenged ...
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Global branding and design consultancy Pi Global has created new packaging and 'iconnector' for Norwegian company S?tre's Ballerina biscuit brand. The new packages have been designed with two different expressions to allow for maximum ...
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Folding carton printing and converting company Printed Specialties has selected Epicor to replace its existing estimating software system with the Epicor AVP. The US-based company, which offers retail packaging and packaging services to ...
The USFDA has granted orphan drug designation to Pluristem Therapeutics' PLacental eXpanded (PLX) cells to treat aplastic anemia. The failure of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) present in the bone marrow to produce red blood cells, white ...
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Samsung was by far the 300mm capacity leader in 2012 having about 61% more 300mm capacity than second-place SK Hynix, says IC Insights. Intel was the only other company that held a double-digit share of 300mm capacity at the end of 2012. ...
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Texas Instruments has developed an ARM Cortex-M0 that can sleep on zero power and wake in 400ns, intended to run on harvested power. Key to the chip is ferroelectric RAM (FRAM) non-volatile logic (NVL), where the state of flip-flops is ...
The IEEE ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference), which runs this year from February 17-21 in San Francisco, is an important gathering for the electronic engineering industry. It is the world's show case for the best in ...
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Researchers have discovered a way to detect explosives by boiling and vapourising them off a silicon MEMS micromachine. “Certain classes of explosives have unique thermal characteristics that help to identify explosive vapours in ...
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has announced the approval of Helicobacter pylori Gastritis as an additional indication to eradicate Helicobacter pylori using triple therapy with proton pump inhibitor by Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and ...
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Godson-3B1500 is a two-node eight-core 172.8Gflop/s MIPS64-compatible processor from Loongson in Beijing - a company whose processors have been adopted in several tablets. Fabricated in 32nm 10 Cu-layer high-k metal-gate bulk CMOS, it ...
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Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's theme is '60 years of (em)powering ...
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Germany-based chemical company BASF has signed an agreement with Bend Research to jointly evaluate and develop novel excipients to improve the solubility and bioavailability of poorly soluble drugs. As part of the agreement, both the ...
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