Royal Philips Electronics will propose to the annual general meeting of shareholders (AGM)—being held May 3, 2013—to change the name of the company to Koninklijke Philips N.V. “Philips is a diversified ...
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John Featherston, account manager at NET IG in Kent, Wash., is the winner of CCCA’s CableCheck Game and an iPad Mini. The Communications Cable & Connectivity Association used the game “to inform the industry about fire safety ...
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One World Technologies has recalled the Ryobi cordless tool battery pack, which can overheat and burst while on a charger, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers. This recall involves about 2200 sold in Canada. It involves Ryobi ...
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Green Hills Software has partnered with LieberLieber, the specialist in model engineering, to provide an end-to-end model-driven toolchain for embedded system design. Green Hills Software’s MULTI integrated development ...
US meat giant Tyson Foods has said it is "optimistic" about its fiscal 2013 results, despite a second-quarter that was "more challenging than anticipated". Speaking at the Goldman Sachs 17th Annual Agribusiness Conference, Tyson COO James ...
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South African Breweries (SAB) will invest about ZAR700m ($78.9m) in a new maltings plant at Alrode in Gauteng Province to support the local economy. The new maltings plant will be built next to the company's current Alrode brewery after ...
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After debuting in 1980 in the original 147kW quattro car – a car that remained in the model line-up until 1991 – quattro technology then formed a crucial part of the 225kW 1984 Audi Sport quattro and eventually the almighty ...
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Nissan has named Nismo as its official high-performance division, promising a full range of hotted-up production cars including a Nissan GT-R Nismo. Nissan Motor Company CEO Carlos Ghosn confirmed the Nismo renaissance today at the ...
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Vicor has introduced a buck regulator for point-of-load applications which is efficiency optimised for 12V input voltages. The Picor PI34XX series buck regulators will deliver 95% peak efficiency for 12V to 3.3V regulation and up to ...
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Freescale Semiconductor has signed a major new ARM license agreement which will cover the Cambridge firm’s most advanced processor cores. Freescale has taken a multiyear subscription license with ARM beginning with the ARM ...
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Altera has joined Tabula and Achronix as an FPGA foundry customer of Intel. According to Altera, Intel has agreed that Altera will be the only 'major' FPGA customer of Intel which rules out Lattice and Xilinx becoming Intel foundry ...
ARM's big.LITTLE processing combo, which pairs a Cortex A-15 with an A-7, has been adopted by five users - Renesas, Samsung, CSR, Fujitsu and MediaTek, ARM announced at MWC today. ARM says the technology saves up to 70% of processor ...
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Atmel has demonstrated at Embedded World in Nuremberg this week its AT86RF233 2.4GHz IEEE 802.15.4 radio transceiver carrying out distance measurement between two radios. A process known as ranging. It can be necessary to determine ...
A partnership between Austria-based semiconductor company ams and US start-up Mobeam is designed to make it possible for barcodes to be scanned from a mobile phone screen. The companies claim they have technology which will enable laser ...
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ARM's next steps in the mbed open source embedded design project is a new SDK released under a permissive open source licence. It has also created an HDK for creating low-cost development boards. The mbed platform was created to prototype ...
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