With the Wilo-Axum Pro the pump manufacturer presented an easy way to find a secure solution for pressure drainage systems at this year’s ISH. Once the most critical pump has been configured, a smooth process is guaranteed ...
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Leeds City Council is consulting residents on proposals to turn off street lights at certain times of the night to save £1.3 million over 10 years. The local authority has more than 92,000 street lights, consuming £4 million ...
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Paint manufacturer Lechler S.p.A. is celebrating major improvements to its production process thanks to a successful project to introduce Preactor scheduling software. Based in Como, Italy, the firm has achieved an impressive 20% reduction ...
Apple's premier glass supplier is Corning and Apple's iPhone has been using Gorilla Glass from day one. On page 472 of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, we read: "We produced a glass that had never been made," stated Corning's CEO Wendell ...
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Much has been said about the integration of PXI products with LXI and VXI to create hybrid test systems, but less has been said about combining PXI and USB products in a test system, writes David Owen from Pickering Interfaces. USB is a ...
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Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc (APEI) of Fayetteville, AR, USA, a developer of technology for power electronics systems, electronic motor drives and power electronics packaging, and GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, ...
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Tineka Smith caught up with Trevor Healy, CEO of Amobee, to talk about the growth of mobile advertising and what this means for the PC. Amobee is the mobile advertising company for the big guys. We drive mobile campaigns for very large ...
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BlackBerry chief executive Thorsten Heins has taken a swipe at rival Apple's iPhone, claiming that its user interface is five years old and suggesting that it is in need of a refresh. "Apple did a fantastic job in bringing touch devices ...
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The European Commission has pledged to crack down on unfair trade practices by e-commerce sites across the European Union. The promise comes five years after the European Union's first Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, which had been ...
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Exploring methods of computing without silicon, IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how the human brain operates. The proposed transistors would be made from strongly ...
In booth 2405 at the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19-21 March), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA is ...
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Leeds City Council is asking residents to take part in a consultation concerning their feelings about switching off certain streetlights in a bid to save money. This move is very typical of city and county councils across the country, ...
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It’s a fact that air gages are typically not in use approximately 90% or more of the time they’re in your shop or QC department. Because these gages function through the use of clean and dry compressed air in a high controlled ...
While people across the northern part of the nation were coping with multiple snow storms, the Consumer Reports mower test team was down in Fort Myers, Florida, for six weeks of testing walk-behind mowers, lawn tractors, and other mowing ...
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On March 17, China’s largest galvanized steel wire and steel stranded wire producer Henan-based Hengxing Science & Technology Co., Ltd announced that it will terminate its ultra-fine steel wire project with a planned annual capacity ...
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