Automakers, chasing ever higher federal fuel-economy targets, have been turning to low-rolling-resistance tires for years to save fuel. In the past, we found that low-rolling-resistance tires could sacrifice braking to get better fuel ...
Tags: Gas-Saving Car Tires, car industry, fuel-economy target
ARM is promising close to 70% processor power savings with a new chip design called Big.Little, and mobile devices on display at the Mobile World Congress provided the first glimpse of how the technology works. The concept of Big.Little ...
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Allen & Heath's Indonesian distributor, Sindo Exports Pte Ltd, recently supplied Allen & Heath GLD digital systems to Singapore's Wala Wala live music club and Cleopatra karaoke nightclub. Founded 20 years ago, Wala Wala started hosting ...
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The number of mobile telephones worldwide is set to catch up to the globe's population next year, the United Nations' telecommunications agency says. The UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said mobile subscriber numbers ...
China -The first phase of China's 20 billion yuan ($3.16 billion) Changbai Mountain International Tourism Resort opened in 2012, featuring five-star hotels and Asia's largest ski resort. A centrepiece of the development is a performing arts ...
Tags: Apex audio processors, DiGiCo mixing consoles, audio distributors
Stage Technologies has once again been contracted by pop star P!nk's production manager, Richard Young, to supply the overhead automation for the singer's The Truth About Love USA and European tours. This will be the third P!nk tour in a ...
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UK - When the celebrated American jazz pianist-composer Ahmad Jamal played to a sell-out audience at the Barbican Centre in London on Friday 8 February, he insisted on a full Bose RoomMatch system being installed especially for the concert, ...
Such excitement. The technology media world has been whipping itself into a frenzy of speculation and Dick Tracy jokes during the past couple of weeks since two US newspaper reports that Apple is working on a new gadget - the iWatch. ...
Mark Henderson was named Best Lighting Designer in this year's Whatsonstage.com Awards. The awards ceremony was presented by the Whatsonstage.com theatre news website at a lavish concert on Sunday night. The Whatsonstage.com Awards is the ...
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The dollar was higher late today after the central bank signalled that, while another interest rate cut was possible, it was in no mood to deliver it just yet. At 4.05pm AEDT, the Aussie was trading at $US1.0324, up from $US1.0296 late ...
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The Netherlands - A new theatre in Roermond, south eastern Holland, has decided that energy saving is the way forward - and has been fitted out with entirely LED fixtures. ECI Cultuurfabriek is a converted former chemical factory which ...
Tags: LED, LED fixtures, LED luminaires
Located in Hollywood, Catalina Bar & Grill has been a revered fixture on the West Coast jazz scene for over 25 years. Legendary performers like Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis have played there, a tradition that owner Catalina Popescu ...
When the three-day grand opening celebration began on 11 January at the new Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University, the 842-seat hall resonated with performances by the San Francisco Symphony, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, the St. ...
Global food group Nestle said 2013 looks every bit as "challenging" as 2012, a year when profits increased but underlying sales growth slowed. The Swiss food giant reported a 11.8% increase in earnings of CHF10.61bn (US$12.02bn) in 2012. ...
TV and live arena spectacular, Sports Personality of the Year, saw Unusual Rigging apply its technical expertise to a complex and demanding set up. Both a TV show and a live event, this year for the first time, it was broadcast live from ...
Tags: live arena spectacular, Sports Personality of the Year, LED screens