The Google Fiber home broadband initiative is bringing gigabit internet speeds to many households in the United States. But as rooted as Fiber is in the future of home communications, there’s also an eye on what many have come to ...
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Google Photos will now create albums from scratch for you. The latest update for Google's epic cloud-based photo service has added a useful new feature. We've all been on holidays where you take hundreds of pictures, then can't face the ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2016 (to end-January), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $309.2m, down 3.7% on $321.1m last quarter but up slightly on $306.8m a ...
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Technogym, a wellness and fitness company, has seen wide success from its social media campaign to raise awareness in the fight to end childhood obesity. The spot, Let's Move for a Better World challenge, ran from March 1-19, 2016. "Now ...
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Shanghai Pudong Science and Technology Investment Co Ltd (PDSTI) and its affiliate have agreed to invest about $5m in GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for ...
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NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has announced its 400G transceiver ...
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Acquisitions are an almost weekly occurrence in Silicon Valley, but Apple’s next scoop could be closer to home. Apple is said to be in “advanced talks” to buy Imagination Technologies, a UK-based chip design firm partly ...
In booth 2709 at Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC 2016) in Anaheim, CA, USA (22-24 March), optical communication product maker Source Photonics Inc of West Hills, CA, USA is demonstrating a 2x50G-PAM4 QSFP28 100G ...
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The new report from the Smithers Pira has revealed that global smart packaging market is expected to rise at an annual rate of 7.5% to $7.6bn during the next five years. According to the report, smart packaging is the rapidly growing ...
Trends in consumer engagement will lead to the rapid rise of smart packaging solutions as costs become more manageable for brand owners. A new report by packaging industry researcher Smithers Pira predicts the global smart (active and ...
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GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has signed global technology distributor Avnet Inc as distributor for all its product ...
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Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has announced qualification of its non-hermetic 25Gb/s 1.3μm distributed feedback (DFB) laser diodes for 100Gb/s transceivers. ...
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has now qualified and released to production both its 2km CWDM4 QSFP28 and 10km LR4 QSFP28 client-side transceivers designed for ...
Apple is reportedly the latest company to ditch Amazon and adopt Google for its cloud computing needs. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Azure are the two biggest cloud computing platforms in the world, and are where the vast majority ...
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IBM announced that its Watson IoT technology is being used by Honda R&D for monitoring and analyzing data from more than 160 sensors in Formula One (F1) cars. Now, drivers and crews can apply data and analytics in real-time to help ...
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