Social media network Facebook has announced that it has acquired speech recognition and machine translation technologies start-up Mobile Technologies. The start-up developed the Jibbigo app, which allows users to select from more than 25 ...
Tags: Mobile, Facebook, Computer Products, Social media
Leading UHF Gen2 radio frequency identification (RFID) technology provider Impinj, announced that retailer American Apparel is significantly improving inventory accuracy and on-shelf availability with a fully automated Senitron inventory ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, and GE (General Electric) have announced a ...
Tags: Solar, Electrical, Electronics
August 6, 2013 - GE and First Solar have formed a technology partnership "to advance thin-film solar cells and modules". First Solar has acquired GE's global cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar intellectual property portfolio; GE received 1.75 ...
Tags: Solar, solar intellectual property portfolio, Electrical, Electronics
E2open, the leading provider of cloud-based solutions for collaborative planning and execution across global trading networks, today announced that it has acquired icon-scm, a market leader in supply chain planning and collaboration, in a ...
AATCC’s Chemical Applications Interest Group is sponsoring a symposium October 16 and 17, 2013, titled Textile Wet Processing: The Way Forward. The symposium will be held at the Textile Technology Center in Belmont, N.C., USA, and ...
Tags: Textile, Wet Processing
ECHA publishes a roadmap towards enhancing the quality of information communicated in the exposure scenarios included in the REACH chemical safety reports and in the extended safety data sheets. These documents hold essential information on ...
Tags: Chemical Safety, Apparel
US chocolate manufacturer Hershey has expanded its Learn to Grow program to Nigeria in partnership with IDH and Source Trust to train farmers to grow certified cocoa, which will be used by Hershey in its products worldwide. The Hershey ...
Tags: Sustainable Cocoa, Food
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has selected the recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program. The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Construction
NanoMarkets has now been tracking the smart windows for four years. During that time many smart windows technologies have become mature, reducing the uncertainties associated with deploying smart windows in both buildings and vehicles. ...
Tags: Smart Windows, Construction, Decoration, window
A recent study conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Brocade has revealed that, although data centre virtualisation and cloud computing are being widely embraced, IT managers across the world are struggling to make their networks meet ...
Tags: Computer Products, cloud, data
Greater collaboration between the established electricity networks sector and the blossoming solar power industry is essential for overcoming barriers to increasing the contribution of solar power to the UK electricity supply. This is the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC) - an industry-led collaboration headquartered at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the State University of New York (SUNY) in Albany, NY - has released the first ...
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OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – which develops III-V semiconductor devices and processes through US affiliate OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA – says that at its Annual General & ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, solar operations
The effectiveness of Clariant’s new ONE WAY sustainability calculation system has been confirmed in physical tests carried out by leading machine builder Fong’s. The test results verified the accuracy of the calculations and ...