Called Jooki, the smart-toy jukebox lets kids play their favourite music via NFC-tech collectable toy figurines. The UK will be a major focus for the launch of a new smart-toy that lets kids play their favourite songs via collectable toy ...
Tags: MuuseLabs, Called Jooki, toys-to-life
It turns out that using the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on US airlines is illegal. The Federal Aviation Administration has warned airlines that their passengers shouldn’t be using the Galaxy Note 7 in-flight. The guidance comes after ...
Tags: Samsung Galaxy Note 7, US airlines, illegal, FAA
Researchers at the Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have used off-the-shelf silicon carbide (SiC)-based components to develop an inverter with ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has introduced a highly integrated 470-510MHz front-end module (FEM) that is suitable for smart energy, smart metering (electric, gas, ...
Tags: Skyworks Solutions, FEM, smart energy
South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd (SSC), together with its affiliate company Seoul Viosys Co Ltd, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the US District Court for the Central District of California against global retail ...
Tags: SSC, Seoul Viosys, Kmart
LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has introduced FreshFocus Technology for bread & pastries, as part of its LUXEON Stylist Series of LEDs (designed to provide the lighting environment for fashion retail stores, fresh food markets and ...
Tags: Lumileds, FreshFocus, LUXEON Stylist Series, bread&pastries
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has announced a completely new portfolio of next generation LED bulbs consisting of 25 new products, offering better light quality, better dimming, better lifetime, ...
Stillhouse Spirits has announced an expansion in distribution into nine new markets in the US. Beginning this month, the 100% clear corn American whiskey, in addition to current distribution in California, Indiana, and Ohio, will be newly ...
Tags: Stillhouse Spirits, expansion, distribution
Meadow Foods has raised funds from Paine & Partners to grow its business through organic expansion and acquisitions. While the US-based Paine & Partners is a global food and agribusiness investment firm, Meadow Foods is a UK-based ...
Tags: Meadow Foods, Paine&Partners, funds, Expansion
Taiwan-based fingerprint sensor suppliers including Egis Technology (Egistec), Elan Microelectronics and FocalTech Systems are set to post brisk sales for the third quarter of 2016 buoyed by strong demand for smartphones, according to ...
Tags: Fingerprint Sensor, smartphones
Researchers in China have achieved continuous wave (cw) lasing at room temperature for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) grown directly on silicon (Si) [Yi Sun et al, Nature Photonics, 10, p595, 2016]. The team from Suzhou ...
Tags: InGaN Laser diodes, cw, SINANO
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) says that its Low Power Wireless business unit (formerly GreenPeak Technologies until ...
Tags: Qorvo, Low Power Wireless business unit, ZigBee 3.0 certification
MACOM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has launched the MATA-37644, a multi-rate 28G CDR (clock & data ...
Tags: MACOM, MATA-37644, MALD-37645
South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd is now mass producing its new 'WICOP' products, with a luminous efficiency of 210lm/W (350mA). Composed of just an LED chip and phosphor, it does not require chip packaging (e.g. frames ...
Tags: Seoul Semiconductor, LEDs, WICOP
The global radio frequency (RF) IC market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 12% from 2016 to 2020, forecasts a report by Technavio. Asia-Pacific (APAC) is expected to be the main demand-generating region and ...