World Sleep Day marked the opening of a second Cheshire showroom for independent bed retailers, Land of Beds. The third generation business, which won the High Sheriff of Cheshire’s Family Business Award of Excellence during Sleep ...
Tags: Cheshire Showroom, Land Of Beds
Italy is all set become the second European country after France to pass a law to reduce food waste by encouraging supermarkets to donate unsold food to charities. Food waste which costs the Italian economy €12bn (£9.4bn) ...
Tags: Food waste, Law, Donation, Unsold food
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has announced its line-up of fiber-optic transceivers designed to drive the data-center transition from 40Gb/s to 100Gb/s and ...
Tags: Oclaro, Transition, OFC
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 ...
In booth 3809 at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exhibition (OFC 2016) in Anaheim, CA, USA (22-24 March), engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA is showcasing a broad portfolio ...
Tags: II-VI Inc, OFC, Monitoring super-channels
Grail Point Brewery, a DC metro area craft brewery, has launched its Kickstarter campaign. The campaign is the next step in a quest by the three founders - Keith Wickstrom, Jeff Kusterbeck, and Tyler Oyler - to share their divinely ...
Sainsbury's, Argos and Amazon also took home the gongs at the annual retailer awards earlier this week. Online retailer Shop Direct emerged as the big winner at this year’s Retail Week Awards 2016, taking the gong home in no less ...
Tags: Shop Direct, Retail Week Awards, Amazon, Argos
Like a growing number of jobs, pizza delivery has finally been replaced by our chip-powered brethren. Domino’s is about to start trialing pizza delivery robots in New Zealand, driving fear into the hearts of fast-food workers ...
Tags: Domino, Pizza delivery, DRU, Robot
Lion is releasing a limited-edition version of its Guinness beer in celebration of St Patrick’s Day. St Patrick Day falls on 17 March annually. The “The 1798 Limited Edition” comes in a 750ml corked and caged bottle ...
Tags: St Patrick Day, Guinness, Beer
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 ...
Tags: Apple, Google, Cloud services
Flemish Fox Brewery & Craftworks, a new craft brewery founded by Christine Celis, and Atwater Brewery, have entered an agreement to brew beer in a new collaboration brewery in Austin, Texas. Flemish Fox Brewery & Craftworks has acquired ...
Rumours have been split over the name of Apple’s next iPhone – is it finally settled? A new leak seemingly reveals the name of Apple’s upcoming handset as the iPhone SE. An image posted to Chinese social media site ...
Tags: iPhone, Apple, Mobile phone, SE
Brandreth's collection includes the original star of the 1970s Paddington animated TV series, Harry Corbett's 1950s Sooty and a Fozzie Bear donated by Jim Henson. Broadcaster Gyles Brandreth has gifted his extensive collection of famous ...
Tags: Newby Hall, Teddy Bear, Gyles Brandreth
This week, Billy Langsworthy looks at why the toy space should be excited at some of the new VR tech being showcased at this year's Game Developers Conference. Oh, and there's a bit about a vagina speaker. You've been warned. This week, ...
Tags: Inventors, Virtual reality
PlayStation VR will have 50 bespoke games by the end of 2016, Sony has confirmed during its GDC press conference. One exclusive VR experience coming to the headset is Star Wars Battlefront VR, which will no doubt excite prospective buyers ...
Tags: Playstation VR, Sony