Workforce equipment,technology,regulations and demographics continue to change,but truck driving has and will always be more than a job—it's a lifestyle.Perhaps nothing illustrates this more today than watching drivers use smart ...
With all the buzz around the Internet of Things,it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the electricity grid already operates with millions of connected meters and sensors.Yet writing applications for these programmable machines is too ...
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Google's Internet-connected eyewear Glass is coming to people who need prescriptions to correct their vision. New spectacles from Google's design team will be compatible with corrective lenses and, thanks to a collaboration with a private ...
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Driven by superior features and falling costs, the market for LED luminaires, or optimized permanent light fixtures, will grow more than 12-fold over the next decade – at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25% from $2bn currently ...
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Grid operators have met their match and it's a growing number of distributed generators—erstwhile electricity consumers who've ended their reliance on the grid because their needs are met by rooftop solar panels. But this exodus from ...
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The situation, mixed with the entry of several new players at the chip and device levels (mostly from Asia), created a climate of overcapacity, price pressure, and strong competition. As a consequence, packaged LED volumes were sharply ...
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Trolls vs. Vikings is ready for launch next month. The game is set to hit the App Store on February 26, 2014 in English, French, Spanish and German. Android and browser versions are expected to release during the spring and summer of 2014. ...
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HPH deputy chairman, John Meredith (left) and Acting Prime Minister, Warren Truss cut the cake to celebrate the official opening of Brisbane Container Terminals. The third Australian stevedore, Hutchison Ports Holdings, has begun ...
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Air France says it has automated and increased the reliability of its 1,500 Linux servers by deploying a private cloud solution. The deployment is based on HP’s Cloud Service Automation (CSA) software to accelerate deployment times ...
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Bing has barely any market share in China, but Microsoft hopes to change that in the next year or two by investing more resources into the local version of the search engine. The U.S. software giant is bringing more brain power to Bing ...
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) reports that Snapchat, Shutterfly and Yelp have joined the 2,100 member organization. Snapchat is a photo messaging application that allows users to take photos, record videos, add text and ...
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The Beat the Q app allows consumers to order takeaway coffee ahead of time A new Australian phone app that allows users to order and pay for coffee en-route to their regular cafe — to ‘Beat the Q’ — has been ...
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Oxford Instruments is offering an upgrade option for its ALD equipment to apply a bias voltage to the substrate, adding further control of the energy at the wafer surface in order to tune the properties of the deposited film. While scaling ...
IBM today announced plans to commit $1.2 billion (£730 million) to expand its global cloud footprint through a number of new data centres set to open this year. The company said it will use the money to open up to 15 new data ...
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Lectra, the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials—fabrics, leather, technical textiles and composite materials—is pleased to announce the release of Lectra Fashion PLM V3R3, ...