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Ford Updates Sync Platform to Enable Users to Project Navigation APP of Their Own

Jan 12, 2015

Ford is updating its in-car Sync platform to potentially enable smartphone users to project the navigation app of their choice onto their vehicle’s touchscreen. The infotainment platform, which allows users to pair their mobile and ...

Tags: Ford, Apps, Consumer Electronics

The Nexus 6 May Have Been Destined to Tout a Fingerprint Scanner

Dec 9, 2014

The Nexus 6 may have been destined to tout a fingerprint scanner, the Android source code has revealed. ArsTechnica dig some digging through the Android Open Source Project code for the Nexus 6, and discovered a commit removing ...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Google

EPA Is Awarding $52,185 to The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science

Aug 14, 2014

DALLAS – (July 17, 2014) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $52,185 to the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (Public Lab). The organization will train community members and wetland restoration ...

Tags: EPA, Technology and Science, Service

Medtronic Hasn't Slowed Down on Its Appetite for Using Apple Technology

Aug 14, 2014

Medtech giant Medtronic apparently hasn't slowed down on its appetite for using Apple technology internally—even as the iconic tech company is signaling its interest to compete more actively in the healthcare market. Fridley, ...

Tags: Medtronic, Health, Medicine

PPG Industries' Industrial Coatings Business Has Published a Brochure

Aug 13, 2014

PPG Industries' industrial coatings business has published a brochure covering its full line of coating, pretreatment and customer support solutions for designers and manufacturers of consumer electronics. The four-page booklet details ...

Tags: PPG, brochure, Decoration

Nanostructures Half The Width of a DNA Strand Could Enhance The Efficiency of LEDs

Apr 15, 2014

The US Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) has conducted simulations showing that nanostructures half the width of a DNA strand could enhance the efficiency of LEDs. In particular, efficiency ...

Tags: InN Green LEDs, LED

Most Americans Today Still Picture Shenzhen as The Home of iPhone Production

Mar 27, 2014

Most Americans today still picture Shenzhen as the home of iPhone production, migrant workers, and a huge electronics component bazaar. Well, they’re not wrong. That Shenzhen is still here. However, the way people live, work, and ...

Tags: iPhone production, Huawei, 3D printers

Secretive Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is a 64-Year-Old Man Living Near Los Angeles

Mar 9, 2014

Secretive Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is a 64-year-old man living near Los Angeles who has declined to talk about his role in the digital currency, according to a report from Newsweek.? Newsweek found Nakamoto, the alleged Bitcoin ...

Tags: Bitcoin, Computer Products

The Tool Will Use Instantbird as Its Basis

Mar 7, 2014

The Tor Foundation which has made it possible for privacy-bent Tor users to anonymously browse the web is now turning to enabling people to autonomously do instant messaging with a Tor-enabled service, dubbed Tor Instant Messaging Bundle ...

Tags: Tor Instant Messaging Bundle(TIMB), Instant Messaging

Xicato Has Revealed That It Grew Its Year-on-Year Revenues by 43 Per Cent in 2013

Mar 6, 2014

Xicato has revealed that it grew its year-on-year revenues by 43 per cent in 2013. The venture-backed company, which develops and sells LED modules to global lighting manufacturers, cited growth in the retail segment as one of the factors ...

Tags: Xicato, 43 Per Cent, Lighting

A New Twitter Analysis Shows Much of This Conversation Falls Into Six Distinct Patterns

Feb 27, 2014

People tweet about anything and everything, but a new Twitter analysis coauthored by University of Maryland computer scientist Ben Shneiderman shows much of this conversation falls into six distinct patterns or networks. The study ...

Tags: NodeXL, Twitter, Network Type, Cluster

DELL Is Teaming up with Red Hat to Drive Its Effort to Be a Force

Feb 27, 2014

Dell is teaming up with Red Hat to drive its effort to be a force in the burgeoning area of network function virtualization (NFV) technology, aimed at helping carriers reduce costs and quickly roll out new services. Co-engineered Dell-Red ...

Tags: Network Virtualisation, NFV, Dell, Red Hat Team

Samsung Will Unveil Its Second-Generation Galaxy Gear Smartwatch

Feb 24, 2014

On Monday Samsung will unveil its second-generation Galaxy Gear smartwatch, this one running the open source Tizen operating system, not the Android software that runs the first-generation model, according to reports. Samsung ...

Tags: Samsung, Android, Tizen

Nvidia Made a Series of Code Contributions to The Open-Source Project Nouveau

Feb 13, 2014

GPU manufacturer Nvidia made a series of code contributions to the open-source project Nouveau late last week, signaling a possible thawing of relations with the Linux community. The company's support for its Linux drivers has long been a ...

Tags: Linux World

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