Verticle Inc of Dublin, CA, USA has extended its range of Honeycomb hexagonal-shaped vertically structured InGaN-based LED chips from blue wavelengths (in mass production since February 2012) to ultraviolet (UV). As with the firm’s ...
GT Advanced Technologies today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the business of Thermal Technology LLC for purchase consideration, consisting of approximately 3.4 million shares of GTAT common stock and an earn out. ...
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Soraa has garnered much attention since founder Japanese LED scientist Shuji Nakamura has been helping drive the company towards success. Soraa was able to leverage funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE), and now the company has ...
Researchers in Korea have used three-dimensional (3D) graphene foam as a transparent conductor for the p-contact of blue nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Byung-Jae Kim et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol102, p161902, 2013]. The ...
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SAP's software is known for its role running many of the world's largest companies, but not necessarily for its user-friendliness. As part of an ongoing effort to change this perception, SAP unveiled Fiori, a set of 25 lightweight ...
Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to ...
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Dr. Hasso Plattner, Chairman of Supervisory Board, SAP, blasted Internet myths surrounding the capabilities and availability of its HANA technology during the final day of Sapphire Now. Plattner, co-founder of the company, addressed the ...
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SAP today announced the release of SAP Fiori, a set of 25 easy-to-use applications for the most frequently used transactions, available across a broad range of devices, to be published on Google Chrome. SAP Fiori is available through SAP ...
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Market rumors that the new generation of Apple's iPhone may adopt sapphire crystal glass for the home button have been circulating and Taiwan-based sapphire substrate maker Tera Xtal has reportedly sent samples to Apple for verification. ...
Researchers based in China and Sweden have proposed fast chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of graphene as a route to more cost-effective transparent conducting layers (TCLs) for nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Xu Kun et ...
SAP's HANA Cloud Platform, consisting of the core in-memory database plus application development tools, analytics and integration services, will eventually underpin all of its cloud-based applications, the company said at its Sapphire ...
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SAP is hoping to win points with professional sports teams by showing how its HANA in-memory database, analytics, mobile software and other technologies can help them make fans happier, find better players and improve their operations. ...
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SAP today announced the general availability of Business Suite as a database on HANA, as well as revealing that all software solutions are now readily available in the cloud – concluding a three-year commitment to become the global ...
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From today, SAP is offering its Afaria mobile management solution in the cloud, hosted on Amazon AWS, for only €1 per device, per month, making it the lowest cost of ownership solution in its category. Speaking at Sapphire Now, ...
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Several retailers, including two start-ups, took to the stage at Sapphire Now to present case studies demonstrating the impact of SAP’s in-memory analytics software, HANA, in the retail industry. Kingfisher, one of the world’s ...
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