The U.S. government should bar foreign companies that repeatedly steal or use stolen U.S. intellectual property from selling their products in the country, a new report recommended. About US$300 billion worth of intellectual property is ...
Tags: US, Foreign Firms, Intellectual Property
Last year the U.S. was the least riskiest place in the world to open a data center, according to a study released this week. The rankings, which were released by Cushman & Wakefield, Hurleypalmerflatt and Source8, were made after ...
Tags: US, Data Center, Computer Products
In October, 2010, China built the world's fastest supercomputer, and three months later President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union speech, said that America was facing a Sputnik moment. Obama renewed calls for higher levels of R&D ...
Tags: Sputnik Moment, China, US
The U.S. International Trade Commission has turned down a request for a ban on Microsoft's Xbox after finding that the gaming device did not infringe a patent owned by Google's Motorola Mobility unit. The ITC's ruling Thursday has ...
Penguin has settled with U.S. states in an e-book price-fixing lawsuit, leaving only Apple now in the fray. Four other publishers accused of price-fixing with Apple settled earlier with the 33 states and territories and the U.S. ...
U.S. companies should be allowed to take aggressive countermeasures against hackers seeking to steal their intellectual property, contends the private Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property. The 100-page report, ...
Tags: IP, US, Computer Products
The U.S. government is in negotiations with SoftBank for greater control over equipment purchases by Sprint Nextel and the selection of one of the Japanese company's nominee to the U.S. carrier's board, according to a news report. Dish ...
Tags: SoftBank, US, Allay Security
It’s been a long time but finally it appears that consumers in the United States are returning to gold jewellery. The World Gold Council said last week that for the first time in nearly seven years, there was a year-over-year ...
Tags: Gold Jewellery, US, Arts&Crafts
Nokia is targeting HTC's latest slate of smartphones, including the HTC One, with new legal action in the U.S. that demands the Taiwanese company cease the alleged patent infringement. Nokia is accusing the HTC One, and several other HTC ...
Devices built around Apple's iOS operating system have been approved by the U.S. Department of Defense for use on its networks, as the department moves to support multivendor mobile devices and operating systems. The Defense Information ...
Tags: US, iOS Devices, Networks
U.S. demand for specialty films is forecast to advance 5.2 percent per year to $8.0 billion in 2017. Gains will be driven by the increasing need for high-performance plastic films which offer barrier properties, mechanical strength, and ...
Tags: Specialty Films, US, Packaging
In terms of the global economy, the alarm bells have stopped ringing. According to Cliff Waldman, senior economist for the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI), that’s one of the key takeaways from the U.S. ...
Specialty bedding producer Dormeo Octaspring is adding a manufacturing operation to its facility here, the company announced. Dormeo said it has invested more than $500,000 to retrofit its 30,000-square-foot facility with new ...
Tags: Dormeo, U.S.Manufacturing, Light Industry
Reminders that many of the products we use aren’t manufactured in the U.S. are everywhere. Just look at the tag inside your work gloves, or the nameplate on your woodworking hardware. There’s a good chance that both of them are ...
Tags: Woodworking Machines, Machinery
The U.S. tech industry added 67,400 jobs in 2012, a 1.1% increase from a year earlier, according to a report from the TechAmerica Foundation. The tech industry's growth slightly outpaced the overall private sector in the U.S., which grew ...
Tags: Tech Employment, America, Computer Products