BIG business is being targeted by cyber-criminals in "ransomware" attacks, threatening deletion or freezing of crucial business files unless money is paid. A new national survey of Australian big business reports that in September last ...
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Blazingly fast WiFi at home is becoming possible with new ac routers that emulate the speeds achieved by fast category 6 Ethernet cable installed in a dwelling. Modem routers such as Netgear's D6300 and the R6300 router-only model seek to ...
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Birefringence, a property of a crystalline material describes how within the material there are two distinct indices of refraction. Birefringent materials are used to create polarising filters or interference colours. Krystian Roleder, ...
Ministry of Sound in London has made its first investment in SGM's XC-5 LED strobes as part of the club's major annual upgrade. Chris Thoms, production manager at the venue, placed the order for ten units with SGM UK after seeing a ...
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PicSlinger, an addictive new iPhone application, combines pictures with a word game for friends to play together. Players give it their best shot by choosing a word from three choices and snapping a photo to represent that word. Player A ...
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Filter Devices are delighted to offer a range of pipette controller filters, ideal for use in laboratory and cleanroom environments where quality control of potential cross contamination is a high priority. Using our expertise in ...
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Class II, Type A2 BSC’s offer maximum personnel, product and environmental protection. DC/ECM motor consumes less energy, minimises vibration and noise. Oversized HEPA filters, optimally determined forward curved fans, and HEPEX ...
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Whether the application involves producing/removing chips or moving parts/scrap pieces, customizing a conveyor can be crucial to getting the job done right. Engineers at Hennig, for example, have been designing and producing custom machine ...
Tags: Customizing Chip Conveyors, Varied Applications, removing chips
Several tech blogs recently reported rumors that a smart phone HTC is expected to unveil next week will include a new kind of imaging sensor, called an "Ultrapixel" sensor: Instead of the usual type of sensor with one layer of pixel sites, ...
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A new not-for-profit company called Digital Mobile Spectrum Ltd (DMSL) has been established to tackle the problem of 4G interfering with Freeview broadcasts. A former Nokia-Siemens Networks CEO has been tapped to handle the roll-out of 4G ...
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Dublin-based fab-less chip company Ikon Semiconductor has jumped into the competitive LED light bulb market with its first product: a dimmable single-stage ac-dc converter. Like iWatt's new chip for non-dimmable bulbs (see page??), Ikon ...
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Nujira says the first 4G LTE smartphones to use its power efficient RF technology will be on the market next year. “In the past it was an aspiration to get envelope-tracking (ET) technology designed into volume handsets, now we know ...
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UK supplier of compressed-air filter elements Hi-line Industries Ltd. is now offering a full test and air quality analysis service for filter media. This now includes both Hi-line filter elements, as well as the testing of any filtration ...
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The low price of natural gas has resulted in the construction of a number of gas turbine power plants. New construction plus the growing replacement market will boost gas turbine inlet air filter sales to over $400 million in 2013. This ...
The new president of design at Hyundai, Peter Schreyer, is planning to evolve the Korean giant’s design rather than revolutionise it, in the same way he did with Kia. Having been in the job at Hyundai for just two weeks, Schreyer ...