Indian Essar group (Essar) is planning to spend about US$275 million to set up a ten million ton port in Mozambique. The port will facilitate exports from Zisco, a Zimbabwe based company Essar acquired in 2010 with 56% stake that cost ...
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Yahoo is beefing up technology offerings and streamlining its media products in another sign it wants to improve its game against industry titans like Google, Apple and Facebook. It is putting the axe to more than a half dozen of its less ...
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Checkpoint Systems, Inc. announced the appointment of Marc T. Giles to its board of directors, effective immediately. Mr. Giles spent most of his career with industrial technology companies beginning in sales and marketing before ...
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Infineon has released samples of its ARM Cortex-M0 based LED lighting microcontroller family. Included in the family, called XMC1000, are MCUs that include a peripheral, the brightness and colour control unit (BCCU), that can dim and ...
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Total sales of machine vision components and systems fell over four percent in 2012, but are expected to rebound in 2013 according to new statistics issued by AIA, the industry's trade group. "In 2012 the vision market in North America ...
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Passing the “Smell Test” at University of Utah The University of Utah’s Ute Natatorium has been a leading collegiate swimming and diving venue for over 4 decades. Home of the school’s men’s and women’s ...
R&R Insurance Services has received a contract from Community Insurance Corporation (CIC), which offers coverage to Wisconsin Public Schools. Together with property and casualty (P&C) endorsement from the Wisconsin Association of School ...
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Blue Chip Technology has designed a multicore Cortex-A9 based computer board with a dual display, CAN and Mini PC-Express peripherals in a fan-less embedded computer. Designated the RE3, it is available as a Cortex-A9 single core, dual ...
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Intersil has joined with Renesas Electronics to develop a sensor signal conditioning reference design for thermocouple, pressure and strain gauges. The design incorporates two boards - an Intersil board with analogue front-end chips ...
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If you follow the latest decorating trends, you may know that textures inspired by nature are popular in home design today. Some designers even consider texture the new “color”. They suggest that bringing the textures of nature ...
GrowLife, Inc., a provider of highly effective indoor growing technologies and unique lifestyle brands, is pleased to update its plans to go live this summer with its ultra-premium www.cannabis.org web address. GrowLife is actively building ...
Rising Utilization Rates but still Limited Order Visibility Highest 2012 Order Intake and Revenues Recorded in Q4/2012 Management Focus on Cost Control and Cash Flow Continuing R&D Investments into Future Market Opportunities ...
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Smartphones, it seems, can do anything. Today's phones pack so much power and so many sensors into such a small space -- and at a relatively low cost -- that they are increasingly being used for inventive purposes. Just this week Strand ...
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Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) has introduced several new, highly ...
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Kontron has said it will support the two flavours of the CompactPCI interface, these are CompactPCI Serial and CompactPCI Serial Mesh. CompactPCI Serial (CPCI-S.0) is for implementation in 3U form factors with PCIe, GbE, USB and SATA ...
Tags: CompactPCI interface, CompactPCI Serial, wireless communication