One of only a handful of 37-year-old, still-working Apple-1 computers sold for a record three-quarters of a million dollars Saturday at an auction in Germany. The record price was paid by an anonymous bidder. In an interview with the?New ...
Tags: Computer Products
The Holden VF Commodore demanded a culture change within the company’s local engineering department. According to vehicle systems manager Andrew Holmes, for the first time ever weight-saving became obsessive and every engineer ...
Tags: Holden VF Commodore, Engineering, Auto
The Lighting Industry Association (LIA) is delighted to announce the appointment of Steven Davies as the new Chief Executive Officer. Steven will take up his appointment on 3 June 2013, and will continue to build upon the successful ...
Tags: Lighting Industry Association, Lighting Industry, Lights, Lighting
Despite mature technology and better cost structures, production forecasts for electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) are gloomy. That is the conclusion of the latest E-mobility Index by Roland Berger Strategy ...
Tags: Electric Cars, Transportation
The first Ultra HD TVs we saw cost $18,000 to $40,000, so it was hard not to notice when a lesser-known company called Seiki blew the doors off Ultra HD TV pricing when it recently started selling a 50-inch set (model SE50UY04) for just ...
Tags: Seiki, Ultra HD TV
A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with "great hostility" just days before posting details of an unpatched vulnerability in Windows that could be used to crash PCs or gain additional access rights. ...
Tags: Google, Computer Products, Microsoft
IDC today drastically lowered its forecast for PC shipments in 2013, a prediction that if accurate means more bad news for Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system. "Lower PC sales are certainly not a positive for Microsoft," said Loren ...
Google has released a beta version of Chrome that introduces what the company describes as "richer" notifications from the browser's apps and extensions. The Chrome browser has been able to display this type of notification for more than ...
Tags: Google, Chrome Browser, Computer Products
Seven Seas Water Corporation has named Claudio Baldovino as president, South America. Claudio Baldovino joins Seven Seas Water as president, South America and a member of the Company’s Executive Committee. He comes to Seven Seas ...
One of the first UK installations of the new Hydro Filterra bioretention and bio filtration system has brought attractive landscaping and stringent stormwater quality control to a sensitive location in Barry, South Wales. Vale of ...
LayTec is happy to announce to have signed a strategic OEM agreement with Evatec Ltd. (Switzerland, www.evatecnet.com) – a leading supplier of thin film deposition systems to semiconductor and optics. LayTec will equip Evatec with ...
Tags: LayTec Evatec, Lights, Lighting
At the 16th annual general meeting (AGM) of deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE in Aachen, Germany, shareholders have voted in favor of the resolutions presented by the executive board and the supervisory board. Following the ...
Tags: Aixtron MOCVD, Electrical, Electronics
Editor’s Note: The following column by Reed Langton, senior application engineer, Bastian Solutions, is part of Modern’s Other Voices column. The series features ideas, opinions and insights from end users, analysts, systems ...
Tags: Automation, Machinery
ch_client = "goarticles"; ch_type = "mpu"; ch_width = 336; ch_height = 600; ch_non_contextual = 4; ch_vertical = "premium"; ch_alternate_css_url = "http://scripts.chitika.net/static/css/goarticles550x250.css"; ch_noborders = 1; ch_sid = ...
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications) has signed a strategic OEM agreement with Evatec Ltd of Flums, Switzerland, a ...
Tags: LayTec, Evatec Metrology