IDG News Service - Ask any Silicon Valley entrepreneur about their startup and they'll usually tell you the sky is the limit. For some, it's not just the limit but the goal. Combining advances in electronics and new sources of funding with ...
Tags: Silicon Valley, SkyCube, Kickstarter, DeBenedictis
IDG News Service-The Russian legislature's lower house on Wednesday adopted a bill that,according to tech companies in the country,could lead to Internet censorship. The bill,which includes amendments to several current laws,still needs ...
Tags: Russia, Tech companies, bill, State Duma
IDG News Service - The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration's first step toward developing a consensus on mobile privacy standards may be the wrong step, privacy advocates said. The NTIA's first multistakeholder ...
Tags: mobile privacy, Privacy groups, mobile apps, mobile device
Computerworld-Like many other India-based IT services providers,Mahindra Satyam is expanding its presence in the U.S. In its case,Mahindra Satyam is opening an IT delivery center in Fargo,N.D.,with the help of anchor client Cargill,a ...
Tags: Indian firm, Cargill business services, outsource, Microsoft
Advanced Photonix gets first industrial THz order 11 Jul 2012 Receives first orders from its value-added reseller,Thermo Fisher Scientific,for its'T-Gauge'industrial terahertz gauging system. Advanced Photonix develops diverse silicon ...
Tags: Advanced Photonix, T-Gauge, industrial terahertz, measurement systems
Soitec(Euronext),a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries,and Chongqing Silian Optoelectronics Science&Technology Co.,Ltd.(Silian),an established supplier ...
Tags: Soitec, semiconductor, GaN, LED
Fifty years ago this week a Delta rocket roared into space carrying a payload that sparked a revolution in the way the world communicates. On board the rocket, launched on July 10, was Telstar, the first telecommunications ...
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In preparation for the launch of Europe's answer to GPS,research satellite GIOVE-A has been retired. Made in the UK by Surrey Satellite Technology(SSTL),"the main objectives of the GIOVE-A mission were the on-board characterisation of a ...
Tags: first galileo satellite, GPS, SSTL, collect MEO radiation data.
Gartner has predicted a slight increase in IT services spending for 2012,driven by businesses becoming more technology-based. According to the latest Garter global IT spending report,worldwide IT services investment is forecast to ...
Tags: Gartner, tech in business, multiple connected devices, analysts
Arianespace is probably best-known as the launch services operator for the European Space Agency, and thus closely associated with Ariane rocket operations from Europe's spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana. The firm, founded in 1980 and ...
Tags: ESA, milestone, Arianespace, launch operator
Department of Service Statistics of NBS China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) In June, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index was 56.7 percent, 1.5 percentage points higher over the previous month, still staying above ...
Tags: CFLP, PMI, Non-Manufacturing, Increased, purchasing manager index
US-Italian"Hark!"group develop novel practical photon source with positive implications for high speed optical communications. Two of a kind:Photon pair generation,in which input pump photons spontaneously create pairs of ...
Tags: Single Photon, Silicon, Hark, US, Italian
For fiscal 2012 (to end-March), Advanced Photonix Inc of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes silicon, InP- and GaAs-based APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation) ...
Tags: Advanced Photonix, Photodetector, Net Sales, Market
Bright Plastics Inc. is bringing in three new presses, five automation units and more auxiliary equipment as it adjusts for a record year in sales, according to partner Kirk Sparks. “Most of our top 20 accounts are up, year to date. ...
Tags: market view, Injection molder
IDG News Service-The National Telecommunications and Information Administration awarded ICANN the mandate to manage the assignment of IP addresses and the management of top-level domains until September 2015,the government agency announced ...
Tags: ICANN, IANA Internet Root, DNS Root zone, USA