Say goodbye to your phone battery and charger. A new structural material could transform a mobile device’s entire case into a hybrid super-capacitor/battery, making traditional batteries obsolete. Researchers from Vanderbilt ...
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A slowdown in the growth rate for tablet and mobile phone sales and economic uncertainty in emerging markets are putting a damper on global IT spending, according to IDC. Worldwide IT spending will increase 4.1 percent in constant ...
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Hess Corp. and North Dakota officials gathered Monday to mark the recent completion of an expansion of the company's natural gas processing plant that will help cut the amount of gas production wasted through flaring and boost NGL ...
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Renewable energy is a solution to carbon emission and climate change. As the world’s biggest carbon emitter, China has been encouraging solar power development and installation to lower its emission volume. To cut its reliance on ...
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French designer Vivien Muller has created an ecofriendly solar mobile phone charger and LED lamp, Electree Mini, that resembles a bonsai tree. Solar mobile phone charger and LED lamp, Electree Mini. (Photo Courtesy of Viviene Muller) ...
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WAC Lighting introduces Mini LED Multiple Spots for remodeling and new construction applications for residential and commercial environments. WAC is a leading designer and manufacturer of task, decorative and architectural luminaires. LED ...
The Phone Oximeter is a smartphone app developed by two British Columbia scientists as an affordable solution for the measurement of oxygen levels in the blood, an important early warning sign for pre-eclampsia in pregnant women, and for ...
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The LG G Flex 2 has been teased, with latest reports suggesting the Korean manufacturer’s next flexible phone will launch in early 2015. With LG having last year set a new smartphone first with the arrival of the LG G Flex, the ...
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BlackBerry is allowing rivals AirWatch, Citrix, SAP and IBM to directly manage its smartphones with the Blackberry 10 operating system as part of its strategy to open up management of its devices to third parties. The move by BlackBerry ...
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Demand for gallium is forecast to rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). This strong growth is not, however, likely to result in any ...
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Demand for gallium will rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes, but this strong growth is unlikely to result in any tightness in supply as the ...
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Academic research and high-end product novelties Already today there are specific fields where China can pride itself of being in the top league of the world’s innovators. The quality and activity of Chinese academic and industrial ...
Tags: Innovation, China, Focus Vision, China Culture, Chinese Innovation Models
The Philippines' statistics office released data on March exports on Friday. Total exports Mar Feb Jan Dec Nov Oct yr/yr change (pct) 11.2 11.6 9.2 15.8 18.9 14.0 in $ bln 5.23 4.66 4.38 4.6 4.29 5.03 mth/mth change (pct) 12.2 6.3 -4.8 ...
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Mention the importance of American-made products among your family, friends and business associates, and you’ll likely create some lively conversation and generate some strong opinions as well; it’s a subject about which many ...
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North Amercian chocolate maker Hershey’s is launching Phase II of its HERSHEY LEARN TO GROW program, a move which will extend the program to all cocoa-growing regions in Ghana. The move comes 18 months after the launch of the ...
Tags: Cocoa Program, chocolate