Texas Instruments and Qualcomm are working on products that will power small mobile base stations, also known as small cells, and help improve indoor coverage and speeds for enterprises. Small cells can be used in homes, public spaces and ...
Tags: Texas Instruments and Qualcomm, Small Cells, Enterprises
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA says it has now surpassed the milestone of shipping more than 2 million gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) for cellular telecommunications, providing benefits over traditional ...
Tags: Cree, Telecom Infrastructure
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Germany (the largest solar energy research institute in Europe) has joined forces with EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography ...
Tags: Solar Cells, Electrical
IBM claims to have achieved a milestone in creating a phased-array transceiver that contains all of the millimeter-wave components necessary for both high data-rate communications and advanced-resolution radar imaging applications. The ...
Tags: IBM, Mobile Communications
Recently published research that questions the safety of LED lighting is misleading, according to Soraa, and the company is again asking the EPA to reconsider Energy Star efficacy requirements for SSL lamps. Despite many recent stories to ...
Tags: Soraa CTO, LED Safety
SAP has revealed plans to acquire hybris, a rapidly growing and widely recognised player in the e-commerce technology market. The acquisition positions SAP to deliver the next-generation e-commerce platform, with the choice of on-premise ...
Wearable technology such as Google Glass, Nike+ FuelBand and the reported Apple iWatch will not only enhance consumers' lives, but will also provide a new source of commercially exploitable data. In an interview with Computing, Rackspace ...
Tiny particles of matter called quantum dots, which emit light with exceptionally pure and bright colors, have found a prominent role as biological markers. In addition, they are realizing their potential in computer and television screens, ...
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A low-power Thunderbolt interconnect for smartphones and tablets is in the works, but the wired technology may not thrive if consumers prefer products using the wireless WiGig specification for data transfers. There is a need for faster ...
Tags: Low-Power Thunderbolt, Tablets, Smartphones
Long considered old-school tools with no place in shiny corporate social collaboration suites, to-do software is making a comeback with a new air of cool about it and renewed appreciation from enterprise IT. The reason? It's now clear ...
Tags: To-Do Software, Enterprise IT
If ever you needed evidence of the growth of outsourcing, look no further than the page views the British Contract Manufacturers and Packers Association website attracts; in the last year, the figure has grown by a third to around 16,000 a ...
The rise of the "hybrid consumer" is an emerging trend with significant implications for food companies, food retailers and foodservice companies. According to a new report from Rabobank, consumers are becoming less interested in ...
Tags: Packaging, hybrid consumer, food
IT services and solutions provider Discoverture Solutions has partnered with MphasiS to jointly provide property & casualty (P&C) implementation services to customers in North America and worldwide. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, ...
Researchers have long known that UV rays cause skin aging, and they've suspected that sunscreens could help prevent that. Now they have better, though not conclusive, evidence that's the case. Researchers in Australia, which has the ...
GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has launched the ACA2429 gallium nitride (GaN) power doubler surface-mount IC supporting operation up to 1.2GHz. Samples are ...