What does refresh rate mean, and how does it affect gaming? We explain 144Hz monitors and beyond, and why more hertz isn't always better (but usually is). For years, the refresh rate has been the go-to number for gamers when buying a ...
Tags: monitor, refresh rate
If you're sick of hearing how beautiful and fabulous the Samsung Galaxy S8 is, look away now. Samsung is going to pre-install the smartphone with McAfee's security software to turn it into a virus-rocking powerhouse. McAfee today ...
Tags: Galaxy S8, Samsung, smartphone
For fiscal fourth-quarter 2017 (to 1 April), Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has reported revenue of $642m, up 5.7% on $607.1m a year ...
Tags: Smartphone, Qorvo
A flurry of reports over the last week seem to have increased the likelihood of Apple announcing its Siri-powered Amazon Echo rival next month. After prominent leaker Sonny Dickson suggested it may be ready for an unveiling at WWDC, noted ...
Tags: Apple, Amazon Echo
Moosehead Breweries, which is considered to be Canada's oldest independent beer firm, is celebrating its 150 years of family brewing. When Susannah Oland opened the Army and Navy Brewery in 1867, she hoped to create a business that could ...
Tags: Moosehead Breweries, Anniversary
Vodafone is hitting some customers with a second price hike, just weeks after another rise was introduced. The news was first reported by the Financial Times, which claimed that some customers have received texts warning of an unexpected ...
Tags: Vodafone
Flexible packaging solutions provider Comexi is set to showcase a range of printing and converting solutions at this year’s Interpack event in Düsseldorf, Germany. The firm’s current printing and converting solutions ...
Tags: Flexible packaging, packaging
Self-adhesive label materials producer UPM Raflatac has two new lightweight solutions for wash-off logistics labeling applications. The new materials include Thermalite Top+ PEFC and Thermalite Eco+ PEFC. They can be paired with the RP45 ...
Tags: Self-adhesive label, Packaging
There's no shortage of iPhone 8 rumours, leaks, and renders doing the rounds, but you didn't think they were going to slow down did you? Following a report last month that cited a Foxconn employee as providing details of the forthcoming ...
Valmet has secured a repeat order from First Quality Tissues (FQT) for its Advantage THRU-AIR tissue line. FQT plans to begin a new production line in the second quarter of 2018 and it will increase its production by 70,000 tons of ultra ...
Minnesota Twins and Eco-Products have collaborated once again to turn trash into compost similar to last year. After turning 300 tons of trash into fertile soil last year, the Minnesota Twins and Eco-Products plan to top that number this ...
Tags: Eco-Products, fertile soil
You can make a case that the original Moto G smartphone was Motorola’s was most impactful handset ever. At a time when there was a big drop off between the smartphone haves-and-have-nots, the Moto G proved you could have a really ...
Tags: Smartphone, Moto G
Fitbit's Blaze “smart fitness watch”, launched last year, was the company's first attempt at a quasi-smartwatch design, and rumours of a "full" smartwatch quickly followed the launch. Once the company bought crowdfunding ...
Tags: Smartwatch, GPS
2 Sisters Food Group is planning to close its Smethwick poultry processing facility in the West Midlands, which could impact 630 jobs. The ageing poultry factory located at Bevan Way in the Alpha Business Park has considerable challenges ...
Tags: 2 Sisters Food, Smethwick Poultry
Little is known about the mysterious Nokia 9 smartphone at this point, beyond the odd leak here and there, but now we might have a release date for the rumoured flagship device. Following an apparent leak earlier this month from an ...
Tags: Nokia 9, smartphone