U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated telecom trade group veteran Tom Wheeler to be the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Wheeler's nomination, announced Wednesday, ends weeks of speculation that he was the ...
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Ten years ago, most cell phones had single-color displays, and they were primarily used to make phone calls. Now glance at the phone in your pocket, think about its capabilities beyond dialing a number, and you will have some sense of the ...
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Exigen Insurance Solutions, a provider of core systems and business transformation to insurers, had launched Exigen Suite for Group Benefits, a single core systems solution for group and worksite insurance. The new solution has been ...
Elle fashionwear, the French fashion brand, launches its Spring Summer 2013 collection, embodying the spirit of the new age fashionista who believes in creating her own style but is also chic, feminine and experimental. Key inspirations ...
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NASA has launched three smartphones into space in what scientists hope will be the lowest-cost satellites ever tested. The smartphones, Google-HTC Nexus Ones running the Android operating system, launched aboard the maiden flight of ...
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Sofradir of Paris, France, which makes infrared detectors for military, space and commercial applications, will make four presentations on advances in next-generation infrared detectors in different wavelengths from the visible to far ...
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Following the December 2012 launch of the Works with Soraa program, the lighting industry’s first lamp and fixture validation program, Soraa announced the addition of nine new fixture manufacturers. The companies Excelsior Lighting, ...
American donut franchise Dunkin’ Donuts’ flagship store in Indonesia will lead the way in green lighting by being the first of its franchise outlets in Southeast Asia to employ a complete LED solution. The Palembang store is the ...
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Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in collaboration with colleagues at the Ecole Polytechnique in France, say they have conclusively identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes light emitting ...
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Researchers at the University of Michigan have invented a way for different wireless networks crammed into the same space to say "excuse me" to one another. Wi-Fi shares a frequency band with the popular Bluetooth and ZigBee systems, and ...
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LED luminaires feature tunable white light engines for exceptional efficiency and color quality. Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) will demonstrate luminaires with patent-pending tunable white light engines at LIGHTFAIR® International ...
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The UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded funding totaling £1m to two universities – University College London (UCL) and Bristol – to support the development of compound ...
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Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with the école Polytechnique in Paris, France, say that they have identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes nitride light-emitting diodes ...
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William L. “Bill” Jasper, chairman of the Board and CEO of Unifi, Inc. located in Greensboro, NC was re-elected to serve a third term as chairman during NCTO’s 10th annual meeting held at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC ...
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An exciting group of new Pilkington products was launched at the Fabricator Installer Trade (FiT) Show, the glass and glazing industry´s major exhibition for 2013. The properties for these products have been added to the popular ...
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