Silicon Labs has unveiled power-aware software tools for its Precision32 microcontrollers, which are based around ARM Cortex-M3 cores. Called Power Estimator, and working with the firm's integrated development environment (IDE), "the tool ...
Astronauts on the International Space Station began unloading cargo from the SpaceX Dragon capsule on Monday, a day after the commercially delivered capsule was attached to the station. Tom Marshburn, a space station astronaut and flight ...
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A Lancashire-based meat and poultry supplier has opened a division in Australia after enjoying a record year for sales. Gilberts Foods goes Down Under with a new venture based in Brisbane Gilbert’s Foods supplies the UK’s ...
Hewlett-Packard's effort to build ARM servers will get a boost from Texas Instruments, which will provide chips based on the latest ARM processor design. The TI chips will be offered as part of Project Moonshot, which is HP's effort to ...
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Infineon has released samples of its ARM Cortex-M0 based LED lighting microcontroller family. Included in the family, called XMC1000, are MCUs that include a peripheral, the brightness and colour control unit (BCCU), that can dim and ...
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European Union antitrust officials today hit Microsoft with a $732 million fine for failing to live up to a 2009 settlement that requires it to offer Windows users a choice of alternate browsers. The announcement made by Joaquin Almunia, ...
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Renault Australia has secured a big win for its commercial vehicles with Australia Post picking the French brand to drive the nation’s mail. Switching from Mercedes-Benz Vito and Sprinter, AusPost is set to change its fleet of vans ...
The British Fashion Council has opened a show “Headonism” showcasing the newest in millinery fashion as the London College of Fashion opened “Head On” exploring the role of hats in contemporary fashion. CMMS Studio ...
After a successful liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon on Friday, the company's engineers were working on a glitch in the spacecraft's thruster system, delaying a Saturday rendezvous with the International Space Station. NASA reported earlier ...
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The Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona closed its doors on Thursday, with a sudden rain shower sending the last attendees scurrying off to their hotels. It's been a gargantuan affair that saw pretty much everyone who is anything ...
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The Iso-Flo family of stainless steel vibratory conveyors has new features, including frame design, patent-pending drive arrangement and screen clamp to maximize machine efficiency, enhance sanitation and improve ergonomics on production ...
SPEC, the standards body for performance benchmarks, has released a new toolkit that should help customers choose the most energy-efficient server for the workloads they need to run. SPEC's Server Efficiency Rating Tool will be used by ...
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Hewlett-Packard (HP) CEO Meg Whitman said this week that the company has reached the halfway point in its restructuring, with 15,000 employees left to cut to meet its layoff target. HP last May announced plans to reduce its workforce by ...
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Next month Toshiba is to sample ARM-based image recognition processors for industrial use. Mass production is planned for January 2014. The industrial image recognition processors are a derivation of its Visconti range of image processors ...
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said this week that the company has reached the halfway point in its restructuring, with 15,000 employees left to cut to meet its layoff target. HP last May announced plans to reduce its workforce by some ...
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