This week, Billy Langsworthy looks at why the toy space should be excited at some of the new VR tech being showcased at this year's Game Developers Conference. Oh, and there's a bit about a vagina speaker. You've been warned. This week, ...
Tags: Inventors, Virtual reality
Bad phone signal ranks alongside the weather and Katie Hopkins for things Brits love moaning about. The best and worst UK cities have been ranked based on their mobile phone network performance in the second half of 2015. Independent ...
Tags: Mobile phone, Best city
GlobalFoundries of Santa Clara, CA, USA (one of the world's largest semiconductor foundries, with more than 250 customers and operations in Singapore, Germany and the USA) has announced the availability of a new set of process design kits ...
Standard Motor Products has announced the addition of 197 new part numbers to its Standard, Intermotor lines. The release expands coverage through the 2015 model year covering more than 60 million additional VIO. The highlight is the ...
Advantech Wireless Inc of Montreal, Canada (which manufactures satellite, RF equipment and microwave systems) has launched the second-generation 500W, 4.4–5.0GHz gallium nitride (GaN)-based solid-state power amplifier (SSPA). The ...
Tags: GaN HEMT
Michelin Americas Truck Tires is launching the Michelin X Line Energy Z for line-haul steer applications. The company says that the new tire will deliver 20% more mileage. It features a new, ultra-fuel-efficient casing, so the improvement ...
At the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2016) in Barcelona, Spain (22–25 February), M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and ...
Tags: M/A-COM, Transistors
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (a fabless developer of gallium nitride-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications) has extended its global product sales coverage and added technical ...
Tags: GaN Systems, semiconductors
Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA (which makes both passive and active RF, microwave and millimeter-wave products) has launched a 19-inch rack-mounted variable-gain RF amplifier operating from 100MHz to 18GHz, designed for lab ...
Tags: Pasternack, RF Amplifier
Callaway Cars will offer the world’s most powerful street legal 2016 Camaro available through select North American Chevrolet dealerships. With the patented Callaway GenThree supercharger package, cooling system and styling, the ...
Tags: Callaway Cars, 2016 Camaro
Adidas will emerge from 2015 with one of China's best reputations for corporate social responsibility thanks to recognition from a variety of domestic non-profits and the Chinese Communist Party. On Nov. 1, the Chinese Academy of Social ...
Tags: CSR Awards, Adidas China
A ground data center that will support China's independent satellite navigation system was given the go-ahead Friday to offer location based services (LBS). Located in central China's Henan Province, the center features 63 data stations ...
Shen Hao, former president of 21st Century Media Co. Ltd., was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday for blackmailing companies by threatening negative coverage. Shen was convicted of extortion and forced transactions, among other ...
This year China has seen its customs undertaking reforms to facilitate trade across the border. Yu Guangzhou, head of the General Administration of Customs, said the customs clearance reform is in accordance with the annual economic work ...
Tags: China's Customs, Work Efficiency
Zebra has released technology designed to enhance productivity in the Australian manufacturing and transport and logistics sectors. The new Windows 10-ready VC80 is said to virtually extend any PC-based application to material-handling ...
Tags: Zebra, Windows 10-ready VC80, Service