Lighting seems very much to be the topic du jour across the channel as a Parisian creative arts centre has seen its dome fitted with 4,480 LED lights, in a scheme masterminded by London-based designer Tiphaine Treins. The designer spoke ...
While much of the hype for software-defined networking is focused on large-scale data centre deployments, some companies are taking a different angle. According to Laurent Masia, a product line manager for Netgear, the idea is to make the ...
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Street lights in front of Castlegate in Aberdeen, Scotland. Every street light in Scotland could be fitted with low-energy LED bulbs as part of ambitious plans to cut CO2 emissions, ministers said on Thursday. The Scottish government ...
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As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch. "It's our hope that an open, disaggregated switch will enable a faster pace of innovation in ...
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Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier on Wednesday. The Syrian government earlier today blamed the?Internet blackout, which had gone into its second ...
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Bosch Automotive Service Solutions has unveiled new electric vehicle (EV) charging station, the Power Max in the US. Costing less than $450, the charging station is claimed to provide 240V charging and also reduces the charging time to ...
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The Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum of Childhood in East London has been given an impressive facelift with the help of a few colourful LEDs. Housed within an iron structure dating back to 1872 when it was opened as the Bethnal Green ...
More and more news stories are being reported from around the country of councils and local authorities rolling out widespread switch-offs of street and outdoor lighting, as people become increasingly aware of how ecologically irresponsible ...
A little more than two years ago,Facebook had a revolutionary idea: Inspired by the model of open-source software, it would bring together a community – the Open Compute Project (OCP) – focused on the creation of open-source ...
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The next-generation Mercedes-Benz GLK mid-size luxury SUV has been given the green light for Australia when it’s released in 2014. CarAdvice reported last week that Mercedes-Benz Australia was not yet committed to the new GLK, with ...
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Renault will completely renew its passenger car line-up within five years, with some models set for the chopping block, others to be completely changed in concept, and all poised to adopt a new corporate identity. The Renault Clio IV ...
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When a bridge was washed out in Siberia there was only one way to get people across. The water was moving too fast for people to use small boats, so another way had to be devised. So what did they turn to? You already know, because you read ...
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The traditional structure by which payments are made in the UK needs to be vastly simplified, with retailers and other merchants dealing directly with customers' banks - not via "merchant acquirers" and other middlemen. The new structure ...
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State-owned PetroChina has refuted local reports that it restricted natural gas supplies in some areas of northern China in order to force the government's hand in raising prices and accelerating gas pricing reforms. Local media, ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2013 (to end-March), LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $348.9m, up 1% on last quarter and up 23% on $284.8m a year ago (and at the high end of the ...
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