Making the right choices for lighting in a commercial building can be very difficult, particularly when you have to balance the demands of the building occupiers with the need to reduce the amount of energy which is being used. In theory ...
Hewlett-Packard's layoff just got a little bigger. The company, in a U.S. Security and Exchange filing, said it will eliminate 29,000 positions, an increase of 2,000. In May, HP announced plans to cut 27,000 employees by 2014, or about ...
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Taiwan's manufacturers of machine tools,most of which are small or medium in size,have experienced substantial sales growth following the global financial crisis of 2009.Their exports grew a further 9.4%in the first half of 2012,to US$2.09 ...
Dropbox, the most popular consumer online storage service, announced Tuesday that it is doubling the capacity of its plans but keeping its prices the same. The company is also now offering a new 500GB service plan. Dropbox's service plans ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK says that it has enhanced wafer inspection capabilities at its Cardiff facility by acquiring a new automated wafer inspection tool supplied by Nanotronics Imaging LLC of ...
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Uwatec has designed an ARM Cortex-M3 32bit microcontroller from Energy Micro into its Meridian diving computer. Energy Micro is known for designing extremely low power peripherals for its microcontrollers. This particular one,an ...
From checking blood glucose levels, to monitoring the movements of a newborn baby, Canadians are increasingly able to monitor their health across a growing variety of devices and services. What most will not know is that in the background, ...
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Sales of CMOS image sensors will grow 8%this year to$6.3bn compared to$5.8bn in 2011,when the market climbed 29%from$4.5bn in 2010,says IC Insights. The 2011 increase pushed CMOS image sensor sales above the previous record of$4.6bn set ...
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Three years ago, with much fanfare, Canadian upstart Arise Technologies Corp. opened the doors of a brand-new solar cell manufacturing plant in Bischofswerda, Germany. With financial support from the German government, the operation was to ...
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