"Indian providers have had to deal with these contingencies-international telecom cables being sliced, large union strikes that impact workers-so they are generally more prepared to deal with [them]," says Steve Hall, partner with ...
Tags: Indian, telecom cables, outsourcing consultancy, ISG
The Misfit Shine is a new wireless physical activity device by Misfit Wearables that bears a truly simple yet bold design. The Misfit Shine is about the size of a quarter and contains an easily replaceable battery that lasts six months. All ...
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Four UK youths acting in the name of activist hacking collective Anonymous cost PayPal £3.5m as a result of cyber attacks carried out 2010 and 2011, a court has heard. The distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were carried ...
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To celebrate 50 years of their music, The Rolling Stones kicked off this year's holiday festivities on London's Carnaby Street, switching on the annual Carnaby Street lighting display with a rock n' roll twist. For the temporary ...
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Early on the opening day of Vision 2012, the German Engineering Federation – the VDMA (Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau) presented the results of its latest survey of the machine vision marketplace. Based on factory order ...
Tags: machine vision marketplace, order book information, Germany, job titles
Avago Technologies has announced its new active optical cable (AOC) family, high-density SFP+ QSFP+ and CXP solutions for high-performance computing (HPC) and data-center applications. The firm says that the active optical cable assemblies ...
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The department for culture, media and sport (DCMS) introduced its new minister to the broadband industry today with controversial rules aiming to speed up deployment of superfast connections across the UK. Maria Miller, who takes over ...
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A research team is demonstrating tablets that form local networks among the devices laid upon their surfaces, while also providing wireless charging, at the Ceatec electronics show in Japan. The concept is meant to support ad-hoc networks ...
Tags: tablet, table, network, devices, wireless charging
Wikipedia was out of action again on Monday, but not intentionally, out of protest, as it has been in the past. This time, the user-generated online encyclopaedia was knocked offline because two fibre cables connecting its datacentres in ...
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TURCK announces a new white paper, Listed vs. AWM: What to Know When Selecting Your Cable Solution, is now available for immediate download at askturck.com or on the TURCK website. Serving as a valuable industry resource, this white paper ...
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India - A massive spiritual convention, in which 350,0000 worshippers descended on the Indian city of Jalandhar, in the state of Punjab, over three days, saw the audio relayed over the vast site using an Optocore network, designed and ...
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Norway - German media and broadcast specialists Studio Hamburg MCI have followed up the installation of four independently-configured BroaMan automatic routing systems for Swedish national broadcaster SVT, by specifying the same brand for ...
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Nexans announced that it has appointed Vikrant Verma as the Regional Sales Manager - LAN Systems for North India. In his new role, Vikrant Verma will manage Nexans' North India sales operation, help expand the LAN systems business and ...
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Nvidia on Thursday said it will bring wireless display to its Tegra chips, which will allow tablets and smartphones based on the chips to beam images and audio directly to high-definition TVs. The technology being implemented in Tegra ...
Tags: Nvidia, wireless display, Tegra chips, ablets, smartphones
The code of practice for emergency lighting, BS 5266-1 was revised and then reissued in November 2011. To help installers and specifiers keep up with these requirements, Prysmian has published a guide, the latest in its series of FP guides ...
Tags: Prysmian, British Standards, Emergency Lighting, Lighting Industry News