Researchers at the INM have produced antimicrobial abrasion-resistant coatings with a long-term effect that kill germs reliably and at the same time prevent germs becoming established. Hygienic conditions and sterile procedures are ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
AkzoNobel and leading architecture firm OMA have formed partnership to conduct global research into the link between color and economic development. The new study will focus on the extent to which making an area more visually attractive ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Economy
Apple Inc. expects to join Samsung and Sony in the wearables territory this fall, with a tentative October launch date scheduled for its long-rumored gadget, Re/code reported. The consumer electronics company hopes to hold an event that ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, has launched its modular AC Power Block solar power ...
Tags: AC Power, photovoltaic
Residents in Tangshan are very familiar with the concept of oversupply. A severe glut in the steel industry has put many jobs at risk in the northeastern Chinese city that counts the metal as one of its primary exports. But the oversupply ...
Tags: Housing Market, Crashing Down
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has added three new products to its portfolio of discrete mixers. The ...
Tags: MACOM, Plastic Packages
Sellers at the 8th Asia LNG summit in Beijing Wednesday said there is a growing shortfall of LNG globally, as buyers wait on the sidelines, preferring to sign LNG term contracts linked to other indexation points rather than traditional ...
Tags: Potential LNG, gas
The outcome of proposals for 215 ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) farms in the UK, with capacities in excess of 5MW, are now being re-evaluated, according to Solarbuzz. This re-evaluation follows new, and unexpected, proposals from ...
Microsoft is pulling the plug on a new model of deploying and hosting apps for SharePoint that relied on the company's Azure platform. The goal of the Autohosted Apps Preview program was to offer SharePoint developers a "friction free" ...
Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft, APP Service
US-based First Solar delivered on expectations in 2013 to become the leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry, even though it is likely to be surpassed in 2014 by China-based ...
Solar photovoltaic is an important part of the UK’s energy mix: there is currently 2.7 GW of PV capacity in the UK – enough to power 620,000 homes – placing us firmly in the global top 10 economies for solar power. We ...
Tags: Solar photovoltaic, PV capacity
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, Tsinghua University in China, and Case Western Reserve University in the USA claim to have developed a fiber supercapacitor that can be woven into clothing and power ...
The Eager Beavertons' FuelBand is on life support, but the activity tracker’s proprietary point-based workout metric, NikeFuel, will likely to live on as the E.B.s remain committed to the software. CNET was the first to report the ...
Tags: Wearable Tracker, Nike
Scientists have taken a large step toward making a fiber-like energy storage device that can be woven into clothing and power wearable medical monitors, communications equipment or other small electronics. The device is a ...
Mall-Connect, a leading software company for shopping center marketing, announced the launch of the world’s first omni channel marketing platform: MyDeck. MyDeck enables shopping centers to eliminate two threats: First, the ...
Tags: Omni-Channel, Mall-Connect