The US government made 12,444 requests for data about 40,322 Yahoo users, the web firm has revealed in its first annual transparency report. The report marks a more detailed account of what world governments have requested from Yahoo, ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Level 3 Communications, Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement with Lacoste's affiliate; Devanlay Ventures do Brasil Ltd, which manufactures and sells Lacoste products, such as clothing and accessories, in Brazil. Through the ...
Yahoo received more than 30,000 requests from seventeen different countries around the world for user data in the first half of this year, resulting in more than 25,000 instances of data disclosure, it said Friday in its first transparency ...
Tags: Yahoo, Data Requests
Using a single circuit board to host COB LEDs and the driver electronics, NiteN hopes to significantly lower the cost of SSL lamps, but the startup could be late to the party. NiteN has announced an LED retrofit lamp called the 2D-Lite ...
Tags: LED Retrofit Lamp, Niten Startup
SEACOM has embarked on an ambitious effort to dominate Africa’s regional and global Internet transit market by signing agreements with three European Internet Exchange points. The partnership with France IX, London Internet Exchange ...
Tags: IP Transit Market, SEACOM
A majority of U.S. Internet users polled in a recent survey report taking steps to remove or mask their digital footprints online, according to a report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project and Carnegie Mellon University. ...
Tags: Avoid Surveillance, Internet Users
Välinge is pleased to announce the signature of a license agreement with Huizhou NaiBao Plastic Products Co., Ltd for the use of Välinge's mechanical locking patented technologies in their LVT flooring products. The Chinese ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Microsoft is to acquire Nokia's Devices & Services business, which includes the smartphone and mobile phones businesses, and license the Finnish company's patents for a total of €5.44 billion (US$7 billion) in cash, the companies said ...
Tags: Microsoft, Nokia, Mobile Phones Business, Smartphones
Semiconductor designer and supplier ARM has acquired electronic design firm Cadence's PANTA display controller cores. Financial terms were not disclosed. Further reading ARM buys Finnish 'internet of things' start-up Sensinode ARM beats ...
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The Indian government is expected to require that Indian bureaucrats use email service provided by the National Informatics Center for their official work, as it tries to secure its communications infrastructure. The requirement will be ...
Tags: Computer Products, Email
US-based LED manufacturer Noribachi has developed a prototype luminaire with integrated multiple high-end technology options. The prototype luminaire was constructed using two HIGHBAY fixtures (one HIGHBAY.S and one HIGHBAY.M), each ...
Tags: LED, LED Lighting, Lights, Lighting, Prototype Lamp
Leading global network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is proved to have been badly affected by the disclosure of PRISM of the US in the Chinese mainland. China Telecom Corp. Ltd. (NYSE: CHA and SEHK: 0728), the biggest ...
Tags: China Telecom, Electronics
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 (to end-June), LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $375m, up 7% on $348.9m last quarter and 22% on $306.8m a year ago, due mainly to strong sales of ...
Tags: Cree LED, Electrical, Electronics
Osram and Sharp have cross-licensed LED and laser-diode patents, while Zumtobel appoints a new CEO and its Tridonic business completes the sale of its magnetic ballast plant in Australia. Osram GmbK based in Munich, Germany, and Sharp ...
Tags: laser-diode, Osram
With the timely and accurate collection, transfer and management of data being every bit as important as the physical movement of goods through the supply chain, Dematic has launched a new website aimed at making supply chains smarter. ...
Tags: logistics