I find giant phones hard to carry and use, but I'm well aware that many people like the bigger images and text they offer. These so-called phablets, with screens measuring about 6 inches (15.24 centimeters) diagonally, are nearly as big ...
Tags: HTC, Nokia, Consumer Electronics, Smartphone
Prasad Dhond, Marketing Manager of Lighting Power Products at Texas Instruments (TI) gives a comprehensive overview of the effects of the incandescent bulb phase out in 2014. Below is his recent blog entry: You heard, right? The ...
Tags: LED bulb, light bulb, bulb, Lights, Lighting
News outlets highlighted health care aspects of President Barack Obama's news conference. Politico: Obama: More Than A Million New Insured In December More than one million Americans signed up for health insurance under the Affordable ...
A new rule to protect the nation's food supply from terrorism has been introduced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency announced Friday. The proposed rule would require the largest food businesses in the United States and ...
North Carolina is famous for its high-tech Research Triangle, but lately it seems that state government IT projects are bound for IT's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. As you may remember from an earlier Risk Factor story on state ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
The mood among consumers in Germany is again remarkably good as 2013 draws to a close. Further increases were recorded in economic expectations and willingness to buy. Income expectations declined slightly from a high level. Following a ...
Tags: upswing, consumer climate, economy
Tax revenues continue bouncing back from the low levels reported in almost all countries , at the height of the global economic crisis, according to new OECD data in the annual Revenue Statistics publication. The average tax revenue to GDP ...
Despite the transformative impact that shale gas has had on the outlook of US energy markets, the European landscape regarding shale gas is very mixed and markets should exercise caution as multiple issues may slow progress, according to a ...
Target shoppers. Just in time for the holidays, your credit card data has been compromised. And according to Brian Krebs, the purloined information has been "flooding underground black markets in recent weeks, selling in batches of one ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Debit Cards, Credit
America will conclude its three-year farewell to inefficient general-purpose incandescent light bulbs on December 31, 2013, the National Lighting Bureau advises. On the following day – January 1, 2014 – it will be a violation of ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The Government of India would not include khadi weavers and spinners under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), Parliament was informed, Business Line reported quoting PTI. In a written reply to the Lok ...
Tags: Khadi Weavers, Textile
Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power company, organised a Security and Vigilance week from November 26 - December 2, 2013, for all its stakeholders, especially employees at the Jojobera plant. The event was inaugurated by ...
Tags: integrated power company, energy, Tata
Hickory Ground Solutions, LLC, of Heathsville, Va., is helping to ease the pain of potential tornado destruction in Central Oklahoma's oil industry with supply chain mapping analysis. This area gets hit hard with a lot of tornados. It can ...
The Pakistani textile industry has urged the Government to establish Generalized System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) Cell, in order to fully utilize the duty-free access to the European Union (EU) and earn foreign exchange. The proposal ...
Tags: Textile Sector, duty-free access
US-based food security company Blumberg Grain has been awarded a project by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to expand food security and storage in the African country. The new project will see deployment ...
Tags: Blumberg, Food Security