One World Technologies has recalled the Ryobi cordless tool battery pack, which can overheat and burst while on a charger, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers. This recall involves about 2200 sold in Canada. It involves Ryobi ...
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Freescale Semiconductor has signed a major new ARM license agreement which will cover the Cambridge firm’s most advanced processor cores. Freescale has taken a multiyear subscription license with ARM beginning with the ARM ...
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Renesas Electronics has given details of its plans for the RX family of microcontrollers, which include its lowest power, lowest cost 32-bit MCU. The RX100 series microcontrollers are based on a 130nm process technology and run at 32MHz, ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says it is shipping production volumes of its AWT6651 ProEficient power amplifier (PA) to Samsung Electronics for the Galaxy Music ...
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Fire safety legislation places considerable responsibility on all those involved in designing, installing and manufacturing emergency lighting systems, to meet fire safety risk assessments. Users and their supporting engineers need ...
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Official images of the McLaren P1 production car have leaked online ahead of its unveiling at next week’s 2013 Geneva motor show. The leaked press shots – which appeared on Russian website AutoWP – confirm the highly ...
Fire safety legislation places considerable responsibility on all those involved in designing, installing and manufacturing emergency lighting systems, to meet fire safety risk assessments. Users and their supporting engineers need ...
Tags: BIP 2081, British Standards Update, Lighting British Standards
Huawei yesterday bolstered its worldwide consumer offerings with the introduction of the Ascend P2, which it dubbed the world’s fastest smartphone. The smartphone was announced during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the ...
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Razer™ has announced that its award-winning Razer Edge tablet will be available for pre-order on March 1, 2013, at 12:01 a.m. Purchased units will be shipped to consumers later that month. The most powerful tablet in the world is ...
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The organization behind the ANT+ wireless protocol, used in many power meters and others sports monitoring products, announced a new generation of the protocol Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The new ANT ...
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Has Sony finally nailed it? From our time using the Xperia Z handset, Sony seems to have achieved exactly that. We found the Xperia Z to be a sophisticated phone. Its 5-inch full HD screen is ultra sharp with 441 pixels per inch ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that several OEMs and smartphone providers are leveraging its SkyOne front-end solution. The SkyOne platform, ...
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Nokia has expanded its Lumia portfolio with the 520 and 720. The Lumia 520 is the company's cheapest Windows phone to date at $184, and comes as the company is under pressure to increase sales volumes. The struggling phone vendor's switch ...
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Chinese handset maker ZTE said it will consider releasing smartphones built with eight-core processors in the future as the company prioritizes the high-end market this year. ZTE plans to launch before mid-year in China so-called "super ...
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BARCELONA -- Hewlett Packard on Sunday unveiled the HP Slate7, a 7-in. tablet that will go on sale in April in the U.S. starting at the bargain price of $169. The HP Slate7 is a 7-in. tablet that will go on sale in April for $169. ...
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