About 50 new jobs will be created in Yorkshire when Symington’s transfers production of its noodles from China to the UK. Bringing noodles home. Symington’s decision to transfer noodle production from China to the UK will ...
Toshiba is offering Structured Arrays licensed from BaySand. They provide, says Toshiba ‘an ASIC alternative to FPGA with lower cost and power consumption - but still at significantly lower implementation and sample/production ...
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Diode laser maker DILAS of Mainz, Germany is now delivering 40W of output power (substantially higher than previously available) from a T-bar-based 638nm 400-micron/0.22NA fiber-coupled module used for cinema projection. DILAS says that, ...
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Large US refiner Valero Energy sees Louisiana and California as among the destinations that will be served by its recent order of 5,320 new rail cars to move discounted inland crudes across the US, the company's chief operating officer said ...
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Use of lubricants has always been considered important for avoiding malfunctioning of machines. From a kitchen appliance to heavy industry machinery, all require lubrication for perfect operation. Continuous increase in product has ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that its silicon-on-insulator (SOI) switching technology is now being used by European, Japanese, Korean and North ...
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Aon Risk Solutions has introduced Transaction Liability Practice, intended to capitalize on the growth in the transaction liability insurance market. The practice will be complimented with additional resources to support the complex ...
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John Lewis has announced that it will open a second Distribution Centre (DC) at Magna Park in Milton Keynes, to fulfil orders both from the retailer's online business and to its 39 shops around the UK. John Lewis has signed a 30-year ...
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Microsoft has acquired MetricsHub, a startup focused on technology for automating cloud performance management. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Microsoft also announced Monday the immediate availability to Windows ...
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The emergence of the Firefox OS is just one more reason that Microsoft and BlackBerry will need to sharpen their marketing savvy to sell more smartphones in 2013. Microsoft officials at Mobile World Congress (MWC) here conceded that the ...
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Products from several smartphone vendors and processors from the likes of Nvidia are helping drive down the cost of LTE-enabled devices. LTE smartphone shipments will grow from about 90 million units last year to 275 million in 2013, ...
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Dematic has released the Vocollect SRX2 wireless voice headset. Wireless headsets are said to provide a better user experience and reduced maintenance costs, compared to wired headsets. However in the past, wireless headsets were not ...
Lydall, Inc. announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2012. Fourth Quarter 2012 (“Q4 2012”) compared to Fourth Quarter 2011 (“Q4 2011”) Net sales were $90.5 million, ...
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Posted by Rick Lingle, Technical Editor -- Packaging Digest, 2/25/2013 3:07:41 PM Demand for rigid bulk packaging is forecast to advance 3.9 percent per year to $7.0 billion in 2017, accelerating from the performance of the 2007-2012 ...
Developers using Microsoft's mainstay Visual Studio IDE on Windows will be able to build native Apple iOS mobile applications via version 2.0 of the Xamarin development platform, which is being announced Wednesday. Leveraging the Mono ...
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