UK-The British Olympic Association's(BOA)operational headquarters during London 2012(Team GB House)was complete with private hospitality area,a special lounge designed to allow athletes to spend time with their family and friends,a press ...
Criminals no longer need to stake out a home or a business to monitor the inhabitants'comings and goings.Now they can simply pick up wireless signals broadcast by the building's utility meters. In the US,analogue meters that measure ...
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A new forecast by market researchers at ElectroniCast Consultantssuggests that the market for devices used in commercial free-space optical (FSO) communications systems will near-double by 2018. However, such is the niche appeal of the ...
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Safelite Group Inc. said Friday it has purchased North Andover-based Giant Glass Co. Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The sale, rumored for more than a week, was completed Monday, ending 34 years of local ownership by Dennis Drinkwater and ...
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A month ahead of the launch of Research In Motion's BlackBerry 10 operating system, a couple of handsets running the OS have appeared in a U.S. radio regulatory database. There's not much about the phones that can be gathered from the ...
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Even though today is National Sleep Day, an alarming new report finds many people are falling asleep behind the wheel on a consistent basis. Yes, a lack of sleep is making our roads dangerous. The Center for Disease Control and ...
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The most controversial tech issue taken up by the outgoing Congress was, by far, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). This legislation drew a humongous public outcry that prompted a wholesale retreat by its supporters. But thanks to the ...
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The facelifted BMW 7 Series is the latest shot in the relentless game of luxury-limousine one-upmanship. Four years after the launch of Munich’s fifth-generation flagship, the ‘Life-Cycle Impulse’ (BMW-speak for a ...
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As the big international acts start to head down under for the busy summer season there is one thing many of them have in common - Vari*Lites. Elton John's lighting designer Kevin 'Stick' Bye, a former Vari-Lite technician, prefers to use ...
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Ferguson Hill makes loudspeakers like no other specialist audio brand. Its first product was the FH001, a high-end speaker that resembles the clear horns of this Ferguson Hill FH009 system -- only those speakers stand 1.65m tall. More ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA says that RFMD fellow Kevin W. Kobayashi has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers by the IEEE board of directors. The IEEE grade of fellow was conferred ...
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The future of appliances--refrigerators, toasters, washers, dryers, you name it--can be summed up as "smarter." But this smart revolution has already come to the trusty alarm clock, of which Stem Innovation's $100 Time Command is a good ...
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Ford is planning to stop producing vehicles in Australia by 2016 following slump in sales in the country, according to a report by the International Business Times. The automaker is considering to reduce production at its plants in ...
In general, all the LED products can be divided into two major parts, the public lighting and indoor lighting. LED uses fall into four major categories: Visual signals where light goes more or less directly from the source to the human ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has conditionally approved a multibillion swap of wireless spectrum between Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and four of the biggest cable TV system operators in the U.S. But for the ...
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