Mobile network O2 has announced that its 4G service will launch in the UK on 29 August. The new network, which it claims will be up to five times faster than 3G, will be switched on in London, Leeds and Bradford first, followed by a ...
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Sprint says it will have live LTE sites using former Clearwire spectrum across the U.S. next year and expects all its new mobile devices in 2014 to be equipped for those frequencies -- though not necessarily iPhones. The company gave an ...
Tags: Wide Rollout and Device
The founder of the UpTime Institute, Kenneth G. Brill, 69, died Tuesday, the institute's parent company announced. Brill, an electrical engineer by training, is credited with playing an enormous role in shaping the modern data center ...
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D3O, the British smart materials specialist, has developed a brand new range of cushioning materials specifically for footwear applications including athletic, industrial and military markets launching in July 2013. D3O is a ground ...
Tags: Footwear Cushioning Materials, Textile, smart materials
Peach State Integrated Technologies, producer of the National Logistics & Distribution Conference (NLDC), announces the appointment of Ralph Henderson as NLDC executive director. Henderson is replacing Ron Dahlin, who has served in the ...
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Traders have remained rather indecisive, as they are torn between a tight supply situation nearby that justifies firm prices until new crop arrives and a potentially bearish outlook thereafter. As a result we have a market that is stuck ...
Clearance of the airwaves earmarked for 4G mobile broadband will be completed by regulators today, enabling new 4G services to launch in the UK. Communications regulator Ofcom said that a large section of radio spectrum previously used ...
Tags: 4G, software, Computer Products
Beer emerged as the biggest food and drink winner from the July heatwave, with the category gaining £57.4M in value in that month, according to market analyst IRI. July saw beer, ice cream and soft fruit all gain significant value ...
Microsoft is expanding the push for so-called "white spaces" broadband to South Africa, where it will help to deploy the technology in a pilot project serving five primary and secondary schools. The pilot project is aimed at getting ...
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The new release includes an iPhone and iPAd mobile CRM app, designed to give sales teams access to company, contact and enquiry details while away from the office. In addition, Shuttleworth has launched a job tracking functionality called ...
Hudson’s Bay Company and Saks Incorporated announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby HBC will acquire Saks for US$16.00 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately US$2.9 billion, ...
Tags: Apparel, Hudson's Bay
Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA says that its Vero series of LED array products (made available commercially in April) are now shipping with what is claimed to be industry-leading luminous efficacy of 120lm/W (nominal) and 110lm/W ...
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Peking University has found that using a pre-strain layer in nitride semiconductor epitaxial structures designed for blue laser diodes (LDs) can reduce the efficiency-sapping quantum-confined Stark effect (QCSE) [Cao Wen-Yu et al, Chin. ...
The 2006 light art exhibit by light artist Ivan Navarro consisted of thirteen aluminum doors containing a rainbow spectrum of neon lights. Entitled “Death Row”, this exhibit’s arrangement spanned an area is such a way as ...
Cass Johnson, President of the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), released the following statement in meeting between President Barack Obama and President Truong Tan Sang of Vietnam. “Within the context of the ...