U.S tech companies lead all other industries in patent production, and Silicon Valley has the highest patent-producing population, says a new study. Moreover, the rate of patenting by U.S. inventors "is at its highest point since the ...
Tags: Industrial Revolution, Computer Products, U.S.Inventiveness
Microsoft has released tools to block Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) from automatically reaching corporate PCs running Windows 7, a sign that the new browser will not release for at least several weeks. The IE10 Automatic Update Blocker ...
Cotton Australia is warning farmers in Queensland and NSW about the risks to cotton crops from 2,4-D Phenoxy herbicide used to control weeds following rainfall. More than 12,000ha of the total Australian cotton crop is estimated to have ...
Tags: Cotton, Australia, cotton crops
Hewlett-Packard plans to use its recently announced SDN controller to distribute its TippingPoint intrusion prevention system across networks, overcoming the scale limitations of dedicated appliances. The research project, called ...
Tags: HP, Network Security, SDN
The Australian dollar fell sharply yesterday after The Wall Street Journal exclusively reported a warning on the outlook for the Australian economy issued by ratings firm Standard & Poor's. At 5pm AEDT, the dollar was buying $US1.0406, ...
Tags: Aussie dollar, Australian economy, dollar
The Australian dollar fell sharply after The Wall Street Journal reported a warning on the outlook for the Australian economy issued by ratings firm Standard and Poor's. At 5pm AEDT the dollar was buying $US1.04, down from $US1.0470 in ...
Tags: Dollar, Australian economy, investment
Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi [Elaibi] has issued a stern warning to the KRG over their attempts to export large quantities of crude oil to Turkey, describing it as “a red line“. “The Kurds are under obligation ...
Tags: Iraqi Oil Minister, KRG, crude oil, Turkey
UL has issued a warning to consumers, retailers, manufacturers, regulatory agencies and Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs) that the communications cable identified below bears a counterfeit UL Mark for the United States, and may pose a ...
Tags: UL, communications cable, hazard
We'll remember 2012 as being a banner year for driving enthusiasts. The Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ twins took to the road, closely followed by the Ford Focus ST, a model whose track prowess we recently captured on video. The ST is Ford's ...
Tags: driving enthusiasts, Ford, Focus ST
The Infiniti FX SUV is by all accounts a unique car. That’s not ‘unique’ because it’s a rare SUV that doesn’t sell in decent numbers – therefore ensuring exclusivity – but also because few SUV ...
Philips, who invented the tapes and had been fighting for the consumer electronics industry for 80 years, now left consumer electronics market. In the field of consumer electronics, European companies are in recession, and correspondingly, ...
Minister for Industry Greg Combet says manufacturers should not sit back and wait for a fall in the Australian dollar – they must change with the times or risk failure. Mr Combet’s warning, reported by The Australian ...
Politicians have attacked the "crazy" situation which sees north Watford road signs illuminated all night, while dangerous bends are left in darkness by the streetlight switch-off. Hertfordshire County Council introduced a part-night ...
Tags: streetlight, LED streetlights, lighting
Sharing the road with big trucks scares almost all of us sometimes. You see a semi closing in on your car and worry if the trucker will brake in time, or if they can even see you. Now, in an effort to help prevent dangerous crashes and ...
Tags: big trucks, car, trucker
Last Friday (January 25), the South Korean electronics group Samsung announced its recorded earnings, but also issued a warning on the smart phone market. According to British newspapers, Samsung Group warned that the growing ...