Rovio, the Finnish studio behind the popular Angry Birds computer game, has deployed Riak, the open source NoSQL database from Basho Technologies, to aid scalability and management of data volumes from its games and animated Angry Birds ...
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A number of elected officials made the most of the August recess, using some of their time away from Washington, D.C. to visit constituents at glass industry companies in both Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively. U.S. Senator Rob Portman ...
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Dot Foods, a US-based food redistributor, plans to invest around $24m for the construction of its new distribution center in Dyersburg, Tennessee, a move that will creates 157 new jobs. The centre, which will be located in Dyersburg ...
Clinical lab instruments developer Magellan Diagnostics has received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) approval to market its LeadCare Ultra blood lead testing system in the US. Claimed to be the first plug-and-play ...
Cambridge EnTech, a division of Cambridge International, has introduced a new engineered gas filter for particulate control and air quality issues in processing plants. The Cambridge EnTech Reeltration System (RTS) is claimed to clean ...
UK-based Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon, has opened its new office at Cambourn Business Park in Cambridge. As part its domestic expansion plans, the firm has also expanded its existing offices in St Albans ...
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Job vacancies for IT workers are increasing at a faster rate in areas outside of London, despite an on-going drive by the government to promote Tech City and start-ups in the East End of the Capital. This is according to the latest data ...
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology never sought a federal prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the programming prodigy who was charged with stealing millions of academic papers from an online archive at MIT, according to a report by the ...
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Ultratech Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which designs and manufactures lithography, laser-processing and inspection systems used to make semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs), has moved its Ultratech/Cambridge NanoTech ...
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Boston Biomedical has relocated its headquarters to Cambridge, Massachusetts with the opening of a new 64,000ft2 facility, in a bid to advance its efforts in discovering next generation of targeted cancer therapeutics. Commenting on the ...
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THE Australian dollar jumped more than 1.5 US cents after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke declared US stimulus measures would continue. The local currency hit 92.94 US cents shortly before 9am AEST, only four hours after sinking ...
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Fabless envelope tracking (ET) semiconductor firm Nujira Ltd of Cambridge, UK and specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc ...
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Some 1960s "plate glass" universities are challenging the big names Jul 6th 2013 |From the print edition Tweet..EVERY year newspapers and college guides rank British universities according to the exam results of the students they admit, ...
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The UK's capacity in power electronics has received an £18m boost from the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) with the opening of the first EPSRC National Centre of Excellence for Power Electronics. As ...
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The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC has developed a method to grow epitaxial nitride semiconductors on graphene [Neeraj Nepal et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p061003, 2013]. The researchers hope that this could lead to ...
Tags: Graphene, Electrical, Electronics, hot-electron transistors