OptaSense announces its distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) was named winner of the "Best Drilling and Well Technology" in 2013 by Oil & Gas Agenda magazine. The award recognizes those companies who have "shown their ability to drive forward ...
A GCC-wide telecoms consortium has been formed to build a high-bandwidth regional transmission cable system for the region, it was announced on Monday. The new system, which promises to provide broadband to new areas and customers, will ...
Tags: Middle East Telecoms, Cable System
One of Britain's most senior security officials will review a cybersecurity centre operated by Chinese company Huawei after concerns that the telecommunications firm - which is playing an increasingly large role in Britain's internet ...
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John Johnson considers the use of FPGAs to tackle the design challenges of smart metering systems Legacy power infrastructure is intrinsically inefficient, aging and the operation of it is often harmful to the environment. ...
Tags: FPGAs, Smart Grid, Consumer Electronics
IT'S the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world's fastest supercomputer. The $US121 million ($116m) supercomputer, housed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern ...
UK - Toby Alington and his team at Richmond Studios Productions are amidst last minute preparations for recording the UK's largest annual music show, The BRIT Awards 2013 in association with MasterCard. Whilst this will be Alington's 19th ...
Tags: fibre optic cable, BRITs, digital console
Desalination plant flow control and treatment expenditures are now just 1.5 percent of the $340 billion dollar flow control and treatment market. While the market as a whole will increase at 5.5 percent, the growth in the desalination ...
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Wikipedia was out of action again on Monday, but not intentionally, out of protest, as it has been in the past. This time, the user-generated online encyclopaedia was knocked offline because two fibre cables connecting its datacentres in ...
Tags: Wikipedia, online encyclopaedia, offline, fibre cable
UK-West Midlands-based technical solutions provider Central Presentations Ltd(CPL)supplied a lighting and camera/visuals/projection package for the 2012 Boomtown Fair's Lion's Den Stage. The event was staged at Matterley Bowl near ...
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UK - Cambridge-based MI Broadcast have been taking full advantage of the flexibility of the Roland S-4000 Series Digital Snakes, hiring them out to their customers including Arena Television for prestigious projects such as the Olympics and ...
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Four days of non-stop manual efforts by datacentre staff at Peer 1 Hosting to deliver gallons of fuel to 17th floor generators has helped the colocation provider's Manhattan facility remain operational despite hurricane Sandy. ...
Tags: Peer 1 Hosting, network connections, Hurricane Sandy, power generators