The worldwide wearable market reached a new all-time high as shipments reached 33.9 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016, growing 16.9% on year. Shipments for the entire year grew 25% as new vendors entered the market and previous ...
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Nordic Sugar, which supplies sugar in the North European market, is halting the production of Fibrex and Fipec at its Swedish factory in Kopingebro. The company said that after 30 successful but challenging years on the fiber market, the ...
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IOS 4: support multi task switching, the use of more diverse and lively From the beginning of the June 2010 release of iPhone 4, OS iPhone system officially changed its name to our familiar iOS". The biggest characteristic of iOS 4 system ...
The project MIRPHAB (MidInfraRed PHotonics devices fABrication for chemical sensing and spectroscopic applications) has unveiled a chemical sensor capable of detecting drugs and explosives from a distance of 30m. Lasting from the ...
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Pricing pressures and a varied international outlook are still facts of life for industrial laser vendors, but overall demand remained in line with expectations during the first quarter of 2014. The regular survey of vendors carried ...
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When GE sold its home appliance division in September 2014 for US $3.3 billion to Swedish company Electrolux, market rumors surfaced that the company might sell its lighting business too. The company denied intentions of selling its century ...
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TCL Communication (ALCATEL ONETOUCH and TCL) and Sunpartner Technologies today unveiled a smartphone that can recharge itself by light (Wysips crystal). Seen for the first time at Mobile World Congress 2014, the smartphone demonstrates ...
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Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) unveiled today a high-precision, low-power meter-on-a-chip for a range of portable health applications such as point-of-care diagnostics, home/self-test health devices, and wearable vital signs monitors, ...
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Preventice, a developer of mobile health applications and remote monitoring systems, has received ISO 13485: 2003 certification for its quality management system. As per the ISO requirements of the quality management system, an ...
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Fast-growing semiconductor designer ARM has snapped up Sensinode, a Finnish start-up specialising in software technology behind the "internet of things". Like ARM, Sensinode makes money by licensing, but of software to semiconductor ...
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Salutron, a developer of physiological monitoring solutions for wearable devices and exercise equipment, and Azumio, a developer of consumer mobile health applications have announced Azumio's Argus iOS app integration with the new LifeTrak ...
U.S. House lawmakers plan to hold a three-day series of hearings to determine how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should regulate mobile health applications. The House Energy and Commerce Committee plans to begin the hearings ...
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The Federal Communications Commission is planning to launch a variety of initiatives to spur the development and adoption of broadband-enabled healthcare devices and applications, with the overriding goal of establishing mobile health ...
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Texas Instruments has reduced the entry price for ARM Cortex-M4F microcontroller design with its Stellaris LM4F120 LaunchPad evaluation kit,costing$5. With integrated analogue and floating point capabilties,the MCU will be used for ...
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