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Allied Electronics Names Two New Executive Management Team Members
April 22, 2013 5:42 pm | by Allied Electronics | News | CommentsAllied Electronics has announced on two new vice presidents to its executive management team (EMT) – Vice President of Product Management Frank Cantwell and Vice President of Marketing Dan Stewart. Both Cantwell and Stewart were promoted from within the organization after recent leadership changes.
Southco Acquires Uniley Industrial Components
April 22, 2013 5:34 pm | by Southco, Inc. | News | CommentsSouthco, Inc. has announced its acquisition of Unikey Industrial Components. With this acquisition, Southco expands its broad range of engineered access hardware solutions and extends the company’s global market presence into South America.
Touchscreen Requirements for Human Machine Interface in Industrial Automation
April 22, 2013 11:43 am | by Vikas Dhurka, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Cypress Semiconductor | Articles | CommentsThe Human Machine Interface (HMI) in industrial automation is quickly transitioning to touchscreens. The touchscreen requirements on a factory floor, however, are unique and must be solved for a good (read “safe”) operator experience with increased productivity and throughput.
HotSpot Episode 9: Google Glass Tech Specs Released
April 22, 2013 11:43 am | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsThis week on WDD’s HotSpot, brought to you by Memory Protection Devices, Google has released the tech specs for its upcoming smart specs: Google Glass; Gregor Hanuschak, created the Smack Attack steering-wheel cover; developers have created a new Internet of Things-friendly microcontroller...
Germanium Made Compatible
April 22, 2013 10:44 am | by Maja Schaffner, ETH Zurich | Articles | CommentsResearchers from ETH Zurich, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the Politecnico di Milano have jointly developed a manufacturing technique to render the semiconductor germanium laser-compatible through high tensile strain. In their paper recently published in Nature Photonics...
Revolutionary New Device Joins World of Smart Electronics
April 22, 2013 10:41 am | by University of Exeter | News | CommentsSmart electronics are taking the world by storm. From techno-textiles to transparent electronic displays, the world of intelligent technology is growing fast and a revolutionary new device has just been added to its ranks. Researchers at the University of Exeter...
In Boston Manhunt, Online Detectives Flourish
April 22, 2013 10:24 am | by MANUEL VALDES, Associated Press | News | CommentsFueled by Twitter, online forums like Reddit and 4Chan, smartphones and relays of police scanners, thousands of people played armchair detective as police searched for men who turned out to be suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen brothers who had immigrated from southern Russia years ago.
Beleaguered Caregivers Getting Help from Apps
April 22, 2013 10:06 am | by JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press | News | CommentsNow she has an app for that. With a tap or two on her iPhone, D'Auria can access a "pillbox" program that keeps it all organized for her and other relatives who share in the caregiving and subscribe to the app. From GPS devices and computer programs that help relatives track a wandering Alzheimer's patient to iPad apps...
Challenges with Microcell Deployment & Configuration
April 19, 2013 10:11 am | by Sinisa Peric, Chief R&D Engineer, QRC Technologies and Thomas Callahan, GM & CTO, QRC Technologies | Articles | CommentsWith cellular phones becoming not just voice, but now also data appliances, there is a growing need for operators to provide wide area (3-5 mile) coverage that assures high-rate data and voice services in nearly every location. What used to be considered “acceptable” gaps in coverage, like isolated homes...
New App Helps Icelanders Avoid Accidental Incest
April 19, 2013 9:50 am | by JENNA GOTTLIEB,Associated Press JILL LAWLESS,Associated Press | News | CommentsA new smartphone app is on hand to help Icelanders avoid accidental incest. The app lets users "bump" phones, and emits a warning alarm if they are closely related. "Bump the app before you bump in bed," says the catchy slogan. Some are hailing it as a welcome solution to a very Icelandic form of social embarrassment.
Big Questions for Big Data
April 19, 2013 9:39 am | by Kelly Servick | Stanford Engineering | News | CommentsBut for Stanford Computer Science Professor Jure Leskovec, the most interesting answers are under the hood, in the data of our online habits. His research uses information collected from sites like Twitter, Wikipedia and Facebook to tackle big questions about how society works.
Microsoft Beats Street, Readies New Mobile Devices
April 19, 2013 9:38 am | by PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsMicrosoft Corp. is struggling to extend its software into smartphones and tablets as consumers are turning away from PCs, the foundation of its empire. Over the winter, it launched two larger tablets under the Surface brand. And in October, the company took a large stake in Barnes & Noble's digital unit...
Blackstone Drops Out of Race to Buy Dell
April 19, 2013 9:16 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsDell says buyout specialist Blackstone Group is ending a bid to buy the slumping computer maker, less than a month after pitching a plan to trump an offer from the company's CEO and founder. A letter to Dell Inc. from Blackstone and others involved in the bid says a steep...
Glasses Read to the Blind
April 18, 2013 2:52 pm | by Laboratory Equipment, Florida International University | Videos | CommentsA unique pair of eyeglasses developed by a Florida International Univ. (FIU) student team could revolutionize the lives of the blind, enabling them to walk into a library or a store, pick up any book or a can of soup and read it.
New Extreme Low Power, RTCA-compliant SBC from Aitech
April 18, 2013 11:55 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsAitech Defense Systems Inc. offers the RTCA-compliant C920, a rugged 3U Compact PCI PowerPC-based SBC (single board computer) with a low power dissipation of typically less than 5 W. The new SBC helps reduce engineering resources typically diverted to RTCA design requirements...
Parker Introduces Gen II R-maxTM Stream Switching System
April 18, 2013 11:52 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsParker Hannifin Corporation is offering the new Parker Gen II R-max Stream Switching System, a multi-functional system capable of integrating both stream switching and filtering into one compact, modular assembly...
New Keyboard for Touchscreens
April 18, 2013 10:18 am | by Max Planck Institute for Informatics | News | CommentsThe research team of Antti Oulasvirta at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics has created a new keyboard called KALQ that enables faster thumb-typing on touchscreen devices. They used computational optimization techniques in conjunction with a model of thumb movement...
M2M Combo Chip: In the Driver’s Seat for Reducing Cost in Automation Industry
April 18, 2013 9:52 am | by Satish Melukadavan, Vice President, Product Design, Redpine Signals Inc., M2MCombo, M2M communications, machine-to-machine communications, M2M cloud applications, automation industry | Articles | CommentsThe era of the Internet began in 1980s by networking organizations like the military, government agencies, corporate, and universities. If we talk to any user from that time, they wouldn’t have the slightest clue of what the future of this technology would be.
Provo, Utah, Next City for Ultra-Fast Google Fiber
April 18, 2013 9:31 am | by PAUL FOY, Associated Press | News | CommentsThe Provo deal is the first time Google plans to acquire an existing fiber-optic system. The city of 115,000 created the fiber-optic network, iProvo, in 2004. It planned to operate the system itself for Internet, television and phone service but found the operation too daunting...
Chipmaker TSMC Gets Tablet, Smartphone Boost in 1Q
April 18, 2013 9:21 am | by ANNIE HUANG, Associated Press | News | CommentsTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, reported an 18 percent jump in first quarter profit as increased global sales of smartphones and tablet computers boosted demand for sophisticated processors.
Microsoft Offers Security Enhancement for Sign-Ins
April 18, 2013 9:19 am | by ANICK JESDANUN, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsPeople who turn on the new feature will be asked not just for a username and password, but also a second piece of information, such as a temporary code sent as a text message to a phone on file. Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. already allow two-step verification as an option.
International Network, IX Reach, Opens Global Carrier Centre in Heart of London Docklands
April 17, 2013 1:40 pm | by IX Reach Ltd | News | CommentsIX Reach Ltd has announced the opening of its new colocation suite, the Global Carrier Centre, in the heart of the London Docklands. Housed in TelecityGroup’s Harbour Exchange (HEX) facility and with over 150 global and local carriers available, it’s an ideal location for networks looking to open a physical...
Tekelec Virtualizes the Diameter Signaling Router for Elastic Scalability, Adds New Voice over LTE Services.
April 17, 2013 12:43 pm | by Tekelec | News | CommentsLTE Latin America 2013 Conference —Mobile operators can more efficiently create and manage LTE and 3G mobile data services with the latest version of Tekelec’s Diameter Signaling Router (DSR), available this quarter. The newest release introduces virtualization and adds new emergency Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services...
RFMW Ltd., Announces 10 Year Anniversary
April 17, 2013 11:29 am | by RFMW, Ltd. | News | CommentsRFMW Ltd., has announced that July 1, 2013 will mark the 10-year anniversary of their company. With worldwide headquarters in San Jose, CA. and sales offices throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East, the company has seen a continual acceptance of their “niche” philosophy in that “RFMW, Ltd.
Wireless "Smart Skin" Sensors Could Provide Remote Monitoring of Infrastructure
April 17, 2013 9:57 am | by John Toon, Georgia Institute of Technology | News | CommentsMajor bridge failures in recent years have focused attention on the need to monitor America’s highway bridges and other infrastructure. As thousands of bridges, parking garages and other structures age, improved methods for detecting deterioration could save lives and prevent economic disruption.
