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WebMD CEO Redmond steps down
May 7, 2013 6:37 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsWebMD Health Corp. said Tuesday that CEO Cavan Redmond is leaving the company after less than a year on the job. Redmond is stepping down as CEO and from the board of directors effective immediately. David Schlanger, WebMD's head of strategic and corporate development, will take over as interim...
Internet firms say Syria goes offline again
May 7, 2013 6:22 pm | by BARBARA ORTUTAY - AP Technology Writer - Associated Press | News | CommentsSyria is experiencing an Internet outage similar to a two-day blackout late last fall, according to companies that monitor online traffic around the world. Jim Cowie, the chief technology officer at Renesys, said his firm saw Syria's networks go offline abruptly at 6:25 p.m. UTC (2:25 p.m. EDT)...
Funding clean-energy solutions
May 7, 2013 5:27 pm | by Massachusetts Institute of Technology | News | CommentsThe sixth annual MIT Clean Energy Prize (CEP) competition, held Monday night, awarded a total of $320,000 to five teams that have developed clean-energy startups and innovations. The contest, co-sponsored by Massachusetts utility NSTAR and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and open to teams from any American university, is the nation’s leading student-run energy business-plan competition. Past participants have gone on to raise a to...
Photo interrupter intended for optical switches, digital cameras, and printers
May 7, 2013 4:28 pm | Everlight Americas, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsEverlight Electronics has introduced the latest member of its ITR series of photo interrupters for use in optical switches, digital cameras and printers, the ultra small outline slotted type ITR1205ST11A/TR. A slotted type opto interrupter detects an object when it enters the gap of the slotted switch....
Stamped spring pin achieves 31 gram actuation force per pin
May 7, 2013 4:12 pm | Ironwood Electronics, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsIronwood Electronics recently introduced a new LGA socket, addressing high performance requirements for 0.5mm pitch devices - CBT-LGA-5000. The contactor is a stamped spring pin with 31 gram actuation force per pin and cycle life of 500,000 insertions.
LED light designed to run 11 hours on a single charge
May 7, 2013 3:58 pm | Larson Electronics Llc | Product Releases | CommentsLarson Electronics Magnalight made public the EPL-RPS-1MLED rechargeable, explosion proof LED light cart. Designed to run 11 hours on a single charge, the Class 1 and Class 2 Division 1 LED light can illuminate a work area of more than 5000 feet.
CommVault says strong demand helps 4Q
May 7, 2013 3:27 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsCommVault Systems Inc. reported Tuesday that its fiscal fourth-quarter profit soared thanks to major revenue gains by the data and information management software company. The OceanPort, N.J.-based company earned $17 million, or 35 cents per share, for the quarter that ended March 31. That...
Research in the news: Real-time brain feedback can help people overcome anxiety
May 7, 2013 2:34 pm | by Yale UniversityYale University | News | CommentsPeople provided with a real-time readout of activity in specific regions of their brains can learn to control that activity and lessen their anxiety, according to new findings published online in the journal Translational Psychiatry....
CSAIL graduate honored with ACM award
May 7, 2013 2:10 pm | by Massachusetts Institute of Technology | News | CommentsShyamnath Gollakota, an MIT graduate who completed his doctoral research in Professor Dina Katabi’s Networks@MIT research group at CSAIL, has won the 2012 Doctoral Dissertation Award presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Gollakota was honored for his work designing practical systems that transform wireless systems by embracing the phenomenon of interference and rendering it harmless.Instead of trying to hide the ...
Science Xplained: Ice cream chemistry
May 7, 2013 1:45 pm | by Yale UniversityYale University | News | CommentsAinissa Ramirez, associate professor of mechanical engineering, describes the science behind a tasty bit of chemistry — ice cream. She shows how to make ice cream using liquid nitrogen, which is as cold as the surface of Neptune, and describes why these cold temperatures makes ice cream, creamier. She demonstrates how our knowledge of how ice freezes can be applied to ice cream and avalanches....
Saurabh Amin to be chief scientist on multi-institutional NSF grant
May 7, 2013 1:21 pm | by Massachusetts Institute of Technology | News | CommentsAssistant Professor Saurabh Amin of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is the chief scientist and lead MIT principal investigator on a multi-institutional grant announced last week by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant is one of two awards totaling $14 million for research projects that are e...
A modern solution for multi-aperture and phased-array antenna characterization
May 7, 2013 1:03 pm | by Alex Dickson and John S Hansen, Agilent Technologies | Agilent Technologies | Articles | CommentsForming a beam or multiple beams with an electronically scanned array antenna has found utility in a number of applications. These include radar, communication systems, radio astronomy and others. An array antenna consists of multiple antennas or radiating elements that each transmits a signal....
Polypropylene film caps target DC link and high duty-cycle power applications
May 7, 2013 12:27 pm | Illinois Capacitor | Product Releases | CommentsMDCL Series film capacitors from Illinois Capacitor are available in a range of capacitance values from 50 mF to 1,500 mF with high energy density and voltage ratings up to 1,600 WVDC. Packaged in a tubular metal case, this capacitor well suited for energy management applications, where
Magnetic vortex antennas for wireless data transmission
May 7, 2013 11:36 am | by Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf | News | Comments3-Dimensional magnetic vortices were discovered by scientists within the scope of an international cooperation. The newly discovered vortex states could lead to potential antennas for the ultrafast, wireless data transmission of tomorrow.
China denies renewed US cyberattack claims
May 7, 2013 11:23 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsChina's military on Tuesday denied renewed U.S. accusations that it sponsored cyberattacks and said the two sides should cooperate against the global threat of computer crime. The accusations in the latest Pentagon report on the Chinese military are "irresponsible and harmful to the mutual trust between the sides..."
