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Video Games and the Military: Engaging the “Tech Generation”

For good or ill, the military is often indistinguishable from a large corporation. While “employees” must conform to the company’s modus operandi, the company must engage its employees on their terms. In this day and age, that means technology. Thus, the military increasingly relies on video games and computers to recruit and train its “employees.”

Job openings up sharply in January to 2.7M

1 hour ago

Job openings rose sharply earlier this year, evidence that employers are slowly ramping up hiring as the economy improves.The number of openings in January rose about 7.6 percent, to 2.7 million, compared with December, the Labor Department said. That's the highest total since February 2009.The...

Shares of bailed out companies surge(2)

2 hours ago

Shares of four companies that have received huge infusions of taxpayer cash soared Tuesday after a report that the government would sell its stake in Citigroup Inc. raised hopes that other bailed-out companies would follow.Shares of Citi rose 26 cents, or 7.3 percent, to close at $3.82. Earlier...

Shares of bailed out companies surge

2 hours ago

Shares of four companies that have received huge infusions of taxpayer cash soared Tuesday after a report that the government would sell its stake in Citigroup Inc. raised hopes that other bailed-out companies would follow.Shares of Citi rose 26 cents, or 7.3 percent, to close at $3.82. Earlier...

Samsung, Panasonic start selling 3-D TVs this week

3 hours ago

Want to be the first one on your block with a 3-D television? It will cost you about $3,000.Samsung and Panasonic will start selling 3-D TVs in U.S. stores this week, inaugurating what manufacturers hope is the era of 3-D viewing in the living room. But because the sets require bulky glasses,...

Cotton is the fabric of your lights...your iPod...your MP3 player...your cell phone

3 hours ago

(Cornell University) Consider this T-shirt: It can monitor your heart rate and breathing, analyze your sweat and even cool you off on a hot summer's day. Or a solar-powered dress that can charge your ipod or MP4 player? This is not science fiction -- this is cotton in 2010.

Ofcom to Investigate Net Neutrality
Ofcom to Investigate Net Neutrality

Mar 4 | News

The chief of UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has said the authority will investigate web traffic control measures later this year as the net neutrality debate rumbles on.

Energy saving

Mar 3 | News

Trials are being conducted for a new system to monitor the real-time energy consumption in the household. The data is measured, processed and displayed, showing users how much power is being consumed by various electrical appliances. These efforts are part of a European Union research...

Exercise: the way to a healthier European society?

Mar 3 | News

It is known that regular exercise is beneficial for sufferers of type-2 diabetes, ischaemic heart disease, some types of cancer, dementia and possibly depression. The European Union project EXGENESIS is investigating how regular exercise can be used in the prevention and treatment of...

France's Competitive Clusters Succeed with Projects

Mar 2 | Blogs

Changes in France’s economic climate prompted the country to recreate its industrial policy based in the development of competitive clusters. These clusters, founded in December of 2002, were created through an active partnership between manufacturers, research centers and training bodies, which together tackle innovative projects while increasing the economy’s growth potential.

British Library creates archive of defunct Web

Mar 2 | News

The British Library is creating an archive of the country's defunct Web sites to preserve snapshots of the ever-changing Internet for posterity. The library is already charged with keeping a copy of every published work distributed in Britain and Ireland.

Microsoft to stay its China course despite Google spat

Mar 5 | News

Microsoft said it will stick to its development strategy for the China Internet search market regardless of the outcome of Google's high-profile spat with Beijing. Microsoft has kept a relatively low profile in China since Google announced its decision to potentially withdraw from the market over censorship issues and following an attack on its systems that it believes originated in China.

Losing Google would hit Chinese science hard

Feb 24 | News

More than three-quarters of scientists in China use the search engine Google as a primary research tool and say their work would be significantly hampered if they were to lose it, a survey showed on Wednesday. Google's future in the country is uncertain following a row with Beijing, but Chinese scientists asked by the Nature journal how much they rely on Google said it was vital for finding academic papers...

China launches strict new Internet controls(2)

Feb 23 | News

China's technology ministry moved to tighten controls on Internet use Tuesday, saying individuals who want to operate Web sites must first meet in person with regulators.The state-sanctioned group that registers domain names in China froze registrations for new individual Web sites in December...

Intel says hackers attacked around time Google hit

Feb 23 | News

Intel Corp said it faced a "sophisticated" hacker attack in January about the same time as the recently publicized Chinese hacker attacks on Google Inc but said there was no clear link between the two events. "The only connection is timing," Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said, declining to elaborate.

China microbloggers ask: Where has president gone?

Feb 23 | News

Where is President Hu Jintao? That's the question online supporters were asking Tuesday after a user account for the stiff and formal politician disappeared from a Twitter-like microblogging site two days after it was discovered.

Events

PCIM China

Shanghai: June 1-3, 2010

ECTC Electronic Components & Tech

Las Vegas: June 1-4, 2010

Protec JISSO

Big Sight Tokyo: June 2-4, 2010

JPCA Show

Big Sight Tokyo: June 2-4, 2010

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Alix Paultre on Display Technology
Alix Paultre on Display Technology

Mar 5 | Video

ECN's Editor-in-Chief Alix Paultre discusses the latest LED-driven LCD technology, with an overview of other display tech including Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS), Digital Light Processing (DLP), and Vacuum Flourescent Display (VFD).

TI Demonstrates their DualCool Packaging Technology at APEC 2010
TI Demonstrates their DualCool Packaging Technology at APEC 2010

Mar 3 | Video

Jeff Sherman of TI demonstrated their latest packaging tech - DualCool, which incorporates extra heat-transfer structures in a power MOSFET to improve performance.

Fairchild DrMOS demo at APEC 2010
Fairchild DrMOS demo at APEC 2010

Mar 1 | Video

Here is a demonstration of a DrMOS integrated FET plus Driver multi-chip power stage module from Fairchild. The device is designed for multiple synchronous Buck converter applications.

Searching for the Next Top Product
Searching for the Next Top Product

12 hours ago

Ideas can come and go quickly. To harness the potential of new ideas it’s essential to follow the basics to select ideas for further refinement to suite the market.

GaN vs. Silicon in Power Management

Mar 2

In June 2009 Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) introduced the first enhancement-mode GaN on silicon power transistors designed specifically as power MOSFET replacements. These products were designed to be produced in high-volume at low cost using standard silicon manufacturing technology and facilities.

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