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Travel Charger Handles Every Contingency

Powertraveller has released the ultimate travel charger for on-the-go professionals, outdoorsmen, and techies alike—the powermonkey-eXplorer. With three charging methods, international adapters, and tips for nearly every portable electronic device, you’ll never be somewhere without power.

Apple gives chief operating officer $5M bonus

13 hours ago

Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a $5 million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave.Timothy Cook will also receive 75,000 restricted stock units scheduled to vest in 2011 and 2012, Apple said in a regulatory filing...

Adobe CEO 2009 pay package down 68 percent

14 hours ago

Shantanu Narayen, the president and CEO of software maker Adobe Systems Inc., was awarded compensation valued at $5.2 million in fiscal 2009, a 68 percent decline in a year that saw the recession weaken demand for its products.Narayen received a base salary of $875,000 for the fiscal year ended...

Plavix (clopidogrel): Reduced effectiveness in patients who are poor metabolizers of the drug

14 hours ago

Boxed warning added regarding reduced effectiveness of Plavix in poor metabolizers.

QAD shares slide after 4th-quarter revenue drops

15 hours ago

Shares of QAD Inc. sunk Friday after the business software provider reported a drop in fourth-quarter revenue and predicted another drop for the first quarter.The company's stock slid 20 cents, or 3.7 percent, to $5.30 in afternoon trading.After the market closed Thursday, QAD reported fiscal...

IDC SSL Connector for Quick, Tool-less Termination of Discrete Wires

15 hours ago

Tyco Electronics today released the new IDC SSL connector for quick, tool-less termination of discrete wires onto LED printed circuit boards (PCBs). The product terminates 18 through 24 AWG solid and stranded wire utilizing insulation displacement technology to eliminate the...

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

Multimedia

A Physiological Sensing Interface
A Physiological Sensing Interface

Mar 11 | Video

This is a demo from this year's TechFest of a Physiological Sensing Interface.

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.

Model-Based Design Creates Configurable, Space-Qualified Digital Channelizer
Model-Based Design Creates Configurable, Space-Qualified Digital Channelizer

16 hours ago

Many commercial communications satellites are limited to fixed band plans that assign a bandwidth to users even if they are not actively employing it, an inefficient use of communications capacity. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company developed a dual-stage, satellite-based channelizer (also known as a bent pipe transponder) that can move bandwidth on demand between users and locations.

Army to hit One Million Unmanned Flight Hours
Army to hit One Million Unmanned Flight Hours

Mar 10

Traditionally pegged as a ground force, the Army is approaching an historic milestone: one million flight hours for its Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). According to COL Christopher Carlile, director, U.S. Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center of Excellence, the Army will hit one million UAS flight hours some time next month.

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