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Pew survey finds more than half of app users have opted not to use one due to privacy concerns
September 6, 2012 8:50 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsMany cellphone users say they have decided not to use an app on their phone because of concerns about privacy.More than half of Americans who use apps say they have decided not to install one once they found out how much personal information they'd have to share, according to a study released Wednesday from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Nokia's slide continues after Windows 8 launch
September 6, 2012 6:08 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsNokia Corp.'s share price is continuing to fall after the unveiling of the company's first Windows Phone 8 smartphones failed to impress markets and analysts. In Helsinki, its stock dropped as much as 4 percent on the open Thursday after the previous day's launch caused it to tumble more than 13...
Samsung says Galaxy S III sales hit 20 million
September 6, 2012 12:22 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsSamsung says global sales of its Galaxy S III smartphone have surpassed 20 million in a little more than three months. Samsung Electronics Co. launched the flagship smartphone powered by Google's Android operating system in Europe in late May. The release schedule was about three months ahead of...
Teachers become students at NSRDEC
September 6, 2012 12:00 am | by U.S. Army | News | CommentsTeachers became students again for a few days this summer as they raced and recorded data for Lego robots or studied dimensions of golf balls and designed their own simulations at Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center through "Materials World Modules" training....
Steve Jobs' widow joins Stanford governing board
September 5, 2012 7:14 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe widow of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs is joining Stanford University's governing board. The university announced Wednesday that Laurene Powell Jobs will begin a five-year term on the school's board of trustees Oct. 1. Powell Jobs earned a graduate degree in business from Stanford in...
LEDs winning light race to save energy, the environment
September 5, 2012 4:59 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | CommentsToday's light-emitting diode light bulbs have a slight environmental edge over compact fluorescent lamps. And that gap is expected to grow significantly as technology and manufacturing methods improve in the next five years, according to a new report from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and UK-based N14 Energy Limited.
NSF awards $450,000 to UNH, Conductive Compounds Inc. for solar panel innovation
September 5, 2012 4:53 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | CommentsUniversity of New Hampshire researchers and Conductive Compounds Inc. in Hudson recently received $450,000 from the National Science Foundation to help produce more conductive and cost-effective solar panels. The three-year grant, under the GOALI (Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry) program, will support the engineering of nanoparticles of silver suitable for screen-printing onto photovoltaic (PV) solar panels.
2-CCD camera uses prism technology to produce high dynamic range color images
September 5, 2012 4:25 pm | Product Releases | CommentsLast month, JAI rolled out the AD-132GE, a 2-CCD camera that uses prism technology to produce high dynamic range (HDR) color images. Today, the company introduced the monochrome counterpart to that camera, the AD-131GE. Like its predecessor, the new AD-131GE intelligently combines different exposures from the camera’s dual ICX447 CCDs...
Phase-locked crystal oscillator operates at 100 MHz
September 5, 2012 4:11 pm | Product Releases | CommentsThe PLXO-100-XA from EM Research is a phase-locked crystal oscillator operating at 100 MHz and features an internal reference-detect switch. When no reference is connected to the device, the reference detect switch automatically engages a 10 MHz internal TCXO, providing uninterrupted use of the PLXO-100.
1020 MHz SMT phase-locked oscillator features exceptionally low phase noise
September 5, 2012 4:06 pm | Product Releases | CommentsThe CLX-1020-XA Phase-Locked Oscillator from EM Research operates at 1020 MHz and features exceptionally-low phase noise (<-109 dBc/Hz @ 10 KHz). The unit is locked to an internal reference and offers +7 dBm output power with low power consumption (+5 VDC @ <65 mA) and low spurs (<-80 dBc).
Hit them with a lightning bolt
September 5, 2012 3:22 pm | by M. Simon | Blogs | CommentsAs some of you may remember, I was having some trouble with the Atmel programming tools. Their Studio 6 assembler and simulator are excellent. But their chip programmers leave one or two things to be desired. Well I'm going to do the usual hardware guy solution. I'm going to hit the pins used for programming with lightning bolts.
Another big benefit of in-cell touch on Apple’s iPhone 5: Larger battery capacity
September 5, 2012 3:12 pm | by Shawn Lee, DisplaySearch | Blogs | CommentsIn the run-up to the iPhone 5 unveiling next month, there is a great deal of discussion about potential new features, including an A6 SoC with quad-core structure, higher clock speed CPU and GPU, larger display with in-cell touch, higher resolution camera, and advanced OS. While it is not clear which of these features will be realized, any that are will result in higher power consumption.
End your parking woes with this foldable car
September 5, 2012 3:12 pm | by Kasey Panetta, Associate Editor | Blogs | CommentsAnyone who has ever lived in a city knows what it feels like to drive around attempting to find street parking before giving up and dumping the car in an expensive garage. If you frequently suffer from No Parking Spaces Syndrome (or NPSS)...
High speed 600V discrete IGBTs feature very low saturation voltage
September 5, 2012 2:51 pm | Product Releases | CommentsAdvanced Power Electronics Corp. has recently released a new family of high speed 600V discrete IGBTs for use in AC and DC motor control, home appliances (such as air conditioning, refrigerators, microwave ovens), UPS, solar inverters, and induction cookers.
Module offers 8 individually programmed, high performance channels
September 5, 2012 2:35 pm | Product Releases | CommentsTEWS TECHNOLOGIES announced the TXMC375, a Switched Mezzanine Card (XMC) compatible module offering 8 channels of high performance RS232/RS422/RS485 programmable asynchronous serial interfaces with P14 I/O. The conduction cooled XMC module is ideal for applications in transportation, COTS, communications, and process control.
