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STMicroelectronics and Audi Co-operate to Accelerate Automotive Semiconductor Innovation

Premium car maker Audi and STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and a committed automotive semiconductor supplier since its birth in 1987, have announced a strategic relationship to drive the pace of automotive innovation by creating advanced semiconductor solutions. Together, Audi and ST will co-develop semiconductor …

Why Ultracapacitors Maintain 30% Market Growth – By Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx

Ultracapacitors, also known as supercapacitors, have seen some setbacks lately. Market leader Maxwell Technologies has seen reduced ultracapacitor sales growth in early 2012 due to softness in Europe and Nanotecture, in Europe, developing the variant called a supercabattery went out of business. Certainly Europe, with a mere 6% of supercapacitor manufacturers, has been rather backward …

Marks & Spencer to eliminate hazardous chemicals from clothing

Amsterdam, 23 October 2012 – Fashion retail giant Marks & Spencer (M&S) has today made a breakthrough commitment (1) to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals throughout their entire supply chain and products by 2020, in response to the Greenpeace “Detox” campaign. “This commitment from M&S sets a new benchmark and they join H&M in …

RJ-Romain Jerome Octopus takes you on a twenty thousand leagues under the sea journey

RJ-Romain Jerome Octopus takes you on a twenty thousand leagues under the sea journey What was lacking for explorers of the Titanic-DNA collection? A diver’s watch capable of safely accompanying them into the depths of time! Such is the mission assigned by RJ-Romain Jerome to the Octopus, its very first diver’s watch. The Octopus, named …

M2M Market to Reach 400 million Units by 2017 Led by Consumer Electronics and Telematics

New momentum for Automotive and CE Applications as Smart Metering faces Challenges Hampshire, UK – 24th October 2012: A new study from Juniper Research has found that the Telematics and Consumer Electronics sectors are rapidly becoming the two anchor industries for the M2M (Machine to Machine) market, challenging the position of smart metering. The report …

Steelmaker in Taiwan orders bar-in-coil line from Siemens – New line will broaden product portfolio

Siemens Metals Technologies has received an order from Wei Chih Steel Industry Co. Ltd. (Wei Chih), Taiwan, to supply a new rolling line for bar-in-coil. The line will be constructed in the company’s bar mill in Tainan and is scheduled to go on stream at the end of 2013. This will enable Wei Chih to …

GE Lighting expands its LED product portfolio through a host of new innovative products localized for India

GE Lighting, a division of GE, today announced the launch of its LED Roadway product family for the Indian market. This complements GE’s recent launches of LED Down lights and LED 2×2 Recessed Troffers for Retail and Commercial office applications. Speaking about the launch, Mr. Himamshu Prasad, President & CEO, GE Lighting India said, “GE …

RFEL now member of Xilinx Alliance Program

Newport, Isle of Wight, UK – 24 October 2012 – RFEL, who specializes in high performance electronic signal processing solutions, has been approved as a member of the Xilinx Alliance Program. “We have worked with RFEL for many years,” said Mark Bowlby, Senior Manager of Partner and Ecosystem Alliances at Xilinx, Inc. “RFEL is one …

Slow Progress in Closing Global Economic Gender Gap, New Major Study Finds

Eighty-two out of 132 countries improved their economic equality between 2011 and 2012 Of the top four global economies, USA, Japan and Germany improved their economic gender gap in 2012; China declines slightly Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden have closed their gender gaps by over 80%, but globally only 60% of the global economic gender …