Deep in the inner ear of mammals is a natural battery — a chamber filled with ions that produces an electrical potential to drive neural signals. In today’s issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology, a team of researchers from MIT, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and […]
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Mazda to Produce Toyota-Brand Vehicles in Mexico
Mazda Motor Corp. will make Toyota-brand subcompacts at its new plant in Mexico, allowing Japan’s top automaker to strengthen its North American model lineup. Under the agreement announced Friday, Mazda will annually produce 50,000 subcompacts, based on the Mazda2 but under the Toyota brand by mid-2015. Toyota Motor Corp. will invest in equipment and other […]
Making memories: Drexel researchers explore the anatomy of recollection
What was your high school mascot? Where did you put your keys last night? Who was the first president of the United States? Groups of neurons in your brain are currently sending electromagnetic rhythms through established pathways in order for you to recall the answers to each of these questions. Researchers in Drexel’s School of […]
Midcontinent renews BSS contract
Midcontinent Communications has signed a long-term contract extension for NetCracker’s BSS products, putting the MSO on the path of a transition to a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The benefit of SOA is the ability to link business units within a company, even if they were established using disparate business systems that previously did not integrate smoothly, […]
Windstream shares down after earnings warning
Phone company Windstream’s quarterly report disappointed Wall Street for the third time in a row, sending its stock down to a three-year low. The company is offering promotional prices on broadband and is seeing slower growth in sales of connections for cellular towers, forcing it to cut its earnings forecast for the fourth quarter. Windstream’s […]
Ericsson slashes 1,550 Swedish jobs to cut costs
Swedish wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson says it is slashing 1,550 jobs in Sweden in a bid to lower its costs, with the bulk of the reductions being made within the company’s key networks unit. The Stockholm-headquartered group, which has around 17,800 staff in Sweden and some 100,000 worldwide, said Wednesday the cuts will be […]
SeaChange wins two more multi-screen customers
SeaChange International said it racked up two more customers for its Adrenalin multi-screen video software, neither of which were identified beyond describing them as one North American and one Latin American service provider. One of the two also selected SeaChange’s Nitro multi-screen user experience software. The company also said it has instituted a few changes […]
Qualcomm profit jumps to $1.27B
Qualcomm’s net income surged 20 percent in its fiscal fourth quarter as the company’s mobile phone shipments increased, driving revenue higher. The results exceeded Wall Street’s expectations, and Qualcomm’s shares jumped more than 8 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday. As more consumers move to faster smartphones and buy more tablet computers, demand has grown […]
Toyota Celebrates Thai Unit’s 50th Anniversary
BANGKOK (Kyodo) — Toyota Motor Corp. on Thursday held a ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its Thai unit, highlighting its major contributions to the Thai auto market. Toyota Motor Thailand Co. is the biggest player on the local market in terms of output and sales. TMT, established in 1962 as Toyota’s first production […]
Toyota’s Hybrid Sales Top 2M in Japan
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it has sold more than 2 million hybrid vehicles in Japan since 1997 when its first hybrid hit the Japanese market, buoyed by robust sales of such hybrids as the Prius and Aqua passenger cars. The automaker sold roughly 1.03 million hybrid cars globally in the January […]