Things appear to be moving along according to plan for Apple and Google, according to the latest numbers from comScore. For the three-month period ending in May, Android ranked as the top smartphone platform, with 51 percent market share, up 0.8 percentage points from the previous period. Five years after the release of the first […]
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€526 million: Record investment in German particle accelerator FAIR
Getting to the heart of the matter This release is available in German. The city of Darmstadt, Germany, will soon be home to one of the world’s largest research centres. The international Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) will be built on a 20-hectare site using 35,000 tons of steel and 600,000 cubic meters […]
Researchers create ‘rubber-band electronics’
For people with heart conditions and other ailments that require monitoring, life can be complicated by constant hospital visits and time-consuming tests. But what if much of the testing done at hospitals could be conducted in the patient’s home, office, or car? Scientists foresee a time when medical monitoring devices are integrated seamlessly into the […]
Capital Currents – Digital Television 3.0
DTV 2.0 is still being developed, but what’s next? The television service we have today might be called Digital Television 1.0. The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) is in the final stage of designing the features of Digital Television 2.0. What about 3.0? People are thinking long-term thoughts about that, too. One main feature of […]
Upfront – July 2012
Looking back in Anga Europe’s big cable show, Anga, saw 440 exhibitors, 16,000 trade visitors and 1,600 congress delegates, and the show increased its foreign visitors from 43 percent last year to 50 percent this year. “The key topics of smart TV, hybrid networks, video-on-demand and connected home have spurred visitor quality and internationality. The […]
Sourcefire CEO Burris being treated for cancer
Computer network security company Sourcefire Inc. said Monday that its CEO, John Burris, has begun a leave to undergo treatment for colon cancer. The company said Burris’ medical leave began Thursday. He has worked at Sourcefire since 2008 and will remain on the board. Company founder and Chief Technology Officer Martin Roesch will be interim […]
Research paves the way for accurate manufacturing of complex parts for aerospace and car industries
Producing strong, lightweight and complex parts for car manufacturing and the aerospace industry is set to become cheaper and more accurate thanks to a new technique developed by engineers from the University of Exeter. The research team has developed a new method for making three-dimensional aluminium composite parts by mixing a combination of relatively inexpensive […]
Supercomputers give unprecedented processing power to business and academics
The UK’s most powerful GPU-based supercomputer, “Emerald”, will enter into service tomorrow, alongside the “Iridis 3” system. The combination of these two High Performance Computing systems will give businesses and academics unprecedented access to their super-fast processing capability. Using the newly-available technology researchers will tackle areas ranging from healthcare (Tamiflu and swine flu); astrophysics (real-time […]
Naturally adhesive
Shoes, cars, airplanes, rotor blades for wind turbines, self-adhesive notes, plasters – this is just a sample of the many products featuring adhesives. More than 820,000 tons of adhesive were produced in Germany in 2010, according to the German Adhesives Association – Industrieverband Klebstoffe. To this day the majority of adhesives are manufactured from petroleum-based […]
Fiber backbone provider Alpheus to expand workforce, network
Houston-based Alpheus Communications said today that it will invest more than $10 million this year to expand its workforce and fiber network to support its new market of selling high-bandwidth services directly to Texas businesses. Alpheus expects its workforce will grow by more than 30 percent this year as customer service, sales and technical staff […]