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| Business concern about rising medical cost |
5/26/2015 |
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Sixty percent of 1,210 business risk managers included in the survey said they worried about medical cost inflation. Twenty-seven percent of respondents indicated they worried about the issue "a great deal," also the highest rate in the poll.
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| iPhone 6 brought up by first time Apple phone users |
5/26/2015 |
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Only 20 percent of the existing iPhone user base has upgraded to iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. About 50 percent of iPhone 6 / 6 Plus customers are first-time iPhone users who switched from other brands, mostly Android.
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| Liquid metal antenna is tunable |
5/26/2015 |
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"Using a liquid metal, such as eutectic gallium and indium, that can change its shape allows us to modify antenna properties more dramatically than is possible with a fixed conductor,"
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| BlackBerry to buyback 2.6% outstanding shares |
5/22/2015 |
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BlackBerry said it would buy the shares, representing about 2.6 percent of its outstanding public float, over the Nasdaq Stock Market or on the Toronto Stock Exchange, subject to approval.
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| IBM to help China build IT infrustructures |
5/22/2015 |
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IBM's effort to incorporate its technology into Chinese products comes at a time when the company is changing course, moving away from low-profit segments of its business such as cash registers, semiconductors and low-end servers in favour of high-value solutions such as security software and cloud services.
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| AMD to use HBM memories on next-gen graphics card |
5/21/2015 |
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HBM is a stacked DRAM approach that promises a major boost in bandwidth (performance), along with a reduction in circuit board area real estate consumption as well as significantly lower power consumption.
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| It is possible to skip cell towers |
5/21/2015 |
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“LTE Direct is a new and innovative device-to-device technology that enables discovering thousands of devices and their services in the proximity of [approximately]500m. LTE Direct uses licensed spectrum, which, in turn, would allow operators to use LTE Direct as a new way to provide apps and services to users.
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| Ferro memory to grow compound 16.4% in coming years |
5/20/2015 |
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FRAM works internally like DRAM, has the high speed of SRAM and the non-volatility of flash memory. When the first successful circuits were built in the 1980s, it was thought their universal function would allow them to replace DRAM, SRAM and EEPROM in many applications.
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| Consumer Report found malfunctions on their Tesla test car |
5/20/2015 |
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After we’d owned the P85 D for a mere 27 days, with just over 2,300 miles on the odometer, the driver-side door handle failed. Consumer Reports also indicated that the car won’t stay in “Drive” either, perhaps misinterpreting that the door is open due to the door handle issue.
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| Fast recovery diode for efficient inverters |
5/19/2015 |
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The devices are designed for use as anti-parallel diodes in combination with Vishay's new Trench insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs). Together, the Ultrafast diodes and IGBTs provide low EMI and plug-and-play reliability for single- and three-phase inverters, as well as full- and half-bridge DC/DC converters.
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| Photorelay has high frequency response for ATE |
5/19/2015 |
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The lineup includes TLP3442, which realises the industry's lowest off-state capacitance (COFF), 0.3pF (typ.) and TLP3431, which is suited for high-frequency signal transmission with a low on-state resistance (RON) of 0.8 ohm.
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| Apple Watch facing some problems |
5/19/2015 |
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The small number of wearables trickling out to end-users can be blamed on trouble with the taptic engine. Apple also didn't notice at least one issue plaguing the Watch before it reached consumers: Incompatibility with ink.
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| Avago out shopping for companies |
5/18/2015 |
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Potential targets including Xilinx Inc, Renesas Electronics Corp and Maxim Integrated Products Inc, according to people familiar with the matter. Avago is working with investment banks and could spend more than $10 billion on a potential takeover.
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| Employee filed lawsuit against company for location tracking |
5/18/2015 |
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Plaintiff expressed that she had no problem with the app's GPS function during work hours, but she objected to the monitoring of her location during non-work hours and complained to Stubits that this was an invasion of her privacy.
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| China leads on industrial IoT adoption |
5/18/2015 |
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The poll found that 57 percent of respondents in China adopted machine-to-data technologies. Among the other countries surveyed, the U.S. trailed in second place with 32 percent early adoption, followed by the U.K. at 26 percent, Germany at 21 percent and France at 14 percent.
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| STMicro offers industrial power driver/ controller |
5/15/2015 |
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The 14mm x 11mm system-in-package integrates control circuitry and complete power stage for driving the motor. It powers applications requiring up to 10A and 85V, such as in motor-control ICs used in industrial applications like automated machinery, industrial sewing machines, stage lighting, surveillance systems and home automation.
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| Google to build large facility in India |
5/15/2015 |
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The new Hyderabad campus will be fully owned by the U.S. tech company, and it expects the facility to start operation in 2019. It will cover a space of approximately 2 million square feet.
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