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Meet the Channel: Roula Vrsic, SOTI
This week we sat down with Roula Vrsic, chief marketing officer at SOTI, a company that develops enterprise mobility management (EMM) and other mobile security solutions for enterprise businesses. Vrsic has been with SOTI since 2013, and previously worked in several executive-level roles at companies including WatchGuard Technologies and BorderWare Technologies.
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11 Myths About XYZ Color Sensing
With the recent application of nano-photonic interference filter technology, XYZ color sensing is moving out of the realm of laboratory instrument into more mainstream applications, including in-situ spectral sensing and lighting. In this article, we tackle 11 of the most common misconceptions about XYZ and its applications.
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The 10 Coolest Storage Startups of 2016
E8 Storage
CEO and Co-Founder: Zivan Ori
Tel Aviv-based E8 Storage came out of stealth in May when it said it received $12 million in B-round funding. E8 Storage is developing software-defined NVMe-based storage solutions that will leverage NVMe flash storage for high-performance applications.
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14 Ways Israel Inspired the World in 2016
ISRAEL21c brings you daily reports of Israeli inventions, innovations, discoveries and altruistic initiatives. Here we’ve chosen 15 of many that made a remarkable impact in the year 2016, including Nano Dimension's 3D printed human tissue.
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Internet of Things Smart Sensors Are Driving Smart Buildings
Basically, the Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of interconnected devices embedded with sensors, software, network connectivity, and electronics that enable them to collect and exchange data. Sensors, therefore, are key elements in the "things" of the IoT. They are a crucial part of what we conceive to be the next industrial revolution and will affect the way businesses, governments, and consumers interact with the physical world.
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Hot data storage technology trends for 2017
As in past years, there's nothing bleeding-edge or impractical here, only newer storage tech that's been proven practical. Hence, while our list of storage technology trends represents the best and brightest the storage industry has to offer, it only includes technologies you can buy and deploy today.
Climb aboard, fasten your seatbelts and get ready to discover our take on what technologies will have the most profound effect on storage shops in 2017.
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Move ICs from defects per million to defects per billion
Defective Parts Per Million (DPPM) is one of the key metrics used to measure quality in many semiconductor segments. With electronics becoming more and more a part of everyday life (wearable electronics and semi-autonomous vehicles), there's increasing pressure to improve quality across all semiconductor market segments. For mission-critical segments such as automotive and medical, market forces are driving improvements in quality into the Defective Parts Per Billion (DPPB) range.
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3D Printed Circuit Boards: First PCB 3D Printers Available Soon
For makers, 3D printed circuit boards are no longer a mere dream. 3D printers, which can do DIY PCB printing, will become commercially available soon. The making of DIY circuit boards is a complex task. First, you’ll have to plan the PCB, make a 2D print of the layout, cut a copper plate, transfer the PCB layout to the copper plate, iron the circuit, go through the process of etching, cleaning, disposing… and after some hours of manual labor, you should be ready.
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Power & Analog 2017 Forecast: What Experts Are Saying
Representatives from major players in the semiconductor industry share their predictions for 2017 regarding power modules, wireless power, data converters, wireless sensing, and more. Pierre Laboisse, executive vice president, global sales and marketing, ams, offers his perspective on where the sensor market will focus in 2017.
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Security Automation Is More Than Automation
It’s no secret that security operations is under fire. In most enterprises, the only thing standing between a normal day and a financially devastating data breach is the security analyst. Yet, despite decades of investment in cyber security protection, detection, and intelligence tools, the analyst lacks a centralized software platform to operationalize all of this data in time to effectively prevent breaches from occurring. Drowning in a sea of alerts, and with the business on the line, SOC analysts are desperately seeking solutions. Automation is being hailed as the answer. But what does "security automation" really mean?
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Storage newbie: You need COTS to really rock that NVMe baby
NVMe drives need NVMe fabrics to give shared arrays the data access latency killing benefits of NVMe. Unlike Nimble architect Dimitris Krekoukias, storage startup E8 believes putting NVMe SSDs in today's all-flash arrays will be futile; it claims we need NVMe fabrics to get the NVMe performance boost.
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Siemplify raises $10M to improve corporate security coordination
Cybersecurity professionals usually divide their attention between several different tools, but according to Siemplify Inc., that doesn't have to mean they should be constatnly switching between tabs and shuffling data around. The New York-based startup is pursuing a centralized approach to breach prevention that has attracted a $10 million investment from 83North, G20 Ventures and several of its existing backers.
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Siemplify Scores $10M to Streamline Cybersecurity Operations
Siemplify, a cyber-threat management and analysis firm with outposts in both Tel Aviv, Israel, and New York City, announced a $10 million round of Series A financing Tuesday, continuing what has been a busy month for cybersecurity investments across the country.
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15 Data Storage Startups
The data storage market has become a hotbed of innovation and entrepreneurship. Here are 15 data storage startups that are generating excitement, including E8 Storage.
Software defined networking, the cloud, solid state storage: there are many reasons why the days of buying an expensive storage system from an established vendor may well be numbered. Here are 15 innovative startups that may provide a better way to meet your storage needs.
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Display Inspection: Flexible OLED displays drive market disruption, manufacturing innovation
Consumer electronics manufacturers reside between a rock and a hard place. They must continuously innovate in order to compete in the mass market, yet they’re tightly constrained by unrelenting cost pressures. The recent emergence of flexible OLED displays is a prime example of a cutting-edge technology that electronics manufacturers must pursue to maintain market relevance—but producing these displays is expensive, and the number-one reason for this is yield.
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Philips Lighting joins $7 million round for smart building sensor maker PointGrab
Israel’s PointGrab has raised $7 million in funding for its sensors for smart buildings. The investors include lighting company Philips Lighting; Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co. (MUCAP), a venture capital arm of Japan’s largest financial group; and existing investors ABB Technology Ventures (ATV).
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Sckipio touts fibre-like symmetrical G.fast kit
Fabless G.fast silicon house Sckipio hopes to give the fibre-most-of-the-way, copper to the home market a kick along with silicon that gets close to symmetric performance, at whatever data rate the copper can support.
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Why it's so difficult for SOC teams to trust automation
In the complex corporate security environment, automation is increasingly the "go-to" answer for organizations lost in a sea of alerts, logs and data. For many, it's the only way to address their most critical processes and it's what keeps them moving from task to task in a fluid manner. But there is a danger in putting too much faith into automation and orchestration alone.
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Disruptive Technology, Monotonous Marketing At Strata+Hadoop World
When I attend tech conferences, I’m usually content to find a half dozen sufficiently disruptive stories for a Forbes article. At Strata, in contrast, virtually every vendor on my list made the cut. Here, then, are the 15 disruptive vendor stories that made my (not so) short list.
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Catching up with SOTI on Android for Work, remote control, and RMAD
Earlier this year I wrote We haven’t covered them much at BrianMadden.com, but they do have a significant presence in the mobile space going back 20 years, so they should definitely be on our radar. Among other things, they specialize in managing ruggedized devices and Android.
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Magnetic Angle Position Sensors Elicit Efficient, Energy-Saving Motor Control
In the seemingly endless quest for higher motor performance and improved system cost efficiencies, motor manufacturers are increasingly adopting a new trend: Replacing multiple magnetic Hall-effect latch sensor devices with a single Hall-effect magnetic angle sensor device for motor-commutation feedback. This trend is particularly evident in the automotive and industrial markets, where use of brushless direct-current (BLDC) motors is on the rise.
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CenturyLink G.fast Strategy Begins with Largest North American G.fast Deployment to Date
A CenturyLink G.fast strategy began in Platteville, Wisconsin, where the broadband carrier has deployed what it claims to be the largest G.fast deployment in North America. That strategy will include deploying G.fast to MDUs, MTUs, and neighborhoods where fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC) is present.
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Nano Dimension ships first 3D printer for PCBs
Nano Dimension Ltd. (Ness Ziona, Israel), has supplied the first DragonFly 2020 printer for 3D circuitry and PCBs to an Israeli defense electronics company. The unit is for evaluation purposes and is expected to be installed at the partner’s site in the next few days.
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7 Startups Driving Innovation in 3D Printing
The hype of consumer 3D printing might be fizzling, but the excitement continues to build for industrial applications. It’s a market still ripe for innovation and as expected there has been a surge of startup activity in the field of additive manufacturing.
Below we round up seven startups that are developing novel technologies and aspiring to be the next big thing in 3D printing.
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Smart Sensors’ Role in the Digital Ceiling
The Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced large-scale networking and digitization to commercial buildings and opens a whole new range of solutions and services for construction and building management executives that are too compelling to ignore. This innovation will yield true smart buildings that are efficient, save energy, optimize facility management, enhance safety and security, generate business intelligence and improve occupants’ experience.
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ams Goes All In On Sensors
Most of the acquisitions we report on in the tech community have diversification as the end goal of the deal. For example, a large and established LED maker may acquire, or at least partner with, a maker of flat-panel displays to get a piece of the LED-TV/Display market.
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SOCs Require More Than a Band-Aid Approach
The “health” of security operations centers (SOC) is declining: it is becoming harder and harder for security teams to successfully prevent and remediate breaches. Everyone in the industry intuitively understands that breaches are unavoidable. The goal is to find and terminate the attacker’s actions as fast as possible, shortening the time from breach to mitigation of the threat.
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CRN Exclusive: Security Startup Siemplify Launches First Partner Program
Security startup Siemplify is diving into the channel, announcing the launch of its first partner program to help solution providers build a better security operations center business. Based in New York City, Siemplify offers an end-to-end platform for security teams in the security operations center (SOC), including threat management and incident response. Its ThreatNexus platform helps security analysts index alerts, events, and provide business context and threat intelligence data in a single pane of glass.
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E8 Storage Unveils NVM Express Array
At the Flash Memory Summit 2016 conference today, E8 Storage unveiled a storage array built using solid-state drives (SSDs) based on a Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Express interface that when attached to a high-speed network provides access to shared storage at speeds that are comparable to a locally attached SSD.
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E8 Storage brings out 'software-defined DSSD' NVMe array
E8 Storage is entering the all-flash storage market with an appliance that will cram 24 NVMe SSDs into a 2U box. The vendor promises its SSDs will perform with the same latency and throughput as those attached directly to a host.
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New products of the week 7.25.16
ThreatNexus
Key features: A new orchestration module for the Siemplify ThreatNexus security operations platform that reduces incident response times from days to minutes, fulfilling the demand for a complete end-to-end SOC solution.
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Siemplfy Helps Set Up Security Playbooks
Startup Siemplify is giving users the ability to build an automated playbook of responses to network intrusions.
The company is announcing general availability of an orchestration feature for ThreatNexus, its security operations platform. Orchestration had been available in beta; today’s announcement makes the feature more official.
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Q&A: What the future holds for mobile technology and trucking
Better navigation is clearly one benefit gain by trucking via the wider use of mobile technology solutions. But how about getting higher freight rates? Is that possible as well? Fleet Owner recently conducted an email question and answer session with Ron Hassanwalia, COO of Mississauga, Ontario-based enterprise management firm SOTI, Inc. to delve into those and other opportunities presented by mobile technology in the trucking and logistics spheres.
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Mobility Management Solutions Add Value For Field Workers
Mobility – from drivers with smartphones and dispatchers with tracking software to field workers with tablets – is everywhere in field operations, transportation and logistics. But most companies use just a fraction of the data being gathered by these mobile devices, and even fewer are spending time analyzing the data in ways that can improve their businesses, customer satisfaction and profitability.
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Editor's Choice - SOTI MobiControl Review
4.5 Stars, Editor Rating: Excellent
SOTI MobiControl (which begins at $48 per device per year) has been around since 2004, starting as a Windows PC/CE management tool and then expanding to take on the broader role of mobile device management (MDM). With deep Windows roots, it's no surprise that SOTI MobiControl has tight integration with Active Directory (AD) and incorporates the concepts of multi-level privileges based on group membership. The latest version (v.13) includes a wide range of features such as remote device control, which works just as you would expect if you were remotely connecting to a PC.
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Enable Supply Chain Security Through an Authentication Data Network
Electronics counterfeiting is gaining attention as evidenced by the recent IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security & Trust (HOST). More than 250 industry and academic leaders attended the conference to address the growing threat that counterfeit devices are posing to the security of the electronics supply chain. Inadvertent use of recycled, refurbished, or re-marked components can result in significant business risk for a manufacturer's customers, resulting in unwanted returns and damage to their brand value.
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Real-time adaptive test algorithm can safely reduce wafer testing time and cost
The testing of the semiconductor dies produced by a wafer fabrication plant involves a long series of operations requiring meticulous care. The time spent performing these tests markedly affects both a plant’s production throughput and production costs.
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SenionLab Rebrands Company: Senion
After more than five years in business, location-based services company SenionLab today said it is dropping its designation as a laboratory, and is now officially known as Senion. This change reflects the growing significance of the company in the indoor positioning system (IPS) market and the breadth of its customer installations.
“We’ve made inroads into a variety of vertical markets including medical and retail,” said Marcus Andersson, VP of Sales and Marketing at Senion. “Our company has matured well beyond the start-up phase, and our new brand, Senion, reflects this growth.”
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Huge breakthrough in blazing fast internet speeds
How would you like Google Fiber-like internet speeds delivered over your home phone line? That's the promise of G.Fast. It's a new technology that can deliver blazing fast internet over the wires you already have in your home. For many, it will be the first time they'll have more than one choice for broadband.
There are still a lot of questions surrounding G.Fast: When will it be available? Who will be able to get it? And how much will it cost? But on Monday, one crucial question was answered: How fast will it be? Very.
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Brain drain to Silicon Valley needs to be plugged, says Mississauga executive
The CEO of Mississauga-based software company SOTI recently advised government officials they need to change their way of thinking if they are going to stop the significant brain drain of Canadian IT talent to the U.S.
“Building brands in Canada is a struggle thanks in large part to failing government programs that invest in start-ups without much thought to retaining those companies and jobs here,” Carl Rodrigues said at the 15th Annual Research Money Conference in Ottawa.
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Data center next generation power supply solutions for improved efficiency
“Ok Google: How do I power a Data Center?”
Claude Shannon started it all when he wrote "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" in 1948 in which he reduced the communication of information to 1s and 0s, essentially binary digits. That theory led to the ability to transmit data without error in the noise-filled environment of the real world. Shannon would have been 100 years old on April 30, 2016.
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McDonald’s unpacks in-store tablets as mobile-centric sales initiatives continue
McDonald’s UK is rolling out a new sales tactic enticing consumers to visit its stores and take advantage of new Samsung Galaxy tablets that enable users to browse the Internet, play games or interact on social media networks.
The British subsidiary of the global fast-food chain has joined forces with enterprise mobility management platform SOTI to equip McDonald’s restaurants with Samsung Galaxy tablet devices.
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IPS plays a strong role in the Industrial Internet of Things
In both manufacturing and logistics, the primary business challenges nearly always include identifying hidden costs and increasing productivity. Enter the Industrial Internet of Things, or IIoT, which is essentially a series of connected solutions that help manufacturers and logistics companies improve productivity and cut costs. As part of the IIoT, manufacturing and other industrial companies are increasingly gathering data from a variety of sources — such as machines, forklifts, position sensors, delivery trucks and more — that then reveal bottlenecks and wasteful operations.
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Mayors’ trip promoting ‘The Corridor’ to Silicon Valley gets mixed reaction from entrepreneurs
At the CityAge conference in San Francisco, Toronto Mayor John Tory stood next to a large, simplified map comparing the distance between Toronto and Waterloo, Ont. to that of San Francisco and San Jose, Calif. – about the same, the map showed, alongside statistics demonstrating that technology startup community in the region.
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Hiding In Plain Sight; One Company Has its Hands in Almost All of Our Products
If you’ve been following 3D printing news at all, it’s likely you know at least a little bit about the If you were told that there is a high-tech company that can boast, “virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technology,” who would you think of first? Are we talking about a chip company like Intel, Microchip, Freescale, or Toshiba? Surely they’re not in every device in the world. Maybe it’s a software company like Microsoft or Google’s Android? They’re popular, yes, but not that widespread. I know – maybe they’re talking about the Free Software Foundation or a group like the IEEE? It’s conceivable that their standards or technology appears in “virtually every electronic device” in the world. Nope. The right answer is Orbotech, an Israeli company that does make chips and software, but only as a sideline.
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The DragonFly 2020 PCB 3D Printer was a Major Achievement for a Recent College Graduate
If you’ve been following 3D printing news at all, it’s likely you know at least a little bit about the DragonFly 2020 printer. The electronic circuit board printer from Nano Dimension is, according to the company, the first-ever desktop printer designed for printed circuit boards (PCBs), and we’ve been following its progress from the initial announcement of its development to its unveiling at the Printed Electronics USA 2015 and SOLIDWORKS World 2016 conferences. While the printer is not slated for commercial release until toward the end of 2016, Nano Dimension is keeping us interested by revealing more and more about its development. While I feel pretty well-acquainted with the DragonFly 2020, it still continues to surprise me.
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SenionLab, MySeat & SystemicsCode Partner with Micello for Indoor Maps
Micello, the worldwide provider of indoor maps has announced three new partnerships in the last few weeks. Indoor location technology vendor SenionLab, workspace management startup MySeat and private ad-exchange and analytics platform SystemicsCode have integrated indoor maps from Micello into their platform.
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Mobility poses the biggest threat to small and medium-sized firms, survey finds
Small and medium-sized companies see mobility as the technology that poses the greatest security concern for them, according to a survey released Wednesday by smart card management systems provider Versasec.Other worries included cloud usage (32 percent) and external devices/BYOD implementations (22 percent). For the survey, Versasec polled around 150 IT security pros from a range of companies, with three-quarters having 1,000 employees or fewer..
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Top 10 must-have innovations for power designers from APEC 2016
In this slideshow, I will be providing power designers with, what I consider, the top 10 new innovative products and architectures announced at APEC 2016. I view these following slides as essential to designers for near-term design needs as well as additions to a designer’s portfolio for future designs. Please watch for in-depth technical articles on these 10 items in the coming weeks authored by me on EDN.
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SMB Retailers- Embrace Mobility to Attract More Customers, Streamline Operations
Mobility is changing the retail landscape and retailers who don’t embrace it may be left behind. Today, mobile technologies influence every step of the shopping experience and touch every part of the value chain, from buying products and managing inventory to operating stores and marketing and promotion. And customers love it.
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Business Intelligence Group Announces Winners of 2016 PR & Marketing Excellence Awards
Many consultants and organizations identify themselves as either a public relations firm, marketing agency or both. For most companies, finding the right partner to improve your brand image, help you generate buzz or work through complex reputation challenges can prove challenging. The Business Intelligence Group today announced the winners of their 2016 Public Relations and Marketing Excellence awards. It has identified the top 11 firms doing it right and 3 executives who are delivering astounding results for their own organizations.
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Q&A: Turning New Designs into Reality Through Innovative Manufacturing
Orbotech provides enhanced production solutions for manufacturers of printed-circuit boards, flat-panel displays, advanced packaging, microelectromechanical systems, and other electronic components. Technology Editor Bill Wong recently spoke with the company's CEO, Asher Levy, about the specific challenges faced by designers and manufacturers in the microelectronics industry.
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More like Windows: How Android N targets the enterprise
Apple's iPhone and iPad have long ruled the enterprise, with high market shares in every survey. Apple's iOS devices were the first post-BlackBerry device to take enterprise security and management seriously, and Google was slow to follow suit in Android..
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Friday vendor notes: Soti MobiControl EMM has deep roots with rugged devices
Soti is one of the well-known EMM vendors in the space that we haven’t spent much time covering at BrianMadden.com, so last week at RSA I sat down with them to get acquainted. I spoke with Roula Vrsic, VP of marketing, and Graham Watts, senior product manager, and today I’m sharing some notes from that conversation.
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Repurpose Data That is Traditionally Deletede
Data generated from manufacturing processes has traditionally been seen as one-time use information. It streamed through control systems and used to make corrections, counts, and other short term uses. Storage of this data was thought to be a waste of resources. Those assumptions are being rethought in light of facilities now being employed by other forms of big data.
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The definition of Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) is changing as fast as our notion of what mobile is and what it can do for businesses. At Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona last week, the question of what EMM means for privacy and security proved to have complex answers for business users and the organizations employing them. But it's only one piece of EMM's larger evolution around truly mobile business.
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The days of printing a PCB prototype with a 3D printer may not be as distant as you might think. I spoke with Simon Fried of Nano Dimension about how 3D printing is becoming a reality, and how this disruptive technology will change the way designers produce rapid prototypes.
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The consumer demand for mobile technology has never been greater and the brands that differentiate with mobile tech are quicky proving to be the most successful. - See more at: http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/ecommerce/archive/2016/02/01/the-immense-impact-of-mobile.aspx#sthash.qWvqz2MF.dpuf
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Israel - ORBOTECH (www.orbotech.com) announced that it has received an order for seven Emerald™ UV Laser Drilling systems from a leading Japanese manufacturer of ceramic-based electronic components and solutions.
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Companies that focus on logistics and warehouse management perpetually search for better ways of increasing productivity, cutting costs, and improving safety for both workers and goods. With indoor positioning system (IPS) software and a handheld device such as smartphone, IPS technology can assist manufacturing staff by helping them get where they want to go within a large facility accurately and quickly. IPS also can provide flow visualization, route optimization, and task management using the current location for improved safety and efficiency.
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Old, slow telephone lines may soon be a lot faster
For ultra-fast Internet, you need fiber, right? Wrong, say promoters of a technology called G.Fast, which is creating quite a bit of buzz at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. G.Fast produces Google Fiber-like speeds over plain old copper telephone lines. Think of it as DSL on steroids. It's actually been around awhile but has not been widely deployed, a situation that appears to be about to change. Among those displaying G.Fast applications at the CES is Israeli chipmaker Sckipio, which staged a demonstration showing download speeds of nearly 750 megabits per second on a standard phone line using one of its modems. Chances are that's about 50 times faster than the broadband you have coming into your home via fiber or coax.
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Finding People, Places & Things in Healthcare Facilities?
TNearly one in three nurses spends an hour per shift searching for equipment. That’s according to a survey by NursingTimes.net that polled 1000 nurses in 2009, and reflects approximately 6000 wasted hours each month for every 1000 nurses.Read Coverage
Forget Google Fiber, Faster Home Internet is Near
Home Internet speeds are often slow, expensive and if you get fed up it is sometimes impossible to find a different service, but later this year consumers may see new faster options from existing companies without waiting for Google Fiber to arrive.
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Five tech trends from CES 2016
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the modern equivalent of a mid 20th century ‘world of tomorrow’ expo, where leading techies gather (in Las Vegas of all places) to give the rest of us a glimpse into the future. But this year the ideas seem to be running dry. Take a look at these leading developments and see if they seem at all... familiar.
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11 Innovations to Check Out at CES 2016’s Eureka Park
The Eureka Park Marketplace offers start-ups an opportunity to launch their new products, and this year CES will welcome innovations from 500 new companies, proving approximately 400% growth in the marketplace since its inception in 2012.
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Super-fast Internet is coming over your phone line
Today, you have a choice between cable broadband Internet, which is expensive, or DSL Internet over your phone line, which is slow. But soon, a new technology will be coming to your home that will offer Google Fiber-like speeds right over your phone line. It's called G.Fast, and Israeli chipmaker Sckipio is showing off the powerful technology at CES this year.
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No More Baby Steps!
As Bob Dylan sang, “The times they are a-changin’.” What has constituted a definition for broadband for some 15 years now has been a series of Mother-may-I steps from tens of kilobits/second speeds (aka dialup) to xDSL technologies where speeds moved to megabits and then tens of megabits per second, eventually achieving a thousandfold speed improvement.
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Build multilayer PCBs on 3D printer
Nano Dimension Ltd. is one of the newer companies to offer a desktop-sized 3D printer designed for the production of professional multilayer printed circuit boards. The DragonFly 2020 3D Printer helps users build functional, multilayer circuit board prototypes in-house –in a matter of hours.
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SOTI Marketing VP: 5 MDM Trends Impacting The Channel
As more businesses adopt bring your own device (BYOD) policies, chief information officers are pumping their investments and resources into device management tools and mobile security strategies. Simultaneously, mobile vendors are investing in channel programs to help end users better understand and more easily implement MDM solutions and services.Read Coverage
SenionLab launches StepInside
On the show: Millennial Media works with Rentrak to match TV ads with mobile; Western Union partners with WeChat; America’s Movie Night courtesy or RedBox; National Geographic launches “Find your park, love your park”; Carvana’s car vending machine; SenionLab launches StepInside
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3D Printers Spit out Small PCBs
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Two companies showed 3D printers that can spit out small printed circuit boards and others including Qualcomm showed advances putting electronics on plastic substrates at the annual IDTechEx conference here.Read Coverage
SenionLab Launches StepInside, a Powerful Indoor Positioning System Suite
SenionLab, developers of cutting-edge indoor positioning systems (IPS), today unveiled StepInside, a new offering that combines several of SenionLab IPS hardware and software solutions into a comprehensive suite designed for accurate indoor positioning for mobile devices.
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Five Minutes With… Asher Levy, CEO, Orbotech
Orbotech claims that "nearly every device in the world uses Orbotech technology." Really? That's the exact question I posed to Asher Levy, the company's CEO. Hear his response in this week's installment of Five Minutes With....
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Intel invests in G.fast chipmaker Sckipio
Intel Capital has taken the entirety of Sckipio Technologies' latest funding round, according to the G.fast chip-making startup. The funding amount was not revealed, based on Intel's preferences in such instances, according to a Sckipio source.
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Israeli chip design startup Sckipio raises funding from Intel Capital
SIsraeli chip design startup Sckipio — which is trying to deliver fast Internet bandwidth to the masses — has raised a new round of funding from Intel Capital, the investment arm of the world’s biggest chip maker.
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The VAR Guy Interview: Carl Rodrigues, SOTI
In this audio interview conducted at the SOTI Sync conference in Toronto, The VAR Guy Senior Executive Editor Charlene O'Hanlon sat down with SOTI President and CEO Carl Rodrigues to discuss SOTI's push beyond mobility management and into the Internet of Things, and what that means for the company.
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Canadian tech firm SOTI Inc to double workforce with $150-million investment
Canadian software company SOTI Inc. plans to spend $150 million to expand its offices and eventually double its current global work force of 450, adding most of the new jobs in Mississauga and Waterloo.
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Mutualink, Intel team to provide wearable public-safety gateway with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth connectivity
Mutualink recently unveiled its Wearable Smart Gateway that is designed to let public-safety users securely connect multiple wearable or carried monitors and devices into a lightweight hub powered by Intel’s Edison chip that was developed specifically for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.Read Coverage
Nano Dimension Merges Worlds of 3D Printing, Printed Electronics
The worlds of printed electronics and 3D printing are both drawing a lot of interest, but interestingly, there is very little intersection between the two technologies. Nano Dimension is in a good position to change that. - See more at: http://www.printedelectronicsnow.com/contents/view_online-exclusives/2015-10-28/nano-dimension-merges-worlds-of-3d-printing-printed-electronics/?email_uid=e9d8e0d7ae/list_id=b41ded4d91/#sthash.j62W29Ov.dpuf
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Three key things every health care startup should know
Sky Ventures Group has high hopes when it comes to health care innovation, saying that its members are bullish on how innovation might change health care for the better.
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Who Should Buy Sckipio? My Money's on Intel
f you're looking for the next likely acquisition candidate in the comms chip market then take a look at Israeli startup Sckipio, which has dedicated its existence to developing chipsets for the emerging G.fast technology market that is set to grow quickly in the coming years. (See G.fast Banter at BBWF.)
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Gazettabyte: Sckipio improves G.fast's reach, speed, density
Sckipio is using this week’s Broadband World Forum event in London to highlight its latest G.fast activities Sckipio has enhanced the performance of its G.fast chipset, demonstrating 1 gigabit data rates over 300 meter of telephone wire. The G.fast broadband standard has been specified for 100 meters only. The Israeli start-up has also demonstrated 2 gigabit performance by bonding two telephone wires.
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SenionLab: Indoor Loc Market Gets Mature: Less Tech, More Business
GPS Business News spoke this week with Christian Lundquist, CEO at SenionLab, a Swedish company providing indoor location technologies to worldwide customers.
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IWhat’s New in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2015
Innovative technologies often stretch our imaginations to consider future realities. Take smart dust, the technology in which smart dust motes can be configured with sensors to detect and measure temperature, barometric pressure, acceleration, humidity, vibration, acoustic level, location, and more. Or bioacoustics, another technology at the start of this year’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2015 that would allow you to unlock a door via a digital key signal sent through your bones to the handle.
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5 Things Every Board Member Needs to Know about Security
Corporate security and cybersecurity are no longer an IT problem. A recent Gartner survey of nearly 1,000 people in large organizations found that corporate and cybersecurity have been elevated and now typically are governed by the Board of Directors. In fact, Gartner’s results showed 71 percent of respondents saying IT risk management data influences decisions at the board level and reflects an increasing need to deal with IT as part of corporate governance. So how do board members educate themselves on the key points of securing a company’s corporate assets? .
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True Big Data to Be Showcased at ITC 2015
If you’re a fabless IC company looking to optimize production, or are generally interested in the practical application of big data, then you should definitely stop by and see Marc Jacobs’ presentation at the International Test Conference next week.
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BlackBerry announces acquisition of Good Technology
Less than half a year following its acquisition of Israel-based security company WatchDox, BlackBerry is at it again.This time, the Canadian smartphone maker has acquired former rival Good Technology, which offers secure applications and containerization. The deal worth $425 million in cash was announced this weekend. .
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Leveraging the (free) power of Windows 10 for the IoT on the Raspberry Pi 2 and other development kit platforms
Inexpensive development kits and free/open source software and tools are making project development cheaper and easier than ever. The low-cost dev kits and open source tools have been around for a while now, but one thing I never expected to hear this year is that the new version of Windows would be free! Microsoft seems to be getting into the maker community spirit (and embedded IoT development space) by releasing its Windows 10 IoT Core operating system (OS) for maker platforms – free.
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iOS 9 will have many lives for enterprise users (That is the Question)
I recently sat down with Aaron Davis, director of products and solutions at enterprise mobility management firm SOTI to discuss the implications of the new Apple mobile operating system, iOS 9, for the enterprise.
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New first responder network passes initial test in Atlantic City
New Jersey's piece of the nation's emergency communications broadband network got its first test in August when state and local law enforcement tried it for the first time during two large outdoor concerts in Atlantic City. The inaugural real-world implementation of a wireless broadband network for first responders, known as FirstNet, operated without a hitch..
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In-Building Location Services: The Next Big Bluetooth App?
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Global positioning systems are useless for indoor navigation, as GPS must have clear access paths to satellites to work. But advances in indoor location and positioning technologies, combined with the growing ubiquity of Bluetooth and WiFi-enabled smartphones, is fueling a revolution in indoor “people tracking” by commercial enterprises such as large retail stores and shopping malls.
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Thwarting NFC virtual pickpockets
It’s the end of a long week in New York. A weary securities industry executive is riding the elevator down from the 57th floor to head home, her purse slung over her shoulder. On the 54th floor, another woman boards an elevator. As the car fills at subsequent stops, the women are crowded together. When their purses touch, the executive has no idea the corporate identity badge she uses to access her office is being hacked, although it’s never left her handbag. Later that weekend, the woman from the 54th floor gains access to the 57th floor simply by using her phone with the stolen credentials at the entryway card reader.
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The Day of the Three Glitches
On July 8, 2015, United Airlines, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Wall Street Journal website all succumbed to various levels of software malfunctions.Yet again we're confronted with a day of technical "glitches," this time three in one day (July 8). Each was seemingly unrelated, but each caused significant disruptions.
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Compass Networks Joins the Consortium of On-Board Optics
Compass Networks, which offers a high-performance routing platform based on its icPhotonics chipsets, has joined the Consortium of On-Board Optics (COBO), which is developing interoperable specifications to lower power consumption and increase bandwidth for optics within enterprises and data centers.
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Mutualink, partners to demonstrate interoperable capabilities, New Jersey LTE solutions during APCO
Interoperable solutions provider Mutualink and three partners—PMC Associates, Oceus Networks and Hughes—next week will demonstrate their collaborative capabilities that are being deployed in the New Jersey public-safety LTE early-builder project.
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SenionLab Indoor Positioning System
Linkoping, Sweden-based SenionLab has worked with a hospital in San Luis Obispo, California, to help map the location for visitors. A company spokesperson says the company is rolling out a full-scale test this fall with a handful of U.S. retailers.
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OptimalPlus MI at Semicon by Dylan Chatterjee
July 2015, Optimal+ is a provider of manufacturing intelligence software for data analytics in the semiconductor industry. Their software “improves yield, productivity, and quality, with full supply chain visibility.” They provide real time analytics for over 6,000 testers around the world and process over 20 billion chips annually.
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Docker and the ‘coolification’ of containers
His first presentation may have ended inauspiciously with the moderator cutting him off mid-sentence at the five-minute mark, but the developers sitting in Solomon Hykes’ 2013 PyCon session knew that the founder of Docker, an open-source application container engine, had unveiled a tool that would bring revolutionary simplicity to deployment.
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What About Reliability of Magnetic Position Sensor?
A stubborn question about the reliability of magnetic position sensors lingers in the minds of some automotive and industrial system designers. Yet complete stray field immunity is possible in contactless magnetic position sensing.
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Sky Ventures Group Flying High Among Boston’s Health Investors
Setting out to change the early stage funding scene, local rising star Sky Ventures Group has shown that expensive Kendall Square or Innovation District real estate aren’t needed to be taken seriously by the investment community.
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OTT Unicast Video is Helping Drive the Case for G.fast Technology
G.fast technology promises to deliver ultra-broadband capabilities over existing copper infrastructure to the home and business. The explosion in video consumption, particularly OTT video delivered in a unicast fashion to individual subscribers, is helping make the case for telcos to take a look at G.fast for scenarios where leveraging existing copper is desirable.
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MCCI lastest vendor to unveil Windows 10-compatible product with USB stack for Windows 10 IoT Core
As Microsoft prepares to launch Windows 10 for PCs and tablets later this month, Redmond is ramping up work on other Windows 10 versions, including Windows 10 for Mobile, Windows Embedded and Windows 10 IoT Core, among others.
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The Power of Reverse Power
Telcos are gearing up for the hot new ultra broadband access, G.fast, which delivers up to 1 Gbps of ultra high-speed broadband access over existing copper wiring. The operators who are quickly deploying G.fast services are leveraging 3 central technologies: G.fast communications, fiber-to-the-distribution-point architectures, and reverse power feeding.
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Real-Time Big Data Analytics Impacts Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry
There's been significant debate about whether Moore's Law rings true in today's semiconductor market. It seems improbable for companies to continue developing ever-smaller chipsets while increasing performance, and of course, there is much debate on whether it is a viable "Law." However, one area that is doubling every year at the pace of Moore's law is the growth of manufacturing data available from semiconductor operations.
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Slidely pact with Getty gives users access to professional images for their creative work
Slidely, a social media platform for creative consumers to post, share and remix their artistic projects, has announced a new partnership with Getty Images that allows members to use its content in their designs.
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New modems to fuel superfast broadband over copper
Alcatel-Lucent and chipmaker Sckipio Technologies are debuting modem technology that will help make speeds of hundreds of megabit per second over copper cables a reality. The technology that makes it possible is called g.Fast. Step-by-step, chipmakers and equipment manufacturers are getting it ready for large-scale commercial services. They are expected to arrive next year.
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G.fast moves ahead with plugfest, first reference designs
Support for the implementation of the G.fast standard continues, as the Broadband Forum announced completion of the industry’s first G.fast equipment plugfest and start-up Sckipio announced a new line of G.fast reference designs for compatible modems.
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Sckipio unveils G.fast SDN initiatives
G.fast silicon startup Sckipio Technologies has announced a pair of moves aimed at promoting support of software-defined networking (SDN) in G.fast broadband access networks. The company says its new management stack will support the construction of G.fast distribution point units (DPUs) that can be controlled via the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) and that uses the standard G.fast YANG data model, with traffic managed via OpenFlow.
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CORD, G.fast Could Help Move Telcos to SDN, Open Networks Faster
There are several important trends, telco desires and imperatives that are converging at the same time. On the one hand, over the top types are eating the telcos’ lunch, so the telcos want to transform their networks so they’re more like those of their agile competitors.
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Sensing the Future: ams' Plans to Shape the World with Sensor Solutions
The world around us is changing.Technology has increasingly become more integrated into our surroundings to offer users a seamless operating experience with everyday devices.
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The distribution of things: IoT, M2M, and software distribution
The Internet of Things combines smart devices and sensors with analytics and the cloud. This paradigm shift presents new challenges involving software distribution, updates, and security.
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Sckipio, iPhotonix partner for G.fast NFV
G.fast semiconductor startup Sckipio Technologies and iPhotonix, which specializes in fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) hardware as well as software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV)technologies, have partnered to combine their specialties. The companies say they will work to enable the iPhotonix Virtual Network (iVN) to fully interoperate with Sckipio's G.fast chips to ease deployment and management of G.fast distribution point units (DPUs).
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Can IPS enhance the shopping experience?
Creating an integrated shopping experience between online channels and brick-and-mortar stores is among the hottest trends in retail today. A recent TimeTrade study revealed that 85 percent of consumers preferred to shop at physical stores, versus shopping online.
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Envisioning Future Growth Plans Helps Macom's CEO
For John Croteau, leadership means more than making sense of everyday events. The real test is looking beyond today's situation to tomorrow's challenges. Envisioning the future — and preparing employees to capitalize on it — enables Croteau to lead more forcefully. He calls his method "thinking time-dimensionally."
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JFrog Adds Docker Support for its DaaS Platform
JFrog has joined the ever-expanding Docker ecosystem with new support for the container technology in its Bintray distribution-as-a-service (DaaS) platform. Developers use the popular platform to publish, download, store, promote, and share open source software packages.
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Defining ‘High Performance Embedded Computing’
The concept of ‘high performance computing’ (HPC) typically calls to mind a vast server farm underpinned by tens to hundreds of thousands of processing elements, orchestrating the extreme data crunching required for advanced applications like geothermal exploration and molecular dynamics simulation.
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APEC Opens with a Blizzard of Product Disclosures
After the past couple of months, the term “blizzard” may trigger some post-traumatic shivers. However, engineers can quickly warm to the torrent of product announcements made at this year’s IEEE Applied Power Technology Conference, which opened Monday, March 16, in Charlotte, N.C.
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Vicor Expands DCM DC-DC Converter Module Series
At APEC, Vicor Corporation announced expansion of its DCM Converter Module Series of isolated, regulated DC-DC converters within Vicor's Converter housed in Package™ (ChiP) power component platform. This series now covers critical applications in Aerospace, EV/HEV, Rugged Systems, Industrial, and Telecom/Datacom. DCMs provide nominal input voltages of 24, 28, 48, 270, 290, and 300 Volts with nominal outputs of 48, 36, 28, 24, 15, 12, and 5 Volts and are available in packages with up to 600 Watts of power.
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Latency Matters!
As historical voice circuit-switched networks transitioned to today’s packet-switched networks, latency and quality of service were traded for network utilization efficiency and cost. Unfortunately, today’s ultra-time-sensitive applications cannot afford extra network latency.
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Cavalcade of Cutting-Edge Products Invades 2015 IMS
The 2015 IEEE IMS is, of course, an important educational event for many, featuring an excellent collection of technical presentations and focused technical meetings like the Automatic RF Techniques Group (ARFTG). But a great deal of the education takes place right on the exhibition floor with every stop—at every booth.
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Multifunction, high-performance AESA radar leads a transformation of the battlefield sensor network
Active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar systems built with gallium nitride (GaN)-based radio frequency (RF) power components are helping to elevate the capabilities of the modern networked battlefield.
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New parental control app offers promise to build trust and respect privacy
As the primary teachers for life and guardians of personal security – especially in the social cyber realm - every modern parent needs to know the answers to two big questions:
1. How can I stay current with the emerging apps where my own kids are hanging out?
2. What are the indicators that there is danger so I can become involved as their guardian, not as their micro-manager?
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Parental monitoring app is 'happy medium' for families, developer says
Should parents trust their teenage children implicitly or keep close tabs on them?
It's not an easy question to answer, but a Far Hills software engineer believes he's found a solution for parents that straddles both approaches, and he hopes you'll toss him a few bucks to help roll the app out to the masses.
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Why Don't Parents Care About Online Safety?
A Maryland couple accused of "neglect" earlier this year by Maryland Protective Services for letting their children -- ages 10 and 6 -- walk home alone from a neighborhood park found themselves in the news again this week. This time, police officers took their children into custody after the parents had dropped them off at the park to play, unattended, for two hours.
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Artimys Aims to Help Parents Protect, Not Overprotect Kids from Social Media Threats
Artimys Language Technologies is launching applications that attempt to help parents walk the fine line between being overbearing and being oblivious to the threats their children face when using social media.
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Quantum dot TVs are unveiled at China tech expo
At this month's China Information Technology Expo (CITE) event, a headline-maker was the launch of quantum dot televisions, by QD Vision and Konka, the consumer electronics company. QD Vision's calling card in this instance is all about its Color IQ optics.
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Quantum Dot to Bring Better Color to Smaller Screens
Ultra-colorful quantum dot displays aren't quite ubiquitous yet, but that could change soon. Massachusetts optics company QD Vision, has introduced a new piece of quantum dot optics, which could allow for LCD monitors and all-in-one PCs with better color than we've ever seen. QD Vision's updated Color IQ tech uses 2mm-thin optics, which, compared to the previous standard of 3mm, will allow quantum dot to come to screens that are smaller than the one in your living room TV. Color IQ can currently be found on select TVs from companies such as Samsung and LG.
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The Quest for More Good Units per Hour
Over the past decade, the importance of RF-based systems on a chip (SoC) has grown significantly, following the exponential growth of wireless electronic devices in virtually all industry segments. Today, semiconductor companies are manufacturing billions of RF devices that are shipped inside of consumer, industrial and military products.
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Sky Ventures Group Launches Its First Life Sciences & Healthcare Investor Forum
ASky Ventures Group, a Boston-based investment group that provides seed funding to early-stage life science and healthcare companies, held its first ever members forum, bringing together an elite roster of investors and early-stage startups. Four vetted startups presented to more than 60 investors who will meet on a semi-monthly basis going forward.
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New Boston investment group melds angels with corporates; seeking healthcare and life sciences startups
A new investment group called Sky Ventures Group has just launched in Boston, with plans to provide seed funding to early stage life science and healthcare companies. It intends to hold a semi-monthly investor meeting, during which four vetted startups will pitch their concepts to the group.
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Rainier Communications Recognized for Excellence in Social Media
Rainier Communications announced it has won two Bulldog Media Digital/Social PR Awards, recognizing the agency for excellence in social media. Rainier’s campaign, “On a Mission - Tell the Rest of the World,” won the Gold Award for best use of Digital in a B2B Technology Campaign and the Bronze Award for Best Microsite or Specialized Microsite.
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Business Digest for March 17, 2015
Rainier Communications, a Westborough-based high-tech public relations agency, has won two Bulldog Media Digital/Social PR Awards, recognizing the agency for excellence in social media. Rainier’s campaign, “On a Mission - Tell the Rest of the World,” won the Gold Award for best use of digital in a B2B Technology Campaign and the Bronze Award for Best Microsite or Specialized Microsite.
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Accolades & Honors
Rainier Communications of Westborough has won two Bulldog Media Digital/Social PR Awards, which recognized Rainier for excellence in social media. Rainier received a Gold award for best use of digital in a B2B technology campaign and a Bronze award for best microsite or specialized microsite.
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Indoor Loc Vendor SenionLab Raised $1.8M in A-Round
Swedish indoor positioning start-up SenionLab announced a series A round of funding of $1.8 million (SEK 15 million) from SEB Venture Capital.
SenionLab is using Wi-Fi, its own Bluetooth beacons and motion sensors in smartphones to calculate a position with 1 to 5 meter accuracy.
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JFrog Adds Docker Support for its DaaS Platform
JFrog has joined the ever-expanding Docker ecosystem with new support for the container technology in its Bintray distribution-as-a-service (DaaS) platform. Developers use the popular platform to publish, download, store, promote, and share open source software packages.
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Big data, big decisions
You’ve undoubtedly heard a lot about big data. Gartner announced last August that the technology had passed the peak of inflated expectations of the market-research firm’s hype cycle. According to the hype cycle model, big data is descending into the trough of disillusionment, from which it will emerge, climbing the slope of enlightenment on its way to the plateau of productivity.
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Rainier Communications Recognized for Excellence in Social Media
Rainier Communications announced it has won two Bulldog Media Digital/Social PR Awards, recognizing the agency for excellence in social media. Rainier’s campaign, “On a Mission - Tell the Rest of the World,” won the Gold Award for best use of Digital in a B2B Technology Campaign and the Bronze Award for Best Microsite or Specialized Microsite.
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JFrog takes on enterprise artifact complexity with Docker
Enterprise software development generates a lot of bundles of files, from deployable artifacts to binary blobs. Keeping all of those artifacts straight has long been the task at which JFrog’s Artifactory excels. Now, containers are making it into the mix in a big way.
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The Frog Releases the Whale; Docker Users Now Have a One-Stop-Tool for All Technologies
JFrog, which provides world-class infrastructure for software management and distribution in open-source, on premise and SaaS cloud solutions, added Docker support to its popular Bintray distribution-as-a-service (DaaS) platform. When combined with JFrog’s Artifactory binary repository management system, organizations can now manage Docker images with a powerful end-to-end solution that supports all technologies.
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Q&A: MACOM’s Doug Carlson Discusses GaN’s Market Potential and Trajectory
In terms of mainstream adoption, gallium nitride (GaN) has reached a crossroads of technology innovation and supply-chain transformations. GaN offers significant advantages when it comes to semiconductors. It’s been used in RF and LED applications, and can be effective in solar applications, too.
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ams and ST team up to secure NFC mobile payments
There are some potential problems with paying via NFC. Users of near field communication, especially for making payments and storing credit card information, are understandably concerned about the security their private information. Methods that thieves use in typical security attacks include eavesdropping, data corruption or modification, interception attacks, and physical thefts.
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Trey Songz Wants Fans to Show Him How They ‘Slow Motion’
In honor of Trey Songz‘s new single, “Slow Motion,” the singer is urging fans to show him how they like to slow things down with a new video app. From now until April 2, his loyal supporters can show their interpretation of how to slow things down by using Slidely, an app that takes homemade videos and decreases the speed to create a short slow motion show, which also gives the option to play it along with any song.
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R&B singer Trey Songz fast-tracks a Slow Motion promotion
R&B singer Trey Songz is promoting his latest single, Slow Motion, with a storytelling mobile application that encourages fans to turn the song into the soundtrack for a self-produced video in a slow-moving bit of fun.
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MACOM Remains Laser-Focused on Semiconductors
The semiconductor industry is undergoing a transformative round of mergers and acquisitions, with major names such as Intel, Avago and NXP all taking part in a consolidation process driven by the search for economies of scale and the pursuit of hot opportunities, such as IoT and connected cars, broadband and data center efficiencies. (See More Chips Fall: NXP Buys Freescale, Intel to Acquire Lantiq and Avago Eyes Enterprise Storage With Emulex Buy.)
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GaN Gives Power and Flexibility to L-Band Radar
One sector where sales of radar are on the rise is air traffic control infrastructure. That is partly because in the developed world, a large swath of civilian radar infrastructure is nearing the end of its operational life, and a mix of upgrades and replacements are on the agenda. Developing nations are also having an impact, deploying their first air traffic control radar systems. These countries are actually in an enviable position, as they can take advantage of new technologies that will allow them to leap frog the capabilities of many legacy systems.
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OIF to highlight 56G interfaces, pluggable coherent transceivers at OFC
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) says its annual tech demo at OFC this year will focus on 56-Gbps electrical interfaces and the group's work on CFP2 coherent optical transceivers. Under the banner "OIF Technology Showcase 2015 – It's Happening Now – 56G Electrical Interfaces and Pluggable Coherent Optics" at Booth 613 March 24-26, OIF members will highlight technology advances based on both the group's fourth-generation Common Electrical Interface.
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Bit Parts: 100G Driving Revenue Growth
Several optical components suppliers have reported quarterly earnings recently, and the big theme across all of them is that 100G demand is providing a major revenue boost and painting bright near-term outlooks. M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $114.9 million. Within that figure, revenue from 100G optical products was up 35%, despite presumed seasonally soft activity throughout the sector.
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Touchdowns are Great in Football but Not in Semiconductors
Everyone likes a touchdown, right? Tom Brady's touchdown pass to Julian Edelman with just two minutes left on the clock in Super Bowl XLIX brought undiluted joy to millions of New England Patriots football fans. While many touchdowns in a single game are widely celebrated in football, a large number of "touchdowns" in semiconductor manufacturing would not be met with the same level of celebration.
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Gooee and ams drive sensor-based connected lighting technology (UPDATED)
Connected and adaptive smart lighting systems are clearly the future of the solid-state lighting (SSL) space and the key to both better lighting and additional gains in energy efficiency beyond what LEDs afford. Recent activity at Strategies in Light (SIL) in Las Vegas, NV and Smart Lighting Controls Europe in London shows how two enabling-technology suppliers hope to assist lighting manufacturers with entering the smart lighting space.
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Integrating the Internet of Awareness into our smart SSL systems (MAGAZINE)
The phrase "Internet of Things" (IoT) is being used so often that it would be easy to write it off as simply the latest buzzword for objects with Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. While the age of ubiquitous Internet-connected toasters is not quite upon us, the next era of device interconnectivity certainly is here now, and the coming growth of "connectedness" is undeniable.
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Designing a feedback ANC headset using AS3435
Feed-forward headsets typically are more easily developed because the design engineer usually does not have to deal with stability issues. A major drawback of this topology, however, is wind noise because the ANC microphones are directly exposed to the ambient. An alternative that overcomes this drawback is the use of a feedback ANC technology. This article describes the development steps necessary to design a feedback ANC headset based on the AS3435 from ams AG.
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Overcome Stray Field Interference in Magnetic Position-Sensor ICs
Magnetic position sensing has proved popular in a range of motion- and motor-control applications in the industrial and automotive markets. Various methods for measuring flux density have evolved, leading to the development of the fully integrated magnetic position sensor ICs that incorporate the magnetic sensing element, signal conditioning and signal processing on a single chip.
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Big data in semiconductors—how to collect, detect, and act
Big data, defined as an all-encompassing term for any collection of data sets so large or complex that it becomes difficult to process using traditional data processing applications, continues to be a major topic in virtually every business segment. While big data solutions have gained a foothold in retail, sales, and financial organizations over the past 10 years, there are other industries, like semiconductor manufacturing, that stand to reap significant gains from extreme analytic solutions that can mine these enormous sources of data.
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Usain Bolt challenged to race against 500Mbps G.fast broadband
After venerable tech daily The Register jokingly claimed that Usain Bolt carrying a DVD could get files to your house faster than G.fast, Sckipio returned fire, saying that actually, 16 people could stream 4K Netflix simultaneously with no drop in quality. According to Sckipio, their broadband has to race all around buildings, up apartment blocks and into homes.
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Sckipio Achieves 200 Mbps G.fast Broadband Over 400 Meters
Broadband technology developer Sckipio said today that it has successfully demonstrated the ability of G.fast technology to support speeds up to 500 Mbps for 200 meters over traditional copper phone wiring. Alternatively the technology can support speeds of up to 200 Mbps over 400 meters.
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Sckipio hits 500 Mbps in G.fast lab trials
Sckipio Technologies said it has successfully trialed G.fast at speeds greater than 500 Mbps for 200 meters, which doubled the official ITU targets for the G.fast standard. Israel-based Sckipio achieved more than 200 Mbps at 400 meters, which also doubled the target distance for the given rate. The lab trials were conducted with multiple, unnamed broadband access services providers.
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ams Combines Daylight Sensor and Smart Lighting Manager to a Compact IoT-Hub
ams AG, a leading provider of high performance analog ICs and sensors, today introduced its revolutionary AS721x Autonomous Daylighting Manager, the industry’s first integrated chip-scale Internet of Things (IoT)-connected smart lighting manager. This new class of sensor-integrated smart lighting manager solutions delivers cost-effective, IoT-connected integrated control capabilities to luminaire, light engine and replacement lamp manufacturers.
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Sensor-integrated lighting manager brings control to new level
The AS721x autonomous daylighting manager is the industry’s first integrated chip-scale IoT-connected smart lighting manager. This new class of sensor-integrated smart lighting manager delivers integrated control capabilities to luminaire, light engine and replacement lamp manufacturers. The chip provides system-level control capabilities by sensing the ambient daylight and enabling the delivery of constant lux levels in the space.
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Cxense Tech Lets 3D Interactive Images Run In Browsers
Norway-based Cxense, a data management company, has developed technology that turns any image viewed in a browser into a 3D interactive image. That means any image on a Web site, not just in an ad unit. The company's VP of global marketing says brands also could use the technology to make images in Google Shopping interactive, because it works in the browser.
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Mazda Trials “3D” Web Ads
Consumers seldom click banner ads that appear online, and research suggests they rarely look at them, either. In an attempt to battle this “banner blindness”, marketers are constantly experimenting with ways to catch users’ eyes as they bounce around the Web. To that end, Mazda is currently testing new “3D” ad technology for a campaign it’s running in Norway promoting its Mazda 3 model. The ads, powered by Cxense, appear to pop out of users’ screens as they scroll past them on a Web page.
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What Are Quantum Dots, and Why Do I Want Them in My TV?
If you look at the CES 2015 word cloud—a neon blob of buzz radiating from the Nevada desert, visible from space—much of it is a retweet of last year’s list. Wearables. 4K. The Internet of Things, still unbowed by its stupid name. Connected cars. HDR. Curved everything. It’s the same-old, same-old, huddled together for their annual #usie at the butt-end of a selfie stick.
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Will Mazda’s 3D mobile ad spare the banner from execution?
A Mazda mobile car advertisement that leverages three-dimensional technology to bring the vehicle to life may be what the beleaguered Web banner needs to silence claims that it is past its prime and should be placed on the scrap heap.
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CES 2015: Ultra-High-Definition 4K TV over Copper
Want to watch UHDTV? Try your telco's copper. The first ultra-high-definition (UHD) content delivered to a 4K TV over existing twisted-pair copper infrastructure of telecommunication companies (telcos) was demonstrated at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2015, Jan. 6-9, Las Vegas). Sckipio Technologies' (Ramat Gan, Israel), which makes G.fast (pronounced gee dot fast) chipsets, claims DSL cannot deliver UHD 4K TV, but its G.fast ultra-broadband networks can over standard telco twisted-pair copper lines.
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Ultrafast copper broadband holds the key to 4K TV
Michael Weissman, vice president for marketing at Sckipio Technologies, said the main things holding back 4K, or ultra high definition (UHD), are download and upload speeds. And as 4K becomes more popular, the only way to deliver the faster speeds necessary for the data-heavy UHD streams within a reasonable time is to turn to G.fast, he said.
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QD Vision IS Quantum Dots
An increasing number of manufacturers are starting to use Quantum Dots as a light source for their LCD TVs, replacing LEDs. QD Vision is a major supplier of these devices. They argue that QD technology offers a number of advantages over LEDs (and OLEDs), including wider color, higher brightness, lower power consumption and, ultimately, lower cost (though the first sets to use Quantum Dots appear to be premium models).
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Why the quantum dot is the hottest TV tech going
If you’ve been paying attention to the market for TVs over the last few months, and especially during CES this week, you’ve been hearing a lot about 4K and 8K. But the real action today, and going forward, is in quantum dots. Known alternately as QDots or nanocrystals, quantum dots are the foundation behind what is expected to be one of the biggest sea changes in the television market over the next few years.
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Why quantum dots are the next big display technology
Nestled in between the bloated 4K, 8K, and “Beyond 4K” TVs at this year’s CES was an older lighting technology that’s just now gaining traction with consumer display manufacturers — quantum dots. The inimitable display tech — essentially a semiconductor nanocrystal with quantum mechanical properties — was discovered back in 1981, but it didn’t see commercial release until 2013 with Sony’s XBR X900A series of flat panel televisions.
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TV tech firm QD Vision lands $28M in funding, adds former Lenovo CEO as executive chairman
Lexington-based QD Vision, a maker of optical technology for dramatically improved color quality in television sets, said it recently raised $28 million in funding from existing investors that included North Bridge and Highland Capital, among others.
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TV Makers Set a New Strategy
The world’s top television makers will this year peddle sets that enhance the color representation of their screens, but postpone a more dramatic shift in technology that promised thinner frames, more energy efficiency and crisper images.
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5 TVs from CES 2015 that Consumer Reports wants to review
As in past years, TVs—especially 4K UHD TVs—commanded a lion's share of the attention at CES 2015, thanks to promised improvements in TV performance beyond pure resolution. Among the highlights were new TVs boasting quantum dot technology, which can purportedly improve color beyond what we get today, as well as LCD-based UHD TVs with backlights that use phosphor coating on the LEDs, also in an effort to improve color.
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The BBJ's Five Things: SimpliVity's hiring boom; Walsh talks tech; QD's vision; Patrick to MIT
Lexington-based QD Vision, a maker of optical technology for dramatically improved color quality in television sets, said it recently raised $28 million in funding from existing investors that included North Bridge and Highland Capital, among others. As the BBJ's David Harris has learned, the MIT spinoff, which has developed a type of semiconductor crystal, known as quantum dot, which allows for a wider gamut of color in a displayed picture, has now raised about $101 million in total funding to hire more materials engineers in Lexington and increase its sales and marketing workforce.
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The 6 most innovative companies making the most of G.fast technology
The Israeli start-up founded to focus on G.fast technology is the current leader in this field. They have been working with many ODMs and service providers to accelerate the growing demand for G.fast technology. And at International CES 2015, Sckipio demonstrated the first demo of ultra high definition television using G.fast technology over a G.fast broadband network.
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HVAC Load Reduction Modules Remove Carbon Dioxide and VOCs from Indoor Air
enVerid’s patented HVAC Load Reduction (HLR) solution implements revolutionary technology that actually removes CO2 as well as VOCs and other molecular contaminants from indoor air. By enabling extreme reductions in air replacement without compromising indoor air quality, enVerid HLR systems provide phenomenal HVAC energy savings.
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CES 2015: What the Heck Are Quantum Dots?
It wouldn’t be CES without an attempt to launch the next big thing in TV technology. The next big thing was recently supposed to be OLED TVs. That didn’t work out so well; OLED manufacturing costs haven’t come down as fast as anticipated; yields are still low for large-screen OLEDs and prices are staying high.
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Power Week: Popular Gaming Consoles' Energy Use Compared
The latest gaming consoles consume more power than previous models but also provide more features, according to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). In a recent test coinciding with the holiday season, engineers at the research organization found that three of the most popular units -- the Microsoft Xbox One, Sony PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Wii U -- consumed as much as 124 Wh compared to a maximum of about 88 Wh in a similar comparison performed in 2010.
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Sckipio Raises $17M for Modem Chipsets
Sckipio Technologies , a provider of G.fast modem chipsets, has raised $17 million in a Series B round led by Pitango Venture Capital and combined with follow-on investment from the original Series A investors Gemini Israel Ventures, Genesis Partners , Amiti Ventures and Aviv Ventures.
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G.fast Now on Fast Track
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) pulled a fast rabbit out of the hat at the opening of its annual conference two Fridays ago by ratifying G.fast, the standard designed to deliver access speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s over existing copper wires. G.fast works by extending the range of frequencies over which broadband signals travel.
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What is the most creative way LEDs have been implemented?
When it comes to interesting applications for LEDs, most in the industry quickly conjures up visions of unique luminaires or nearly invisible light sources highlighting priceless masterpieces. While that, combined with TV and mobile device backlighting, is where the industry sees both today’s volumes and revenues, the most interesting applications we’re seeing involve bio-physical monitoring and bio-photonics. LEDs are transforming our world in much broader way than simply through more efficient or flexible lighting.
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G.fast is HERE: Sckipio slurps funding to cook up SPAWN of VDSL tech
Having sold his company Coppergate to Sigma Designs in 2009 for around $190m, Sckipio boss David (Dudi) Baum has got the band together to build a fixed broadband chip to take advantage of the 1Gbps-over-copper VDSL successor G.fast, which was ratified as an ITU standard this week. Sckipio has raised $17m in a series of second-round funding moves led by Pitango Venture Capital, to be combined with follow-on investment from the original Series A investors: Gemini Israel Ventures, Genesis Partners, Amiti Ventures and Aviv Ventures.
