Toshiba warns it may ban all Western Digital employees from access to Toshiba’s ‘facilities, networks and databases’.

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While waiting at a London bus stop the other day, I was pleased to see an interactive video screen that was running Android.

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Philips claims to produce “a light spectrum nearly identical to halogen” from what it calls its ‘ExpertColor’ technology. “Master LED ExpertColor GU10 and MR16 enable customers to create a warm and comfortable ambience with superior colour realisation using a patented light spectrum with advanced phosphor technology and deep dimming. The new range is aimed at …

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AS7261 is a calibrated XYZ colour point sensor from AMS, intended for handheld colour analysers and calibration for paint colour matching.

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Mouser Electronics has announced the promotion of Mark Burr-Lonnon who becomes senior vice president of global service and the EMEA and Asia Pacific business. Burr-Lonnon has led Mouser’s global management team since joining in 2008 from its parent company, TTI. “Throughout his career, Mark has become adept at managing the many complexities of international business …

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We held the celebratory awards event at the prestigious venue of the Houses of Parliament, which proved a happy venue and a colourful backdrop.

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  Infineon is back in the top ten semiconductor rankings after dropping out following its withdrawal, a decade or so ago,  from the DRAM, mobile chip and wired broadband IC markets, according to IC Insights. The top-10 semiconductor suppliers represented 56% of the 1Q17 worldwide semiconductor market of $99.6 billion (2Q17 is forecast to be …

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Toshiba has demo-ed 64-layer BiCS FLASH TLC 3D NAND technology on an XG Series client NVMe PCIe SSD. The 512Gbit device has  3-bit-per-cell (TLC) technology. It is based on the third generation 64-layer stacking process featuring 65%  greater bit density per mm2 than Toshiba’s 48-layer, 256GB (32 gigabyte) device. Toshiba is currently migrating all client, …

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Nvidia had Q1 revenues of $1.94 billion – up 48% y-o-y. Q1 operating profit was $554 million, up 126% y-o-y. GPUs accounted for $1.56 billion of revenues. Gross margin increased 1.9% y-o-y to 59.4%. Gaming revenue rose 49% y-o-y to $1.027 billion, datacentre revenues neatly tripled y-o-y to $409 million and auto sales were $140 …

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It has taken just over a month, but Swiss firm MyKronoz has raised funding of $5.3m through crowd-funding on Kickstarter. The firm’s hybrid smartwatch called ZeTime incorporates mechanical hands over TFT colour touchscreen, and it has become the most-funded project from a European company. Boris Brault, CEO and founder of MyKronoz, writes: “We are achieving …

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