PHOENIX Process Equipment Company specializes in thickening and dewatering technologies including table thickeners, belt filter presses, recessed chamber and membrane filter presses, decanter centrifuges and chemical systems.

The full service-in-place TORNADO® T2 rotary lobe pump from NETZSCH is designed for the various sludge conveyances in sewage treatment plants.

SJ, the Swedish state railway company, is offering customers a payment option which uses an implanted NFC IC. The chip has been implanted in 2000 of  SJ’s customers’ hands. The Swedes are keen on this sort of thing. Swedish start-up Epicenter has had 150 of its employees implanted with NFC chips which give them access …

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The LTE baseband market grew 36% last year in a total cellular baseband market which grew 5.5% with all non-LTE segments declining sharply, says Strategy Analytics. Qualcomm had a 52% share of the LTE baseband market measured by unit volume which was a drop from 65% in 2015 because of Apple choosing Intel modems for …

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Google is in line to beat Intel for incurring the largest-ever EU fine for abuse of a dominant position. The EU’s beef is that Google searches favour Google’s own price comparison web-site over  rival sites. The EU fined Intel $1 billion for a series of dirty tricks to prevent AMD’s PC CPUs, which were at …

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Technological advances have substantial benefits for healthcare, says a report from Accenture called ‘Technology Vision 2017 – Amplify You’. “It’s no longer people who are adapting to technology – rather, the technology is adapting to us,” argues the report which lists five tech trends. AI is one – “the new universal intelligence” – as the …

Read full article: Tech is good for your health, says Accenture

Analogue Devices has managed to create a 500W switched-capacitor power chip for fixed ratio power conversion at up to 72V and 99% efficiency. Power density up to 4,000W/in3 is claimed. The main application foreseen for the chip, the LTC7820, is 48V non-isolated dc bus conversion, although it is capable of up, down and inverting conversion at …

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Molex, Phoenix Contact, Murrelektronik and Binder are driving the standardisation of a non-proprietary push-pull connection system.

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How on earth did this happen? Gartner published this graphic which demonstrates how much IBM and Oracle have screwed up in providing cloud services. Both companies say they are relying on the cloud for major revenue but both, despite a huge lead in the technologies, have fallen way behind Amazon and Microsoft. Oracle’s cloud offering …

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