ELECTRONICS
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ELECTRONICS 
December 1, 2018 Electronics Failure Grounds German Chancellor Merkel’s A340 En Route to G20
German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Hamburg, Germany in 2013. (Glyn Lowe PhotoWorks, CC) An Airbus A340-300 carrying German Chancellor Angela Merkel had to make an emergency landing in Cologne, Germany, on Nov. 29 after an electronics failure while flying over the Netherlands. The plane, which was operated by the German air force, had a communications […]
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ELECTRONICS 
November 30, 2018 Samsung Electronics world’s 4th largest R&D spender: Rep ..
Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co has been ranked No. 4 among 1,000 major global companies in terms of spending on research and development (R&D) over the past one year, a report showed on Thursday. The South Korean tech juggernaut spent $15.3 billion on R&D projects from the second half of 2017, retaining the No. 4 spot […]
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ELECTRONICS 
November 25, 2018 Samsung Electronics apologises for factory cancer cases
Samsung Electronics apologised on Friday to workers who developed cancer after working at some of its factories, finally ending a decade-long dispute at the world’s top chipmaker. The father of a dead 22-year-old worker and the company’s co-president Kim Ki-nam signed a formal settlement agreement in Seoul as other disabled ex-employees looked on. “We sincerely […]
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ELECTRONICS 
November 24, 2018 Samsung Electronics apologises for factory cancer cases
Agence France-Presse Samsung Electronics is the world’s biggest mobile phone manufacturer and chipmaker. Photo: Bloomberg Seoul: Samsung Electronics apologised on Friday to workers who developed cancer after working at some of its factories, finally ending a decade-long dispute at the world’s top chipmaker. The father of a dead 22-year-old worker and the company’s co-president Kim […]
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ELECTRONICS 
November 12, 2018 ULTIMA: Chord Electronics’ blue moon shot
At Munich High-End in May, John Franks introduced the Étude, Chord Electronics’ first new amplifier topology since the company’s 1989 inception. Franks had gone back to the 1980s to the “feed-forward correction” work of one Bob Cordell who has since been retained by the UK hi-fi company as a consultant. Catch up here: Six months […]
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ELECTRONICS 
November 11, 2018 Battery Fashion: Scientists Weave Rechargeable Electronics Into Clothes
Wearable electronics are nothing new, but the technology has been limited by the question of how to power them for long periods without toting around a bulky charge storing device. Not any longer. Thanks to UMass Amherst materials scientist Trisha L. Andrew, a battery can now be stitched directly into your lapel. Andrew and her […]
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ELECTRONICS 
November 10, 2018 Black Friday: A Conscientious Buyer’s Guide To Buying Electronics
Black Friday Can Be Fair Tech FridayPhoto by Oliver Pecker on Unsplash We can bash Black Friday and mindless consumerism until the cows come home, but let’s face it – who doesn’t love a bargain? Credit cards in hand, people are going to go out there en masse the Friday after Thanksgiving and they’re going […]
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ELECTRONICS 
October 14, 2018 India’s draft electronics policy aims $400 billion manufacturing industry by 2025
The country’s draft electronics policy released by the IT ministry on Wednesday has set an ambitious target of creating a $400 billion electronics manufacturing industry by 2025, with the mobile phone devices segment accounting for three-fourths of the production. The draft National Policy on Electronics (NPE) aims to promote domestic manufacturing in the entire value-chain […]
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ELECTRONICS 
October 10, 2018 Xiaomi Mi TV 4 Pro 55-Inch, Mi Home Security Camera 360, Mi Luggage to Go on Sale for First Time in India Today
Xiaomi’s Mi TV 4 Pro 55-inch model, launched in India last month, is set to go on sale for the first time in India today via Flipkart and Mi.com, at 12pm IST. Alongside, the company’s Mi Home Security Camera 360 and Mi Luggage have also go on sale in the country today, with the former being made available via Amazon […]
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October 3, 2018 Tesco clothing like-for-like sales improve 2.4 percent
Group sales at Tesco Plc, for the second quarter, grew by 12.5 percent at constant exchange rates to 28.3 billion pounds (36.8 billion dollars) with like-for-like growth of 2.2 percent, while at actual exchange rates, sales grew by 12.8 percent including a 0.3 percent foreign exchange translation benefit due to the depreciation of sterling. The […]
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ELECTRONICS 
September 17, 2018 Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 3DMark Performance Benchmark Results Leak
HIGHLIGHTS Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 is priced at $699 Leaked benchmark results show a score of 10,147 graphics point The 3DMark Firestrike graphics score result is 27,000 points Nvidia’s recently unveiled GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card has seen its first benchmark results leaked online, showing some very impressive performance. Nvidia’s latest 2000 series GPUs were announcedlast […]
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ELECTRONICS 
September 10, 2018 Bharat Electronics, Vodafone Idea, Force Motors, IndiGo hit 52-week lows
A broker reacts while trading at his computer terminal at a stock brokerage firm in Mumbai (Photo: Reuters) Shares of Bharat Electronics (BEL), Vodafone Idea, Force Motors, Castrol India, InterGlobe Aviation (IndiGo) and Tata Communications have hit their respective 52-week lows on the BSE as the benchmark indices are trading lower for the sixth trading days. Besides BEL, total […]