News tagged with industrial technology

Embraer to team up with Brazil telecoms in space plan

Brazil's leading planemaker Embraer signed a shareholding agreement Tuesday with Telebras, the country's state-owned telecom provider, to set up a joint venture to launch a communications satellite.

Technology / Telecom

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

LEDs on silicon can reduce production costs

A new manufacturing technology is expected to greatly reduce the cost of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the future. For the first time ever, researchers at the Siemens subsidiary Osram Opto Semiconductors ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

IBM research boosts long-range, air-powered electric battery project

(Phys.org) -- IBM announced that two industry leaders -- Asahi Kasei and Central Glass -- will join its Battery 500 Project team and collaborate on far-reaching research with the potential to accelerate the ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 35 | with audio podcast

Fujitsu develops world's first technology for retrieving 3D CAD models with partially similar shapes

Fujitsu researchers have developed a technology for retrieving partially similar models from stored 3D CAD models.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Policies, learning-by-doing played important role in reducing ethanol costs

A new study from the University of Illinois concludes that learning-by-doing, stimulated by increased ethanol production, played an important role in inducing technological progress in the corn ethanol industry. ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The amazing technology that crafted the Webb Telescope technology

The creation of the next generation James Webb Space Telescope was only possible as a result of imagining and developing the industrial machines that would make it a reality. In the near future, some of that ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Obama calls for investment in clean energy

US President Barack Obama called on Congress Saturday to invest more money in clean energy technologies and end multi-billion-dollar subsidies given each year to oil companies.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 10, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 25

China orders more accurate air-quality measure

China's cabinet ordered on Wednesday new air-quality standards to measure the most dangerous form of particulate matter, following a public outcry over worsening air pollution.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

For most Mexicans, the digital age is still out of reach

Israel Vasquez, 12, has no computer or Internet access at home, but he needs both to do his homework.

Technology / Other

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bum's the word in Japan security scans

Put your fingerprint scanners away. Stand aside iris measurers. Buttocks are the new way to prove who you are.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Microsoft eclipses Yahoo in US search for 1st time

Microsoft Corp. has finally reached a long-sought and expensive goal - its Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google in the Internet's most lucrative market.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

French IT company aspires to be email-free within a year

How many work emails do you get a day? 80? 200? 500? More than 1,000?

Technology / Internet

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

US bill seeks to improve cyber information-sharing

A bill intended to increase sharing of information about cybersecurity threats between government and the private sector was introduced in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Limited options for meeting 2C warming target, warn climate experts

We will only achieve the target of limiting global warming to safe levels if carbon dioxide emissions begin to fall within the next two decades and eventually decrease to zero. That is the stark message from research by an ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

Benefits of working from home depends on family demands

If you work from home part of the week as a teleworker, does it help reduce work exhaustion caused by juggling work and family commitments? The answer may depend on the level of conflict you have between work and home and ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0