Bsquare Corporation, a software solutions provider to the global embedded device community, today announced the development of an Adobe Flash Platform technology browser plug-in for ARM-based devices running Google's Android 1.5 "Cupcake" platform.
Monthly Archives: June 2009
QuantaSol reveals details of record-breaking solar cells
QuantaSol's record-breaking solar cell is GaAs-based with multiple quantum wells to broaden its absorption spectrum, and is made in the UK.
IT spend to resume growth in Q4 in US, in Q1 2010 in EU
US spending on IT goods and services is forecast to start growing again in Q4 2009, and European spending on IT goods and services is expected to start growing again in Q1 2010, according to the US forecasting house Forrester Research. “Forrester still expects growth in U.S. IT investment to resume in fourth-quarter 2009, and 2010 is expected to bring a ...
Battery collection – Poor record in the UK
When it comes to the collection, treatment and recycling of batteries you would expect the UK to be up there with the best, wouldn’t you? Well, you would be wrong, big time!
I can’t believe someone makes… Faceless watches
I can't believe someone would make it so hard to tell the time - I can't believe someone makes faceless watches.
Good Old EU: Phone Chargers To Be Standardised
Good Old EU. Now one doesn’t often say that. But getting the mobile phone manufacturers to agree to introduce a standard socket for chargers is just brilliant.
Intel & Nokia – it’s a vital alliance… for both
We now know that Intel and Nokia are to work together to develop mobile chipsets and a Linux-based mobile computing platform for future netbook products. But why?
A time to add lines and keep delivery times short
Components Bureau believes at a time of reduced inventory levels in the supply chain there is a greater emphasis on distributors to ensure that their sales turnaround times don’t suffer.
Elpida to get $1.7bn in DRAM bail-out
The restructuring of the disaster that is the worldwide DRAM industry is continuing with a bail-out for Elpida amounting to some $1.7bn.
UK firm QuantaSol breaks solar cell world record
Imperial Collage spin-out QuantaSol is claiming a single-junction solar cell world record. The strain-balanced quantum-well solar cell recorded an efficiency of 28.3% when exposed to 500sun concentrated illumination.