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Monthly Archives: July 2011

Some Wireless Alliances News:

Friday, July 29, 2011

ZigBee alliance announces 10th standard: ZigBee gateway The ZigBee Alliance, a global ecosystem of organizations creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, residential, commercial, and consumer applications, recently announced the availability of its 10th standard, ZigBee Gateway. The standard offers and easy and cost-effective way to enable Internet connections, giving service providers, businesses and [...]

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How long do LED lighting systems really last?

Friday, July 29, 2011

That question is addressed in a newly revised guide published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) entitled, LED Luminaire Lifetime: Recommendations for Testing and Reporting. The report asserts that the true lifetime of LED systems is generally not known. It points out that, aside from the diodes themselves, the component make-up of different LED [...]

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Intel gets another one; Solarflare changes course

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Intel has announced the acquisition of fabless semiconductor company Fulcrum Microsystems – maker of Ethernet switch silicon for data center network equipment. Intel seems to be buying in every direction: software (Wind River) , security (MacAfee), cellular platforms (Infineon) and now 1G/10G communications. What is the rhyme and reason? It will be interesting to find [...]

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Market Creation: In Tablets Or Otherwise, Success Requires Meaningful Differentiation

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

By Brian Dipert I’ve found myself of late pondering the tablet computer market both in an absolute sense and relative to the cellular handset business. Consider that Apple near-singlehandedly created the smartphone market with the first-generation iPhone, unveiled in January 2007 and shipping beginning in June of that same year. Google responded with the T-Mobile [...]

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Smart Appliances: Getting Attention Around the World

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Last year, I wrote about smart appliances when the European Commission was considering the development of an ErP standard to address the technology (see: Everything is Getting Smarter). The preparatory study has just been released and is available now on the EC EcoStandby website. The focus of the European study is on how to lower [...]

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If you have a flip phone, please go away

Monday, July 25, 2011

by Bryan DeLuca I’m not joking. I’ve about had it when I’m out with other people and their mobile device is just a phone. Seriously, you might as well just have a rock in your hand according to today’s technology standard. (Makes a mental note to apologize to my mom before she reads this.) Obviously, [...]

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Discussion on ‘Funding Your Technology-Based Startup’ (Upton, NY)

Friday, July 22, 2011

If you live near New York you might be interested in attending a panel discussion on “Funding Your Technology-Based Startup” hosted bu the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, NY. It takes place on Monday, July 25, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. This is the fourth meeting of the Entrepreneurs’ Foundation Workshop [...]

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