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China's Lenovo to build research centre in Taiwan: report

Technology / Business

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chinese high-tech giant Lenovo plans to set up a research and development centre in Taiwan as the firm tries to take advantage of warming cross-strait ties, a report said Tuesday.


A new kind of micro-mobility: Moving tiny particles using magnetic fields

A new kind of micro-mobility: Moving tiny particles using magnetic fields (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new microscopic system devised by researchers in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering could provide a novel method for moving tiny objects inside a microfluidic chip, and ...


Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is planning to invest in the island's largest producer of solar cells

Taiwan chip giant TSMC to enter solar energy

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is planning its first foray into solar energy with an investment in the island's largest producer of solar cells, a spokesman said Thursday.


Emotions an overlooked key to whistle-blowing, study says

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A gut-level connection with workers may be the key to encouraging whistle-blowing that could chip away at an estimated $652 billion lost to fraud annually by U.S. businesses, an ongoing University of Illinois study suggests.


Toy recall of 2007 hurt innocent companies, shows research

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The well-publicized toy recalls of 2007 took potentially harmful toys off the shelves and affected the companies that made them.


Traditional craft industry with a bright future

Traditional craft industry with a bright future

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Mary and Joseph, the angels, the manger -- at Christmas time, lots of people still decorate their homes with high-quality wooden figures depicting the nativity scene. Now, the wood carvers of South Tyrol are ...


Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Substrates

Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Sub

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 4

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures ...


Intelligence inside metal components

Intelligence inside metal components

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Up to now, extreme production temperatures made it impossible to equip metallic components with RFID chips during the operating process. At Euromold in Frankfurt (Dec. 2-5), Germany, Fraunhofer researchers ...


TSMC said China's top chip maker will settle a long-running dispute over theft of trade secrets

China chip maker to pay $200 mln to settle TSMC claims

Technology / Business

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said Tuesday China's top chip maker will pay it 200 million US dollars cash after they settled a long-running dispute over alleged theft of trade secrets.


A delicate grip

A delicate grip

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar wafers for use in the production of photovoltaic systems are extremely sensitive. In a test and demonstration center research is being conducted on grippers to determine the best way ...


Growing online sales could lower prices, but also trim choices

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Shoppers could see lower prices but less variety to choose from as more manufacturers sell directly to consumers through the Internet, according to new research led by a University of Illinois business professor.


North America automobile sector bottom of 'world sustainability league'

Other Sciences / Economics

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

North American car manufacturers have come bottom of the league in the largest ever international study of the global automobile sector's sustainability performance.


Foresight Institute Announces Feynman Prize Winners

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank based in Palo Alto, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2009 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology.


Scores of teams applied to compete in this year's decathlon, but only 20 were accepted

Changing focus leads Dell to close NC plant

Technology / Business

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A massive Dell Inc. computer assembly plant once seen as a job generator worthy of the promise of more than $300 million in state and local inducements will go dark in four months, a victim of new ...


Electrostatic surface cleaning

Electrostatic surface cleaning

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It's often the little things that count in industrial manufacturing processes. Particles less than half the diameter of a hair in size can significantly impair quality in production. For example, there should ...