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First UL customer receives the UL Europe Mark
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), a world leader in product safety testing and certification, today announced that Gruppo Cimbali has become the first company to obtain the UL pan European Mark (UL-EU). Cimbali, a leading commercial espresso coffee and cappuccino machine maker, will be able to display the UL-EU Mark, which indicates its products comply with European (EN) safety standards.
UL developing first-edition standard for wireless charging devices for use with low-energy products
Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a world leader in safety testing and certification, is developing a first-edition standard for induction power transmitters and receivers for use with low-energy products. UL 2738 applies to induction power transmitters, such as wireless battery chargers, employing magnetic induction coils that transmit energy to receiving coils in low-energy devices, such as cell phones, portable media players and global positioni...
Agilent Selects SeqWright as First Target Enrichment Certified Service Provider for AB SOLiD Sequencing
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and SeqWright DNA Technology Services today announced that SeqWright is the first Certified Service Provider (CSP) for the Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment System for use with the next-generation AB SOLiD sequencing platform.
Cypress University Alliance and BG Partners Announce Third Annual Professor E.I. Tochitsky Fellowship Award
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) and BG Partners today announced that a team from the Arab Academy of Science and Technology (AAST, Cairo-Alexandria, Egypt) is the winner of the third annual Professor E.I. Tochitsky Fellowship Award. Professor Khaled A. Shehata’s group from the AAST Electronics and Communications Department led a widespread Middle East deployment of Cypress’s PSoC® programmable system-on-chip platform.
Cypress Earns Trusted Foundry Accreditation From U.S. Department of Defense
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that its Fab 4 manufacturing facility in Bloomington, Minnesota has been accredited by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) as a Category 1A ‘Trusted Foundry.’ The accreditation applies to design, wafer foundry, and test operations, and expands Cypress’s ability to make and sell defense products in the fab by authorizing fabrication of material for classified and unclassified programs...
NXP chip powers Toppan Forms NFC module in Lenovo ThinkPad laptops
NXP Semiconductors announced that their jointly developed Near Field Communication (NFC) reader / writer module “TN33MUE002L” has been adopted by Lenovo in three ThinkPad laptop models for the global market: the T410, T510 and W510. When built into a PC or a peripheral device, the module solution supports a variety of security and convenience features enabling transactions such as online banking, E-commerce, E-government online access and sec...
Industry Leaders Establish MIFARE4Mobile Industry Group
Seven leading players in the Near Field Communication (NFC) ecosystem, Ericsson, Gemalto, NXP, Oberthur Technologies, STMicroelectronics, Venyon, a company in the Giesecke&Devrient group, and ViVOtech, today joined forces to form the MIFARE4Mobile™ Industry Group. The aim of the group is to enable its members to collaborate and work together to standardize and advance the uniform management of MIFARE™ applications on NFC-enabled secure elemen...
Laird Technologies Releases the Newest in a Series of Thermal Management Application Notes
Laird Technologies announced the release of its newest application note titled “Thermoelectric Modules for Charge-Coupled Devices”. This application note is the newest in a series describing the role of Thermal Management in numerous market segments.
Imagination Technologies Supports 'Much Needed' Government plans for Digital Radio
Imagination Technologies Group plc announces its support for Government plans for digital radio migration, announced today by culture minister Ed Vaizey.
Tyco Electronics And Redwood Systems Establish Strategic Collaboration For Energy-Efficient Lighting Platform
Tyco Electronics, a leader in precision-engineered electronics, and Redwood Systems, a manufacturer of network-based lighting power and control systems, today announced a strategic collaboration to pioneer Redwood Systems’ new lighting platform in the commercial lighting market.