A burn injury is one of the most devastating things a body can endure, and until recently, a serious third-degree burn meant certain death. Skin grown in a lab (yes, you read that right) improves the odds. Original post by Soulskill
BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) – Workers at an LG Display factory in eastern China have gone on strike, halting some production, the company said on Wednesday, in the latest action by China’s increasingly assertive workforce. Original post by Soulskill
Samsung hopes to sell 374 million phones next year, up 15% from the 325 million the company expects to have sold in 2011. The South Korea-based firm also said that it plans to sell 150 million smartphones in 2012, Korea Economic Daily said Tuesday. The vendor is well on its way to achieving its 2011 sales [...]
BERLIN (Reuters) – Hackers who have shut down websites by overwhelming them with Web traffic could use the same approach to shut down the computers that control train switching systems, a security expert said at a hacking conference in Berlin. Original post by timothy
Google+ now has more than 62 million registered users and is adding more at the rate of 625,000 a month. read more Original post by Emma Woollacott
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, a $30 billion Chinese telecoms gear maker, has initiated a system this year to allow top executives to take turns acting as chief executive, its founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei said in a year-end message. Original post by timothy
Acer might significantly scale back its touch device efforts if reports with possible official confirmation are accurate. The company was said by Taiwan’s Economic Daily News to be dropping its touch business group and moving half of its 300 research and development workers there to other divisions. It would still have smartphone and tablet teams, but they [...]
NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Semiconductor, NEC and Panasonic announced plans on Tuesday to establish a joint venture in which the firms hope to work together to create LTE and LTE Advanced products. The fabless JV will specifically focus on the development of “feature-rich, small-size, low-power-consumption semiconductor products equipped with modem functionality” for LTE and [...]
Sechang Instrument(representative Seung-jun Song, www.wepware.com) will present Active Web Service ‘Wepware’ by participating in CES 2012, from January 10-13. (Picture: Active Web Service ‘Wepware’) Wepware can collect contents easily on WEB by WYSIWYG(What You See Is What You Get) method, and these contents can be shared by SNS or Communities. In addition, user communities can be connected [...]
Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace is reportedly now home to more than 50,000 applications. That’s a relatively small figure taking into consideration that Apple’s iTunes App Store now boasts more than 500,000 apps and the Android Market is estimated to offer almost as many. However, it is double the amount of applications that were available just five [...]
