On Friday, November 22nd 2013, Tanzania’s only children’s heart surgeon had already cut the little girl’s chest open when the lights went off, forcing the entire operating room into complete darkness. Such issues are common in the developing world and long replacement cycle of operating room equipment is not making it any easier. The lack of…
Earlier in December, MediaBistro, a leading internet media company, hosted a Social Gambling and Gaming Summit at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, which brings together casino-style social games, mobile gaming, virtual goods, and helps bridge mainstream social gambling and gaming. Social gaming is one of the fastest growing industries in the gaming market. Approximately one…
A huge price war has recently erupted in the Global Heat Treating Market because local vendors are finding it difficult to compete with international market players in terms of quality, features, and service. Furthermore, high initial investment costs make it difficult for emerging companies to make headway against already well-established international and regional vendors. To…
In 2014, NASA plans to put 3D printing capabilities to the test by launching a 3D printer into space giving astronauts access tools and parts in emergency situations. In February 2013, Made in Space, a space hardware manufacturer, entered into a sole source contract with NASA to assess how 3D printing would work on the…
In July 2013, the Wi-Fi market in Japan got a huge boost when the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications allocated the unused 2,500 MHz spectrum to be used to ease the pressure created by the increasing demand for data applications. This opened the doors for ZTE Corporation that announced in September that it is…
Impressive growth to the APAC region’s Power Industry combined with stringent air pollution controll has driven many industry players right into the hands of The Global Air Monitoring and Sampling Equipment (AMSE) Market, and vendors are greeting them with open arms, driving market growth at a CAGR of 21 percent for the 2012-2016 period. This…
On October 3rd, and independent regulator and competition authority for the UK Communications industry called Ofcom released a report stating that from 2012 until now, household ownership of a tablet has more than doubled, currently sitting at 51 percent. Furthermore, the use of tablets at home has tripled to 42 percent among youth aged 5…
Alabama’s Department of Public Safety reports 178 out of the 367 traffic deaths that have occurred so far this year have resulted in fatalities because of vehicle occupants not wearing a seat belt. These figures are roughly the same as last year in which 59 percent of the people killed in traffic accidents were not…
In October, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, the market leader in capacitive touch-sensing, announced it is nearing the shipment of its 1 billionth CapSense capacitive touch-sensing controller, which have already replaced over 4.5 billion mechanical buttons in a variety of different electronic devices. In response to this milestone, Hassane El-Khoury, Executive Vice-President of Cypress’s Programmable Systems Division said, “Cypress’s…
As the long-anticipated wait for Google Glass, anticipated for release in spring 2014, nears an end, the buzz around this new wearable augmented reality device is growing louder and louder. Wearable computers first gained speed in the early 2000s, however many projects were either scrapped, delayed or didn’t get the attention they needed to hit…
