2016-05-25
Apple might overhaul the 12-inch MacBook Pro design later this year by making the notebook thinner and lighter, by integrating a Touch ID support and an OLED display touch bar above the keyboard, reported 9 to 5 Mac.
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2016-05-25
In this blog entry by Donna Dederding from Zumtobel, she explores how Zumtobel and Tridonic were able to develop a car park lighting solution in Qatar.
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2016-05-25
iDevices®, the preeminent brand in the smart home industry, announces the availability of Socket. This latest innovation allows you to turn any ordinary light bulb into a connected bulb quickly and easily. Simply screw Socket into your favorite lighting fixture and insert any standard bulb to enjoy the peace of mind that comes from the ability to control your lighting from anywhere.
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2016-05-25
Cree, extends the groundbreaking performance of its industry-leading OSQ Series Area and Flood LED luminaires, delivering up to 58% more efficacy on existing lumen packages at up to 136 lumens-per-watt (LPW) for increased energy savings. The series also now offers a new OSQ™ 28L Outdoor Area and Flood LED luminaire option, delivering up to 28,285 lumens and enabling the replacement of HID fixtures up to 1000W. The result is better light for more applications, including open parking, walkway and common area within commercial, residential, healthcare, campus and municipal environments.
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2016-05-25
Alpha Assembly Solutions, the world leader in the production of electronic soldering and bonding materials, plan to showcase their vast LED materials portfolio and will present a technical paper at the upcoming Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition (GILE) taking place June 9th – 12th in China.
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2016-05-25
GlacialTech, the diversified LED technology provider, announces a new LED Flood Light Knock Down Kit for 80W to 100W LEDs. The Igloo SS80 is sold as either a thermally efficient heatsink or Semi-Knocked Down Kit (SKD) package including heatsink, mounting bracket, reflector, and a waterproof glass cover or CoB Lens.
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2016-05-25
LG Electronics USA today announced pricing and availability for its 2016 OLED TV line, including the newly launched flat-panel B6 and curved-panel C6 series OLED TVs, which join the already released LG SIGNATURE OLED G6 and LG OLED E6 series available at leading retailers nationwide.
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2016-05-24
In a letter issued by Aixtron, it assured clients that it would remain a German company, protect its patents, and highlighted the benefits the potential acquisition deal with Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund (FGC) would have on its future business strategy.
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2016-05-24
UBM plc, one of the world's leading trade exhibition organisers, and Alibaba's B2B business unit, including Alibaba.com and 1688.com, the leading platforms for online wholesale trade of the Alibaba Group, today announced the launch date of the B2B industry's "game-changing" sourcing solution and service.
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2016-05-24
Many manufacturers displayed advanced UV LED curing and disinfection technologies at RadTech UV 2016, which recently took place from May 16-18 in Chicago, U.S. The leading UV technology show integrates forums and exhibitions, and is an important indicator in the sector. Dr. Ming-chang Wu, Vice President of High Power Lighting Group (HPL) spoke to LEDinside about the company’s UV LED product trends and solutions.
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2016-05-24
Aixtron’s announcement last Friday that is in talks with Chinese investment group Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund (GCI)’s German subsidiary has attracted criticism from one of the group’s largest shareholder Argonaut Capital, according to aFinancial Times report.
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2016-05-24
Taiwanese LED EPI-wafer manufacturer Epistar has vehemently denied claims made by local media Apple Daily that it had laid off more than 100 employees following the shut down of its subsidiary FOREPI’s EPI-wafer fab.
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2016-05-24
Orion Energy Systems, a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance, energy-efficient retrofit lighting platforms, announced a US $2.4 million retrofit lighting project with a global Fortune 50 retailer due to its ability to work with channel partners to deliver a brand new, custom product in less than a month. The project marks the initial phase of what is expected to be a broader opportunity for both retrofit lighting and new construction.
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2016-05-24
Walking through the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus at night is getting brighter thanks to an ongoing, campus-wide installation of 800 LED street and parking lot lights. The effort is part of a three-year partnership between Eversource and UMass Amherst which began in 2014. The combined electricity savings from the partnership of approximately 9 million kilowatt-hours is the greenhouse gas equivalent of taking about 1,300 vehicles off the road.
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2016-05-24
In this blog entry by Isaac Hsu from Texas Instruments explores how LED matrix headlight designs could improve road safety.
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2016-05-24
A Hong Kong designers Jason Lam and Sampson Wong’s interactive lighting display, “Our 60-Second Friendship Begins Now” got pulled by the local government for “unauthorized name change,” reported ejiinsight.
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2016-05-24
The impressive Noma Earth Tubes with a height of 5.60 metres are part of the 80,000 square metre Noma municipal refurbishment project in the north of Manchester. The three towers supply fresh air to the co-op support centre located beneath it in the centre of the upgrading zone. In addition to their primary function the climate towers also fulfil an aesthetic task, making the public space much more attractive for both visitors and residents. This vision has been rendered possible thanks to state-of-the-art LED lighting solutions from Osram.
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2016-05-24
MaxLite continues to expand its award-winning portfolio of ENEGY STAR certified LED lamps with the 3-Way Omnidirectional A-Lamp.
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2016-05-24
RAB Lighting extends its line of popular ALED area lights with the addition of new high lumen output models. The 360-Watt ALED delivers over 37,000 lumens and replaces 1000 Watt metal halide fixtures using 67% less energy. The 260-Watt version has an ultra-high efficacy rating of 108 lumens per Watt and offers an even more energy efficient option when a full 1000W equivalent is not necessary. These high output fixtures are ideal for a wide variety of applications including high mast lighting for recreation fields, tennis courts and large parking lots.
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2016-05-24
Philips Lighting, a Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX, PHIA) company and global leader in lighting, announces that a Solar Soccer match at its Community Light Center outside Nairobi marked the unofficial start of the second United Nations Environment Assembly.
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2016-05-23
The sales of Aixtron to a Chinese investor last Friday sparked market rumors, with some industry insiders over interpreting and speculating San’an Opto is involved in the acquisition. LEDinside takes a look into this particular market rumor.
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2016-05-23
Aixtron and Grand Chip Investment GmbH (“Grand Chip Investment”), a 100% indirect subsidiary of Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund LP (“FGC”), have today entered into an agreement to take over AIXTRON. Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund LP is a Chinese investment fund; 51% of which is held by the Chinese business man Zhendong Liu and 49% by Xiamen Bohao Investment Ltd.
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2016-05-23
Kerry County Council in Ireland will be overhauling existing streetlights with LEDs to cut annual streetlight spending, reportedThe Kerryman.
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2016-05-23
Indian government incentives and policies has resulted in the large number of LED streetlight projects in the country, with many new developments each week. Varanasi is still behind schedule when it comes to streetlight upgrades, while Ambattur is starting to introduce smart LED streetlights.
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2016-05-23
Bathing a patient in LED light may someday offer a new way to locate tumors, according to Rice University researchers.
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2016-05-23
Vancouver-based startup TetraGear has developed LED lights to increase visibility and safety of users of various mobility devices including wheelchairs, bicycles and strollers at night.
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2016-05-23
Panasonic, which supports the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Rio 2016 Olympics) and the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games as an Official Worldwide Partner for the Olympic Games*1, today announced the company will launch a variety of global marketing activities in its sponsorship category. Through these activities, Panasonic hopes to deliver the splendor and excitement of sports and help nurture the Olympic Movement.
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2016-05-23
Fairchild (NASDAQ: FCS), a leading global supplier of high-performance semiconductor solutions, introduced the newFL77944, the first solution in its LED Direct AC Drive family of solid-state LED lighting solutions that manufacturers can use to easily scale power and create smart and scalable LED-based lighting products that can be smaller, have higher performance and a longer system lifetime compared to products using the switch mode power supply (SMPS) approach.
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2016-05-23
Diodes Incorporated, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic, analog and mixed-signal semiconductor markets, today announced the AL1676. This universal AC-input LED driver is designed to meet or exceed worldwide power-factor regulations for non-dimmable retrofit LED bulbs and tube lighting, providing a design that also delivers high efficiency and a low BOM cost. Options for the integrated MOSFET allow for 300V to 650V drain voltages and 1A to 4A drain currents in order to suit most 3W to 18W bulb requirements.
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2016-05-20
Reports from Taiwanese media have pointed out StrongLED might have acquired Osram Licht smart LED bulb OEM orders. The alliance formed between the two competitors in the smart light market is aimed at countering Philips Lighting’s advancements in the smart lighting sector, according to the report from Commercial Times. The group’s LED component business Osram Opto, sheds insight about new 10 degree binning color technology, aimed at providing more realistic view of color performance.
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