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The cloud’s up there. Your devices are down here. So how do you connect them, particularly when they may be offline, in multiple buildings or factories, and often also geographically dispersed? Connecting your existing devices to modern cloud solutions is the first step to reaping the benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT). But this step can seem daunting if...

By Lawrence Specker Being picked as one of IndustryWeek's best plants of 2016 didn't come as a complete surprise to leaders at UTC Aerospace in Foley. "It is a tremendous deal for us. But really it shows what we all had known," said General Manager Darrell B. Wilson. "We knew we were the best plant. The world knows it now." Closer to...

Test products Megger Test products: Megger’s DET14C and DET24C are advanced clamp-on ground resistance testers that set new standards in terms of access, performance, features, simplicity of operation and safety. These units are designed with flat core ends to prevent dirt build-up, ensuring measurement integrity and improved reliability over products with interlocking teeth. • Large elliptical clamp (head) design • Smooth mating...

BY-ANNA AHRONHEIM Contract for MR-SAM missile defense system, yet to be signed, is worth $2.5 billion. The Indian government has cleared a $2.5 billion deal for its army to buy a medium-range surface-to-air missile defense system from Israel Aerospace Industries, another step toward signing the contract, Indian media reported on Thursday. The MR-SAM system, jointly developed by India’s Defense Research and Development...

by Laura Panjwani - Editor A high-speed camera—originally designed for movie production— is now moving from Los Angeles to the laboratory. Vision Research recently introduced the Phantom Flex4K-GS, a high-speed digital video camera designed specifically for the science, aerospace and defense industries. The camera—which boasts a 35mm, 9.4-megapixel sensor and global shutter—is an updated version of the Flex4K, a full-featured digital...

Today ACCESS, a provider of advanced IT solutions, has announced that its product portfolio has been deployed by Reliance Jio Infocomm to power its multiscreen service, which currently reaches over 100 million subscribers across India.  India is one of the most prolific content provider in the whole world and has one of the highest rates of local consumption. It currently has 1 billion mobile devices currently in use and a...

Every year, leading valuation and strategy consultancy Brand Finance values the brands of thousands of the world’s biggest companies. Brands are first evaluated to determine their power / strength (based on factors such as marketing investment, familiarity, loyalty, staff satisfaction and corporate reputation) and given a corresponding letter grade up to AAA+. Brand strength is used to determine what...

By Pascal Geenens Radware’s Pascal Geenens walks us through 10 questions regarding the cyber security threat landscape, trends in the Darknet, motivations for attacks, and much more. What is the defining trend for the 2017 threat landscape? The Internet of Things (IoT). Everyone will remember the epic attacks against Krebs, OVH and Dyn last year. DDoS attacks with new historical volumes of...

By Tom Foremski The recent RSA conference drew more than 43,000 people — a record number as the cybersecurity hole continues to widen with new exploits. There were record numbers of people, exhibitors, talks and awards at the recent RSA Security show in San Francisco. Yet we have widening security holes in enterprise systems that continue to be discovered and exploited. You...

By:-Joe Menzer Let there be light. Or lights. And lots of them. The $5 million project to add lighting to historic Martinsville Speedway has reached completion, track president Clay Campbell told FOX Sports Thursday at Daytona International Speedway. Campbell said his team ran a full test last Tuesday of the new LED lighting system, which consists of 19 poles around the paperclip-shaped,...