Freescale has broadened its wireless charging portfolio with the a 15W device which is Qi compliant. The part is said to pave the way for 'ultra fast' wireless recharging for larger mobile devices, including tablets, large screen smartphones and portable industrial and medical equipment. "Today's mobile products offer a br...

In a move aimed at developing new technologies that will support high speed networks in densely populated areas, the University of Southampton is to join the European and Japanese backed Safari project. Safari is one of four research projects receiving €12million from the EU and Japan. In all, there will be more than 40 academic and i...

A National College for Digital Skills will open in London in 2015, the government announced today.The aim is to provide tomorrow's 'digital innovators' and coders with high level technical training, so that the UK can compete in the 'global race'. "This is all part of our long term economic plan for Britain &nd...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a lithography technique in which nanoscale spheres are placed on a photosensitive film in order to create 3D structures. Because the nanospheres polystyrene spheres are transparent, they bend and scatter light in predictable ways. The researchers can control the nanolithograph...

In August this year, Imagination Technologies took the wraps off the MIPS Creator C120; a dev board it said would rival the Raspberry Pi and help provide low cost development systems for users looking to create applications based on its IP technologies.Nearly four months on, the company has announced that the board is now available to pre-order...

Graphene's exceptional strength has been confirmed by a team of Rice University researchers, who have tested the material's properties by peppering it with microbullets.Led by materials scientist Edwin Thomas, the team used less than 1lb of graphene to prove that the material is on average 10 times better than steel at dissipating k...

Following successful collaboration in the areas such as LTE and the Open Radio Equipment Interface, ETSI and NGMN have agreed to develop their joint cooperation beyond the existing Memorandum of Understanding framework. Peter Meissner, CEO of NGMN, said: "The new agreement honours the good and long standing relationship between ETSI a...

Innovate UK has announced the four UK locations picked to test driverless cars.Bristol and Greenwich will each host a project of their own, while Coventry and Milton Keynes will share a third. The news was announced yesterday after George Osborne's Autumn Statement, who pledged an additional £10million for the work. ...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has officially adopted version 4.2 of the Bluetooth core specification. The upgrades included in v4.2 are said to improve privacy and increase speed. "Bluetooth 4.2 is all about continuing to make Bluetooth Smart the best solution to connect all the technology in your life – from person...

Michael Hsiao, Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech in the US, has developed mathematical formulae that simulate the methods used by the ants to find the best route to food sources and plans to use these algorithms to improve the accuracy of electronics design. According to Prof Hsiao, as electronics designers...