Engineers’ Must-Reads This Week
(July 13 - 19, 2011)

Samsung, LG fire back at Osram in LED war
(EE Times 07/18/2011 Peter Clarke)
LONDON – Samsung LED Co. Ltd. has gone to the U.S. International Trade Commission seeking an injunction against the sale of LED products made by Siemens' Osram subsidiaries. It has also filed a court case in Delaware alleging patent infringement by Osram, according to a Reuters report.

Hacker group launches online social network
(Yahoo! News 07/18/2011 AFP)
Infamous hacker group Anonymous launched Monday its own social network after being rejected by Google's freshly-launched online community.

Windows 8 to spawn new breed of low-cost laptops
(cNet.com, 07/18/2011, Brooke Crothers)
The pairing of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 with processors from companies like Qualcomm and Nvidia is expected to spawn a new kind of low-cost laptop, according to IHS-iSuppli, possibly threatening Intel's overwhelming dominance in laptops.

Opera Mini slims smartphone data streams
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 07/16/2011 AFP)
SAN FRANCISCO—Opera Mini web-browsing software for smartphones has become an antidote for congested telecom networks and carrier bills that rise along with the amount of data streamed to handsets.

Semi-transparent solar glazing panels developed by Oxford researchers
(IET 07/15/2011 E&T Editorial Staff)
UK researchers have developed semi-transparent solar glazing panels to enable windows in the home to generate power.

Food packaging insert reduces waste
(IET 07/13/2011 Erika Burrows)
A graduating Royal College of Art student has displayed a final project that could revolutionise the way we store food.

(Published 19 July 2011, Smart Communications, Inc.)