Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Indonesia (BRICI) have approx 610 million Internet users mentions a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) titled “The Internets New Billion: Digital Consumers in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Indonesia.” The BCG report mentions that it is expected to double by 2015, with around 1.2 billion users. The [...]

Visa Inc. has launched Rightcliq, an online shopping tool. As per Visa it improves the way consumers browse and compare products, checkout on merchant websites, and track packages to their doorstep. Rightcliq features an application called Wishspace. Wishspace is a visual wish list that lets consumers collect, organize and share images of products they’re considering [...]

ON Semiconductor introduced an offline LED driver that integrates power factor correction (PFC) and isolated step-down AC-DC power conversion in a single stage. It eliminates the need for a dedicated PFC boost stage. The NCL30001 offers a reduced component count, lower cost solution that supports higher overall system efficiency in LED power supplies for applications [...]