As Opel continues to face losses, the European arm of General Motors has approved the closure of a German plant, at the cost of more than 3000 workers. Reuters reports Opel‘s decision to cease production at its 50-year-old Bochum ...
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Lamborghini is planning to release a limited edition stripped-out Gallardo with a manual transmission as a final send-off to the long-running supercar. With the 10-year production cycle of the Lamborghini Gallardo approaching its end and ...
Rolls-Royce has launched the exclusive Alpine Trial Centenary Collection to commemorate the marque’s 100th anniversary of conquering the arduous Austrian Alpine Trials. In 1913, the Rolls-Royce Works Team and privateer entrant James ...
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A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday has reportedly been identified, according to numerous news agencies. CNN was the first to report that a suspect had been identified in the bombing, which killed three people and left more ...
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The first images of the Volkswagen CrossBlue Coupe concept have been leaked ahead of its official unveiling at tomorrow’s Shanghai auto show. The five-door, five-seat Volkswagen CrossBlue Coupe concept is the German ...
A major fire ripped through Smurfit Kappa’s paper mill on Wednesday night (17 April). Some 9,000 tonnes of cardboard bales were well alight [nearly a quarter of its stock supply], covering seven acres of a 22-acre site. West ...
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Jimmy's will be putting its new packaging in Tetra Prisma Aseptic 330ml cartons with the new re-sealable DreamCap. ? The range will be packed in the UK by contract packer Framptons and will be the first time a product in this format will ...
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Wearing Victorian number plates on its tailgate, the Holden VF Commodore SS V ute has been caught testing at the famous Nurburgring circuit, in Germany. Only a month out from its official Australian launch, the Holden VF Commodore ...
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Mercedes-Benz continues to explore bringing its prestige cachet down to smaller, more affordable vehicles with the GLA small SUV concept. Introduced at the Shanghai motor show, the GLA demonstrates how an SUV could be spun off the ...
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Diodes has designed a programmable omnipolar Hall effect switch is able to detect both north and south magnetic fields. The AH1898 features a band-select pin, which allows device sensitivity to be changed to one of two predefined magnetic ...
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The market for Bluetooth chips is predicted to almost double in size from 2011 to 2017, driven by use of the wireless comms technology in smartphones and media tablets. A report entitled Bluetooth—Classic or Smart Ready from IMS ...
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Google is moving to keep up with its mobile users, updating search on devices this week. The company added two new features, both aimed at getting users on the run to the information they want more quickly. "When you're searching for ...
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There is no way, absolutely no way, that Apple will surrender its iPhone interface to Facebook Home, analysts said today. "Apple will not do Facebook Home as implemented in the first version of Android. Absolutely not," said Patrick ...
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Following similar initiatives by Apple, Google and Facebook, Microsoft is enabling two-factor authentication for its Microsoft Account service, the log-on service for many of its online and desktop products. "With this release you can ...
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More than 25 years after Apple introduced "Knowledge Navigator" as a concept that envisioned the future of computers, Intel has reintroduced the concept as the future of smartphones. Smartphones in the future will be cognizant of ...
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