At BlackBerry Live 2013, the company announced that the latest version of the BlackBerry 10 OS, version 10.1, will be available for download on the BlackBerry Z10 as of today. BlackBerry also announced the Blackberry Q5, a QWERTY keyboard ...
Tags: Blackberry, Cursor Control
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has launched the new division IQE Wireless, which will provide a complete ‘one-stop shop’ for radio frequency (RF) wireless epitaxial wafer materials. The new ...
Tags: IQE, Dedicated Wireless Products
The UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT) has announced a dramatic increase in funding for UK exporters to take part in key international trade shows. In the financial year 2013/4 and 2014/5, UKFT has received a commitment from UK Trade ...
Tags: Global Fairs, Textile
Nokia will launch one medium price mobile phone Asha, priced 99 dollars. Nokia attempted to prevent consumers especially those fromthe emerging markets from chosing Google phone with Android system. Asha has some smartphone's basic ...
Kortrijk, Belgium-based Bekaert, one of the world's largest steel cord and wire manufacturers, has announced that in the first quarter of the current year it achieved consolidated sales of €799 million, down 11 percent compared to the ...
Tags: Mineral, steel cord and wire
Due to rising capacity utilization rates and rising solar cell prices in the first quarter of 2013, Taiwan-based solar cell maker Motech saw gross margin rise to negative 8% from negative 15.7% in the fourth quarter of 2012. According to ...
For its fiscal second-quarter 2013 (to 29 March), analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $425.2m (split 40% in linear products ...
Tags: Skyworks, Electronics
New tablet shipments will outnumber laptops for the first time in 2013, as touch display capabilities drive buying patterns rather than new operating systems like Windows 8 and Windows RT, research firm NPD DisplaySearch reported on Monday. ...
Tags: Tablet Shipments, Laptops
Despite the global negative trend, that is likely to have an impact on the luxury industry in 2013, the Group will continue to invest to expand its retail network and to promote its brands, also in new African and Asian markets. ...
Tags: Retail, Apparel, luxury industry
Stirred by strong demand from the US, Latin America and China, India’s carpet exports grew to US$ 89.3 million during April 2013, registering an increase of 8.4 percent over April 2012’s exports of US$ 82.33 million, the Carpet ...
Tags: Carpet Exports, Carpet
The merger of Taiwan-based solar cell makers Neo Solar Power (NSP) and DelSolar, a solar subsidiary of Delta Electronics, will be completed on May 31, 2013, said Quincy Lin, chairman and CSO of NSP. Lin added that the merger occurred at a ...
The textile and apparel companies in Scotland are eyeing on new and emerging markets, including China, Russia, the UAE, Brazil and India, for expanding their business worldwide, since the country aims to increase its exports by 50 percent ...
Amira Nature Foods, a United Arab Emirates-based provider of packaged Indian specialty rice, has signed a $48m contract to supply third party branded basmati rice to a key repeat customer in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) ...
Tags: Amira Nature Foods, Basmati Rice
International packaging and paper group Mondi has commenced full production at its new industrial bags plant in Sulaimaniyah, northern Iraq. The greenfield project, in collaboration with local partner Kaso Group, is expected to ...
Tags: Mondi, Industrial Bags Plant
The economic crisis years of 2008 to 2012 dealt a heavy blow on the Spanish textile and apparel sector, whose sales dipped 21 percent during the period, according to an Europa Press report. The report says that about 46,300 jobs were ...
Tags: Spanish Textile, Textile