Shipments of Windows laptops and desktops have hit new lows as tablet shipments continued to rise during the second quarter of this year, Canalys Research said in a study released on Tuesday. Combined shipments of tablets and PCs totaled ...
Tags: Windows, laptops, desktops, second quarter
Apple sold more PCs worldwide last quarter -- 21 million -- than any rival, retaking the lead it lost the quarter before, U.K.-based Canalys said yesterday. And because Microsoft lacks a tablet operating system, sales of Windows-powered ...
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Used iPhone values dropped as much as 8% at several trade-in firms after Apple announced the new iPhone 5 and cut prices for two older models yesterday. In the last week, the price quoted by NextWorth for a used 16GB iPhone 4S fell by 8%, ...
Tags: mobile carrier, Apple, iPhone 5, LTE data networks
Virgin Mobile consumers can now purchase iPhones on the carrier's prepaid wireless plans. Consumers will have to pay full price for the phones -- $649 for a 16GB iPhone 4S and $549 for an 8GB iPhone 4 -- but pay less for service than they'd ...
Tags: Virgin Mobile, consumers, iPhones, prepaid wireless plans
Green office supplies (my Hub page on the topic) are the topic of the day on this Earth Day. I’m not a huge fan of multi-billion dollar government-run programs to subsidize things or thrust such burdens on us as consumers or business ...
Tags: Office Supplies, Earth Friendly Office, Green Office Supplies
That Was Then, This Is Now. Fortunately, those 240-day lead times from back in the early 2000s are a thing of the past. As discussed previously, it’s more like half that nowadays. Marketing communications can be developed and deployed ...
Taipei, Oct. 26, 2012 (CENS)--China's incandescent phase-out this month is expected to create multibillion RMBs of business opportunity for LED (light emitting diode) lighting makers there. The Chinese National Development and Reform ...
Tags: incandescent, NDRC, LEDs, light, LED bulb, florescent lamp, LED lamps
The Taipei and Kaohsiug City Governments have set ceiling prices of about NT$8,000(US$274)for LED street lamp open bids,and some Taiwan-based LED lighting makers have complained the prices are significantly lower than the reasonable level ...
Tags: LED street lamp, Taipei and Kaohsiug City Governments, open bids, price
According to the Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK), Taiwan's total LED industry output value in the third quarter of 2012 was NT$24.2 billion (US$830 million), representing an on-quarter increase of 5.8%. Despite being the ...
Tags: LED lighting
The Apparel Human Resources Council (AHRC) and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) are happy to announce the renewal of the Career Focus Program. Applications must be received by November 29th, 2012. The program will ...
Tags: Apparel, non-profit organisation, subsidize up, wages
Microsoft makes more than$300 on each Surface RT tablet it sells,showing that the company has adopted the business model of its rival,Apple,analysts said yesterday. According to IHS iSuppli,which disassembled a 32GB Surface to estimate ...
Tags: Microsoft's, BOM, ape-Apple strategy, Surface RT tablet
IMS Research forecasts 2013 to be another challenging year for PV inverter manufacturers, with flat revenue growth globally and a major shift away from traditional markets leading to a reshaping of the supplier base, according to the ...
Tags: PV inverter, inverter, solar installations, IMS
Taipei, Oct. 22, 2012 (CENS)--The Executive Yuan (the Cabinet) has put forth a plan for appropriating NT$300 million in three years, which will be used to subsidize the pays of 300 biotech doctors for receiving one–year re-training at ...
Tags: the Cabinet, high-caliber talent
Taipei, Oct. 23, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan’s Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) recently announced a plan to help Taiwan's machine tool industry with developing intelligent design and manufacturing to increase the industry's revenue to ...
Tags: IDB, machine tool industry, information-communication technology
IDG News Service-Modifying Apple's iPhone software to install applications not approved by Apple will still be legal under new exemptions to take effect on Sunday in the U.S.,but illegal for an iPad and other tablets. The seemingly ...
Tags: Apple, iPhone, iPad, applications