Apple's Siri may be helping to get people comfortable with the idea of virtual assistants. Alain Avakian,the Rent.com CTO,points to Siri when he talks about his own interest in virtual chat technology and its potential to augment customer ...
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Half of all LED chipmaking companies in China will go bankrupt owing to a slump in global demand and cuts in subsidies to certain manufacturers, according to a piece of research by Reuters. Analysts say oversupply and the economic ...
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Half of all LED chipmaking companies in China will go bankrupt owing to a slump in global demand and cuts in subsidies to certain manufacturers,according to a piece of research by Reuters. Analysts say oversupply and the economic ...
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Smart investors know that, often, the biggest growth opportunities are the ones you can't invest in – yet. New technologies typically have the most potential for growth when they are still under development or in the early phases of ...
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District of Columbia,District of Columbia,United States of America August 31,2012--Back to School Season a Boom for Mobile Self Storage and Other Industries Washington,D.C.August 31,2012 The 2012 Back to School season is in full ...
West Fraser Timber Co. And Western Forest Products Inc. Are leading Canadian lumber producers to the biggest combined profit since 2006 as mills run at five-year highs to feed a U. S. Housing rebound and near-record Chinese demand. Lumber ...
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Foxconn International Holdings(FIH),the world's largest contract producer of smartphones,has seen shares fall 3.5 per cent after its worst-ever first-half net loss. The manufacturer posted a$226m loss for the January to June ...
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The 2012 Olympics begin this week,and some might be lucky enough to have tickets to one of the many sports being contested by the 205 participating nations.With London hosting the 2012 games,seeing the Olympics in person means a trek to the ...
Our outlook for summer lumber prices has grown a bit brighter as it has become less likely the industry will severely out-produce demand. Historically, sustained strength in poplar demand would have long since triggered enough production to ...
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Alvanon Inc., the global fashion industry's leading 'fit' expert has launched AlvaForm Studio, a new and unique in-stock technical fit mannequin that, for the first time, will give small companies, designers, fashion students and garment ...
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>. Soltecture,the Berlin-based developer of thin-film solar modules formerly known as Sulfurcell,is the latest German photovoltaics company to go bust in the ongoing industry shake-out. Prompted by the wider problems of manufacturing ...
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The LED industry saw a recovery in the first quarter with increased orders of large-size LED backlights. This has increased LED firms' utilization rates to around 80-90% and revenues in March will increase as well. This is an improvement ...
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This week Solon became the first publicly traded solar-power company to file for bankruptcy in Germany. Despite cost-cutting and a round of last-minute negotiations, the Berlin-based photovoltaic equipment maker can't make its deadline to ...
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We tend to spend quite a bit of time in our bathrooms, although generally they are the smallest spaces in our homes. The bathroom is one of the most personal and private places that we have in our everyday life, and the way in which we ...
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The cost of solar cells and microchips has nowhere to go but down because of a supply glut for the commodity they’re made from, a brittle charcoal-colored semiconductor baked in ovens at 600 degrees centigrade. Polysilicon has plunged ...
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