The data from NPD also predicts that toy sales in Great Britain could reach a record £3.3 billion by the end of 2016. The NPD Group has revealed that less than one per cent of British toy sales belong to the web-connected toys ...
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With demand for notebooks stronger than expected and notebook component suppliers conservative about their shipments, several components including panel, battery and solid state drive (SSD), reportedly are suffering from shortages, ...
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On October 22 local time of Brazil, State Grid Brazil Holding Co. (SGBH) and ANEEL signed the Concession Agreement of Brazil’s Belo Monte Phase II UHV DC Transmission Project for a period of 30 years. It not only marks the project ...
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Mercedes-Benz recently started global lubricant supplier bidding project held every three years, extending an olive branch to Sinopec’s Great Wall lubricants firstly. The Great Wall Lubricants has obtained technology certification ...
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The conference on technologies and equipment for global energy interconnection was held in Berlin from December 10 to 11, 2015 local time. This conference was co-hosted by State Grid Corporation of China or SGCC, and German Electrical and ...
A team from Osram and BMW is one of three nominees for the €250,000 2016 German Future Prize (to be presented by Germany's President Joachim Gauck on 30 November) awarded annually in recognition of outstanding innovations in ...
Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) claims a record low subthreshold swing of 68mV/decade for a gallium arsenide (GaAs) field-effect transistor (FET) [SangHyeon Kim et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 24 ...
Researchers in the USA have grown two-dimensional (2D) layers of gallium nitride (GaN) using a graphene encapsulation on silicon carbide (SiC) substrate [Zakaria Y. Al Balushi et al, Nature Materials, published online 29 August 2016]. The ...
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Thousands of dangerous and counterfeit toys were seized from Smartway Imports in who pleaded guilty to seven offences relating to unsafe toys. A Salford-based company has been fined almost £25,000 for selling fake and counterfeit ...
China's industrial profits rose 19.5 percent year on year to 534.8 billion yuan (about 80.3 billion U.S. dollars) in August, official data showed Tuesday. The growth rate was faster than the 11-percent increase registered one month ...
Forty-five companies submitted their most exciting new products for consideration in this year’s American Society of Furniture Designers (ASFD) PinnacleTM Awards competition. Celebrating superior furniture design, these prestigious ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany is launching two LEDs in true green and one version in hyper red as additions to the PointLED and Firefly families for mobile applications such as fitness tracking and health monitoring. ...
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HKTDC Hong Kong Int’l Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition) 2016 is going to take place October 27-30, to remain the world’s most successful trade fair of its kind (photo courtesy of HKTDC).Generate more power for your business with ...
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Taiwanese blown film machinery makers compete globally with high-performance, high-quality and competitively priced models. Among the plastic processing machines makers in Taiwan, those making plastic inflation and blown film machines ...
This year Brisbane, Australia, will host the 10th IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition from 9-14 October and the emphasis will be on how water professionals can respond to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ...