About 85 percent of U.S. businesses in China are still "optimistic" or "slightly optimistic" in their five-year outlook despite an economic slowdown and rising costs, showed a report on Wednesday. There is continued confidence in business ...
Tags: economic slowdown, economic growth
Apparel and footwear industry software expert, Xperia Solutions, has launched the new Collaborativ Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software suite, to speed up the product development cycle, lower costs, improve communications, and enable ...
Swedish fashion retailer Lindex said it has banned the use of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in all the garments they sell. The fashion retailer has been phasing out PFCs since 2012 as a part of its efforts to reduce the use of hazardous ...
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Vaio’s first ever smartphone seems almost assured to be real now, after two new reports from Japan out retail certification and images of the handset’s packaging. Just last month we reported that the Vaio smartphone was set to ...
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Samsung might be springing for MediaTek chips to power future smartphones, a new report reveals. According to CTimes, Taiwanese media has reported MediaTek is seeing some success in courting Samsung as a potential chip buyer. Zhu ...
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The HTC One M9 landed earlier this week with a mass of improvements in tow. There was, however, one glaring omission from its specs sheet – a better screen than its predecessor. Now we’re not saying this a drawback for the ...
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Chinese mobile brands including Huawei, ZTE and Gionee are displaying their latest technology at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Huawei has unveiled its wearable devices, including smart earphones and its first smart ...
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Tetra Pak’s new automated pasteuriser makes prepared food fast. It switches between hot- and ambient-filled products readily. It moves from one recipe to another with just a push of a button. It can be used for sauces, dressings, ...
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Finnish engine maker Sisu Diesel, acquired by Agco in the early 2000s, was one of the first companies to implement electronically controlled wastegates on engine turbochargers. Wastegates as a category have been around for a long time. ...
Tags: Electronic Wastegate, Turbos
The production value of Taiwan's IC design industry will rise 13.1% in 2015, thanks mainly to continued-strong demand coming from the smartphone sector, according to Digitimes Research. The output from MediaTek, Taiwan's largest IC design ...
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Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) is ramping up production of its 100G LR4 CFP4 client-side transceivers. Oclaro says that, having previously delivered CFP and ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA - a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has teamed with Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan (its parent ...
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QD Laser Inc of Kanagawa Japan and the Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics (NanoQuine) at the University of Tokyo have unveiled the prototype of their retina imaging laser eyewear for low-vision care. The plan is to ...
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LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has announced sampling and volume availability of its phosphor-converted (PC) LED chip series. The series launches with PC Amber, PC Green and PC Red LED chips in a 40mil (1mm ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has launched its next-generation diversity receive modules (DRx) for LTE smartphones. The firm says that its newest DRx modules improve ...
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