The Parts House (TPH) announced the acquisition of two Georgia locations from Johnson Industries Inc. TPH will maintain the two locations in Valdosta and Albany, Ga., and will service those locations from its Jacksonville, Fla. distribution ...
Tags: Georgia locations, Auto
Tenneco Inc.'s Rancho brand will release two new suspension systems for the 2015 Ford F-150 4WD truck, including 6-inch and 4.5-inch systems that the company says will help maximize handling and performance off-road, and provide a rugged, ...
Tags: 4WD Suspension Systems, Auto
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has announced the resignation (effective on 20 December) of its Supervisory Board chairman Jacques ...
In booth 4168, Hall 4, at SEMICON Japan 2014 in Tokyo (3-5 December), Nanometrics Inc of Milpitas, CA, USA (a supplier of process control metrology and inspection systems) is launching its latest photoluminescence (PL) system, Imperia, for ...
Tags: Imperia Pl System, Manufacturing, Electrical
Ratos has signed an agreement to acquire approximately 67% of the shares in the Finnish LED optics company Ledil Oy from the company's founders. The purchase price (enterprise value) for 100% of the company amounts to EUR 97m, of which ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED optics company, Lights
RF power transistors supplier Freescale Semiconductor of Austin, TX, USA has introduced what are claimed to be the industry’s highest thermal and wideband performance GaN device with a 125W continuous wave (CW) gallium nitride on ...
Tags: Power Transistor, Electrical
Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine has offered another hint his new employers at Apple may be close to launching a dedicated streaming service. Iovine, who sold the headphone and streaming company to Apple for $3 billion (around £1.9bn) ...
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Get your hearty pinch of salt at the ready, latest leaks have suggested that the iPhone 6S could be heading for release as early as spring 2015. Despite the iPhone 6 having only recently entered the realms of reality, the ever churning ...
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Apple has come under fire from a Chinese smartphone manufacturer over alleged patent infringement. Digione says the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are both in breach of China-based patents for handset design. According to Macworld, the firm ...
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HTC is going to release a second-gen version of its RE action camera next year, new reports reveal. According to CNA, Jack Tong, President of HTC North Asia, revealed that the next-gen device would be aimed at the mass consumer market. ...
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has given the clearest indication yet that the firm hasn’t been deterred by the failure of the much-maligned Amazon Fire Phone. Speaking at the Business Insider Ignition conference, Bezos claimed it will take ...
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Last month Samsung took the wraps off the Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5, a pair of mid- to low-range handsets that are expected to hit the market very soon. Now, with the handsets still to hit retailers' shelves, the Samsung Galaxy A3 has ...
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Apple has just removed the option to upgrade or downgrade to iOS 8.1 on mobile devices, scuppering the plans of many jailbreak hopefuls. With the Cupertino-based company having now canned the issue-hit iOS 8.1, iPhone and iPad users still ...
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Microsoft is reportedly planning to give users sampling the Windows 10 Technical Preview a chance to take Cortana for a spin as soon as January. According to CNET’s well-connected Microsoft reporter Mary Jo Foley, the January ...
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Let’s be honest here, we’ve all tapped that Send button in the heat of the moment and immediately wished we could take it back. Well, Gmail users may soon have the ability to rescind their unfortunate comments in a forthcoming ...
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