Solar wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) on May 7 announced a merger with Sino Solar, its joint venture which makes crystalline silicon solar cells, through the acquisition of a 58.12% stake at NT$7.05 per share for NT$810 ...
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“Those who own and use lighting systems benefit tremendously when they rely on qualified lighting-system consultants to design a new system or an upgrade to an existing system.” So says John Bachner, executive director of the ...
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BHP Billiton, the 3th world's biggest iron ore suppliers, expressed that the increase speed in iron ore supplies would accelerate and it would lead a lower price of iron ore. “The increase speed of supply will accelerate in the next ...
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Google plans to offer a video subscription service on YouTube, which according to a newspaper report, the company may announce this week. YouTube is "looking into creating a subscription platform that could bring even more great content ...
Google has started rolling out a new feature in Gmail that lets users create Google Calendar entries from their email messages. Gmail now detects dates and times in the text of email messages and highlights them. Users can click on the ...
New tablet shipments will outnumber laptops for the first time in 2013, as touch display capabilities drive buying patterns rather than new operating systems like Windows 8 and Windows RT, research firm NPD DisplaySearch reported on Monday. ...
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Intel-owned security software vendor McAfee is to acquire Finnish firewall software maker Stonesoft in a $389m (£250m) cash deal. The deal, subject to the agreement of Helsinki Stock Exchange-listed Stonesoft's shareholders, will ...
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Taiwanese PC maker Asus plans on getting behind Google's Chrome OS and will launch a notebook running the OS in the second half of this year, said company CEO Jerry Shen. The Google-developed OS is still in its early stages, but "market ...
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Dell, the PC vendor that its founder is bidding to take private, has acquired Enstratius, a maker of enterprise cloud management software that counts Amazon, VMware and Rackspace among its customers. The value of the deal was not disclosed. ...
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A Pentagon report has accused the Chinese government of cyber attacks against military and civilian computer systems in the US. It marks the first time US authorities have directly suggested that Beijing is behind computer hacking, with ...
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Apple climbed the Fortune 500 this year to the No. 6 spot, its highest-ever ranking, its first time in the top 10, and the top technology company on the influential list, replacing sagging HP. Fortune, which ranks firms by annual revenue, ...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that the "lack of a delete button on the internet is... a significant issue". In an interview by economist Nouriel Roubini at New York University's business school, Schmidt was asked what he believed ...
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Motorola Mobility abuses its dominant position in the E.U. by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany on the basis of its mobile phone standard-essential patents (SEPs), the European Commission said in a preliminary ...
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As part of Microsoft's loan of $2 billion to a group trying to buy PC maker Dell, the two companies must modify the payment terms of Dell's current agreements with Microsoft, a document filed with U.S. regulators said. CEO and founder ...
By modifying a Microsoft Kinect sensor, a research project at the Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference demonstrated how gamers in a wheelchair could interact with motion games. To see the prototype in use, watch a video on YouTube. ...