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Easton-Bell Sports Has Ended Its Relationship with Its Longtime U.K. Distributor, Madison
Feb 6, 2013Easton-Bell Sports has ended its relationship with its longtime U.K. distributor, Madison. The California company said it is seeking a "new partner better suited to the longer-term needs of its business and the retailers it serves," and ...
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KDDI Selected The Infinera DTN-X Platform with Instant Bandwidth Via
Feb 6, 2013Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that KDDI Corporation has selected the ...
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RF Would Have Increased by 400% in The Last Two Years
Feb 6, 2013Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), estimates that its engineered substrates (which are used in ...
Tags: Soitec, Engineered Substrates, Smart Phones, Tablets
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Total Sales for The Second Quarter4 Were $350 Million
Feb 6, 2013Officeworks has reported a 0.3 increase in sales for the second quarter with online and B2B transactions continuing to trend upwards. Total sales for the second quarter4 were $350 million while store sales were 0.1 per cent above the ...
Tags: Officeworks, sales, second quarter
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There Is a Huge Shortfall in Funding for Energy-Saving Programmes
Feb 6, 2013New research has revealed that there is a huge shortfall in funding for energy-saving programmes that would help alleviate the burden on families in fuel poverty. The figures, compiled by National Energy Action (NEA), found that the ...
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Global Internet Retail Sales Topped $US1 Trillion for The First Time in 2012
Feb 6, 2013Global internet retail sales topped $US1 trillion ($962bn) for the first time in 2012 with the United States holding the top spot but China rising fast, a market research firm has said. The report by eMarketer said ecommerce consumer ...
Tags: Ecommerce Sales, 2012, internet retail sales
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Increased Sales of Electronics Will Drive The Worldwide Semiconductor Market to Growth
Feb 6, 2013IDG News Service - Increased sales of electronics and new forms of computing devices will drive the worldwide semiconductor market to growth this year after a slowdown in 2012, the nonprofit organization World Semiconductor Trade Statistics ...
Tags: Semiconductor industry, electronics, computing devices
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APP Announced End to Clearing of Natural Forest Across Entire Supply Chain in Indonesia
Feb 6, 2013APP, one of the world’s largest paper and packaging producers, announced an end to the clearing of natural forest across its entire supply chain in Indonesia, with immediate effect. Greenpeace said that after a decade of public ...
Tags: Greenpeace, APP, Commitment
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A Disgruntled Employee Conducted a Three-Year Campaign of Sabotage
Feb 6, 2013A disgruntled employee, angry at missing out on a pay rise, conducted a three-year campaign of sabotage against his company's computers by spraying the cleaning product Cillit Bang into the grills of the servers. Credit controller Edward ...
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Crowd-Funded Ouya Videogame Console Seeking to Shake up a Market Dominated
Feb 6, 2013The crowd-funded Ouya videogame console seeking to shake up a market dominated by Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo is gearing up for a US debut in June. The team behind Ouya has begun taking online pre-orders for the Android-powered devices ...
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The Third Skylanders Video Game Features Figures That Can Transform.
Feb 6, 2013The third Skylanders video game features figures that can transform. Skylanders: Swap Force comes with over 50 new toys, 16 of which can be split in two and combined together to form different combinations. In a demo shown to ToyNews ...
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More Than 15,000 Execs From 92 Countries Have Registered to Attend Next Week's US Toy Fair
Feb 6, 2013More than 15,000 execs from 92 countries have registered to attend next week's US Toy Fair in New York, according to the Toy Industry Association. Year to date registration for international buyers is up three per cent - at time of press, ...
Tags: Toy Fair, Toy Industry, Toy
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Canada's Essar Steel Algoma Predicts The North American Plate Market Will Improve in 2013
Feb 6, 2013Reportedly, Canada’s Essar Steel Algoma predicts the North American plate market will improve over through 2013. Currently, the market demand for the current quarter is slightly less than what we saw the previous year but pricing ...
Tags: plate market, Steel, sheet products
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Getting British Standard Certification for Six Label Products
Feb 6, 2013Roll labels provider Technicote has achieved British Standard BS 5609: Section 2 – ‘Marine and Laboratory Performance of Label Base Materials’ on six durable film pressure sensitive label products. According to the ...
Tags: Technicote, Roll labels, British Standard
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Developers Now Can Create Audio and Video Communications Applications
Feb 6, 2013IDG News Service - Developers now can create audio and video communications applications that work across the Chrome and Firefox browsers without the need for plug-ins. This is possible via the use of WebRTC standard technologies for ...
Tags: Google, Mozilla, Computer Products
