Apple may be able to build a cut-rate iPhone for $144, which would let it price the device between $299 and $349, hundreds less than the unsubsidized price tag of its flagship smartphone, an analyst said today. A lower-cost iPhone would ...
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Users of Microsoft's Bing search engine can now see a wider range of Facebook content from their friends appear alongside search results, part of an effort by Microsoft to make the site more social. When a person runs a query in Bing, the ...
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AT&T sold a record number of smartphones in the last three months of 2012 as consumers snapped up new products from the likes of Apple and Samsung. The company sold 10.2 million smartphones in the quarter, it said in a regulatory filing ...
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Japanese vehicle manufacturer Honda has announced recall of about 748,000 Pilot and Odyssey models in the US, due to defective driver-side airbags. The recall is scheduled to start in February 2013 and includes the Honda Pilot vehicles ...
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General Motors has recalled 980 units of the 2013 Chevrolet Express and 2013 GMC Savana vans citing problem in their ignition lock systems. The recall will affect 971 Chevrolet Express vehicles manufactured from 1 November to 21 December ...
Canadian firm Research In Motion (RIM) could license out its upcoming BlackBerry 10 (BB10) operating system to another manufacturer, the company's CEO, Thorsten Heins, has said. In an interview with German newspaper Die Welt, Heins said ...
Huawei saw net profit rise by 33 per cent in 2012, the Chinese telecommunications firm announced in its financial results for the year. The profits were much improved on 2011, with the firm expecting to make a net total of 15.4bn yuan ...
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Kim Dotcom, the man behind the now defunct file-sharing site Megaupload, has launched a new service called Mega. Like Megaupload, which was shut down following polie raids on Dotcom's New Zealand mansion in January 2012, Mega is a web ...
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BT is wrong to claim that the UK does not have the demand to justify rolling out a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) product nationally, according to the director general of the non-profit organisation FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tauber. The ...
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The Nova Scotia government is investing another $1 million in a company that makes LED lighting for the province’s roads and highways and exports its products around the world. Nova Scotia Business Inc., the province’s ...
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Bunge has appointed Karl Gerrand as MD of its Canadian operations. Gerrand comes to Bunge from Viterra and replaces retiring country head Rick Watson. "During his 38-year career, Rick has helped Canada's oilseed industry grow from a ...
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Nestle has launched the first extension to its Rowntree's Randoms confectionery range in the UK. Rowntree's Randoms Squidgy Speak are fruit flavoured foamy sweets, each featuring a different word. The product will be available from 28 ...
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UK organic baby food producer Organix has extended its range to include a home cooking line. Cook with Organix has been developed to help meet the growing desire amongst parents to cook their children's food from scratch, the company ...
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Synopsys is working with Freescale Semiconductor on verification of IP blocks for complex system-on-chip (SoC) devices. An aim of the collaboration, said the companies, is to achieve better schedule predictability and lower overall ...
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Under the framework agreement between e2v and Freescale, e2v is offering non-RoHS qualified QorIQ processors for the aerospace and defence industries which have both a demand and approval to use non-RoHS electronic components. The ...
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