Swiss IGBT driver manufacturer CT-Concept is to open custom design centre in Ense, Germany. It will develop semi-custom gate-drive designs based on its driver cores, and produce full-custom drivers using the firm's Scale-2 chipset for ...
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Dell may be sold to private equity, reports Bloomberg, with the computer company said to be talking to two private equity companies - Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake. The reports surfaced after Dell's corporate strategy boss left to ...
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The German machinery and plant producer Dieffenbacher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau and Carmanah Design and Manufacturing have signed a partnership agreement to sell OSB stranding systems outside North America. Negotiations came to an end in ...
Adhesive manufacturer H.B. Fuller Company has received notification from NSF International that its new two part polyurethane adhesives for spiral wound membrane bonding UR3577 and UR3577LV have been certified by NSF to NSF/ANSI Standard 61 ...
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Mike Hibbert, Channel Manager, Infor MENA Infor on Tuesday announced that it had opened a customer support centre in Dubai Internet City, to support the firm’s 650-plus customers in the Middle East. The support team will be able to ...
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Saar Gillai HP has created a new unit to oversee the company’s cloud services and software products, in apparent recognition of the trend toward cloud computing. The new unit, called the HP Converged Cloud unit, will be headed by ...
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Adobe released security patches for its ColdFusion application server on Tuesday, addressing four critical vulnerabilities that have been actively exploited by attackers since the beginning of January. The company published a security ...
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Sales of Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet failed to meet expectations in the fourth quarter of 2012, selling just 1 million units, according to a UBS analyst. The analyst, Brent Thill, had expected 2 million Surface RT tablets to sell. ...
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Following on from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Asus on Monday announced the Memo Pad ME172V, a seven-inch Android tablet that will be priced at US$149 (AED 547). This is the latest tablet to join a pack of recently ...
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The fledgling Research In Motion may well find that the BlackBerry store could be packed with apps when it launches BlackBerry 10 at the end of January. The company held an event over the weekend, when it offered app developers incentives ...
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Lloyd Carney, CEO, Brocade Brocade’s board of directors on Tuesday announced that it had appointed networking industry veteran Lloyd Carney to be the company’s new CEO, effective immediately. He will also join Brocade’s ...
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Golden Systems has taken a punt at the rising micro server market by announcing the launch of Kingmax’s ECC DDR3 SO-DIMMs in the Middle East. According to the retailer, the new range of DIMMs, equipped with an error check and ...
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Kia Motors America has sold 557,599 units in 2012, an increase of 14.9%, compared to the same period in 2011. The company claims that the sales of the US-built Optima was the best-selling vehicle every month and sold 100,000 vehicles in ...
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German sports car manufacture Porsche sold 141,075 vehicles in 2012, up 18.7%, compared to 118,868 vehicles it sold in 2011. Sales in the Asia/Pacific region increased 23.6% to 50,376 units in 2012 and sales in Europe rose 13.5% to 49,639 ...
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Chinese automaker BYD has delivered 500 electric, e6 police vehicles to the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau. According to carmaker, the e6 electric vehicle (EV) will achieve a top speed of about 140kmph, while offering a range ...