When eBay launched in 1995, the premise was simple: allow consumers to sell their unwanted goods to others via online auctions. Today, the multi-billion dollar business has localised sites in over 30 countries. Over 190,000 businesses ...
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Microsoft Took another hard knock this month when top tech researchers laid much of the blame for dwindling first-quarter PC sales on the beleaguered Windows 8 operating system. Estimates of first-quarter shipments, from both IDC and ...
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In many parts of the world, smartphone shipments account for a larger percentage of mobile handset shipments than feature phones and low-cost handsets, yet among smartphones segmentation is increasing to three price tiers (low, mid, and ...
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A new Navugant study suggests that the market for ZigBee-enabled energy products is at a crossroads. According to the report devices based on ZigBee’s wireless communications technology have gained significant momentum in the energy ...
Philips operational results improve by 31% to EUR 421 million; net income at EUR 162 million. Frans van Houten, CEO: “We made solid progress again in the first quarter as all sectors contributed to the 31% improvement of our ...
Southeast Asian textiles first served as markers of ethnic identity, distinguishing neighboring communities by pattern, color, and technique. Now commercial production challenges these practices, yet the artistic wealth of these several ...
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Stormed by a shift to tablets and smartphones, and threatened, even in its enterprise bastion, by new demands from workers, Microsoft may lose its place at the table reserved for major technology players, an analyst argued today. But it's ...
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An international designer menswear collection inspired by vintage illustrations of Babar the Elephant launches at London's Goodhood store in April, 80 years after the books about this classic children's character were first published in the ...
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Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is scheduled to join a number of other high-profile tech players to testify in a private antitrust suit brought against seven California-based technology companies by former employees. ...
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Shulin, New Taipei City – 2013.04.01 – EVERLIGHT ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. [TSE:2393], a leading player in the global LED industry, increases its worldwide exhibition activity in 2013 by adding booth presence at two emerging LED ...
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Amazon is making a serious play for Dropbox and Google Drive users with a new file-syncing feature in its?Cloud Drive storage service.? iTunes Match and iCloud – both from Apple – lead the cloud storage services with a ...
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Forrester Research predicts that with the BYOD trend expected to increasingly include laptops as well as smartphones and tablets, the approach to managing such devices is in for some big changes. In its 2013 Mobile Security Predictions ...
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What are Refractories? To put it simply, refractory is any material that has the ability to withstand the action of abrasive or corrosive solids, liquids or gases at high temperatures. Depending upon the application areas and operating ...
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Iconic, lush and rhythmic, the reasons presented by new MissoniHome interwoven with historical landmarks. Clear colors and textures with a strong appeal here is the false combined innovative. Energy revisited the tartan of the Greek ruling ...
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Facing a rapidly evolving technology market, Bell Labs is paying more attention to projects that can bring it short-term gains, in areas such as software. "The biggest challenge we face is speed," said Bell Labs' president Gee Rittenhouse ...
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