A number of users on Apple’s iPhone support forum last week reported a big drop in battery life after they upgraded their handsets to version 6.1 of the iOS operating system. The messages, spread over several threads on the message ...
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Global smartphone sales went up by 38 percent in the fourth quarter year over year, Gartner reported on Wednesday, with Samsung ending 2012 in the top position for both smartphone sales and overall mobile phone sales. Even with the ...
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In 2012, Baosteel Ltd. sustained the increased efforts to improve and invest in the environmental facilities in the plant complex. Relying on the implementation of "3-year Action Plan for Environmental Renovation", and carrying on the ...
Spanish auto-parts supplier Gestamp Automocion has received a EUR150m loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to upgrade its facilities in Russia, Poland, Hungary and Turkey that supply assembly lines set up by ...
The finished and semi-finished products of Taranto-based Italian steelmaker Ilva which had been impounded by court order in late November last year are finally to be released for sale after investigating judge Patrizia Todisco gave her ...
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Warren, Ohio-based Warren Steel Holdings, a producer and supplier of high-quality carbon and alloy steel continuously cast products, has successfully renovated its existing rail siding and introduced several key new pieces of analytical ...
Corrugated group Rigid Containers has revealed multi-million pound plans to open a third UK site this April The facility, in Wellington, Somerset, will initially open as a distribution centre but will, over the course of the year, be ...
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The 13th China International Dye Industry, Pigments and Textile Chemicals Exhibition (China Interdye 2013), organized by China Dyestuff Industry Association, China Dyeing and Printing Association, China Council for the Promotion of ...
Tags: Dyes, Dye Industry, Textile
Reportedly, China’s Baotou Iron & Steel (Baotou), the largest steelmaker in northern China’s Inner Mongolia has planned to upgrade its operations with a new heat-treatment unit at its Mongolia plant. Meanwhile, the company ...
Tags: Steel, steelmaker, special steel rails
TWH and TWP LED outdoor wall-mounted luminaires deliver more than 100,000 hours of maintenance-free operation. Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) now offers its popular Lithonia Lighting® TWH and TWP outdoor wall-mounted luminaires with ...
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Effective Jan. 1, 2013, chemical and colorant manufacturer and distributor First Source Worldwide LLC (FSW), Neenah, Wis., has acquired the Dalton, Ga.-based dyes business of custom chemical formulator Manufacturers Chemicals, Cleveland, ...
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When Norfolk vegetable processor Pinguin Foods set itself an aim to increase throughput by a fifth, it looked to Ishida to upgrade its ageing checkweighing set-up. Philip Chadwick finds out more about the installation Who Pinguin Foods ...
Tags: Veg Firm, Production Boost, Packaging
Infinera 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 ...
German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it will upgrade the high-speed rebar rolling mill of Russia-based Abinsk Electric Steel Works. The new equipment will enable the steelmaker to roll larger square billets than before, enhancing ...
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The 2013 Bentley Flying Spur has been previewed in a teaser video ahead of the all-new ultra-luxury sedan’s debut at next month’s 2013 Geneva motor show. Arriving more than seven years after the launch of the original Bentley ...
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