Soitec 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 ...
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The Government is to fund research into LED-based Gbit/s free-space optical networks. The heavyweight academic team includes the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford and St Andrews, and is lead by the University of Strathclyde. ...
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Huawei squeezes HTC and enters the top 5 of global smart phone. IDC released smart phone rankings of the fourth quarter of last year, which was a major reshuffle. Chinese continent brand, Huawei, beat South Korea's LG and Taiwan's HTC with ...
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As the second largest telecommunication equipment provider, ZTE Corporation expressed that they were confident about selling more than 50,000,000 smart phones in 2013, more than expected. ZTE predicted smart phone sale would get 70% of ...
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It’s been 50 years since the animated TV sitcom The Jetsons introduced the world to future technology through flying cars without roads, and the robot maid Rosie and her infamous attitude. Today, the flying car which folded into a ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2013 (ended 29 December 2012), radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor firm RF Micro Devices, of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported significantly improved financial results.Revenue was $271.2m, up ...
All-in-one printers can print, fax, and scan. And now, many new all-in-ones can also connect to the printing source in more ways than just using USB cables. We've just updated our printer Ratings, and some of the new models exemplify this ...
The Nyko PlayPad ($39.99) is an add-on game controller that you use with your mobile device to make playing easier and more fun. It's more like a traditional controller that others we've reviewed recently, such as the Moga Mobile Gaming ...
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Some of today's most sophisticated smart phones include camera features that resolve age-old problems. One perennial challenge, for example, is taking a group photo in which everyone looks equally good. The Samsung Galaxy Note 2, LG ...
Updated with videos, below. After more than a year, RIM has finally taken the wraps off new BlackBerry smart phones that use Version 10 of its operating system. And RIM has officially changed its name to BlackBerry. Two new phones were ...
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Rubicon Technology has shipped totally 400,000 large diameter sapphire wafers to LED and SoS/RFIC manufacturers. Sapphire is a key building block for LEDs used in HDTVs, laptops, smart phones and tablets. Another significant market for ...
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The ATIV Odyssey, Samsung's first Windows Phone 8 device ($50 on Verizon with a two-year contract) is a basic model, with a 4-inch Super AMOLED touch-screen display, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera, and a ...
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Privalia, the online leader in fashion "flash sales," with operations in Spain, Germany, Italy, Brazil and Mexico, is working with IBM to boost its expanding online sales business through mobile and social channels to meet the dynamic needs ...
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Because of struggling economy of developed countries, global demand for consumer electronic products declined in 2012. However, it is expected to rebound in 2013, growing by one trillion U.S. dollars. Although industry researchers said ...
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Showers Pass introduced its new line of wet weather cycling gloves at the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market here this week. The Crosspoint line combines a merino wool liner with an OutDry waterproof membrane. The line includes four models ...
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