Morris Chang, chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), noted in August 2012 that the firm had changed its position in relation to investments in solar cell maker Motech, shifting from strategic purposes to ...
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US stocks started the second quarter down, pressured by disappointing manufacturing data, after the Dow industrials and S&P500 capped off the first quarter with records. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 5.69 points, or less than ...
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IT'S not often ExecTech dons a wetsuit and plunges off a boat into the cruel, deep ocean to test a consumer-oriented, waterproof camcorder. But to film wild dolphins with Panasonic's rather unusual offering, the HX-WA30 full HD camcorder, ...
LED firm Philips introduced the Hue lighting system that consists of three color tunable LED light bulbs and a control device at the end of 2012 with a retail price of US$199/unit. The firm noted that the product will be introduced to Asia ...
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If you hate to iron then imagine being a steam iron tester at Consumer Reports. To find the best irons, our testers iron basket after basket of dry, wrinkled linen tablecloths day after day. The fewer the passes needed to smooth out the ...
ANDROID and Apple account for more than 90 per cent of the surging smartphone market, and third place is being contested by BlackBerry and Microsoft's Windows Phone. But phones using operating systems based on the open-source platforms ...
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HTC finally has an Android smartphone capable of taking the fight to Samsung's Galaxy S4 and other recently announced handsets. That's our assessment after spending time using the HTC One smartphone; the new fourth-generation, LTE-capable ...
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THE world's peak internet naming authority is expected to approve hundreds of new generic top-level domain suffixes over the coming months, with .melbourne expected to beat .sydney to the web. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ...
3doo Inc., a 3-D media and entertainment platform, today announced that LG has approved 3doo's Player App for download and installation on LG's line of smart TVs in 87 countries and territories on every continent. "This significant ...
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GLOBAL software giant Adobe Systems today again was struggling to justify product price differences of up to 50 per cent between software it sold in Australia and the US. Last month during a visit to Australia, Adobe president and chief ...
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Samsung showed off some of its 2013 home entertainment products at an event in New York City Wednesday, with celebrities demonstrating some of the company's latest TVs and interface features. The 85-inch UltraHD TV, called UHD S9, which ...
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A giant multi-touch glass screen, purpose manufactured by Bedford-based specialists, Paradigm AV, has taken centre stage at the University of Wolverhampton's new six zone Visualisation Centre. Opened in mid-March, and the brainchild of ...
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New smart TVs, Blu-ray recorders, home theatre systems, speakers, WiFi cameras and waterproof camcorders are among new offerings for Australia announced by Panasonic. The Japanese multinational's range of new devices were shown to ...
Infraware has announced the release of POLARIS? Office Enterprise Software Development Kit (SDK), equipping developers with a powerful solution to meet the needs of mobile enterprise customers. POLARIS Office Enterprise SDK integrates ...
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A company owned by Sony and Philips is suing Apple, alleging it's infringed numerous patents covering digital rights management technology. In the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Intertrust ...
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