In the year 1920 in China, women still bound their breasts and those who wore low-cut clothing revealing even the slightest bit of skin risked being arrested by outraged authorities. But only seven years later, the Chinese government ...
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Private equity firm Graham Partners has acquired Desser Tire & Rubber Co. LLC and its affiliated companies, Aero Wheel & Brake Service Corp. and Cee Bailey’s Aircraft Plastics. Desser is primarily a supplier of aircraft tires and ...
After recently unveiling the world’s largest terry towel plant, Trident Group aims to surpass the bounds of being the world’s largest integrated home textile manufacturer and continues to expand and modernize its capacities ...
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You've probably seen our Facebook posts for Throwback Thursday. And while we often poke a little fun at the colorful, busy designs depicted in those vintage ads, we have a lot of respect for the designer responsible for those creations. ...
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Lenovo has taken the wraps of its ThinkPad 10, its 10-inch tablet based on Intel's quad-core Atom Z3795 processor. The ThinkPad 10 will ship with the 64-bit versions of Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Pro, which could render it more ...
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Huawei has unveiled its Ascend P7 smartphone in Europe, and has said it will be available in the GCC from June. Following its Ascend P6, the new 4G LTE-enabled smartphone features a 5-inch full high definition display, 8MP front-facing ...
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The full name is VDE Testing and Certifica Prufstelle tion Institute, which is the German Electrical Engineers Association. directly involved in the German national standard setting, VDE from about 30,000 organizations and individuals ...
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UNIQLO announces the opening on April 25 of its latest large-scale store, the Okachimachi Store, in one of the major commercial and tourist districts in northeast Tokyo, known for its street markets, dining and nightlife. The UNIQLO ...
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Forklifts are an essential requirement in the present industrial operations. Their significance in moving materials from one place to another can't be underestimated. For big businesses wherein materials have to be moved over large ...
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Samsung has revealed its Galaxy S5 will be resistant to water and dust, will feature a finger scanner and will have a 16MP camera at Samsung’s Unpacked event in Barcelona. The company’s president and CEO, JK Shin, took to the ...
The BVM Group has introduced the WMP-227V, a 21.5-inch touchscreen PanelPC developed specifically for use in medical applications and certified to the third edition of EN 60601 -1. The standard defines the basic safety and essential ...
The cars have never been assembled and have remained in the original packaging for more than 80 years A set of two Meccano toy car kits from 1930 are expected to sell for between £10,000 and £15,000 when the lot is auctioned ...
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It seems like a bit of a disconnect for HP to announce new commercial PCs at a trade show focused on consumer electronics, but HP -which didn’t book exhibit space at this year’s CES – is wise not to waste the opportunity. ...
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Lenovo has announced several new desktop PCs at CES, and in a move that’s sure to give Microsoft heartburn, one of these new machines is an all-in-one that runs the Android operating system, not Windows. Here is a rundown of what it ...
Tags: Android, Lenovo, Consumer Desktop
L2Tek, a manufacturers' representative and distributor of components and sub-assemblies for professional video and high-speed communications systems, today announced the availability of new adaptive cable-equalizer and cable-driver chips ...
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