It’s a debate that has raged for years. Does quitting iPhone apps in multi-tasking view save system memory and conserve battery life? Most up-on-this-kinda-think folks say no, yet many of us still swipe off dozens of open apps in a ...
Tags: Apple, Mobile phone
The Oculus Touch controllers for the Oculus Rift VR headset will not launch until the second half of 2016, the Facebook-owned company announced on Thursday. Oculus VR says it needs more tome to ‘perfect’ the handheld Touch ...
Tags: Oculus Touch, VR headset
Taiwan's machine-tool makers have entered into an alliance with the island's aircraft builders and a government-backed laboratory to develop intelligent industrial technology to sharpen their machine tool capability to manufacture aircraft, ...
Tags: aircraft-building, intelligent industrial, Processing Machinery
China is going to play a leading role in the new wave of economic activities and technological innovation, World Economic Forum founder and executive chair Klaus Schwab told Xinhua in an exclusive interview during the ongoing Second World ...
Tags: Internet, global cultural, WIC
Foreign buyers look at motorbikes during the 118th China Import and Export Fair, also known as Canton Fair, in Guangzhou city, south China's Guangdong province, 15 October 2015. [File Photo: ImagineChina] Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao ...
Tags: motorbikes, Foreign Trade, Canton Fair
Traders of mined diamonds are divided over how to best respond to the growth of their laboratory-grown counterparts. Last week, India’s Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) became the second exchange to ban trading of man-made diamonds, ...
BASF is expanding its range of engineering plastics for the dynamic market of electric and hybrid vehicles. Tailor-made Ultramid® and Ultradur® materials are now available globally for equipping vehicle-interior and -exterior ...
Tags: BASF, engineering plastics, coolants, flame retardant
As flash LEDs became a standard spec in smartphones instead of a market gimmick to sell phones, many LED manufacturers are vying after this potential market. The earliest players in the market was Lumileds, followed by Osram and later ...
Tags: Flash LED, LED market, LED
Vietnam’s textile and garment sector continues to be a magnet for FDI. While FDI in Vietnam has fallen significantly in the first six months of 2015, it rose sharply in the textile and garment sector, according to the country’s ...
Tags: textile industry, FDI, garment
II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA says that the Advanced Materials Division of its Performance Products Segment in Pine Brook, NJ, which supplies single-crystal silicon carbide (SiC) substrates and CVD-grown polycrystalline diamond materials, ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, II-VI, SiC substrates, SiC Wafer
There’s a reason that recycled wine bottle DIYs have been so popular – they’re a great excuse to drink some vino! Wine bottles also come in many interesting colors and shapes, and are already elegant enough that not much ...
The diamond market is slowly becoming more disciplined. It needs to. With high rough prices, declining polished, less available credit and lower retail inventory levels, it has become increasingly difficult for diamantaires to turn a ...
Tags: diamond market, diamond industry
The latest data from the Australian Industry Group (AIG) Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) indicates that Australia's manufacturing sector has contracted for the third month in a row, and that subdued domestic demand is ...
China's economy is likely to grow at a medium-to-high rate under the "new normal", Economic Daily reported Justin Yifu Lin, a member of China's 12th CPPCC as saying on Monday. Under the "new normal", China has both the conditions and the ...
Tags: medium-to-high rate, new normal