Specialty jewelry store sales in the U.S. fell 3.9 percent year on year to $2.37 billion in October. The sharp drop was not as obvious in the preliminary jewelry and watch sales total during the month, which Rapaport News reported on ...
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Swiss car maker Rinspeed is planning to unveil its self driving car named Budii at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show. Rinspeed has teased the car design with two sketches of the vehicle which will be electrically powered and will include ...
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Nokia has relaunched its highly-rated Here Maps application on the Google Play Store. The Finnish firm, free from the shackles of creating hardware following the Microsoft buyout, has been turning its attention to software with Maps at ...
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UK-based etch, deposition and growth system maker Oxford Instruments says that Canada’s University of Alberta nanoFAB open-access fabrication and characterization facility has purchased three plasma etch systems to provide upgraded ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2015, fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $297m, up 2.2% on $290.7m a year ago but down 9.4% on $327.6m last quarter (its first ...
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Featured in WAC Lighting’s dweLED collection, the Niveous LED Pendant, offers optimized light distribution that utilizes multiple LEDs to achieve an evenly lit globe. The pendant provides beautiful ambient illumination for a wide ...
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Small in size though they are, hinges are essential to the proper functioning of your garage door. Should they break or wear out, opening the garage will be difficult, if not impossible. Even worse, broken hinges can cause serious damage to ...
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Everything we know about the iPad Pro Chatter of a potential iPad Pro release began way back in April 2013, albeit under the guise of an iPad/Macbook-hybrid patent filing. While such a lovechild is unlikely to land, it could be evidence ...
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Each Wagner OE21 low-copper friction formulation offers more stopping power, is quieter and provides greater fade resistance than previous Wagner ceramic formulations. Federal-Mogul Motorparts, a division of Federal-Mogul Holdings ...
Manufacturing Indonesia 2014 Series is now the largest manufacturing event in South East Asia. Incorporating ‘Machine Tool Indonesia‘, ‘Automation & Logistics Indonesia’, plus ‘Tool & Hardware ...
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Chinese smartphone manufacturer has had a fresh pop at Microsoft's Windows Phone platform, claiming that no manufacturer has made any money through adopting it. Earlier in the year, Huawei had plans to launch an innovative dual-boot ...
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Australian wholesaler and distributor of groceries and hardware products Metcash Limited (Metcash) has announced a drop in its Underlying Profit after Tax of 9 per cent, to $101.7 million, which it said was due to “ongoing operating ...
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Just when you thought Apple’s newest batch of iPhones had been afflicted by pretty much every ridiculous hardware problem out there, another has just reared its head. Hundreds of consumers are now complaining that the front-facing ...
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Google has flogged more Chromebooks to schools than Apple managed with its own iPad sales. New data from IDC has revealed that US schools bagged 715,000 Chromebooks in Q3 this year. Meanwhile Apple flogged a slightly more meagre 702,000 ...
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Retail sales remained resilient in the year to November, with the pace of growth expected to accelerate once again in the crucial Christmas run up, according to the CBI’s latest quarterly Distributive Trades Survey. The survey of ...