TOKYO — TDK is expected to report an operating profit of around 50 billion yen ($420 million) for the nine months ended Dec. 31, a 40% gain to the highest since the same period in 2010. Sales grew an estimated 7% to nearly 800 ...
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Animin gamecards will hit selected retailers over the coming year. Animin has signed a distribution deal with leading gift-card distributors InComm Europe. The firm will distribute Animin gamecards across selected retailers over the ...
Intel reported better than expected financial results and a record-breaking full year revenue of $55.9 billion. In a conference call highlighting his first full year, Intel’s CEO said the company is “in a very different ...
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Electric vehicle charging solution provider AeroVironment has unveiled TurboDock, an EV charging station for commercial space that can be managed through a smartphone app. TurboDock is easy to configure and a single entity like an ...
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The latest in Sony Xperia Z4 rumour-dom is that the upcoming smartphone just received certification in the US, courtesy of the Federal Communications Commission. According to XperiaBlog, a new Sony Xperia handset has made it through the ...
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Worldwide PC shipments totaled 83.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2014, a 1% increase from the fourth quarter of 2013, according to Gartner. These results indicate a slow, but consistent improvement following more than two years of ...
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Epistar has invested NT$825 million (US$25.94 million) to merge with TSMC Solid State Lighting (SSL), helping to enhance Epistar's capability in the lighting industry. Before the decision was made, many companies such as SemiLEDs and ...
Tags: LED Market, LED technologies, Lights
Inventec chairman Richard Lee, at Xiaomi's product launch conference in Taiwan, pointed out that the company is expected to see about 100 million ODM/OEM product shipments in 2015, up 42% from 70 million units in 2014. Lee pointed out ...
If there was ever any reasonable doubt, reports on Friday seemed to confirm Sony will launch its next generation Xperia Z4 smartphone at MWC 2015. The yet-to-be-announced device has taken a trip through the certification body in its home ...
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Xiaomi reckons it has been copied more than any other Chinese company, hitting back at accusations that it riffs too closely off of rival designs. Hugo Barra, Xiaomi’s Vice President of Global Operations, told the BBC that it is a ...
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Samsung has finally announced its first ever Tizen-powered smartphone, though the Samsung Z1 is targeted specifically at the Indian market. We've been reporting on Samsung's plans to launch a smartphone running on its own OS for several ...
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Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi already hinted it has a new handset up its sleeve for a launch tomorrow, but now it looks like it has more than one. Earlier in the week, it tweeted an image that many took to refer to the Mi 5, the next ...
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Microsoft has lifted the lid on two new Lumia devices for emerging markets, and they're both extremely easy on the wallet. The Lumia 435 sells for just €69 (£54), while the Lumia 532 goes for €79 (£61). That makes ...
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Apple has taken Swedish firm Ericsson to court over LTE wireless network patents. According to Apple, Ericsson is demanding over-the-odds royalties for patents that aren’t essential to industry cellular standards, as reported by ...
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Xiaomi is hosting an event tomorrow; we knew that much already. What we didn’t know was that there would be two new smartphones taking up centre stage. Yes, Xiaomi’s latest teaser image has confirmed that the fast-rising ...
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