A cheaper iPhone ? A deal with China Mobile ? Despite having neither of the two, Apple reported strong earnings in the Chinese market in its fiscal first quarter, with revenue buoyed by triple digit growth in iPhone sales. The company's ...
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Southern California chain Jax Bicycle Center is relocating its Mission Viejo store about five miles away to a new location in Laguna Niguel that will be more conducive to staging rides and demos directly out of the shop. The Mission Viejo ...
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BOULDER, CO (BRAIN) — Bell Helmets is partnering with IMBA to launch a program that will offer $100,000 in grants to build mountain bike trails in 2013 and 2014. Bell will award three technical assistance grants, allowing ...
Security guru Professor Ross Anderson has criticised the government's latest plans to make NHS medical records all-electronic, shared not just throughout the NHS, but with care homes and social services, too. Under plans unveiled ...
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BOISE, IDAHO (BRAIN) — With an eye toward aggressive trail riding, retailer Alan Klarc is setting up in-house fabrication for a line of steel mountain bikes to be sold through his Boise shop, Velomech, starting this spring or summer. ...
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The Europe activities of Norbord have developed slightly downhill again in the second quarter of 2012. Sales revenues were 6.8% lower than a year earlier at $109m and EBITDA deteriorated to $9m in the same period. Norbord had generated ...
The strongly worded order by a California judge saying Oracle has to keep porting its software to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based servers is not the end of the nasty legal battle between the two companies, but it could have an effect on the ...
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The European laminate flooring markets have not recovered in the second half-year 2012 either. Several manufacturers believe demand fell again during the course of the third quarter; the downhill trend has gathered pace in the fourth ...
German exports of oak roundwood have dropped again by 32% in the third quarter of 2012 after a brief recovery (+19%) in the second quarter. According to the German Federal Statistical Office, a total of just 11,074m³ of oak roundwood ...
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Opel, the subsidiary of US carmaker General Motors (GM) has unveiled its first SUV, the Mokka, at Auto Mobil International (AMI) show in Leipzig, Germany, marking its entry into the sub-compact sports utility vehicle segment. The new ...
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Japanese automaker Toyota's luxury vehicle division, Lexus, has unveiled the new 2013 GX 460 SUV. The new SUV is powered by a 4.6-litre V8 engine mated to a six-speed electronically controlled automatic transmission with sequential shift, ...
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Ineos is considering a further cut in production run rates at its acrylonitrile plants in Europe due to declining demand, a company source said Tuesday. Ineos operates a 300,000 mt/year plant in Cologne, Germany and a 280,000 mt/year ...
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Volvo Trucks has developed a new I-See technology which operates as an autopilot and changes gears automatically and utilises gradients to save fuel. According to the truck maker, the new technology straps up the truck's own kinetic ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (BRAIN) — Norco Bicycles has signed on a four-member enduro team that will compete in the burgeoning all-mountain race discipline aboard the Canadian brand’s new line of 650b, or 27.5-inch-wheeled, ...
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TAICHUNG, Taiwan (BRAIN) — From red to green, the cadre of former Marzocchi employees who formed DVO Suspension earlier this year seem to be finding it easy being a new color scheme. The company, pronounced "devo," is being led by ...