Slow growth in the gallium arsenide (GaAs) device market, coupled with a shift away from GaAs technology for handset switches, reduced demand for semi-insulating GaAs bulk substrates by 4% in 2011, according to the recently released report ...
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Foxconn International Holdings(FIH),the world's largest contract producer of smartphones,has seen shares fall 3.5 per cent after its worst-ever first-half net loss. The manufacturer posted a$226m loss for the January to June ...
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Google has filed a new patent-infringement case against Apple, claiming that the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch infringe seven of patents inherited through the acquisition of Motorola Mobility. The complaint filed with the US International ...
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Trading in Google shares was halted today on Nasdaq after poor earnings figures were released-apparently prematurely. The search firm blamed financial print service provider RR Donnelley for releasing its quarterly earnings figures a few ...
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Nokia has posted another near-€1bn loss following a collapse in sales in its key market of Greater China in a third quarter report,published today. The mobile phone handset maker's results had been eagerly awaited as a key indicator ...
Tags: Nokia, China, Windows Phone, Lumia
IDG News Service - Chinese PC maker Lenovo said on Thursday net profit in its fiscal first quarter ended June 30 grew by 30% year-over-year, as the company inched closer toward surpassing HP to become the top vendor in the market. ...
Tags: Lenovo, Profit, Mobile Business
For second-quarter 2012,Kopin Corp of Taunton,MA,USA,a supplier of III-V semiconductor products and microdisplays for mobile applications(including smartphones,tablet PCs,military thermal weapons sights and wearable computers),has reported ...
Google is to cut Motorola Mobility's global workforce by about 4,000,or 20 per cent,and will look to close about a third of its 94 worldwide offices. A Motorola spokesperson confirmed the job cuts in a statement and stated that the ...
Tags: Google, job cut, Motorola Mobility, acquired the mobile phone company
After the shortages of 28nm from TSMC,there is now a tightening supply at 40nm,says Taiwan's DigiTimes. Shortages of 28nm affected the financial results of customers such as Qualcomm,Nvidia and Altera.Now it is said that MediaTek,the ...
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Prices of LED-backlit products for TVs are likely to continue dropping 5-6% in the third quarter of 2012 after suffering a reduction of 1-2% in the previous quarter due to low order visibility, according to LEDinside and industry sources. ...
SmartTruckRoute app has been updated to include text to speech voice instructions and a navigation panel for turn by turn navigation promoting the app to be able to used as a primary means of navigation for truck drivers. BOSTON, MA, ...
Tags: navigation panel, GPS, Android application, Global Positioning Systems
IDG News Service-Baidu,China's largest search engine,reported second-quarter profits that were up 70 percent from a year earlier as it continued to add new customers for its online marketing services. Baidu's profits for the quarter ended ...
Tags: Baidu, Profit, search engine, online marketing
HTC has sold back about half its majority stake in Beats Electronics,signaling according to analysts that its investment in the U.S.headphones provider may have fallen short of its expectations. The Taiwanese phone maker said in a Taiwan ...
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The Wi-Fi Direct Services specification that the Wi-Fi Alliance plans to finish next year should help to extend the use of Wi-Fi Direct beyond proprietary implementations,the organization says. The emerging specification,in the early ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2012(ending 29 June),Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn,MA,USA(which manufactures linear products,power amplifiers,front-end modules and radio solutions for handset and infrastructure equipment)has reported ...
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