Jolla, the smartphone operating system start-up set up by refugees from Nokia, is to announce the availability of new mobile devices running its Sailfish operating system this month. The devices will be available, according to the ...
Semiconductor company MediaTek wants to improve the performance of low-cost, Android-based smartphones with its latest system-on-a-chip (SoC), the MT6572. MT6572 is the world’s first dual-core SoC with integrated Wi-Fi, FM-radio, ...
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It's not a Star Trek tricorder, but by hooking a variety of gadgets onto a smartphone you can almost get a complete physical - without the paper gown or even a visit to the doctor's office. Blood pressure? Just plug the arm cuff into the ...
Tags: Phone, Apps, Computer Products
Mumbai-based Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Management Studies & Research (SVIMS) is organizing ‘Evolve,’ a national conclave on Retail and Ecommerce at the Nehru Centre, Mumbai on May 16 & 17, 2013. The objectives of this ...
For cars to get cleaner, gasoline has to get cleaner. That's the premise of new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency that require refiners to cut 80 percent of the sulfur out of gasoline by 2017, and for automakers to make ...
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Sectional couches have redefined the way sofa couch designs were perceived traditionally. Sectional couches are the trendy solutions to many of the problems related to buying and maintaining sofas and couches. A sectional couch is a piece ...
Performance, Ride & Handling 3.5 Comfort & Interior 3.5 Quality & Design 3 Value & Features 3.5 Green 3.5 The Nissan Pulsar ST is the base grade in the reborn small-car range, yet it is by far the most convincing model overall. ...
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Bunge North America has opened its new packaging facility in Decatur, Alabama, in a bid to improve its manufacturing processes to better serve customers in the southeastern US. Bunge Oils southeast region director of operations Beau ...
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The ancient Germans lay on the floor on beds of leaves covered with skins, or in a kind of shallow chest filled with leaves and moss. In the early Middle Ages they laid carpets on the floor or on a bench against the wall, placed upon them ...
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Ancient world Early beds were little more than piles of straw or some other natural material (e.g. a heap of palm leaves, animal skins or dried bracken). An important change was raising them off the ground, to avoid drafts, dirt, and ...
Online retail giant Amazon's shares dropped by 7.2 per cent to $254.81 (£163) on the NASDAQ stock exchange, after the firm forecasted that it could make a significant loss in the second quarter of 2013. Amazon predicted an operating ...
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Hewlett-Packard on Friday started shipping its US$169.99 Slate 7 tablet with Android 4.1, which signals the company's reentry into the consumer tablet market after the TouchPad imploded in 2011. The tablet became available first in the ...
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Chinese oil and gas producer PetroChina Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 601857 and SEHK: 0857) has not made a final decision on whether to participate in an auction Iraq plans to hold for the Nassiriya oil field on December 19 this year. The Iraqi ...
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While US policymakers, legislators and others are focused on whether the fundamentals of US gas market would change significantly if large volumes of LNG are exported, there are emerging questions about the federal government's ability to ...
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NanoPoint™ enables fast, practical design qualification and highly sensitive process monitoring by leveraging critical patterns KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC) announced NanoPoint™, a new family of patented technologies ...
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