iPhone owners are selling their old models at an historic pace because the rumored iPhone 5 will sport a new form factor, electronics trade-in companies said today. "We saw volume shoot through the roof," said Jeff Trachsel, chief ...
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A new online report from McKinsey & Company claims that commodities prices are destined to rise higher and become more volatile as demand from emerging markets comes more prominently into play. According to the report the economic growth ...
Resource nationalism is assuming more subtle forms as governments resort to measures outside of blatant asset expropriations to retain the benefits proffered by their geological bounties. In an interview with the Financial Times (paywall) ...
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If members of the U.S. military and their families have seen major changes in their lives because of the Internet and related technologies, then they should expect even more upheaval, a group of tech experts said Thursday. The Internet ...
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Intel shaved about a billion dollars off its third-quarter revenue forecast on Friday, blaming the global economy for slowing sales. It will announce full results for the quarter on Oct. 16. The company had previously predicted ...
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Analyst group IDC's new Digital Universe study predicts there will be 40 Zettabytes of data on the planet by 2020, an amount that exceeds previous forecasts by 14%. To put that into a real world context, 40 ZB is equal to 57 times the ...
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Pioneer PV Solutions, a thin-film copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) microsolar company, has officially launched its operations. The firm will provide high-quality, off-the-shelf, compact solar solutions for rechargeable and DC power ...
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MIPS Technologies and Ingenic Semiconductor, the China-based mobile CPU developer have worked with Karbonn Mobiles of India to offer a low cost Android 4.1 'Jelly Bean' tablet. In India it is priced at Rs. 6999 (approximately $125). ...
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Apple's cryptic invitation on Tuesday to an event set for next week triggered another surge in trade-in activity by consumers wanting to unload older iPhones in time to buy the new model. Some trade-in companies registered spikes ...
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IDG News Service - IBM has teamed with AT&T to offer secure shared cloud services to customers over private networks rather than the public Internet, the companies said Tuesday. The service to be delivered from early next year is targeted ...
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A hot ticket at the annual Vision show is the AIA Networking Reception which includes presentations on machine vision market performance, with a focus on North America, a multinational panel discussion, and an opportunity to eat, drink and ...
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May 15,-in the spring this year at the fair, the domestic bags &luggage enterprise to Europe and the United States the customer's order to reduce. Well, in where the king of foreign trade the company for quick 8 years. Like many small and ...
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KLA-Tencor says its new fourth-generation LED wafer inspection system achieves greater flexibility, increased throughput, and improved efficiency for inspecting defects and performing 2D metrology in LED applications, as well as MEMS and ...
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Consensus views on a U.S.manufacturing resurgence have largely centered on rising labor costs in markets such as China as the key driver of re-shoring back to the U.S.However,a new PwC US report,A Homecoming for U.S.Manufacturing?,reveals ...
Tags: labor costs, U.S.manufacturing, transportation and energy
According to a report on the global lighting industry made by the LEDinside, a subsidiary of TrendForce, an international research institute, the LED market value for LED lighting application market in 2012 is 2.66 billion US dollars, which ...
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