Paradigm Electronics Inc. announces its H15NC and H15 on-ear headphones, part of the SHIFT series. These on-ear headphones deliver the award-winning sound quality of Paradigm speakers and include a number of proprietary sound innovations. ...
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LG and Pantech, two companies that barely made a blip in the smart-phone world until recently, are churning out noteworthy models that earn high scores in Consumer Reports Ratings. Two of their most recent entries, the LG Optimus G Pro and ...
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Microsoft Corp. and Best Buy Co. Inc. today announced a strategic partnership to create the Windows Store only at Best Buy. The comprehensive store-within-a-store will be in 500 Best Buy locations across the United States and in more than ...
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Now this conference room table is the stuff of legend, big enough to accommodate large groups, wired for sound and able to support your most impressive floral arrangements. We're guessing meetings last awhile at this table. Conference ...
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Panasonic and Fujifilm say they have developed a new image sensor using organic materials that is far more sensitive than anything currently on the market. The companies said their organic CMOS sensor has a dynamic range four times that ...
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The average bicycle retail store earns annual pre-tax profit of 5.5 percent, but the top 25 percent bring home nearly three times that. Is this really possible? If so, how do they do it? Aggressive marketing? Super staff training? ...
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It may have taken almost two decades, but Tun Thura Thet's investment in one of Asia's poorest countries is finally paying off. "I've been waiting here for 17 years to have this moment," he said, sitting at his office in Yangon, Myanmar. ...
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Fujitsu Laboratories of Kawasaki, Japan has developed compact gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT)-based transceiver module technology with an output of 10W operating at frequencies up to the millimeter-wave band. ...
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Phones are smart so why can't table lamps be smart too? Smart meaning capable of more than they were originally designed for. Sure a table lamp was meant to illuminate, but what if it could do more than just that? What if your table lamp ...
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How do you build a blockbuster app in Myanmar, one of Asia's poorest countries? You go and ask a fortune teller for help, according to 25-year-old Htoo Myint Naung, a local developer. "There's a very famous fortune teller in Yangon, he is ...
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Shipments of new Symbian smartphones from Nokia are rapidly dying, less than three years after the last time it topped the list of the world's most-used mobile platforms. The rapid and stark decline of Symbian serves as a warning about ...
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Ailing Japanese TV maker Sharp says it will try to break into a host of new industries, from industrial cleaning robots to raising strawberries, to supplement its core LCD business. At an open house at its research facility in Nara, ...
Apple today unveiled its upcoming iOS 7 mobile operating system, which includes a more-elegant-looking interface and a unique poison-pill approach to thwarting device theft. In the fine tradition of platforms pilfering features from one ...
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Sapphire is currently used in some exotic, luxury phones. However, the sapphire price reduction combined with the massive adoption of touch screens in smartphones have stimulated the interest of cell phone OEMS for this material. Crystal ...
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The company isn't making much noise about it, but T-Mobile has a prepaid option that is surprisingly inexpensive: unlimited data for $30 a month. And our Consumerist colleagues discovered that it's not just for new activations. A T-Mobile ...
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