Apple retook its spot as China's fifth largest smartphone vendor in the first quarter, as the country's market grew to triple the size of the U.S.'s. Apple had an 8 percent share of the smartphone market, while Samsung continued to lead ...
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Sony has moved back into profit for the financial year to 31 March, reporting profits of 43bn yen (280m), after four consecutive years of losses. The Japanese firm said it expected earnings to grow by an additional 16 per cent this year ...
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Huawei founder and president Ren Zhengfei has finally broken his silence on the US government's October 2012 suggestion that Chinese companies pose security risks. Speaking during a company press conference in New Zealand yesterday, ...
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Apple supplier Pegatron has said it will increase its workforce in China by up to 40 per cent in the second half of 2013, suggesting that it could be working on assembling a new cheaper model of the iPhone. Pegatron, which is based in ...
19 out of the 30 Chinese property insurance firms suffered a loss in auto insurance business last year. The four foreign-invested property insurers on the Top 5 premium revenue gainers list in the country all incurred a loss in auto ...
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Nokia has posted a video comparing the camera on the Lumia 928 with the Galaxy S III and the iPhone 5, as it gets ready to launch the phone. The Lumia 928 will be an upgraded version of the existing flagship Lumia 920, and is expected to ...
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Shell lays keel for world's first floating LNG project Thursday, May 09, 2013 In an important step, Shell has laid the keel for Prelude FLNG, the world's first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project. When complete, Prelude is ...
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LAST night's midnight premiere of Star Trek into Darkness confirms the cult of the USS Enterprise thrives 47 years after the first TV episodes aired. Captain James T. Kirk, Spock and the crew have indeed managed to "live long and prosper" - ...
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INFORMATION technology start-ups have taken the lion's share of the government's innovation funding pool over the last three years. IT companies, mostly in start-up phase stage or in another early stage of operation, accounted for $77 ...
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A standards organization has created a boot environment for tablets and PCs that could potentially run a 64-bit version of Windows RT. The UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Forum on Wednesday announced that its boot firmware ...
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Although we're just a few days away from posting new TV ratings—which include both smart TVs and more bare-bones models from LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Vizio, among others—our engineers are already hard at work testing the next ...
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Microsoft is retooling the latest version of its Windows operating system to address complaints and confusion that have been blamed for deepening a slump in personal computer sales. The tune up won't be released to consumers and ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2013 (to 29 March), analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $425.2m (split 40% in linear products ...
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Cooledge and Dow Corning took top spots in the Lightfair Innovation Awards for SSL enabling technologies, winning both individual categories against stiff competition and gaining special recognition from the judges. While the awards ...
Everlight Electronics has expanded its mid-power LED family with new components targeting retrofit lamps and light bars, while Philips Lumileds, LG Innotek, and Samsung made new LED announcements at LFI. Everlight Electronics has ...
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