Gartner today drastically lowered its forecast for the monetary payments that near field communication technology will provide in coming years, noting the struggles of Google Wallet and Isis mobile wallet services. Through 2017, NFC's ...
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According to data released by Chilean steel institute (Icha), Chile’s steel consumption totaled 663,000 tons in the first quarter of this year, decreasing by 9% year on year. Juan Pablo Silva, Icha's economist said that the decreased ...
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European Union antitrust regulators are collecting information to determine whether Apple's iPhone contract deals with various telecoms operators have been designed to shut out rival smartphone makers, such as Samsung, HTC and Nokia. ...
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Real life Barbie Dreamhouse gallery comes out on top for the week ending May 24th. Not had time to catch up with the hottest news of the week? Well, read on, because ToyNews has put together the top ten most read stories on the site for ...
Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new wave of Envy and Pavilion thin and light laptops, including an 11.6-inch touchscreen model priced aggressively at $399. The lineup includes three TouchSmart laptops with touchscreens and two non-touch ...
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In the EU27, household electricity prices rose by 6.6% between the second half of 2011 and the second half of 2012, after an increase of 6.3% between the second half of 2010 and 2011. Household gas prices increased by 10.3% in the EU27 ...
A circuit breaker is an automatically operated electrical switch designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by overload or short circuit. The circuit breaker is an absolutely essential device in the modern ...
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Vistaprint N.V. a leading online provider of professional marketing products and services to micro businesses and the home, today announced that The Boston Business Journal has, for the sixth time, named Vistaprint one of the Best Places to ...
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For first-quarter 2013, GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks) has ...
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Sony has released a video celebrating 15 years since Gran Turismo was globally released on the PlayStation gaming system, and teasing an upcoming event marking the occasion. To take place today at the Silverstone Gran Prix circuit in the ...
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AT&T launched a new wireless subsidiary called Aio Wireless on Thursday that offers phones like the iPhone 5 with no annual contract. The creation of Aio (pronounced Ay-oh) was partly a response to T-Mobile USA's no-contract, low-subsidy ...
It’s a Big Data world as information about material movement becomes more essential to the art of materials handling. And, software applications designed to grant visibility into products, processes and pieces of equipment have grown ...
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With the BlackBerry Q10 qwerty smartphone coming to the U.S. market in late May, it's fair to ask: How many customers will want to buy it? The BlackBerry Q10 has a physical keyboard that is still preferred by many Blackberry users. ...
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According to the Mineral Industry Survey released by the US Geological Survey (USGS), stocks of imported and domestic scrap in the US at the end of January this year amounted to 3.8 million mt, up slightly from the end of December 2012. ...
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Sprint warned Wednesday that it will be "slightly delayed" with its full launch of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 on Saturday as planned. Sprint said in an emailed statement that the problem stems from "unexpected inventory challenges from ...
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