WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of companies, including Apple, Honda and Coca-Cola, have agreed to pay their suppliers more quickly in a bid to boost small businesses, the White House announced Friday. President Barack Obama was to launch ...
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An international team of researchers has been exploring nanomembranes of beta-phase gallium oxide (β-Ga2O3) as a channel material for high-voltage field-effect transistors (FETs) [Wan Sik Hwang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol104, ...
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Hewlett-Packard Co. is launching two new supercomputers called Apollo, doubling down on tech hardware as the company looks to take more market share from rival IBM Corp. in the high-end supercomputer realm. The first machine, Apollo 6000, ...
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As China and the US dispute over the stealing of confidential information through the Internet, China has launched counter attacks to reject server products from IBM, Oracle and Cisco and the situation is expected to benefit Taiwan ...
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Lenovo's net profit grew 25 percent year-over-year in the first quarter as the Chinese company continued to make gains in the PC and smartphone markets.? During the period ended 31st March, Lenovo's net profit reached US$158 million, up ...
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BlackBerry is allowing rivals AirWatch, Citrix, SAP and IBM to directly manage its smartphones with the Blackberry 10 operating system as part of its strategy to open up management of its devices to third parties. The move by BlackBerry ...
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On Monday, IBM will take the wraps off a portfolio of products for software-defined storage, an area where established vendors and startups alike are already claiming the future has arrived. ‘Elastic Storage’ aims at some ...
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Agilent Technologies Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA says that GIT Japan Inc - a provider of interface technologies between people and information, and a competence center for ultrawideband (UWB) chipset and module development - has selected ...
IBM's efforts to expand the use of its Power chips in hyperscale data centres just got a big shot in the arm from Google. The online giant showed its first home-built server board based on IBM's upcoming Power8 processor at an IBM ...
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Researchers in Switzerland and Norway have used strain to alter the light-emitting properties of gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowires [G. Signorello et al, Nature Communications, vol5, p3655, published online 10 Apr 2014]. The researchers from ...
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Falling hardware sales and the cost of layoffs hit IBM's profit hard in the first quarter, sending it down 21 percent from a year earlier.? Sales also fell, sliding 4 percent from last year's first quarter to US$22.5 billion. The ...
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IBM Research's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Northwestern University have developed a technique to grow hexagonal- and cubic-phase gallium nitride (h-/c-GaN) on standard (100) silicon (Si) [Can Bayram et al, Adv. Funct. Mater., ...
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has claimed a leadership position in point-to-point (PtP) wireless backhaul with ...
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While there is no governing body that controls or even defines Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), APICS, the Association for Operations Management does offer a certification program in production and inventory management (CPIM) that covers ...
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PSA Peugeot Citroen today announced plans to use IBM Big Data and Analytics and IBM MobileFirst solutions to launch a new era of connected vehicles that deliver customized services. The rapid adoption of mobile devices is redefining ...
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