China's domestic smartphone makers continue to battle foreign rivals as they post bigger market shares in the second quarter of this year, industry statistics show. Chinese brand Xiaomi sold more smartphones than any other producer in the ...
Tags: smartphone, Xiaomi, Huawei
China's big players are gearing up for a price war in the high-end smartphone sector, and the only big winner will be the consumer. Xiaomi Corp, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp's Nubia have all rolled out new products in what has ...
Tags: high-end smartphone, smartphone
For branded media tablets, or tablet PCs, the year 2015 is off to a rocky start. For the first time since inception, the popular consumer item experienced its largest quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) decline to date of 35 percent, in the first ...
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Licor 43, the leading Spanish liqueur is set to lead the way in alcohol marketing as it is the first liqueur to launch a fully immersive consumer experience using a virtual reality headset. Inspired by Licor 43's latest TV campaign the ...
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South Korean electronics major Samsung has armed trucks with cameras in the front side and four screens at the rear to offer a ‘see-through’ experience to help drivers gauge when it is safe to pass. The company, which has ...
Tags: electronics, Samsung, safety trucks, vehicle and transportation
Just four months after the Connected Cree LED Bulb's launch in January, Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has announced its compatibility with home automation firm SmartThings (part of the Samsung Global Innovation Center). "Cree is committed ...
Tags: LED Bulb, Home Lighting
China has begun to implement its investment plans aiming to boost development of the local semiconductor industry, and will inject a total of CNY600 billion (US$19.4 billion) into the industry over the next five years, according to industry ...
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of Seoul, Korea has introduced new chip-on-board (COB) LED package lineups, including small LES (light-emitting surface) COB packages, high CRI (color rendering index) COBs and vivid COBs which, due to their ...
Tags: Samsung LEDs, LED Packages
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and sports footwear major Nike have announced an eight-year global merchandising and marketing partnership that will make Nike the official oncourt apparel provider beginning with the 2017-18 NBA ...
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Packaged LED lighting revenue reached $6.6bn in 2014, with about 70% of that generated by sales of mid- to low-power LEDs, according to the latest data in the 'Packaged LED Report 2015' (part of IHS LED Intelligence Service). The share ...
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Starpath UV creator Hamish Scott has launched Nevana Designs by presenting the newly designed Aston Martin DBS with its UV formula. The UV coated surface makes the car to glow in the dark and it remains luminescent for at least 10 hours ...
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According to MIC, wireless charging products reached US$15.8 billion in 2014 - only a negligible part of the US$250 billion of smartphone sales. "Nevertheless, with Apple and Samsung releasing new products supporting wireless charging, ...
Packaged LED lighting revenues reached US$6.6 billion in 2014, with roughly 70% revenue generated from mid- to low-power LEDs, according to IHS. The chip-on-board (COB) share was only 8%, despite the fact that only a small number of ...
Tags: Packaged LED, LED Lighting
Australian supermarkets Woolworths and Coles, along with food brands Kellogg’s, Vegemite and Milo are among the top 10 ‘meaningful brands’ for Australians, according to new findings from communications and marketing ...
Tags: Woolworths, Coles, supermarkets
Samsung Techwin and MIRA have partnered to develop new battery and powertrain systems for automotive hybrid and electric vehicles. Using cell technologies, the partners will work together to design battery and powertrain systems for ...
Tags: Samsung Techwin, powertrain systems, Electric Vehicles