John Eggleton has joined Affiliated Distributors—a North American wholesale marketing group—as its new U.S. Electrical Division President. Eggleton comes to A-D after serving for 10 years as CEO of A-D's sister company, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Samsung announced today that its next-generation Galaxy S4 smartphone will be available by the end of April on seven major U.S. carriers, as well as seven retailers. The device runs Android 4.2.2 and includes a 5-in. Super AMOLED ...
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Departing U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced today that Deputy United States Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis will assume the post of Acting United States Trade Representative effective Friday, March 15, 2013, as Ambassador ...
Tags: Textile, Textile Industry
Today, Acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis commented on the announcement made by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): "The United States welcomes Prime Minister Abe's important ...
Tags: Service
Cotton Council International (CCI), through its COTTON USA Sourcing Program, will host a booth at the Colombiamoda trade fair in Medellin from July 23-25 to promote U.S. cotton yarns and fabrics. The Sourcing Program will showcase 13 U.S. ...
Tags: Textiles, Colombiamoda Trade Fair
April 10, 2013 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) issued new energy efficiency standards for electric distribution transformers. In the final rule, relative to a draft standard issued a year ago, ACEEE explains DoE improved the standard ...
Tags: Aceee, Transformer Standards
Kim Van Howe swears she's never looked better than in the glamour shots she had taken at Sears. It was late summer, she was 27, tanned, blond and wearing a velvet peach halter, she recalled wistfully while shopping Tuesday at the Sears on ...
Tags: Portrait Studio, Toys
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last week reversed itself, withdrawing a rejection of Apple's trademark application for "iPad Mini," according to a document published by the agency. In an letter mailed to Apple last ...
Tags: U.S.Patent, Apple's iPad, Trademark
Several Canadian retailers and wireless carriers today began taking pre-orders for the BlackBerry Q10 smartphone, which features a physical qwerty keyboard. However, there was no official word on when the Q10 will ship in Canada or the ...
Tags: Blackberry Q10, Electronics
In April, AATCC will honor the US Marine Corps Systems Command and scientists at the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, as recipients of the 2012 Henry E. Millson Award for Invention. The award is being ...
Cycleast, a new custom shop in the Texas capital, is also entering the distribution business, bringing in handmade carbon fiber and steel road and track bikes from the Czech Republic’s Festka Bicycles as the brand’s U.S. ...
Tags: Cycleast, Austin Shop, Czech Road Brand
A little-publicized provision in a U.S. government budget resolution that largely prohibits four agencies from using Chinese-made IT products could backfire, several tech trade groups said. The provision, in a 2013 budget resolution ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received roughly 50,000 "packages" with H-1B petitions on Monday, the first day of filing for the next fiscal year. Based on historical patterns, each package represents about 1.2 ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
One of the lesser-known tasks for U.S. Customs officials is confiscating chocolate "surprise eggs" from travelers. More than 60,000 surprise eggs are seized at the U.S. border each year with penalties up to $2,500 per egg. Brands such as ...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has provisionally denied Apple's trademark application for "iPad Mini" because the term is "merely descriptive" of the tablet's size. Notice of the rejection was mailed to Apple on Jan. 25, but ...
Tags: Computer Products, apple, Ipad Mini