TAIPEI — Taiwan’s Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics has raised the official national growth forecast in the light of robust global demand for mobile devices and computer components, stronger consumer ...
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Kyocera Corp. aims to boost pretax profit by around 40% over the fiscal 2013 figure to more than 200 billion yen ($1.94 billion) in fiscal 2017, says President Goro Yamaguchi. The Japanese ceramics maker will work to sell more components ...
(AP)—Sony unveiled a new waterproof phone that can take ultra-high-definition video. Nokia introduced three Android smartphones aimed at emerging markets. And Lenovo announced one with an all-glass exterior. Yet most of the ...
The well-known story of Corning Inc.’s unsuccessful foray into the automotive glass market in the 1960s may have a happy ending sooner than you think. The Fortune 500 company’s development of a superior auto windshield using a ...
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I find giant phones hard to carry and use, but I'm well aware that many people like the bigger images and text they offer. These so-called phablets, with screens measuring about 6 inches (15.24 centimeters) diagonally, are nearly as big ...
Tags: HTC, Nokia, Consumer Electronics, Smartphone
Sapphire substrate concept stocks have soared lately on China’s A-Shares market, but major international sapphire substrate suppliers stock prices have plunged, according to a China Securities Journal article. Out of the major ...
Early buyers of the iPhone 5S, which went on sale Friday morning, appear to be overwhelmingly choosing the gold-colored model over the two other color options. In this new iPhone release press conference, the 64 - bit A7 processor ...
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About two years ago, I wrote a column on Apple’s new digital goddess Siri, the company’s digital assistant and go-to person for iPhone users. Folks could ask Siri a range of questions including street directions, the location of ...
Tags: Apple, revamp, Siri, agriculture
Apple is probably one of the few companies that can pull off a price increase. The new iPad Mini starts at $399, or $70 more than last year's model. For that price, you get a leap forward in power, speed and display. There are plenty of ...
Following a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer, an analyst believes that we can expect to see an increase in the frequency of iPhone releases from 2014. In a note to investors sent out on Wednesday, Morgan Stanley ...
The new iPhones have apparently convinced only a small percentage of iPhone 5 owners to upgrade. Polling 400 US phone customers that activated an iPhone between September 20 and October 20, research firm CIRP found that only 6 percent of ...
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GT Advanced Technology (GTAT) announced that it has entered into a multi-year supply agreement with Apple Inc. to provide sapphire substrate materials for US $578 million (NT $17 billion). Feeling the effect, Chinese sapphire substrate ...
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Commerce Department revealed that besides motor vehicles, gasoline and building materials in September, the retail sales growth of 0.5%, while August was only 0.2%. According to statistics, because of Apple's new iPhone and other ...
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Samsung Electronics continued to dominate the smartphone market in the third quarter, which also saw quarterly shipments cross 250 million for the first time, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. The South Korean electronics ...
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Apple has unveiled a third consecutive decline in earnings as sales of Mac laptops and desktop computers fell, while unit shipments of smartphones and tablet computers continued to increase. The company sold 33.8 million iPhones, up from ...
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