BMW believes half the buyers of its new i3 electric car will pay a premium for a range extending petrol engine option rather than rely on battery power alone. The BMW i3, the first model from the German car maker’s new i brand ...
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The worldwide smartphone market grew 38.8% on year in the third quarter of 2013, according to IDC. Vendors shipped a total of 258.4 million smartphones in the third quarter, establishing a new record for units shipped in a single quarter by ...
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Rubicon Technology, Inc.yesterday reported financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2013. “We are very pleased with the customer response thus far and believe that PSS will be a strong growth driver for our wafer ...
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Senior executives at ailing smartphone maker BlackBerry met with Facebook executives to find out whether the social media company might be interested in bidding for the Canadian firm. News of the meeting was reported in the Wall Street ...
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ASUS has announced the launch of the Transformer Book T100 and ASUS Fonepad 7. The Transformer Book T100 is a compact ultraportable device powered by the new Intel Atom quad-core processor featuring a 10.1-inch HD display. ASUS Fonepad 7 is ...
Global shipment of smartphones has increased 39% up to September 30. Strong demand for low-priced Android phones in China eroded Apple's market share. As growth of smartphone sales in the United States and Europe has slowed down, ...
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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Nokia has announced an increase in sales of its Lumia Windows Phone devices to 8.8 million units and posted a surprise €118m profit for its third quarter. However, Nokia's re-acquaintance with profitability was largely due to savage ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules that it integrates into its EnerPlex series of consumer products, has introduced ...
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Sony today announced the Middle East and Africa launch of its Xperia C, a dual SIM Android smartphone. The phone can accommodate two interchangeable 3G and 2G SIM cards, and has a 1.2 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589 processor It comes ...
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With big smartphone manufacturers such as Apple and LG introducing sapphire substrate into smartphone camera lens protector caps and home buttons, the market predicts that in 2014 sapphire substrate will also be used to replace glass in ...
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South Korea's LG Electronics unveiled a curved smartphone on Monday to catch its rival Samsung Electronics. Curved displays and flexible screens have become the new battleground for phone manufacturers because those screens are likely to ...
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The imbalance in sapphire substrate supply and demand is being overcome by increased demands in LED lighting applications and strong demands for non-LED applications. GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) is optimistic about the rapid growth in ...
J. C. Penney Company, Inc. announced that it has teamed up with shopkick, the most widely used real-world shopping app that rewards shoppers for simply walking into stores. Just in time for the key holiday shopping season, JCPenney ...
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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, he world’s biggest smartphone maker, has apologized to Chinese consumers for smartphone glitches. The apology came after CCTV reported those types of mobile phones always suddenly crash and have high ...
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