Perhaps taking a page from the longtime practice of component makers, Bell Helmets employed the trickle-down theory in developing three of its 2014 model year helmets introduced at Interbike this week. Last year the company launched the ...
Tags: Helmets, Auto Parts
Several brand vendors including Samsung Electronics and Acer have released 8-inch tablets in light of the good sales performance for the 7.9-inch iPad mini and in order to avoid intense price competition with 7-inch models. However, the ...
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China-based component makers have recently started competing for orders from PC ODMs with their advantages in product quote, which is about 10-20% lower than the market's average, and the moves could greatly impact Taiwan component makers' ...
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New Windows PCs have always been the main attraction at Computex, the annual trade show in Taipei. But notable on the show floor this year is the growing presence of Google's Android OS, which is creeping into more and more tablets, ...
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There's a technology race going on in the bicycle industry, and it's leaving retailers in a scramble to keep up. Frame and component makers have introduced a slew of new axle, bottom bracket and fork interfaces in the past few years as they ...
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Microsoft is working on designs for a touch-enabled smart watch, joining a number of other large competitors like Samsung Electronics and Apple who are said to be working on similar devices, a newspaper reported. Executives at suppliers ...
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Australian automotive suppliers will have another opportunity to boost their competitiveness in global supply chains and domestic markets through the $30 million joint Australian, Victorian and South Australian Government's Automotive ...
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Five optical component manufacturers including LAPIS Semiconductor Co Ltd, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Oclaro Inc, Renesas Electronics Corp and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd have announced the release of new common specifications for ...
Tags: TOSA, ROSA, 40Gbps pluggable, transceiver modules, Electrical, Electronics
Apple has slashed orders for iPhone screens in the first quarter by half, according to Monday reports out of both Japan and the U.S. Earlier today, Japan's Nikkei and the U.S.-based Wall Street Journal (subscription required), both citing ...
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Business Standard reported that French carmaker,PSA Peugeot Citroen,has lost a third of the land allotted to it in Sanand.After waiting for over a year for payments,the Gujarat government recently sold around 200 acres of the 584 acres ...
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Makers are boosting the lighting downstream segment to take advantage of the projected demand upswing in coming years. Taiwan’s LED manufacturers continue to strengthen the components and service segments while pushing for vertical ...
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Computerworld - Apple's suppliers had a banner July, providing yet another clue that the company has geared up production to release a new iPhone and a smaller iPad in four weeks, an analyst said. According to Brian White of Topeka ...
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Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it has started mass production of a new type of memory chip for mobile devices, LPDDR3, that will dramatically increase performance in future smartphones and tablets. The new memory, which meets a standard ...
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IDG News Service-Sony said Friday that its current round of job cuts will include workers in its struggling TV business and at its headquarters in Tokyo,and it will close a mobile phone and lens factory in central Japan. The job cuts,part ...
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Samsung Electronics has started mass production of a new type of memory chip for mobile devices, LPDDR3, that will dramatically increase performance in future smartphones and tablets, it said Tuesday. The new memory, which meets a ...
Tags: DRAM, mobile, PC, phone, Samsung, tablets, smartphones