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The Conference "solar meets glass - 3rd Industry Summit for Markets, Costs and Technology" held on 22 and 23 October as part of glasstec/solarpeq drew to a successful close with more than 130 participants.
Glasstec
Apple revamped its mobile PC lineup on Tuesday, announcing additions to its iPad and MacBook Pro lines. As DisplaySearch had anticipated, the company introduced the iPad Mini, a refreshed iPad (the iPad with Retina Display), and a 13.3" MacBook Pro notebook.
DisplaySearch
The strong Japanese yen has hurt the country's export competitiveness, while demand has evaporated as growth slowed in most regions. Meanwhile, the country's energy imports have risen following closures of most of its nuclear plants.
AP (via Business Week)
Company release
After Motorola Mobility closed its Nanjing R&D office, the Chinese PC maker Lenovo has benefited by taking on a number of the rival firm's bereft staff.
ZDNet
China's low-cost smartphone maker Xiaomi will look to expand its busines beyond the domestic market to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore via online sales, but it will steer clear of producing tablet devices.
ZDNet
Chipmaker ARM Tuesday reported higher profit and revenue for the third quarter, adding that it expects group dollar revenues for the fourth quarter in-line with market expectations.
NASDAQ.com
Chinese factories are losing pricing power in the worst wholesale-cost deflation since 2009, signaling corporate earnings may deteriorate further and putting a damper on global inflation pressures.
Bloomberg
According to WitsView, the research division of market intelligence provider TrendForce, the dominance of G/G structure is beginning to fall, driven by the new generation products' lighter and thinner design.
EE Times India
Apple will hold a launch event in the US later today (October 23), where the technology giant is expected to unveil its much-rumoured iPad Mini tablet.
Digitial Spy
The next generation of so-called "4K" high-definition display technology for the home - giant-screen TVs with more than eight million pixels of resolution, four times the resolution of today's high-definition televisions - will be called "Ultra High-Definition" or "Ultra HD," connoting its superiority over conventional HDTV, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
LDK Solar, the second-biggest maker of wafers that convert the sun's energy to electricity, rose the most in almost a year after China-based investors purchased a minority stake.
Bloomberg
Marubeni Corporation has announced its plans to build an 81.5 MW photovoltaic plant in Japan's Oita prefecture.
PV Magazine
PV Magazine
The Windows ship is leaking in a dozen places, pierced beneath the waterline by very pointy iPads.
IT Pro Portal
India's tablet PC market is expected to grow at 40%to 7.3 million units in 2015-16 from 0.95 million in 2011-12, driven by government purchase and increasing affordability and desirability as lifestyle devices for the youth, hardware industry body MAIT today said.
NDTV Profit
These days the Internet has been an indispensible part of our daily lives.
CNET
Company release
San Francisco Chronicle
Semiconductor Today
EE Times India
According to reports, Iraq plans to channel US$1.6 billion over the next three years into solar and wind power, with the aim of adding 400MW to the national grid.
PV Magazine
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