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Hard Disk Drive Market Revenue Set for Double-Digit Decline This Year
— Facing a relentless onslaught from tablets, smartphones and solid state drives (SSD), global hard disk drive (HDD) market revenue in 2013 will decline by about 12 percent this year, according to an IHS iSuppli Storage Space market brief …
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Global LTE Subscribers Set to More Than Double in 2013 and Exceed 100 Million
— Just three short years after the technology's original deployment, worldwide subscribers to the 4G wireless standard known as Long Term Evolution (LTE) are projected to surpass the 100-million mark this year
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Large-Display Smartphones Featured at CES; Shipments Set to More than Double in 2013
— With their global shipments set to more than double this year, phablets are a hot product, as illustrated by their high profile at last week's 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
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Samsung Displaces Nokia as Top Cellphone Brand in 2012 and Takes Decisive Smartphone Lead Over Apple
— For the first time in 14 years, wireless communications giant Nokia will not sit atop the global cellphone business on an annual basis at the end of 2012—with Samsung set to seize the mobile handset market's top rank.
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Microsoft Surface RT More Profitable than iPad, Teardown Analysis Reveals
— The Surface RT model with the minimum 32 gigabytes of NAND flash memory and an optional black Touch Cover carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $271.00, according to a preliminary estimate from the IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service.
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Consumers Aggressively Migrate Data to Cloud Storage in First Half of 2012
— The consumer cloud performed strongly in the first half of 2012, with the number of personal subscriptions to online storage services at the end of June already at 75 percent of the market's projected sum for the year …
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Hard Drive Shipments Rebound to Record Level in 2012
— A year after the Thailand flooding disaster partially derailed production, the global hard disk drive (HDD) industry has fully recovered, with shipments to the computer market expected to hit a record level this year …
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iPhone 5 Carries $199 BOM, Virtual Teardown Reveals
— This is an IHS iSuppli News Flash from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS) covering the IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service's virtual teardown of the iPhone 5. This virtual teardown information is based on an analysis …
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Nokia Lumia 900 Carries Bill of Materials of $209
— Nokia's new Lumia 900 smartphone features a cost-reduced design that reveals close cooperation between the handset brand, Microsoft Corp., and semiconductor supplier Qualcomm Inc. This cooperation mimics Apple Inc.'s holistic approach to hardware and software development.
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New iPad 32GB + 4G Carries $364.35 Bill of Materials
— The new iPad, equipped with 32 Gigabytes (GB) of NAND flash memory and 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless capability, carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $364.35. When the $10.75 manufacturing costs are added in, the cost to produce the new iPad rises to $375.10.
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