BANNOCKBURN, Ill. — IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries® announces the creation of a new IPC Printed Electronics Management Council Steering Committee that will oversee the development of educational programs to support the printed electronics industry. Industry veterans Don Banfield, president of Conductive Compounds, Inc., and Steve Tomas, director of flexible electronics for FLEXcon Company,…
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Normally, the last thing I'd advocate is another government agency. But in the case of the smart grid, it might not be a bad idea. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently concluded that the mishmash of agencies overseeing the security of the smart grid is ill equipped to handle a cyberattack. According to a Reuters…
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DHL recently released its 2011 Global Connectedness Index Report, an ambitious attempt to quantify the “breadth and depth” of connectedness a country has with the rest of the world. The report ranked 125 countries using a set of 10 cross-border “flows” in four broad categories: capital, products and services, information, and people. The Netherlands had…
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Many of us got it wrong. We assumed leadership in the OEM market would be determined by hardware sales, but it instead revolves around a solid ecosystem. The shifting landscape of the tablet market has made it clear that the war for dominance in the information technology world will be won by companies that build…
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Despite a challenging global economic environment this year and the natural disasters that have impacted production in Asia, the semiconductor industry has demonstrated impressive resilience
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Reflecting the leadership that Arrow Electronics Inc. (NYSE: ARW) has established in the growing IT services market, CRN has named Andy Bryant, president of Arrow’s global Enterprise Computing Solutions segment, among the 2011 Top 100 Executives in the Channel in the “Channel Services Leaders” category. “This recognition for Andy and Arrow is…
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The initial results for Black Friday and Cyber Monday show impressive gains in both online and brick-and-mortar holiday sales. But these increases are having different effects on each channel, even when the sales are by two different divisions of the same retailer. The traditional supply chain has become a well-known quantity for most retailers that…
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So far, it looks like the strategy of selling hardware at a loss is working for {complink 11480|Amazon.com}. (See: IHS iSuppli: Amazon Kindle Fire Costs $201.70 to Manufacture.) According to the market research firm IHS iSuppli, the $199 Kindle Fire's global marketshare will move from zero in the third quarter to about 13.8 percent by…
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IRVINE, Calif. — Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today is updating its financial outlook for the December quarter and the progress to date of its operations recovery effort in Thailand. The company is also providing its view of the industry conditions for the December 2011 quarter and beyond. Company Fiscal Q2 Outlook: For the December…
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Many companies, including high-tech manufacturers, often assume they have a vibrant marketing strategy, but they may simply be recycling old ideas that have ceased to resonate with their varied audiences. In the first part of this blog, I discussed two indicators that executives can use to confirm the lack of a strong marketing program. This…
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