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Cisco CEO getting sued over China scandal
Posted by: | CommentsCisco’s top executives including its CEO John Cambers are being sued by the Falun Gong spiritual movement. They believe that Cisco is aiding and abetting the Chinese government in its human rights violations, the same government that uses computers and its equipment to spy on its people and sensor the Internet. In the lawsuit filed in a Northern Californian court, the group claims that Cisco is providing networking gear and technical assistance in helping build the “Great Firewall of China”. Cisco, to paraphrase, considers these claims silly. They have release a statement saying that they sell and supply the same equipment for China that they do for others globally and their equipment meets U.S. regulations. Get your obsolete Cisco equipment here: http://www.bluefinparts.com/searchinventory.html
Beefed Up Portable Hard Drive
Posted by: | CommentsSeagate has said it is coming out with its GoFlex Satellite HD later this summer. Its Wi-Fi and battery pack combo version of the portable hard drive has been working out and has put on some serious computing muscle. It 500 GB lets you store 300 movies, stream 3 iPads simultaneously, and automatically sync media and documents from a PC or Mac. It uses a lithium-ion battery giving 5 hours of continuous video streaming and 25 hours of standby, all while employing a working range of 150 feet with no pictures freezes. They have coupled this with an app that lets you buffer a full length movie in 7 minutes reducing the drive usage and conserving the battery.
U.S. Benefiting From Japan Shortages and Weaker U.S. Dollar
Posted by: | CommentsThe auto and electronics industries are starting to realize the shortages that have been predicted for weeks now. While major shortages are predicted to be temporary, they are helping the U.S. as a whole. While domestic auto production has slipped for the first time in almost a year, overall industrial output was flat in April, meaning other areas are picking up some of the slack. U.S. companies are more credible to fulfill orders that would have otherwise gone to Japanese companies. This could possibly even lead to a permanent shift in the long run depending on cost and quality comparisons. A slightly weaker U.S. dollar has also helped domestic companies by making our exports cheaper, boosting sales overseas. Local demand has also been a contributing factor guiding the hand of U.S. companies to step up hiring, adding more industrial jobs in the last six months since 1997, which usually are a better quality type of job compared to other sectors like retail or food and beverage, with higher pay and better benefits. Having shortage issues? Click here and solve your problems.
Secret Stockpiling
Posted by: | CommentsThere have been rumors that large companies have been secretly stockpiling components to hedge off shortages that are expected to hit hard soon. Acer, Motorola, Apple, and HTC, among others, have been alleged to be keeping quiet about their stockpiling to deter their suppliers from raising their prices. Foxconn is doing all it can to keep up with demand, especially from Apple, but admits it is having problems especially in light of labor shortages it is facing. Shortages and allocations are a reality that will become a growing problem. Save time, money, and missed deadlines by sourcing your parts here
Too Hot for Wi-Fi?
Posted by: | CommentsRecent studies have indicated that the climate change that’s occurring has begun to affect Wi-Fi’s ability, something that will only increase in occurrence. Turns out the inclement weather, especially heat and wet weather, are two causes for major concerns. Heat reduces the range of Wi-Fi, not to mention the solar flares that wreak havoc on electronics. Rainstorms and snow can seriously damage infrastructure through floods or heavy snow on masts, cables, and tree limbs. As the climate changes, it will also affect the agriculture on earth, both spontaneous and human induced, which may interfere with how RF is transmitted and received. This may make current Wi-Fi technology obsolete in the near future. Source your hard to find and obsolete parts *here*
RIM to Cut Workforce?
Posted by: | CommentsThe Blackberry maker lowered its sales forecasts the current quarter a week after Apple posted a huge 2Q. RIM says that while sales of its tablet, the Playbook, are as expected, shipments of the Blackberry are down. However, they plan to rebound in the coming quarter through new phones and “cost management” and to have yet to change their 12 month forecast.
LG Nipping at Samsung Heels?
Posted by: | CommentsNo. Actually LG Electronics has reported a 2Q loss, its second straight quarterly loss, based on it cell phone and TV skid. However, LG has entered into another licensing agreement with ARM Holdings for its Cortex processor (Cortex-A15 MPCore and Cortex-A9 MPCore) and Mali graphics processors (Mali-T604 GPU). These processors will be used for tablets, cell phones, digital TVs, set top boxes, and smart-grid electrical supply.
Bye Bye Battery
Posted by: | CommentsThe age of the battery as we know it is soon coming to an end. Researchers in New Zealand have further developed dielectric elastomer generators (DEGs), a.k.a. artificial muscles or soft generators, by eliminating the necessity for the external components to be large and rigid. They now are constructed with rubber membranes and carbon grease mounted in a frame. The dielectric elastomer switches produce energy when they are deformed and flexible enough to wear or put in an environmental setting. This is on the path to having human movement producing energy which will lead to the elimination of toxic batteries in the ecosystem.
Tech Industry is Putting the Financial Markets on its Shoulders
Posted by: | CommentsApple Inc. has just reported a huge 2Q, once again beating speculator’s estimates. With $24.67 billion in revenue, profits jumped up 95 percent to just under $6 billion. They had basically a two-pronged approach for this success. First was their dedication to their products. Ever increasing demand for the iPad 2, iPhone 4 (for AT&T and Verzion), and Macbooks, and with the iPhone 5 projected to come out around September, demand looks to be steady for some time. Second, they seemed to circumnavigate logistics issues by having many contractual agreements with their component suppliers. This is having a positive ripple effect with other companies like Qualcomm, whose chips are inside iPhones and half of Android smart phones, who posted a 46 percent increase in revenue. Tech giants like Apple, Qualcomm, Intel, IBM, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, and United Technologies all posted higher than expected gains and overshadowed Google, AT&T, and Alcoa’s shortcomings and helped boost the stock market to a six month high.
Japan’s Rebounding Will Affect Your Bottom Line
Posted by: | CommentsJapan just announced that it will resume production at all of its automotive plants, but that production will be running at 50% (until the end of April when they again shut plants down due to a week long holiday). That is because they are having problems securing proper quantity of parts. This is going to drive demand for electrical components up, especially in the manufacturing of electric and hybrid cars. In addition, Japan also just announced that schools will resume. In this electronic age, students are big a demographic using electronic consumer products like PCs, tablets, and cell phones. This will only increase the demand on electrical manufacturers to find already scarce electrical components.
On a more direct note, as Japan comes back ‘on-line’, companies thinking long term with modest cash holdings are being aggressive , acquiring as much electronic component stock as possible. Japan is a big factor in many steps in the production of discrete components and in the near future, bismaleimide-triazine (BT) resin which is used in the production of attaching electronic chips to printed circuit boards and silicon substrate used in display glass, semiconductor equipment, and aluminum HD equipment will be untraditionally hard to find. Japan supplies more than 80 percent of BT resin and 50 percent of silicon substrate. All this speculation is, unfortunately, optimistic thinking because of the pending nuclear crisis which has yet to fully effect power and water supplies, and logistics. Save time and money, get your shortage needs here.
