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		<title>Global Smartphone Market Expected to Grow 55% in 2011</title>
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The worldwide smartphone market is forecast to grow 55% year over year in 2011 as a growing number of users turn in their feature phones for more advanced devices. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors will ship a total of 472 million smartphones in 2011 compared to roughly 305 million units shipped in 2010. That figure will nearly double to 982 million by the end of 2015.
The fast-growing smartphone market, which will grow more than four times the rate of the overall mobile ...]]></description>
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		<title>Dell spurns U.S. in launch of Android tablet in China</title>
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Dell will launch its highly anticipated 10-inch tablet in the Chinese market first, based on a emerging belief that the U.S. market isn&#8217;t mature enough for a successful Android launch, Dell executives told CNET today.
Dell&#8217;s Streak 10 Pro (see specifications below) will launch in China this summer and in the U.S. market probably sometime next year, John Thode, a Dell vice president and manager of Dell&#8217;s mobility business, told CNET. The U.S. market simply doesn&#8217;t offer a viable 10-inch tablet strategy for Dell, he said.
&#8220;This is not an either-or for ...]]></description>
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		<title>Global Aerospace &amp; Defense Industry Faces the “Big Squeeze”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The aerospace and defense industry globally will be facing tough and contradictory burdens in the next few years, as the need to meet an anticipated 25% jump in commercial-aircraft deliveries by 2014 contrasts with further belt-tightening of nations’ defense budgets in the wake of widespread budget deficits – both of which could lead to severe supply-chain pressures. That’s according to a study released today by AlixPartners, the global business-advisory firm.
“While bruised, the aerospace and defense industry emerged from the economic downturn in better shape than most industries, due largely to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cirexx Manufactures Google&#8217;s ADK FR-4 Boards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ANDROID OPEN ACCESSORY DEV KIT -
With the Google announcement of its Android Open Accessory Development Kit (ADK) at Google I/O 2011, Google joined Apple in the game of allowing mobile apps to interface with accessories. The Android Open Accessory will give hardware developers, a new API and an open accessory development boards to work with. This will allow external USB hardware (an Android USB accessory) to interact with an Android-powered device in a special &#8220;accessory&#8221; mode. When an Android-powered powered device is in accessory mode, the connected accessory acts as the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Aerospace Engineering Firm Ducommun To Buy LaBarge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ducommun to Acquire LaBarge
LaBarge, Inc., a provider of EMS, and Ducommun Incorporated, a provider of engineering and manufacturing services to the aerospace and defense industry, announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Ducommun will acquire LaBarge for a purchase price of $19.25 per share in cash.
The transaction is valued at approximately $340 million, including debt assumed and net of cash acquired. The acquisition requires LaBarge stockholder approval and is subject to customary closing conditions. The transaction is expected to be completed in late June 2011. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hotpcb.com/2011/04/ducommun-to-buy-labarge?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ducommun-to-buy-labarge</link>
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		<title>Free DFM (Design for Manufacturablity) Software!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a problem.  As an industry.  And it&#8217;s nothing new.
HotPCB has pointed to and written about the relationship between fabricators and designers since our inception.  And we are not the only one speaking to it.  Pete Waddell of UP Media wrote an editorial to the issue of DFM (design for manufacture) failures within our industry earlier this year.  We would like to speak to the issue as well, but not without providing a way to begin fixing the problem.
The issue is that there has been, and will ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hotpcb.com/2010/05/free-dfm-design-manufacturablity-software-trial?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=free-dfm-design-manufacturablity-software-trial</link>
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		<title>The Power of Knowing Your True Customers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is very easy to overlook how important the Printed Circuit Board industry is, both domestically and worldwide.  Many designers, fabricators, and assembly shops have voiced their desires for greater recognition, and the IPC is even lobbying on Capitol Hill for increased federal notice and support.  And yet, I truly believe the greater danger is that WE (the designers, fabricators, and assemblers) might forget how important our role is.  Even more specifically, I want to challenge us as an industry to step back and remember who our real customers are&#8230; ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hotpcb.com/2010/05/power-knowing-identifying-real-true-customers?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=power-knowing-identifying-real-true-customers</link>
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		<title>Mentor Graphics Acquires Valor Computerized Systems, Ltd.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WILSONVILLE, Ore., March 18, 2010—Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT), the market and technology leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and systems analysis solutions, today announced completion of the acquisition of Valor Computerized Systems, Ltd. for net consideration valued at about $50 million. Mentor paid approximately 5.6 million shares of Mentor stock and $32.5 million in cash. Immediately prior to closing, Valor had cash of approximately $29 million. Valor’s revenues for its last reported full year ending December 31, 2008 were approximately $40 million.
Valor products are the world’s leading software for ...]]></description>
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		<title>Best LinkedIn Groups for PCB Enthusiasts &#8211; 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am so excited to see how many people have joined various groups in the last year! Last April I compiled a list of the best LinkedIn groups for printed circuit board professionals and enthusiasts.  Many changes have occurred since then, with the addition of new groups and the demise of others.  Below is my take on the best groups for 2010.  I also want to point out a few groups I find to be great concepts, but which have yet to find the type of traffic necessary to sustain ...]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Whiskers &#8211; Both Tin and Facial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A big topic in the last few years has been the occurrence of (and the damage caused by) the growth of tin whiskers in high-profile and high-reliability products.  Elusive, often misunderstood, and difficult to prevent; tin whiskers have posed significant problems.  In fact, even just two weeks ago TechEye.net was speculating that tin whiskers may be behind the massive Toyota recalls. Whether the whiskers are out to race cars, or are turning into conductive plasma arcs capable of carrying hundreds of amps, it is clear that they are a force ...]]></description>
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