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Profits Return for Japanese Ocean Carriers

07/30/2010

Japanese carriers NYK, MOL and "K" Line reported profits in their April-June quarter as rising volumes and rates pushed their container operations into the black. All three lines said they are optimistic about the rest of the year...more

Mobile phone shipments ring in at 308 million

07/30/2010

The smartphone industry saw its shipments reach 308 million in the second quarter, with Nokia and Samsung still holding the largest chunk of the highly competitive market, according to a report released Thursday by Strategy Analytics...more

Global Trade to Grow by 8.1 Percent

07/29/2010

World trade by sea, land and air will grow by 8.1 percent in 2010 after declining by 7.2 percent last year, according to a forecast published by IHS Global Insight...more

Kindle Sells Out: 5 Reasons Amazon Shouldn’t Celebrate

07/29/2010

Just weeks after slashing the price of its Kindle e-reader to $189, Amazon has sold out of the device. A note posted on Amazon's site says that the Kindle is "temporarily out of stock...more

Port of Seattle Imports Up 93.3 Percent

07/28/2010

Containerized imports at the Port of Seattle exploded last month, increasing 93.3 percent compared to June of 2009...more

AT&T to Be ‘Premier’ Windows Phone 7 Vendor

07/28/2010

Say all you want about whether Windows Phone 7 (WP7) will succeed, but AT&T continues to back the platform wholeheartedly after endorsing it -- and Microsoft 's mobile efforts -- repeatedly over the last year...more

Yahoo Japan to use Google search

07/27/2010

Yahoo Japan has said that it will adopt Google's search engine technology, rather than Microsoft's which is used by its strategic partner Yahoo Inc...more

Ports Group Honors Port of LA

07/27/2010

The Port of Los Angeles earned 2010 American Association of Port Authorities awards in the areas of information technology, communications and environmental management...more

UPS Sees ‘Ocean Squeeze’ Pushing Shippers to Air

07/26/2010

UPS says it is seeing some ocean freight shipments switch to air because of an “ocean squeeze” on capacity, and the company expects more shippers to move to expedited transport as demand increases this fall...more

Microsoft signs deal on mobile processors

07/26/2010

Microsoft has signed a deal with chip designer Arm that will give it in-depth access to processor blueprints...more

Montreal Port Lockout Ends

07/23/2010

The Port of Montreal, shut down since Monday morning by an employer lockout of longshoremen, will reopen for work at 8 a.m. Saturday following a compromise agreement reached Thursday evening...more

Google pressed on wi-fi snooping

07/23/2010

Google is being pressed to name the engineers who wrote code that captured personal data from unsecured wi-fi networks...more

Hub Group Profit Rises 16 Percent

07/22/2010

Intermodal middleman and logistics firm Hub Group posted a 16 percent gain in second-quarter net income from a year earlier, to $9.63 million, as volume in its main box-shipment business jumped by 25 percent...more

Facebook hits 500m user milestone

07/22/2010

Social network giant Facebook has registered its 500 millionth member, the firm has announced...more

Japanese Ship Orders More than Double in June

07/21/2010

After falling for 15 months in a row, Japanese export ship orders rose for the seventh consecutive month in June on a year-on-year basis, surging 149.6 percent to 1,590,210 gross tons, according to figures released by the Japan Ship Exporters' Association on Tuesday...more

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