More fundamentally, Zhang took on the early domestic leader in appliance sales, Gome, and now has it pinned firmly in the runner-up role.
Wall Oven, which set the standard for this built-in appliance category.
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Terahertz light - which lies between infrared light like that used by remote controls and the microwaves in the appliance of the same name - has become popular in scanning technology at airports and museums' back rooms because it can extract information without risk of damage.
However, that strength was offset by continued weakness in industrial and appliance demand in China.
Haier, a 17-year-old appliance maker based in the port city of Qingdao, crept into the U.S. market in 1994, selling just three mini-refrigerator models through a distributor named Michael Jemal, an energetic appliance entrepreneur in Great Neck, N.
Consequently it has survived and supported giant waves of innovation in the appliance market.
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The news sparked a rally Monday in home appliance stocks on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
In the early 1950s he began singing country music, and in 1955, while working as an appliance salesman in Memphis, he auditioned for the legendary Sun Records label.
However as more traffic goes though the public Internet it could overwhelm the carrying capacity in many geographic areas, even within the US. As a consequence a new type of network addressable storage appliance in consumer homes and SMB facilities as well as carried by people themselves will play an increasingly important role in the developing storage hierarchy.
Needless to say, we discover strange electrical issues every time we plug in a new appliance.
It's not Sony's first attempt at making the PC a central appliance in the entertainment universe.
Sun, of course, is touting Java's cross-platform nature in the active appliance arena.
It is a convection oven for even cooking, a toaster, a broiler, a microwave, and range hood all in one powerful appliance.
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For instance, PDI could be embedded in a storage appliance used on demand for device data analysis, such as capacity forecasting or failure prediction.
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Since the burst of the dot-com bubble, the Internet-connected refrigerator, blender, toaster--fill in your favorite appliance here--have all become hackneyed jokes of a bygone era.
The idea that a full time firefighter and part time firefighter can't serve together in the same appliance is incredible, and should be just not part of it.
Jobs wanted the Apple II to be the first personal computer people used in their homes, so he sought inspiration for it in the kitchen appliance aisle at Macy's.
Within that green box is a microplate reader, a workhorse appliance in labs on Earth but the first of its kind to work in the near-zero gravity at 250 miles up.
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Created to help the world's couch potatoes turn the tube on and off without having to make the arduous 2-meter journey to the TV set, the standby feature has spread to virtually every appliance in the home and office.
Better-than-expected performance in the mobile and home appliance businesses helped offset a slight decline in overall year-over-year sales for the third quarter.
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She later instructed jurors they could presume the investment bank helped Sunbeam defraud Perelman in his 1998 sale of Coleman to the kitchen appliance firm that went bust in February 2001.
But the fact remains that consumers have rejected automated appliance controls in the past.
But the company does not want to be simply the cheap-appliance king in the Philippines.
He asked Workman to assess the chances of an ailing Ellison hardware outfit in Israel called Digital Appliance.
So, say, a brokerage firm could make their investment on the appliance back in no time at all.
One executive of a large household-appliance manufacturer in the Midwest told me that customers like his washing machines and dryers.
The housing market remains week, appliance sales in consumer goods remain weak and broader concerns over the U.S. economy remain.
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In terms of the MP3 search engine, MP3.com spends millions of U.S. dollars on file servers, as well as bringing in a new network appliance every month, Reiser said.
As use of Google profiles, and the uptake of Google products (like Search Appliance) in the enterprise, increase Google could become the glue that binds enterprise social networks with the web.
Samsung, the company that revolutionized the home appliance category with the four-door refrigerator and a freestanding range with the FlexDuo oven, is once again redefining the appliance experience in the kitchen with new refrigerator and range form factors that bring unmatched ease of use, convenience, organization and style to the kitchen.
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