Operating margin was expected in the 6.5% to 7% range, with unit revenue expected to increase 10%.
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Rakers notes that initial 2012 expectations for the December quarter had been in the 185 million unit range.
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Misek continues to project 53 million iPhones for the December quarter, ahead of the Street consensus in the 46-48 million unit range.
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He notes that some analysts see sales in the 5-6 million unit range, but he contends that sales that high are highly unlikely.
For the February quarter, he cuts his view to 70 cents from 87 cents, while cutting his unit forecast to 9.6 million from 11.5 million, well below guidance in the 11-12 million unit range.
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It also said if children needed inpatient care they should be cared for in a unit which has a full range of services backed up by high dependency and intensive care facilities.
Yet, its diversified revenue streams, which range from a cruise line to an gaming unit, offer a broad read on how consumers are faring worldwide.
Compaq Computer, meanwhile, will announce it is forming the Linux Program Center, a unit within the company dedicated to offering a range of different hardware, software, and service offerings, according to a source familiar with the company's plans.
The unit doubles as an Android gaming device and a unit capable of streaming your Steam catalog (within range of your WiFi) straight to its 5-inch, 720P multi-touch display.
Among them was Sergeant Daley, from whom we learned in the basement rifle range, that a certain unmentionable type of hair is actually a unit of measure.
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Vessels powered by LNG typically are less polluting that those using more traditional fossil fuels, and the Lockheed unit believes it can apply similar aerospace technologies to a wide range of supply-chain opportunities in the rapidly-expanding energy sector.
Separately, Vivek Lall, who heads the Indian operations at Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems unit, said the company will bid to sell six medium-range maritime patrol aircraft to India.
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Their primary business unit is microprocessors within cars, but their products also have a wide range of industrial, networking and consumer applications.
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Albert, 60, had bought Fairchild out of a previous bankruptcy in 1990 and turned it into the third-largest manufacturer of short-range jets, in part by acquiring 80% of Daimler-Benz's Dornier unit.
The unit previously was expected to show a decline in the mid-single-digits range.
Flaws added that the company expects Q3 sales in the Specialty Materials unit to be flat sequentially, rather than an increase in the upper single digit range, which is what they previously had expected.
But if Microsoft can build up the sales of the Surface Pro in 2013 and reach four to five million unit sales a year, they will have a healthy income stream from their Surface range.
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Astrium's plan to tackle defunct satellites is to use an unmanned chase spacecraft to get in range, fire a barbed harpoon into the body of the rogue hardware and then use a smaller propulsion unit attached to a tether to tow it back towards the atmosphere where it will burn up safely on re-entry.
Tri-Amping - A technique commonly used in large-scale sound amplification for concerts, Tri-amping is the practice of connecting three audio amplifiers to a loudspeaker unit: one to power the bass driver (woofer), one to power the mid-range and the third to power the treble driver (tweeter).
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The versatile 20W unit supports Near Field Communication (NFC), AirPlay and Bluetooth to wirelessly stream music from a diverse range of mobile devices.
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"The AL13SE Series provides enterprise customers with capacities up to 900GB that support a broad range of enterprise applications, " said Joel Hagberg, vice president of marketing at Toshiba's Storage Products Business Unit.
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Boeing has also proposed several solutions to prevent the battery malfunction, including limiting the voltage range to reduce the energy in the batteries, adding four additional tests for the batteries, and changing the charging unit.
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