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Apple SIM to disrupt mobile operator market
2014-10-17 15:28:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Alongside the new iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3, Apple is offering its own SIM card to enable mobile broadband services. Apple SIM enables the user to choose from a range of different carriers and carrier data plans directly from the user interface of the iPad and is currently removable, allowing consumers to use an existing carrier SIM in its place. Apple SIM will initially support AT&T, T-Mobile US, Sprint and EE (UK).
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mobile
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Update 1-CSX Ceo: Major U.S. rail mergers could disrupt service
2014-10-16 07:54:04| Railroads - Topix.net
Further consolidation of major U.S. railroads could lead to service disruptions rather than improvements in U.S. rail freight congestion, the chief executive of CSX Corp said in a conference call with analysts on Wednesday. "We might actually see a step back in service," Michael Ward said when asked whether consolidation would improve rail capacity.
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Big Shift In China Economy To 'disrupt' Western Retailers: Li & Fung Head
2014-09-29 19:14:50| Logistics - Topix.net
China's role in supplying cheap consumer goods to the West could end in coming years due to rising domestic consumption and worker pay, stoking inflation and unsettling retailers in Western markets, the chairman of logistics group Li & Fung "China will disrupt the world," William Fung of Hong Kong-based Li & Fung, which supplies firms like Walmart Stores Inc China is a country that operates in economic cycles of 30 years, Fung said, and between 1979 and 2009, it had been the world's "factory" producing consumer goods at low prices, notably thanks to the low wages paid to its workers. "When China starts consuming and with India right behind it, I predict a round of price increases and margin squeezes," he Fung said.
Ebola virus may disrupt West African oil and gas operations, says GlobalData analyst
2014-09-10 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
GlobalData analyst John Sisa has said that the Ebola virus will likely affect the oil and gas exploration and production programmes in West African states.
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Climate Change Will Disrupt Half of North America Bird Species, Study Says
2014-09-09 04:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Baltimore oriole will probably no longer live in Maryland, the common loon might leave Minnesota, and the trumpeter swan could be entirely gone. Those are some of the grim prospects outlined in a report released on Monday by the National Audubon Society, which found that climate change is likely to so alter the bird population of North America that about half of the approximately 650 species will be driven to smaller spaces or forced to find new places to live, feed and breed over the next...
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