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Philips pushes Linux for consumer electronics
News Philips said it is working on a number of Linux consumer electronics products based on Pronto++, and will unveil the first one at the CEDIA (Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association) home electronics trade show on 25-29 September.
[September 5, 2002, 16:44]
Trade group: P2P not illegal or immoral
News In a speech given at a storage technology conference in San Francisco, Consumer Electronics Association chief executive Gary Shapiro blasted the copyright owners' "scorched earth" legal and policy drives.
[September 18, 2002, 8:02]
Wireless devices set to take flight
News Airline passengers may no longer have to switch off their wireless devices while in flight, if the Consumer Electronics Association has its way. The Consumer Electronics Association is a trade association made up of 1,500 member companies promoting...
[July 2, 2004, 10:35]
Copyright foes trade verbal blows
News Meanwhile, the leader of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and Silicon Valley Rep. Copyright owners clashed with consumer electronics makers and consumer advocates during a lively debate on Thursday over proposed laws that would give movie...
[August 2, 2002, 11:22]
LG unveils multi-format next-gen DVD player
News Indeed, a mere 250,000 discs sold in both formats this year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, significantly lower than the 750,000 the organisation had predicted. The Korean electronics maker unveiled the Super Multi Blue, the...
[January 8, 2007, 7:44]
FireWire hots up in consumer electronics
News The NCTA (National Cable & Telecommunications Association) and the CEA (Consumer Electronics Association) also mandated FireWire as one of two digital interfaces linking digital set top boxes to televisions.
[June 9, 2003, 16:29]
Copyright truce excludes key voices
News The Consumer Electronics Association has long-opposed Hollings' bill, while supporting a different proposal to enhance Americans' rights to make "fair use" of copyrighted content without running afoul of the law.
[January 15, 2003, 15:45]
Ho! Ho! Ho! Here comes Gadget Claus
News Plus, the Consumer Electronics Association (formerly the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association), estimates that 34 percent of U.S.households will shop online. It expects nearly a quarter of those will buy a gift, and that some 14 million...
[December 6, 1999, 8:58]
Antipiracy foes reach agreement
News Those meetings will be unlikely to include groups that did not sign on to the initial document, such as the MPAA or Consumer Electronics Association. Technology companies and copyright holders have spurred each other to rhetorical excesses over the...
[January 15, 2003, 11:21]
Napster case makes strange bedfellows
News But Sony's also a member of the Consumer Electronics Association, which along with the Digital Future Coalition, filed a brief saying Patel's ruling could expand copyright law in unprecedented ways to the detriment of new technologies.
[September 14, 2000, 15:09]
Apple, Compaq adding recordable DVD drives
News Sales of consumer digital camcorders, for example, which shoot movies that can be quickly transferred to a PC for editing, swelled to $3.3bn last year, or 5.7 million units, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
[January 9, 2001, 17:02]
US seeks to stop TV pirates
News The issue has split some traditionally vocal organisations such as the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), which began the debate opposed to the flag but is now taking a neutral position. Even a limited proposal would mean requiring consumer...
[October 28, 2003, 12:30]
MPEG-4 on road to rights management
News The Mountain View, California-based nonprofit is pushing for the advancement of MPEG-4 technical standards at a time when proprietary systems are gaining traction among consumer-electronics manufacturers and content owners.
[January 29, 2003, 7:46]
Latest SD card format to reach 2TB of storage
News The SDXC (eXtended Capacity) specification was announced on Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The SD Association, the industry group behind the Secure Digital memory card format, has introduced a version of the technology...
[January 8, 2009, 13:00]
US Report: DVD seeing off Divx threat
News The Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association reports that more than 440,000 DVD players have been sold this year, driving the sales of more than 4 million disks. The reason: Consumer electronics retail chain Circuit City Stores Inc.a strong...
[September 10, 1998, 7:11]
A Year Ago: DVD seeing off Divx threat
News The Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association reports that more than 440,000 DVD players have been sold this year, driving the sales of more than 4 million disks. The reason: Consumer electronics retail chain Circuit City Stores Inc.a strong...
[September 10, 1999, 7:00]
Home networking buzzing at CES
News And if she wants to record it on her video cassette recorder, she could push another button and do that too," said Jeff Joseph, a spokesman for the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association. That is the vision to be presented this week at the...
[January 7, 1999, 14:35]
Makers of MP3 players distance themselves from Napster
News Napster is just one file-sharing technology," said Jeff Joseph, vice president of communications for the Virginian-based Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Manufacturers' move away from Napster underscores an ugly truth for the Recording...
[February 13, 2001, 11:00]
DVD technology faces legal test
News The company, which has won several recent consumer electronics awards, said it has worked closely with the DVD CCA for more than a year, and will fight the suit, filed on Tuesday. Kaleidescape creates expensive consumer electronics networks that...
[December 8, 2004, 12:40]
Digital photo standards getting a push
News The original version of EXIF was created several years ago by the Japan Electronics and Information Technologies Industries Association (JEITA) and is widely supported by digital camera makers. Without MPV, there is no standard way for software...
[February 26, 2002, 11:42]
