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Philips pushes Linux for consumer electronics
News A new project by Intel and Philips is using the Linux operating system to boost the market for converged consumer electronics. Linux is used in some consumer electronics, such as the TiVO digital video recorder, because it is freely available...
[September 5, 2002, 16:44]
Consumer electronics 'needs standards'
News This was the thrust of a lecture delivered by Hidetaka Fukuda, director of the Information and Communication Electronics Division of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry during the Digital Home Appliances Forum 2003 in Tokyo.
[October 20, 2003, 10:55]
Intel axes its consumer electronics unit
News Intel is winding down its consumer electronics division as the company continues to pare back to its core chip business. Consumer electronics is one in a series of Intel projects shut down this year. In addition, Intel will not come out with its...
[October 19, 2001, 9:05]
AMD carves entry into device market
News AMD is jumping into the market for consumer electronics with a new line of chips for home networking equipment, Web tablets and eventually handhelds. While the group will initially concentrate on expanding Alchemy's Au line of processors, AMD also...
[April 8, 2002, 9:14]
Sony's US arm sports healthy growth
News The electronics division went through a difficult time last year, but at the Consumer Electronics Show, you said there's a strong recovery now underway. All this came as the electronics division, the company's largest contributor to revenue, was...
[February 5, 2004, 10:10]
Go gadget go -- Gates to kick off CES
News Consumer electronics companies will get a chance to change their luck next week in Las Vegas. After a dismal 2001, companies plan to use the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to introduce upcoming products and announce new strategies aimed at...
[January 3, 2002, 13:43]
Double-layer DVD heats up standards battle
News Dual-layer DVD recorders slated for PC use are expected to emerge by spring, with dual-layer recorders targeted at the consumer electronics market available later in the year, according to Hans Driessen, global communications manager for Philips...
[December 30, 2003, 10:20]
Anti-piracy feud bodes ill for Web music
News Consumer electronics companies that once paid some lip service to helping fight digital music piracy are now releasing products that will boost demand for the huge amount of free -- if legally questionable -- music still available online.
[November 26, 2001, 14:54]
It's techno time at Toy Fair 2000
News And many of those consumer electronics mirror products popular in the grown-up world. Most of those product lines will sound familiar to anyone who has been following the consumer electronics and computer industries over the past few years.
[February 14, 2000, 9:24]
Philips Consumer Communications Enhances Its Ability to Deliver Highly Stable Software Using Rational Test RealTime
White Papers Philips Consumer Communications (PCC) is a Business Group of Philips Consumer Electronics, a division of Royal Philips Electronics, which is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Philips PCC needed a way to manage, develop and test multiple...
[March 22, 2005, 23:00]
Market-Driven Products and Global Operational Efficiency
White Papers LG) is a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications, employing more than 82,000 people working in over 110 operations including 81 subsidiaries around the world.
[January 15, 2008, 0:01]
Philips considers selling mobile phone arm
News Dutch consumer electronics company Philips could be poised to withdraw from the mobile handset market, after admitting that it was unlikely to achieve its sales targets in 2001. After making a loss of £33m in 1999, the mobile handset division...
[March 30, 2001, 14:36]
Philips touts PC DVD-rewritable design
News The consumer electronics giant's semiconductor division on Monday debuted the main guts of a DVD+RW drive, including an integrated chipset, optical pickup unit, firmware and reference design, that can record speeds up to 8X.
[November 6, 2002, 9:17]
Toshiba mini-notebooks reach 60GB
News Toshiba on Thursday upped the capacity of its hard drive line for mini-notebooks, tablet PCs and consumer electronics. Toshiba's Storage Device Division boosted the capacity of its slim, 9.5-millimetre hard drive line by adding a new 60GB drive.
[October 3, 2002, 15:10]
Hitachi increases drive capacity
News Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard-drive division of the Japanese giant, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it has reduced the size of its minidrives and its 1.8-inch drives through better packaging and...
[January 10, 2005, 15:15]
Intel to release handheld digital-audio player
News Intel will come out with a portable digital-audio player next month, as the lines separating PC manufacturers, component makers, Internet service providers and consumer electronics companies continue to blur.
[December 8, 2000, 16:54]
Intel lays out consumer blueprints
News It has also created a unit -- called the Consumer Electronics Group and headed by Glenda Dorchak -- inside the desktop division to promote the technology among consumer device makers. ARM chips, from a variety of manufacturers, are currently sold...
[November 4, 2004, 7:58]
Simplicity the key for tech branding
News In the fourth quarter of last year, I became chief executive of the Consumer Electronics division worldwide and Frans became chief executive of Philips Semiconductor, so we are sort of partners in crime.
[February 2, 2006, 15:55]
Philips aims to bring DVD-rewritable costs down
News The DVD player is the fastest-selling product in consumer-electronics history, with part of its popularity stemming from low prices. The move also helps shore up support for the DVD+RW format in the consumer-electronics market, Levitas said.
[October 23, 2002, 7:52]
Microsoft offers extra-strength tablets
News AboCom Systems, BenQ, First International Computer, Fujitsu, Intel, LG Electronics, National Semiconductor, Philips Consumer Electronics, Tatung, TriGem Computer and Wyse Technology are among the other manufacturers producing smart displays.
[March 13, 2003, 7:43]
