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Manufacturers gamble on consumer electronics
Talkback PC manufacturers might get a clue and offer more than one color of case. I badly need a new computer but I live in a beige and light blue environment; having a big black blob in front of me is not my idea of Fun With Computers.
[January 6, 2004, 14:09]
Intel and Sony push for home content-sharing standard
News Intel, Sony and a host of Japanese electronics manufacturers on Tuesday plan to propose a standard for allowing consumers to freely swap movies and music downloaded from the Internet between all the devices in their homes.
[September 16, 2003, 11:25]
Microsoft nears bottom of Greenpeace league table
News Environmental campaign organisation Greenpeace has published its latest study of the green credentials of electronics manufacturers, including makers of PCs and mobile phones, as well as Microsoft, which came near the bottom of Greenpeace's latest...
[March 18, 2008, 17:19]
High court cracks down on WEEE waste dodge
News The high court in London has ruled that electronics manufacturers should not collect more electronics waste than they have produced. Under the EU's WEEE Directive, manufacturers of electronics products are responsible for collecting and disposing...
[August 5, 2009, 16:33]
Removable drives to get standard
News A group of Japanese electronics manufacturers will form a trade group this week to set standards for removable 2.5-inch hard drives. While this trade group will rally some manufacturers around a standard, other electronics manufactures tout a range...
[March 5, 2002, 9:35]
RealNetworks leaps into anti-piracy fray
News In the latest move to court consumer electronics manufacturers, RealNetworks on Thursday is introducing content security technology that supports disparate digital media delivery standards, including MPEG-4 and MP3.
[January 9, 2003, 8:36]
Mini memory cards set for launch
News A consortium of consumer electronics manufacturers next week will unveil a format for memory cards that will be smaller than Secure Digital (SD) cards, which are the size of postage stamps. Minneman would not discuss which companies were behind the...
[January 29, 2004, 11:10]
General purpose processors flash their assets
News The same microprocessor that lets you burn through a game of Gran Turismo may soon be running your PC's printer, as electronics manufacturers increasingly rely on general-purpose processors. If you look at what has happened to electronics over a...
[June 13, 2001, 9:26]
Intel's XScale chip gets Mira votes
News Philips Electronics, ViewSonic and two Asian contract-manufacturers will build their Mira devices around Intel's XScale processor, Intel said on Friday, an early salvo in what will likely be a year filled with gadget news.
[April 15, 2002, 9:32]
IBM drumming up Cell support
News Under a programme launched on Wednesday, the company will offer design services and consulting to manufacturers of electronics products to adopt the Cell processor, a multicore chip that will appear in Toshiba TV sets and the PlayStation 3.
[March 31, 2005, 9:15]
Intel lays out consumer blueprints
News ARM chips, from a variety of manufacturers, are currently sold into the wider consumer electronics markets. Consumer electronics manufacturers will be able to incorporate the chips into set-top boxes or digital video recorders (DVRs).
[November 4, 2004, 7:58]
Green electronics Epeat registry expands worldwide
News While the Department of Energy-run EnergyStar rates energy efficiency, Epeat covers other factors including the amount of toxic material used in electronics, manufacturers' recycling and take-back policies, and packaging.
[August 11, 2009, 9:44]
Start-up creates tiny hard drives for gadgets
News And, while competitors are sure to challenge the company, electronics manufacturers appear to be responding favourably at a time when drives are increasingly becoming important and more prevalent in the consumer-electronics world.
[June 4, 2003, 7:28]
Intel and Microsoft push portable video
News The company unveiled its portable video player design in 2002 and has been licensing it to consumer-electronics manufacturers. Intel and Microsoft have teamed to help electronics makers expand the market for portable video devices.
[January 9, 2003, 7:59]
Mira device gains new supporters
News Royal Philips Electronics, LG Electronics, Tatung and Trigem will join ViewSonic, NEC, Fujitsu Panasonic and a host of contract manufacturers in line to participate in the development of Mira, a lightweight device with an integrated flat-panel...
[March 13, 2002, 8:52]
Hard-drive makers look to the middle ground
News Discussions are only preliminary, but such a move could help manufacturers of hard drives - a technology that celebrates its 50th year in 2006 - expand their position in the consumer electronics market.
[April 4, 2006, 10:25]
Batteries law could force iPhone design change
News The new law largely focuses on shifting more of the responsibility for battery recycling onto manufacturers of electronics, in an effort to prevent batteries and their toxic contents from ending up in landfills — something previous legislation...
[October 8, 2008, 17:05]
Electronics industry gets ethical
News Several electronics manufacturers collaborated in writing the code, including Celestica, Flextronics, Jabil, Sanmina-SCI and Solectron. Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell joined a host of electronics makers on Thursday in an effort to promote a unified...
[October 22, 2004, 10:00]
Recycling special report: A way forward
News The European Parliament this month will have a key vote on legislation that would require electronics manufacturers to phase out elements such as lead and mercury and to take back used products. The EU adheres to what it calls the "polluter pays...
[June 18, 2001, 14:02]
IBM to reveal Power's foundations
News We will free electronics manufacturers from the limitations of proprietary microprocessor architectures. For its part, Big Blue announced agreements with L-3 Communications, a defence and aerospace electronics maker, and with Global Brands...
[April 1, 2004, 12:10]
