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Microsoft And Sony To Converge PCs And Home Electronics
News Microsoft and Sony announced plans yesterday to cross-license software, including the Windows CE operating system, as part of an effort to "create a convergence," between PCs and home electronics. The company has touted the Windows CE operating...
[April 8, 1998, 7:00]
Attempting To Reform Business Processes With PDM (Product Data Management), For "Visible Management" And Speedy Product Development
White Papers Ltd.produces a wide range of electric products from solar power generators to digital home appliances and white goods, and is one Japan's leading electronics manufacturers. One of Sanyo Electric's, Home Electronics Group companies, AV Company...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
US Electronics Giant Backs MP3
News In a sign that the MP3 digital music format is heading for the home entertainment centre, consumer electronics giant Thomson Multimedia SA announced Wednesday a 20 percent equity stake in MP3 player and management software maker MusicMatch Inc.
[April 29, 1999, 9:10]
Cable Firms Launch Wireless Broadband Home Networking Kit
News Electronics manufacturer Pace announced on Wednesday that both cable firms plan to run commercial trials of its home networking product. This kit plugs into the cable set-top box or cable modem to create a wireless broadband network that can link...
[January 30, 2002, 16:40]
US Report:Sony And Microsoft Agree Software And Standards Pact
News Microsoft and Sony announced plans today to cross-license software,including the Windows CE operating system, as part of an effort to "create a convergence," between PCs and home electronics. The company has touted the Windows CE operating system...
[April 7, 1998, 15:08]
Bluetooth Web Servers To Invade The Home
News Bluetooth may be best known as a wireless technology for connecting mobile phones and PDAs to a PC, but it could become even more useful as a way of controlling home electronics and appliances from any Internet-connected device, according to...
[September 11, 2002, 12:04]
Philips Builds Bridge Between TV And PC
News The software and hardware product is designed to allow people to wirelessly access content stored on a PC via a consumer-electronics device such as a television or home stereo. Philips Electronics is looking to let your television tap into the...
[November 20, 2002, 11:05]
CES: Name Change And First Product For Rearden Steel
News After two years of secrecy, start-up Rearden Steel will jump into the home entertainment market on Monday by announcing its first products and a name change at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
[January 7, 2002, 15:27]
Digital TV Will Be Home 'nerve Centre' - Sony Chief
News But there's a catch: Electronics makers must make the next generation of home technologies far easier to use than VCRs and remote controls that have so flummoxed consumers. This was the message from Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony Corporation of...
[January 8, 1999, 10:26]
Home Networking Gets A Jump Start From New Tech
News At the Consumer Electronics Show, an electronics conference that starts Saturday in Las Vegas, new products from startups as well as some of consumer electronics' largest names will aim to charge the nascent industry for connecting PCs, printers...
[January 5, 2001, 9:20]
CES: Gates Wants Windows XP In Your Living Room
News The new interface is intended to turn PCs into home electronics or entertainment systems by offering direct access to the digital entertainment features of Windows XP. Microsoft took yet another step down the consumer electronics path on Monday...
[January 8, 2002, 9:14]
PARC Labs Links Up Devices
News Researchers at the pioneering PARC labs have developed software that allows all consumer-electronics devices to communicate with one another, making networked home devices easier to use. PARC is focusing on the consumer electronics market where...
[March 2, 2004, 11:45]
IDF: A Glimpse Of The Digital Home
News Attendees at a recent industry confab got a glimpse of prototypes that could help create what computing and consumer-electronics companies have long sought: a connected digital home. Though such a sci-fi scenario may be a long way off, some say...
[September 16, 2002, 13:02]
Web-enabled Lamp Casts Light On IPv6
News Japan-based electronics maker Matsushita Electric has cast some light on next-generation IPv6 home appliances with a new Web-enabled desk lamp. The new appliance integrates Matsushita's EMIT (Embedded Micro Internetworking Technology) communication...
[April 8, 2003, 11:57]
Viva Las Gadgets: CES Comes To Town
News Television is about to make a comeback as the centre of the home electronics network, Sony believes. Microsoft's latest plan to improve the way you live revolves around wrist watches and refrigerator magnets, Bill Gates has revealed in his Consumer...
[January 9, 2003, 13:33]
Eye Opener: Microsoft's War For The Living Room
News When the Japanese consumer electronics maker announced details of its heavily anticipated PlayStation2 two weeks ago, its plans went far beyond just another game machine. But more important, Sony execs used the announcement to admit something they...
[September 27, 1999, 14:10]
The Latest Cool Gadget - An Internet Fridge
News LG Electronics believes it will be the first to market globally with its range of Internet home appliances, including fridge, microwave, washing machine and air conditioning system, rolling them out in the UK and Mexico a month ahead of its...
[May 14, 2002, 11:28]
Wireless Credit Card In Development
News Universal commerce is a part of Philips' push for the "Connected Home", in which televisions, PCs and other home electronics devices are connected and communicate with each other using wireless and Internet technologies.
[May 29, 2003, 11:20]
Toshiba Tipped To Unwrap E-fridge
News Japanese consumer electronics giant Toshiba is reportedly close to beginning to sell a range of Internet-enabled home appliances. LG Electronics has already created an Internet Fridge, complete with an LCD touchscreen and audio speakers, that can...
[January 3, 2002, 15:05]
Tech Giants Get Together For Home Networking
News The alliance of 18 major companies from the consumer-electronics, personal computer and mobile devices industries -- called the Digital Home Working Group -- will announce Tuesday in San Francisco which networking standards it plans to support...
[June 19, 2003, 10:58]
