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New IBM Unit Switches On Electronics
News IBM on Monday unveiled a new services unit that specialises in designing advanced technology products for electronics companies. The unit is targeting several industries where IBM already has a customer base, including defence, aerospace, consumer...
[October 7, 2002, 16:53]
Intel Drives In-car Computer Effort
News We're working with the big guys in consumer electronics, as well as trying to understand the needs of the automobile manufactures," Kerrigan said. Intel is working with consumer electronics companies such as Sony and Clarion, as well as with...
[April 12, 2001, 8:32]
RFID Gets Manufacturing Push From IBM
News The company launched a handful of service packages aimed at specific industries, including automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, chemicals, paper and electronics. We're helping companies apply RFID to improve work in process manufacturing in (the...
[September 14, 2004, 18:00]
The Big Blue Boom: Betting On Services
News The new IBM is processing thousands of insurance claims, ensuring that Procter & Gamble employees get paid, and taking on the repair of televisions and CD players from Philips Consumer Electronics. Anxiety about the unit's profitability may have...
[June 15, 2004, 12:30]
IBM Demonstrates Strong Sales
News And IBM recently announced that it would take on after-sales service operations for Royal Philips Electronics in North America -- a contract that puts IBM in the role of overseeing television repairs.
[April 16, 2004, 8:30]
Motorola Sets Chip Unit Adrift
News In an effort to focus on five product categories in the communications and electronics systems markets, Motorola intends to create a separate company out of its Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS), which builds chips such as the PowerPC.
[October 6, 2003, 16:15]
Photos: The Birth Of A Supercomputer
News There is less need for complex electronics around the processors as Blue Gene is the ultimate system designed to do only one job at a time - probably a very big job indeed, but only the one. The man who developed both, IBM chief scientist Frank...
[January 23, 2006, 9:55]
Gateway's Plan To Bring Back Amiga
News Gateway will pit its tiny subsidiary against PC kingpins such as Microsoft and consumer-electronics companies such as Sony and Philips Electronics, which also are developing new-age information devices.
[August 12, 1999, 14:59]
IBM Speeds Up Custom-chip Service
News Under the programme, IBM unit will create system-on-a-chip (SOC) processors tailored for clients such as networking gear providers and consumer-electronics makers. But IBM plans to add several CCP options based on ARM processor cores in the future...
[June 16, 2003, 7:50]
HP To Launch Product-recycling Programme
News Joining a growing group of companies in the electronics industry, Hewlett-Packard on Monday plans to announce a fee-based service that allows consumers and businesses to recycle unwanted computers and related products.
[May 21, 2001, 15:16]
Hitachi Slides Faster Drive Into Notebooks
News Later this month, the US-based unit of the Japanese electronics giant plans to release a 60GB 2.5-inch-diameter hard drive that uses the new "femto" slider. Later in the summer, IBM will incorporate the 7K60 into notebooks, and several other major...
[May 14, 2003, 14:44]
Lenovo Eyes Markets Beyond China
News IBM's PC unit and Lenovo are developing plans to export Lenovo's product lines to other parts of the world after the merger is complete, Robert Galush, vice-president of product marketing in IBM's PC division, told ZDNet UK sister site CNET News...
[January 6, 2005, 15:10]
Hitachi Steers New Drives Toward Corporate Market
News Despite Hitachi's focus on Wednesday on the enterprise market, the company is making a strong push into the consumer-electronics realm. Hitachi's small drives are appearing in consumer electronics products such as Apple Computer's new iPod mini.
[February 25, 2004, 8:45]
ARM Aims To Put Dual-core Chips In Mobiles
News These chips are designed to eventually be inserted into phones and home electronics devices. We view this next-generation processor core as a key technology to expand the application-rich markets from car multimedia to mobile consumer," said...
[October 21, 2003, 10:50]
Outsourcers Need More Than Technology - Study
News George Bailey, who heads up the electronics industry group at Business Consulting Services, said knowledge of a particular industry allows an outsourcer to keep making improvements to a client's business.
[January 16, 2004, 9:20]
Toshiba Unveils Hard Drive For Mobile Phones
News The long-rumoured 0.85-inch drive, which Toshiba claims is the smallest in the world, is on show at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The one-inch drive was developed by IBM in the 1990s, and is still used in some products such as Fuji...
[January 8, 2004, 12:50]
Microsoft Adds RFID To Stock Management Software
News IBM and Dutch electronics maker Philips also announced on Monday that they are working together on an RFID solution. Philips' semiconductor unit will make the radio chips that can be stuck on items, while IBM will provide the computer services and...
[January 26, 2004, 14:55]
Analysts Predict PC Price War
News The new tactics will also lead to more PC makers going the way of Micron Electronics, formerly the number 12 PC maker in the US, which on Friday anounced plans to sell off its PC business to focus on Web hosting.
[March 26, 2001, 16:18]
Motorola Unveils First Linux Smartphone
News Embedix, formerly known as Lineo, sells Linux operating system kernels for handheld devices, digital television set-top boxes and home Internet gateways, Linux OS-based development tools and middleware for electronics designers.
[August 22, 2003, 16:30]
Compaq Ambitions Heighten With The Himalaya
News With ZLE, a retailer can find suspicious behavior based on certain rules -- such as the same customer returning new VCRs at three different outlets of an electronics chain on the same day. The customer record is spread around 121 databases and 17...
[May 10, 2001, 14:00]
