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Consumer Electronics Sales Keep Going Strong, Despite Economic Turmoil

As all of you probably know only too well, the whole world is going through a major financial crisis nowadays, one that will most likely leave its mark on the consumers' spending habits. Thus, it's very likely that a lot of people will give up on some of their favorite activities or will simply cut back on ...

9 October 2008
06:04 GMT

New Products Showed at the AMD Consumer Electronics Event '08

AMD showcased some of its current products and technologies at a small gathering the company hosted at the London NYC Hotel. A few products developed by AMD's partners were also put on display at the event, along with demos for the products slated for release in the following months. The guys from Hot Hardware a...

31 July 2008
04:52 GMT

Newspapers Offer Solution for Precious Metal Recycling

A massive amount of gold and other precious metals is used every year to fabricate electronic consumer devices such as computers, television sets and mobile phones. It might not seem so obvious at first, but the landfill may literally be a gold mine. The real problem with recycling these metals is that the process is...

8 July 2008
05:00 GMT

Texas Instruments, MIT, Bring the 1000-Hour Cellphone

MIT and Texas Instruments engineers today unveiled a new microprocessor architecture that will power portable electronics and handhelds. The new chip design will be up to 10 times more energy-efficient than any other competitive model, and could revolutionize the entire mobile industry.The chip's design has been...

5 February 2008
03:34 GMT

Cost of Embedded Processors, Axed by UK Scientists

The Leicester University engineers have come with a new production process that is alleged to dramatically reduce the costs of manufacturing embedded processors. These chips are used all over the market, in products ranging from cars, computers, wet razors or even washing machines and cell phones.Embedded systems may...

31 January 2008
11:38 GMT

Cisco Promises Virtual Networking Inside Users' Real Homes

No doubt, Cisco is the prevalent figure when talking about professional networking. The company's connectivity solutions are to be found in extremely large networks with overwhelming traffic as well as in the largest organizations worldwide. Having successfully dominated the business sector, Cisco has shifted fo...

13 December 2007
05:06 GMT

Intel's Low Cost Alternative Will Be Based on Silverthorne

Intell has announced their new chip, Diamondville, targeted at ultra-low cost and low-power notebooks. Built on the core of the low-power Silverthorne processor, the new CPU will enter mass manufacturing next year. According to Intel officials, Diamondville will be the core of low-cost low-performance computers, simi...

3 December 2007
11:10 GMT

"Sayonara, Japan!" Says Samsung

We knew that the Japanese consumer electronics market was a very tough and competitive one, but it seems that things are a lot worse than expected, at least for the foreign companies. Actually, the situation has become so dire that Samsung, one of the world's largest consumer electronics manufacturers, has decid...

9 November 2007
15:36 GMT

Terabyte (TB)-Sized USB Flash Drives Might Arrive Soon

USB Flash Drives are probably the most popular means of data transportation around, but, for the time being, their storage capacities are quite far from the ones provided by HDDs. However, it would seem that things are about to change radically, as the Arizona State University's Center for Applied Nanoionics (CA...

29 October 2007
13:56 GMT

Memorex Rolls Out New Line of Eco-Friendly, Otherwise Unimpressive Products

It would seem that an increasingly higher number of consumer electronics manufacturers are suddenly becoming interested in protecting the environment and doing something for the planet's future (probably because this is such a hot topic nowadays). And the latest important name to join the efforts for a cleaner a...

25 September 2007
07:06 GMT

Samsung SGH-F330 Gets Official Release

The IFA Consumer Electronics show in Berlin will surely bring out some long expected devices. Samsung SGH-F330 is only one of them and has been presented during the run-up after a long wait and little information on this device.Samsung has released a great number of mobile phones this year, but it looks like they are...

31 August 2007
03:44 GMT

AMD LIVE! Ready Program

In completion of the Stable Image Platform, AMD attacks the entertainment industry and adds more to the multimedia experience by introducing the AMD LIVE! Ready program. The main goal of this is to help users choose from a big number of devices and software the ones which AMD recommends as being the best ones for you...

14 March 2007
05:38 GMT




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