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ITRI Introduces HyTAC Eco-Friendly Polarizer Protective Film for LCDs

The world's first environmentally friendly polarizer protective film for LCD displays used in consumer electronics comes from Taiwan, promising to provide a safer manufacturing environment and reduce production costs.Dubbed HyTAC, the film will reportedly make the production of LCD displays 50 percent more eco-f...

11 October 2011
05:52 GMT

New Sony Country Head for Romania Appointed

From time to time, the world's biggest corporations tend to do a bit of reshuffling of the top regional managers, in order to provide some fresh perspectives, ideas and approaches, and that's also the case with Sony, who's just changed its country head from Romania.So, starting of today, Mr. Tomohiro N...

7 February 2011
06:17 GMT

Consumer Electronics Market to Score Record Revenues in 2011

With the start of the new year, market analysts began to speculate on how the industry would behave in 2011, and it seems that CEA has high hopes for the consumer electronics market.Apparently, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) thinks that the CE industry will reach a new peak in 2011, at least as far as r...

8 January 2011
07:02 GMT

New 7-inch Touchscreen VoIP Multimedia Phone Launched by Grandstream

The constant evolution of communication technologies has led to the appearance of some extremely advanced terminals (calling them phones would be an understatement), the latest we've come across being the GXV3175 from Grandstream Networks.Featuring 3-lines with up to 3 SIP accounts plus a FREE peer-to-peer IPVid...

21 December 2010
14:21 GMT

New DivX TV Online Content Service Arrives on LG Blu-ray Players

It really seems that just about everyone's launching an online content delivery service these days, the latest to do so being none other than DivX (now a division of Sonic Solutions, makers of Roxio), who's just announced the launch of the DivX TV entertainment service that enables retailers and consumer el...

8 December 2010
07:54 GMT

2010 Allows Consumer Electronics Market to Recover

It seems that, according to the most recent data gathered by iSupply, now part of IHS, consumer demand was strong enough in 2010 to allow the consumer electronics market to rebound after the difficult 2008-2009 period.As the research firm has it, the CE market in 2010 is projected to grow by 6.2% compared to 2009, f...

3 December 2010
10:57 GMT

Best Buy Black Friday Deals Top Picks in Gadgets, Electronics

We're only a couple of hours away from the moment when the gates of some of the largest stores across the USA will open on Black Friday to the crowds of frenzied shoppers looking for a deal, and that's why we continue our listing of what they can expect, this time moving to Best Buy.As BlackFriday.info tell...

25 November 2010
04:12 GMT

Consumer Electronics Industry To Grow Substantially By 2011

Even though there are some complaints about weakened demand in Europe, because of the crisis that is being felt in that region, general forecasts for 2010 still seem to be favorable in most areas. On the consumer electronics front, things seem to be going especially well, at least that's what CEA (Consumer Elect...

23 July 2010
10:08 GMT

Tablets Pave the Way Towards a Consumer Electronics Golden Age

The hype surrounding mobile electronics has already reached very high levels, and IT companies are quite eager to make the best of the rapid popularity rise that such things as tablets, smartphones and e-readers benefit from. Still, there are some entities on the IT market that don't just look at the marketing ...

14 July 2010
02:47 GMT

Japanese Company eflow Gets Funds from Intel

It seems that Intel was not kidding when it reportedly revealed plans to expand its business to other types of electronics besides personal computers. In fact, it seemed genuinely determined to acquire new companies and technologies that would help its push on the consumer electronics market. In tune with these plans...

23 April 2010
05:18 GMT

Retrevo Posts Best iPhone Apps for March Madness and Other Spring Sports

Retrevo, the consumer electronics shopping and review site, has posted its latest iPhone picks, this time focusing on the best apps for March Madness and other spring sports. Retrevo looks at Apple products (and not only) from a consumer point of view, offering up its analysis as a useful resource for everyone. &ldq...

16 March 2010
06:35 GMT

Wireless Carriers to Offer More Devices Besides Phones

Mobile phone carriers all around the world are reportedly seeking new ways through which they could expand the use of their wireless networks, and Strategy Analitics says that their focus is expected to shift towards devices like eBook readers, portable navigation devices and game consoles or Mobile Internet Devices,...

29 October 2009
07:27 GMT

Philips Announces First Loss Since 2003, Plans 6,000 Job Cuts

Philips, Europe's biggest consumer electronics producer, is the latest to join the large number of companies that have recently announced quarterly losses and job cut plans, due to a global low economy. Specialized in consumer electronics, Philips has just announced losses of more than 1 billion Euros in the fou...

26 January 2009
10:31 GMT

Sony Expected to Announce First Operating Loss in 14 Years

Sony Corp, one of the largest consumer electronics vendor, is expected to release details of an operating loss of approximately 100 billion yen ($1.1 billion) for 2007/2008. With the announcement, Sony is going to record its highest operating loss in 14 years, according to the business daily, Nikkei. In addition, the...

13 January 2009
09:22 GMT

CES 2009 Attendance Lower than Expected

Despite the reputation of the International Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, the number of visitors that have been present at the event was only 110,000, according to early figures. That's a 22 percent drop, when compared to the figures from last year, also representing the lowest turnout in...

13 January 2009
06:11 GMT

Welcome to Our Gadgets Section

For the recent couple of months, since Softpedia's new “face” was revealed to the world, you've probably been wondering just what that teasing “Coming Soon” label applied on the Gadgets tab was hiding. Well, as of today, you'll be able to see exactly what we've been cooking...

23 December 2008
03:30 GMT

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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