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Articles tagged with: Nintendo
Review: Looking for gems in iPhone's game library
Nintendo has owned the portable video-game market — first with the Game Boy, now with the DS — for so long that most of us gave up hope of ever seeing a viable competitor. But it's become impossible to ignore the new kid on the block: Apple's iPhone, whose game library has quickly overwhelmed Nintendo's. more
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Foxconn Full-Year Profits Drop 83%
Foxconn International Holdings - the mobile phone manufacturing division of Taiwan's giant Hon Hai Precision Industry has reported a net loss for the second half of last year, which dragged its full year profit down by 83.% to US$121 million - compared with US$721 million a year earlier. more
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Popular Consumer and Mobile Products Fuel MEMS Boom
From the gyroscope in your PlayStation 3 game controller, to the accelerometer in your iPhone, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) are making major inroads in the consumer- and mobile-electronics worlds, causing market revenue in this area to nearly triple from 2006 to 2012, according to iSuppli. more
Related Tags: microsoft, iphone, isuppli, ict, driving, lte, texas, stmicroelectronics, playstation, mems, 3, accelerometer, mp3, gyroscope, microelectromechanical, notebook
Greenpeace Says Electronics Becoming Greener - Slowly
A report from lobbying organisation, Greenpeace has revealed that the greenest consumer electronic products on the market today may have a smaller environmental footprint than those sold a year ago, but it claimes that the industry still has a way to go before they can claim a truly green product. more
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A Receding Economic Tide Lowers Expectations for Crucial System-Level Chips
Revenue from global shipments of core silicon Integrated Circuits (ICs) - i.e., Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs), Application Specific ICs (ASICs) and Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) - is set to suffer a weak finish to 2008, and decline by nearly a double-digit percentage in 2009, according to iSuppli. more
Related Tags: microsoft, semiconductor, isuppli, personal, semiconductors, sony, sharp, analog, jordan
iPhone Mania Boosts Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Market
The success of AppleÃ's iPhone is spurring competitors to offer products with comparable features, fueling a sales boom for Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) accelerometers used to detect motion in smart phones. more
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Consumers Will Accept New Forms of Advertising if Companies Follow Their Rules
IBM's survey of consumer digital media and entertainment habits revealed that consumers are adopting digital content services -- such as social networking and videos -- on mobile phones and personal computers at an accelerated pace, and it is impacting traditional consumption habits. more
Related Tags: microsoft, iphone, social-networking, ipod, ibm, personal, sony, mobile-content, Australia
Smartphone Owners Play Games More Often than Use the Business Tools
According to Portable Devices, the most recent report from leading market research company, The NPD Group, at least half of the owners of portable devices are using their devices about the same if not more today than they were three months ago. This is especially pronounced among smartphone owners, with 46 percent claiming they use their smartphones more. more
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Surprising New Markets Drive Six-fold Increase in GPS Shipments
With media attention currently focused on GPS-enabled cellular handsets and PNDs, the potential of emerging vertical markets for GPS and location services are going unnoticed by many. more
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Huge Decline in US Consumer Electronics Spending
The latest consumer spending survey from ChangeWave Research shows a sudden huge pullback in U.S. consumer retail spending on electronics - the largest decline since 2002. The survey of 4,427 consumers, conducted February 18-25, looked at discretionary spending on a range of popular electronic devices, including video game consoles, digital cameras and iPods. more
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