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Articles tagged with: Nintendo and Microsoft
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
Related Tags: foxconn, thomson, kindle, iphone, amazon, intel, motorola, eu, apple, ipod, lte, dell, hon-hai-precision-industry, playstation, oem, Taiwan
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: 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: semiconductor, isuppli, personal, semiconductors, sony, sharp, analog, jordan
iPhone Mania Boosts Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Market
The success of AppleĆ'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
Related Tags: iphone, apple, apple, voip, isuppli, sony, playstation, mems, analog, smart, accelerometer, analog-devices
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: iphone, social-networking, ipod, ibm, personal, sony, mobile-content, Australia
10 Years Since the Fomation of the Bluetooth Standard
Bluetooth technology, the global standard for short range wireless communications, turns 10-years-old this week. While the idea of Bluetooth technology was born over a decade ago, the first products didn't appear commercially until the year 2000. In that short time -- a span of eight years -- 1.5 billion Bluetooth enabled devices have been shipped, and the organization behind the technology, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, has grown from a handful of companies to 10,000 members. more
Related Tags: bluetooth, bluetooth-special-interest-group, abi-research, hands-free, playstation, mp3
Apple iPhone Rank as the Top Phone This Christmas in Europe
comScore, which monitors internet activity has released the results of a study of the frequency of online search inquiries for the most popular gadgets in the UK, France and Germany this Christmas. The products studied were twenty different models of gadgets from the game console, mobile phone, and portable music player segments. The study covers the early stages of the Christmas shopping season during the first three weeks of November. more
Related Tags: ipod, comscore, samsung, playstation, apple-iphone, nano, UK