Industries
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Global 3-D Market Flourishes Across Cinema, Home Video and TV VoD Platforms
The global 3-D consumer market is thriving in a dynamic environment marked by clear and discernible growth across its major platforms ...
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Revenue for Mobile Communications Equipment to Climb in the Double Digits by Year-End
Despite soft macroeconomic conditions, the market for mobile communications equipment will grow a strong 12.6 percent when the current year finishes ...
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Blackberry (RIM) Pearl 8100 Mobile Phone Teardown
New Blackberry design with atypically "frivolous" user features such as camera and video/audio playback, etc.
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Nokia N8 Mobile Handset Teardown
After being caught flat-footed with their previous flagship device (N97) in the era of iPhones and Android handsets, Nokia regrouped their efforts to bring out a viable and competitive smartphone for 2010.
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Samsung LN-T4665F 46 Inch LCD Television Teardown
The Samsung LN-T4665F is a 46" LCD TV with full HD support, which means it supports up to 1080p resolution..
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Industrial Semiconductors Hiccup After Market Slows Down
The semiconductor market for industrial electronics faces lower revenue by the end of 2012 after expected growth among key chip suppliers ...
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Location Platforms Present Challenges—and Opportunities—to Various Stakeholders
A number of interesting developments are taking place at companies that are involved in enabling location-based services (LBS) on handsets or motor vehicles...
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Garmin Bets on New Smartphone App for Connected PND Market
Has Garmin finally solved the vexing challenge of how to connect personal navigation devices (PNDs) with wireless data services...
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Adobe to Retire Flash for Mobile Browsers
Adobe will no longer continue to develop the Flash Player browser plugin to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming...
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TI is Top Player in Industrial Electronics Semiconductor Space
Cornering a big chunk of market that grew mightily after two recession-beset years, Texas Instruments Inc. was the undisputed champion in 2010 of the industrial electronics...
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Toyota, Ford Get High Marks for Vehicle App Integration with Smartphones
Toyota and Ford lead the worldwide automotive business when it comes to successfully integrating their car infotainment systems with mobile devices like smartphones, according to...
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Garmin Strengthens Position in Europe
Garmin recently made a strong push into Europe, announcing it had signed an agreement to acquire German navigation software and hardware maker Navigon...
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HTC Expands Business Beyond Cellphone Manufacturing
After transforming itself from a contract manufacturer of cellphones into one of the world’s leading smartphone brands during the past few years, HTC Corp. now is embarking upon the next stage of...
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Vodafone Changes Off-Board Navigation in Europe
Off-board navigation applications have been a successful revenue driver for carriers in North America for some time. But in Europe, these types of applications have had to face...
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Location-Based Services Take Shape in China
Chinese companies view location-based social networking (LBSN) as an explosive growth opportunity and plan to follow the lead of successful LBSN systems in other nations...
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Instrument Clusters: Time for a Change
Traditional instrument clusters are a key element of cars that undergo signi?cant changes in the near future. Several reasons indicate why the time has arrived for an evolution of traditional...
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The iPod Effect in Automotive Infotainment
Little did anyone know what sort of change the Apple Inc. iPod would bring about in society, media technology or even the automotive industry upon the media player’s release in 2001...
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NFC and Bluetooth: Complementary or Competitive?
Connectivity is an area in the automotive electronics segment that is expanding signi?cantly and is expected to trigger further incremental semiconductor usage in vehicles...
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New Technologies Add Value to Check-in Services
Check-in services are growing in popularity, with offerings from Facebook Places, Gowalla and Foursquare that allow users to enter their location from a mobile device in order to...
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Multicore Trends in Automotive Offer Cost Savings, Higher Performance
The automotive industry needs to change its architectural approach in developing vehicle electronics systems. The two main drivers for change—the need to reduce the number of...