| Holiday CE sales slower than last year, says report
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2007-12-26 |
| Holiday sales of consumer electronic devices in the United States fell this year compared to last year, according to the NPD Group Inc. |
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| Atheros acquires GPS specialist u-Nav
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2007-12-18 |
| Atheros Communications has signed an agreement to acquire u-Nav Microelectronics, a privately held fabless semiconductor company specializing in GPS chipsets and software |
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| Dealing with interference in GPS-enabled apps
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2007-12-17 |
| The integration of a GPS receiver into a handset can create a simultaneous-GPS application where the GPS receiver is used together with other wireless communication systems from various frequency bands |
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| Carrying out a Galileo/GPS system design
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2007-12-17 |
| Developers need to become familiar with various key technologies that make implementing GPS in CE devices possible, most specifically, the Galileo satellite network being developed and implemented under the EU |
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| Here come supercapacitors
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2007-12-03 |
| Supercapacitors bridge the power gap between batteries and conventional capacitors, delivering higher power bursts than batteries and storing more energy than capacitors. |
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| MEMS poised to penetrate CE market
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2007-11-23 |
| After penetrating mass market by enabling air bags to trigger fast enough to catch passengers before they hit the steering wheel, MEMS now has a new target: consumer electronics. |
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| Garmin gives up TeleAtlas bid, stays with Navteq
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2007-11-20 |
| Garmin's two subsidiaries have signed a six-year extension to their agreement with Navteq, a provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation. |
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| Infineon exec stays tuned to mobile TV trends
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2007-11-19 |
| Infineon's Guiseppe Calarco disclosed that the company is beefing up its Asian operations and getting ready as China reviews the available mobile TV standards and decides on the standard it'll choose. |
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| Interview: Japan woos offshore capital
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2007-11-15 |
| JETRO President Tadashi Izawa discussed the Japan market with Richard Wallace, EE Times VP and editorial director. |
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| HTC packs 3G, GPS in new Touch smart phone
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2007-11-14 |
| Taiwan smart phone maker HTC has unveiled the Touch Cruise with built-in GPS for personal navigation and 3G technologies for high-speed Internet access |
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| TomTom makes new offer for Tele Atlas, tops Garmin
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2007-11-09 |
| TomTom raised its bid for Tele Atlas' outstanding shares from $31 to approximately $44 in cash per share, topping last week's unsolicited bid from Garmin. |
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| Healthy market awaits handsets with GPS in 2011
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2007-11-07 |
| Global shipments of mobile handsets equipped with GPS capability will quadruple in 2011 at 444 million units, up from 109.6 million units in 2006, reported iSuppli Corp |
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| Navigation industry plots rosy future for map makers
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2007-11-05 |
| What is the allure of GPS suppliers such as TomTom that rumors are swirling that they are takeover targets for titan companies like Microsoft or Google? iSuppli thinks that with TomTom's acquisition of Tele Atlas, it will become one of the only two key GPS map makers |
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| Asian markets hold promise for integrated telematics
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2007-10-30 |
| ABI Research forecasts that that integration of several telematics services will provide the best penetration in Asia as markets in this region evolve towards 2012. |
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| Kyocera, Siemens partner on CDMA, GSM M2M modules
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2007-10-29 |
| Kyocera Wireless and Siemens have announced a formal sales and business development relationship to cooperatively provide CDMA and GSM M2M solutions. |
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| ABI Research sees big numbers for navigation devices
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2007-10-25 |
| Worldwide shipments of navigation devices will continue to flourish from 2007 to 2012, with a CAGR of 22.5 percent, reports ABI Research. |
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| GSEDA: Eight design houses shine brightest
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2007-10-17 |
| Eight product designs emerged victorious in this year's Global Sources Electronics Design Awards for the most outstanding product produced in Asia. |
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| China's embedded software industry: Whys and wheretos
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2007-10-12 |
| CCID Consulting examined the status and the future of China's embedded software industry in its report 'Analysis of the current status of China's embedded software industry.' |
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| Personal navigation market continues to flourish: iSuppli
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2007-09-27 |
| The market for GPS-based navigation devices, specifically the personal navigation device segment, will be up for strong growth—reaching $16.5 billion in 2013, forecasts iSuppli |
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| Sequans, PMC-Sierra team on Mobile WiMAX femtocell solution
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2007-09-26 |
| Sequans Communications and PMC-Sierra Inc. have partnered to provide Mobile WiMAX equipment manufacturers with an all-in-one solution for the development of Mobile WiMAX femtocells. |
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| Report: The need to redirect China's GPS market
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2007-09-24 |
| CCID Consulting has recently released its report analyzing the current status of China's GPS operations market and the development direction for GPS operations in the country |
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| ARM takes on Intel in mobile Internet space
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2007-09-18 |
| An ongoing project by ARM tries to define a product category to sit in the gap between the smart phone and the portable computer—the former being its turf and the latter Intel's—with mobile Internet as the overlap function. |
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| What's next in cellphone design?
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2007-09-17 |
| Cellular telephony has been—and will continue to be—a major contributor to the growth of Asian economies. This article discusses the future of cellphone design. |
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| Restructuring Bluetooth for mobile use
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2007-09-17 |
| The trend of integrating Bluetooth in mobile phones continues to put phone manufacturers under increasing pressure. Users will not accept large handsets, compromised performance and shortened battery life due to power-hungry technologies. This article looks at the steps that Bluetooth chip vendors are taking to address these issues. |
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| Jazz fortifies post in analog, mixed-signal markets
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2007-09-14 |
| Jazz Semiconductorhas announced its Analog-Intensive Mixed-Signal initiative to strengthen its position in price/performance and power consumption for specialty CMOS technologies and quicken time-to-revenue for analog-intensive products. |
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| FPGAs: On a mission to help the color-blind
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2007-09-03 |
| Algorithms for the color-blind are possible with FPGAs, which have massive parallelism and processing power. |
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| Accelerometer slims down for consumer sensors
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2007-09-03 |
| By slimming down its MEMS accelerometer and adding smart-recognition functions, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. hopes to win design slots in a range of consumer gear. |
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| PMICs pack power into small portables
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2007-08-16 |
| Vendors are now addressing power management problems in circuits that embed intelligence. |
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| Solar cell hits world-record efficiency of 42.8 percent
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2007-08-06 |
| A consortium that includes the University of Delaware and DuPont reported a solar cell with an efficiency of 42.8 percent, said to be the world's highest. |
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| Digi-Key, DeLorme ink GPS distribution pact
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2007-08-03 |
| Digi-Key and DeLorme have entered into a global distribution agreement for GPS receiver modules and evaluation kits |
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