| Programmable broadband heightens PC TV hype
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2009-01-21 |
| After searching many years for the yet-to-blossom mobile TV handset market, vendors are increasingly shifting their focus to the PC-TV market |
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| 60GHz, MoCA take center stage at CES
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2009-01-14 |
| The Consumer Electronics Show demonstrated the latest advances home networking and interconnect but the 60GHz wireless and Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) showed the most traction. |
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| CES: Hard times evident in empty seats
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2009-01-13 |
| The empty seats and booths at the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show bore witness to how much the electronics industry really is suffering. |
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| Bluetooth enters the digital living room space
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2009-01-13 |
| Broadcom and Sharp Electronics are delivering Bluetooth for next-gen DTV products. Sharp is now shipping its AQUOS XS1 series of DTVs with built-in Bluetooth from Broadcom featuring the BCM2046 single-chip Bluetooth receiver in both the TV and the remote control |
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| How much do you know about OFDM, WiMAX?
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2009-01-09 |
| A virtual "sit down" with some industry leaders offers a peek at where OFDM and WiMAX technology is and where they think it is going. |
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| Will PMPs survive the digital video world?
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2008-12-25 |
| With online digital video content inching its way to different viewing channels from mobile handsets to the PC monitor and right onto the living room TV, how does the traditional personal media player (PMP) compete in a digital video future populated with more multifunction devices |
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| Enabling next-generation mobile TV handsets
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2008-12-18 |
| Designers faced with making ubiquitous mobile TV a reality have a fair number of challenges in front of them, including battery life, reception, range, screen size, and picture quality |
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| Intel eyes energy harvesting for electronic apps
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2008-12-15 |
| Intel Corp. is working on harvesting free energy to power devices such as mobile phones, as well as researching other technologies to reduce power in electronics devices and data centers |
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| Sony outlines initiatives to improve profitability
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2008-12-11 |
| Sony Corp. has embarked on a series of measures to strengthen its corporate structure and bolster profitability across the Sony Group. These initiatives are in response to the sudden and rapid changes in the global economic environment. |
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| Analysis: China IC industry battles slowdown
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2008-12-10 |
| The mad rush to invest on the emerging Chinese semiconductor industry is slowing down. The fever has been in fact cooling since a year ago, well before the credit crisis hit the global market. |
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| Private IC firms quietly lay off staff
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2008-12-08 |
| Privately held companies, unbound by regulations requiring them to report layoffs, have not gone unscathed as they too, have shed staff—albeit more quietly. |
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| Make way for software-based mobile TV
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2008-12-08 |
| Armed with a reconfigurable multi-standard tuner IC, Mirics Semiconductor, a U.K.-based startup, claims that it still remains the only company offering a software-based TV and radio demodulator |
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| Tandem to work on CMMB solutions for PCTV
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2008-12-05 |
| Mirics Semiconductor and Spreadtrum Communications Inc. have teamed up to deliver embedded TV solutions for portable PC platforms that support the CMMB standard |
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| Mobile to beat PC, TV for consumer affection
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2008-12-04 |
| Although the cellphone, the TV, and the computer have big roles to play, mobile devices will potentially replace TVs and computers as the electronic devices most central to people's lives |
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| IMEC pushes SDR effort forward
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2008-12-01 |
| A variety of advanced FEC technologies used in a range of wireless WAN and LAN can be handled by a chip introduced by IMEC as part of its effort to assemble a full suite of silicon for software-defined radio. |
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