News tagged with home electronics
Sci-fi no longer, NREL engineers smart homes
Thanks to TV shows such as The Jetsons and Star Trek, many Americans grew up dreaming that homes of the future would be equipped with fantastic high-tech features. From automatic food dispensers to sliding do ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 28, 2012 |
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Samsung says to sell 25 mln 'smart TVs' this year
South Korea's Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it plans to sell more than 25 million "smart TVs" this year as it tries to capture the emerging Internet TV market eyed by competitors including Apple.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Remote control pushed aside by gesture-sensitive devices
The remote control has never been much beloved. If it's not getting lost or running out of batteries, the device - and its inscrutable buttons - is confusing some family member or acting as a totem in an argument about what ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Amazon gets on board with UltraViolet movie system
An Amazon.com executive said Tuesday that the retailer has signed a deal with a Hollywood studio to sell movies that can be downloaded from an online "locker" system five studios have put together.
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Home video spending in US falls 2 percent in 2011
(AP) -- Home video spending in the U.S. fell 2 percent to about $18 billion in 2011. A surge in the popularity of movie streaming services like Netflix Inc. and gains in Blu-ray disc sales helped offset some of the drop ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Amazon expands network to Spain
Amazon expanded its European network to Spain on Wednesday, with a new site amazon.es opened to online shoppers.
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Panasonic turns on OLED lighting roadmap, announces record efficiency
(PhysOrg.com) -- Japan-based Panasonic Electric Works (PEW) has announced an aggressive roadmap to make organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) lighting a part of the not so distant future. The company has said ...
Sep 02, 2011 |
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New AMBA 4 specification optimizes coherency for heterogeneous multicore SoCs
ARM today announced the latest AMBA 4 interface and protocol specification featuring the AMBA 4 AXI Coherency Extensions (ACE). Cache coherency is essential in multicore computing applications to efficiently maintain the ...
Jun 07, 2011 |
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Panasonic reports loss, plans to cut 17,000 jobs
(AP) -- Panasonic Corp., Japan's biggest home appliance maker, is cutting about 17,000 jobs worldwide over two years as its losses swell from restructuring costs and damage from the March 11 disasters.
Apr 28, 2011 |
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S.Korea's LG unveils 'smart fridge'
South Korea's LG Electronics Tuesday unveiled a refrigerator which suggests recipes as it forecast a bright future in the potentially lucrative market for "smart" household appliances.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Home appliances get 'smart' at CES
Mobile phones aren't the only things getting smart. Home appliances are too.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 08, 2011 |
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6 studios seek to lift barriers to online sales of films and TV shows
With fresh data showing that Hollywood's crucial home entertainment market shrank yet again in 2010, six of Hollywood's biggest studios are rolling out plans for boosting online sales of movies and TV shows.
Jan 07, 2011 |
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New products plug you into electric-bill savings
Check your electric bill lately? Did it make you wince? You probably wondered where all those kilowatt-hours went.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 06, 2010 |
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Samsung Launches 3D Home Theater
Samsung Electronics today announced the launch of the world's first 3D Home Theater (HT-C6930W), offering the ultimate experience in 3D stereoscopic images and 3D sound.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 14, 2010 |
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Toshiba TV adds third dimension to video viewing
Toshiba on Wednesday unveiled a flat-panel television that converts any digital video into 3-D.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 06, 2010 |
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