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Brandname Japanese technology companies, including Nintendo, reported dismal earnings Thursday with Sharp emerging an exception in doubling profits on brisk sales of flat-panel TVs in China, Japan and the U.S.
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has signed into law a bill designed to cut down on the amount of computers and other electronics dumped in landfills.
A New York businessman is sounding the alarm on a potential terror threat that he says has not gotten the attention or action it deserves, despite a congressional committee's finding that the country grows more vulnerable to it by the day.
The pay package for Tyco Electronics Ltd. Chief Executive Thomas Lynch was about a quarter the size in the company's fiscal 2008 that it was in 2007, coming in at $2.6 million for the first full year of the company's operation as a standalone entity, according to calculations by The Associated Press based on the company's proxy filing Friday.
Arrow Electronics Inc. posted a nearly two-thirds drop in fourth-quarter profit Tuesday, weighed down by special items and the deteriorating economy.
With her carefully styled blond hair, expertly applied makeup and fashionable blue dress, nothing about Alison Lewis even hints at the word "nerd" at a Manhattan party for her first book.
LAS VEGAS - The International Consumer Electronics Show last January was bristling with optimism, as manufacturers and software firms showed off major advancements in media systems, miniaturization and wireless connectivity.
LG Electronics Inc. claimed a step forward in the commercialization of the next generation of Internet capable handsets, demonstrating a modem chip with a download speed eight times that of the fastest mobile phones currently on the market.
Three more Japanese electronics companies — Sharp, Hitachi and NEC Corp. — blamed sluggish demand and the strong yen for mixed earnings results Thursday.
The strong yen crippled quarterly earnings at Sony Corp. and other Japanese electronics makers, adding to their gloomy outlook as the global economic slowdown crimps consumer demand in the ultra-competitive market for high-end gadgets.
Japanese electronics mostly reported better fortunes Thursday as they reaped the benefits from reshaping their businesses and healthy global demand for flat-panel TVs.
Samsung Electronics said Friday its profit rose 37 percent in the first quarter as strength in mobile phones and liquid crystal displays offset weakness in semiconductors.
LG Electronics said Wednesday it turned a net profit in the first quarter after a loss the year before, boosted by record mobile phone sales, strong performance overseas and gains from its investment in flat panel maker LG Display.
Since the International Consumer Electronics Show opened Monday, the buzz surrounding automotive technology has been very real, and very loud, as a Formula One race car speeds around a tiny track outside the Las Vegas Convention Center.
LAS VEGAS - Everything about the annual International Consumer Electronics Show is big, but at this year’s cattle call, much of the hype is about all that is small.
Microsoft and Nintendo are taking too long to phase out toxic chemicals from their game consoles, and TV producers Philips and Sharp have poor policies on taking back and recycling outdated products, Greenpeace said Tuesday in its latest environmental ranking of leading electronics companies.
The air smells acrid from the squat gas burners that sit outside homes, melting wires to recover copper and cooking computer motherboards to release gold. Migrant workers in filthy clothes smash picture tubes by hand to recover glass and electronic parts, releasing as much as 6.5 pounds of lead dust.
A force as insidious as Dracula is quietly sucking a nickel of every dollar's worth of the electricity that seeps from your home's outlets.
Move over, peace and happiness. Computers are what Americans really want nowadays.
Ralph Devoe's hunt for a new computer monitor didn't include a stop at Circuit City, even though one of its stores was only a few doors down from the Best Buy where he went shopping this week.
Everyone knew Circuit City was having a bad fourth quarter. Which made Best Buy's good one a little bit of a surprise. The results reported by the nation's two largest electronics chains on Wednesday showed Best Buy increasing its lead over its smaller rival, with profit up 18 percent, while Circuit City lost money.
Pyramid-shaped teeth around the edges of one piece of silicon (seen under an electron microscope) fit neatly into a matching set of holes on another (Image:Southampton University)
SOMETIMES all it takes is a quick hug, and everything looks different.
Green police target the flat-screen TV - thestar.comThey've targeted gas-guzzling clunkers. They've blacklisted power-wasting light bulbs. Now the efficiency police are going after our big-screen TVs as a way to tame our household energy demons.
California To Ban Power-Hungry TVsSACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Power-hungry TVs will be banned from store shelves in California after state regulators adopted a first-in-the nation mandate to lower electricity demand.
New Company Gives Cash For GadgetsBOSTON -- Dig out your old cellphones, Mp3 players and computers. There's a business in Boston that's willing to pay you for your used gadgets. It sounds like a win-win situation. Hop online and register your used gadget, then mail it out for cash paying nothing for shipping.
New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's LawComputers of the future could be operating not on electrons, but on tiny waves traveling through an electron "fluid," if a new proposal is successful. The new circuit design, recently introduced by Dr. Héctor J.
All-electric Spintronics CreatedA multidisciplinary team of UC researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means.
Xerox Claims Printable Electronics BreakthroughXerox on Tuesday announced a new silver ink (among other things) that it's calling, and apparently is, a breakthrough in printable electronics, a leading edge concept that's generated a lot of discussion but few actual products to date, largely because of the issues that Xerox's …
Xerox's Fabric-Printable Circuitry Coming to Production, Heralds Electronic Clothing you're like me, the lack of computing power in your T-shirt causes constant problems. Well, thanks to the guys over at Xerox, you'll never have to worry about a jacket that can't run Windows 7 ever again.
Des Moines teen assaults her own mother to get her cell phone backTrouble in the heartland. While this is a minor incident, I feel it demonstrates the overwhelming pull of cell phones and communication devices among the younger set.
BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Time telescope' could boost webResearchers have demonstrated a "time telescope" that could squeeze much more information into the data packets sent around the internet. Rather than focusing information-carrying light pulses in space, like a normal lens, it focuses them in time.
Maybe Apple Cares About Readers After All We don't even know for sure whether Apple will ever release a tablet–although there's lots of compelling evidence that it will–and already there's a lively debate about whether the company is interested in using said tablet to do to printed reading materials what iTunes …
Digital Camcorder comparison chart of the Sony Handycam HDR-XR500V, Sony DCR-PC330, Sony Handycam HDR-HC7, Sony Handycam HDR-SR7, Sony Handycam HDR-CX7, Sony Handycam HDR-CX12 and Sony Handycam HDR-SR12 - CNET ReviewsAnyone have experience using one of these camcorders? I'm looking for advice and opinions to help out a non-technie chick. Thank you!
Plugged-In Age Feeds a Hunger for Electricity [making it more difficult to tackle global warming]Worldwide, consumer electronics now represent 15 percent of household power demand, and that is expected to triple over the next two decades, according to the International Energy Agency, making it more difficult to tackle the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warmi …
Nanoelectronic Transistor Combined With Biological Machine Could Lead To Better ElectronicsNanoelectric transistors combined with biological machine could lead to better, faster electronics.
Laptops, iPhones stolen in Apple Store robbery Police are searching for the five bandits who hit the Apple Store in Marlton, New Jersey. It happened shortly after 2:00 a.m. at the Promenade Shopping Center on Route 73.
Tech tips for staying connected in Europe - CNN.comStay connected in Europe...but here are some tips that save you money
Over the last year or so I have been extremely interested in the future of computing. Nano technology is going to change the face of computing, and possibly the world.
Self-assembled DNA Scaffolding Used To Build Tiny Circuit BoardsThe world of computing is about to take on a new structure. DNA sequencing allows for the same structure that makes up our DNA to be replicated on a circuit board. Organic computers is right on the horizon.
Tiny device is first complete 'quantum computer'Researchers in the US claim to have demonstrated the first small-scale device to perform all the functions required in large-scale ion-based quantum processing.
As I sat in frount of a screen that has become perhaps a bit too much of my world, it occurred to me. Life as well as the quality of life, may very well be a notch higher without the Internet.
Why did the U.S. halt a 2003 plan to bring down Iraq's financial system? : fear of collateral damageIt would have been the most far-reaching case of computer sabotage in history.
BBC NEWS | Business | US manufacturing jobs go to ChinaWe're not only watching the dismantling of my company, we're also watching the dismantling of the circuit board industry in the United States and the dismantling of American industrial might." Countrywide situation
How 16 Electronics Companies Got Their NamesMost of us spend a lot of time staring at a computer or TV screen, playing video games, or gabbing into our cell phones.
A Green Way to Dump Low-Tech ElectronicsSince 2004, 18 states and New York City have approved laws that make manufacturers responsible for recycling electronics, and similar statutes were introduced in 13 other states this year.
What you should buy usedBefore you make your next purchase consider this, you may not have to pay full price. Used items can be found at big discounts.
iPhone Coder makes $10K from New Yorker coverAn artist who used the iPhone app known as 'Brushes' created a drawing that got him a nice gig making cover art for the New Yorker magazine.
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