Back in the '90s, two companies from the opposite ends of the consumer electronics world -- giant Sony with its eMarker and startup Xenote with its iTag -- tried launching key fob devices that would identify songs on the radio, but neither got off the ground.
How about Apple, who is the most successful manufacturer and seller of consumer electronics in the world?
It is the first and still only company to use a female design metaphor for its electronics, in a world of consumer electronics dominated with macho design.
Processor design win visibility should increase heading into the Consumer Electronics Show and Mobile World Congress trade shows.
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Last month, Japan's Sony, probably the best- known consumer electronics company in the world, announced that it would soon manufacture computers.
Investors chose to focus on the outlook given by Philips, which sells medical equipment, consumer electronics and is the world's biggest lighting maker.
"If you look at every consumer electronics market in the world, there isn't a single other one that isn't dominated by Japanese manufacturers, " says Rick Timmons, managing director of sales at J-Phone, Japan's No. 3 carrier.
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But new technologies drawn from the world of consumer electronics are changing the cost-benefit equation.
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But in the Darwinian world of consumer electronics, lower costs trump technological prowess.
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It's the uncertainty you've created by launching two essentially equal but incompatible formats onto the world of consumer electronics.
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But recently, the political scope that typically dodges the world of consumer electronics has found its sights set squarely on a field that we as gadget journalists cover.
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Today, even the fastest of fast four-wheeled machines only connect to the world at large over 3G, another sign of the auto industry struggling to keep up with the world of consumer electronics.
Within the world of consumer electronics, a smart marketing campaign can be relied upon to generate advance sales on the first batch of retail unit sales without relying on reviews or user feedback to drive demand.
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Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Chief Executive Craig Barrett will shake up the world of consumer electronics next week when he opens his firm's fall Developer's Conference on Monday.
Like most every other figurehead in politics, Genachowski has had his fair share of outspoken proponents and critics, but he has embedded himself into the world of consumer electronics in a way that few other chairmen have.
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The launch of Europe's first dedicated channel comes as key actors prepare to meet in Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, one of the world's leading technology fairs.
That is making them increasingly important in the world of not just consumer electronics but in healthcare, home automation, autos and more.
The world's biggest consumer electronics maker said a better performance was due to its electronics division, which made 26.2bn yen after a loss of 23.3bn a year ago.
Microsoft has secured a patent deal with the world's biggest consumer electronics manufacturer to receive fees for devices powered by Google's Android and Chrome operating systems.
Meanwhile, rumors continue to circulate about a radically new iPad from Apple -- the world's leading consumer electronics company that has never and will never attend CES and whose ghost hung heavily over Las Vegas this week.
It emerged from the smoking ruins of World War II to dominate consumer electronics.
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Dai, a native of Shanghai, bragged about her lack of hobbies, scheduled every weekend full of meetings and knew every major player in the world of networking hardware and consumer electronics.
Matsushita the world's largest consumer-electronics firm and Sony's arch-enemy refused.
Nokia, in its hunt for engineers sent recruiters for the first time to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, hoping to convince techies that the company is the right place for them.
With 8 million sold in its first 60 days, it set a Guinness World Record for the fastest-selling consumer electronics device.
And while Apple got its start as a computer company, Jobs has slowly shifted the company into consumer electronics, with the iPod displacing Sony's Walkman as the world's favorite personal music machine.
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is geek heaven on Earth -- a Super Bowl, Disney World and New York Fashion Week all rolled into one for the techies who flock to Vegas to eyeball the newest gadgets from the world's leading manufacturers.
At the same time, LG and other electronics makers are headed into the teeth of a consumer shutdown in much of the world.
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