Stories about: Philips Electronics

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E-readers displayed at Computex portend big growth 08 June, 2009 18:06

E-book readers may have been overshadowed by netbooks, smartbooks and laptops at Computex Taipei 2009, but products on display portend big things to come.
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Consortium launches Linux patent pool 10 December, 2008 08:28

Open Invention Network, which buys patents related to the Linux operating system and licenses them royalty-free, Tuesday launched a program aimed at encouraging open-source developers to document information about their work so that it can be easily read and used by patent offices and lawyers.
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Doctor's notes get clearer with speech recognition software 19 May, 2008 09:40

Speech recognition technology is being linked to an increase in adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) technologies in US hospitals, as doctors are finding it easier to build more complete patient records more efficiently than with handwritten notes.
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Groups launch new white spaces campaign 13 December, 2007 09:13

A coalition of technology vendors, consumer groups and think tanks has launched a campaign to persuade the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to approve wireless devices that would operate in unused television spectrum.
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Lawsuit charges CRT makers with price-fixing 28 November, 2007 10:01

A class-action lawsuit was filed against six monitor manufacturers on Tuesday, alleging the companies of being a "global cartel" involved in price-fixing of CRT monitors.
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IT gains as the EU goes back to business 28 November, 2007 09:45

After two years of policy-making paralysis it looks like the European Union is back in business, and technology is the first area to reap the benefit.
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Philips reeled into CRT 'cartel' investigation 22 November, 2007 08:16

Koninklijke Philips Electronics became the latest company named in a worldwide investigation into possible price-fixing in the market for cathode-ray tubes used in TVs and computer monitors.
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Retired Ecma chief expects Open XML's approval by March 29 August, 2007 08:17

With ISO's Sept. 2 voting deadline looming, the recently retired secretary general of Ecma International defended Microsoft's Office Open XML document format against fierce technical criticism.
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ASE offered $US5.5 billion in latest chip buy out 27 November, 2006 08:51

A private equity group may offer to buy the world's largest chip assembly company, Taiwan's Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE). The move follows a wave of big deals in the chip sector.
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Yahoo, Linksys unveil VOIP/cordless phone 10 November, 2006 08:39

Yahoo's instant messaging system already lets consumers talk into their PCs; now it's going out to a cordless phone.
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Global safety zone 21 August, 2006 14:47

If it seems that the world has become a more dangerous place for sensitive organizational data over the past five years, that's probably because it has. As natural disasters, terrorism, disease and social unrest have threatened to affect staffing in various parts of the globe, the business continuity plans of many organizations have had to become heavy on the disaster recovery side.