Stories about: Philips Electronics

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yahoo's instant messaging system already lets consumers talk into their PCs; now it's going out to a cordless phone.

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.

Europe's third largest chipmaker will sell its semiconductor unit to a group of private investment firms in a deal worth Euro 8.3 billion ($US10.6 billion), increasing the pace of consolidation in the industry.

Chief technology officers (CTOs) in big high-tech companies increasingly view "open innovation'' as a way to get more bang from the billions of bucks they spend annually on researching and developing new products, according to a venture capitalist focused on large manufacturers of IT and telecommunications equipment.