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Apple hope to make it easier to convert more people from the cult of Mao to the cult of Mac. Apple plans to open a new store in Beijing in 2009 and another in Shanghai. The company has a long way to go. While Apple dominates the MP3 player market ...

To the successor of the E53, BenQ Release E55 clamshell mobile phone. The new handset includes an array of features including 3G plus two built-in cameras. The first is a standard camera and is rated at 2MP. A second camera is positioned at the hinge...

A Chocolate is a red-hot phone and the iPod Nano is a big success.If you want to design a new MP3 player and you hope it will be a big seller, what will you do? If you’re M-Cody, you just borrow liberally from both of those designs and call it the M2...

People always use an Mp3 player while they are working out at the gym or going for a run around the park. The Creative Zen Krystal has been designed specifically for the more active-minded among us, because it comes with features like a built-in pedo...

High-definition chip company Silicon Image Inc. has inked an agreement with the China Video Industry Association (CVIA), under which CVIA will promote and support the use of High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) by the consumer electronics indu...

IBM is set to manufacture mobile digital TV chips for fabless semiconductor startup Abilis Systems that will be used in the mobile phone, portable media player and PC laptop markets, Abilis announced today. Geneva, Switzerland-based Abilis, part...

Interesting dynamics will be driving the U.S. DVD recorder market over the next couple of years. The March 1, 2007, FCC mandate is propelling greater DVD recorder acceptance because the expense of integrating digital tuners into other products could ...

Several major studios last week filed suit against Cablevision in a bid to stop the cable TV service provider’s imminent initiation of a networked digital video recording (nDVR) service. Studios including 20th Century Fox Film Corp., Universal Cit...

Corning Inc. announced today that it will locate its liquid crystal display (LCD) glass substrate finishing facility in Beijing. With the facility plans, Corning became the first TFT-LCD glass substrate supplier to announce a production facility ...

Microtune, a television tuner IC company, has introduced a dual-standard, dual-band tuner chip that receives and tunes both digital terrestrial TV services such as Freeview and DVB-H standard mobile TV. The expectation is that devices such as Mic...

Consumer electronics (CE) products are more prevalent than ever, as the average U.S. household now owns 26 non-discreet CE products, up from 25 in 2005, with MP3 players and digital cameras leading the growth, said a report from the Consumer Electron...

When it comes to digital-consumer gadgets, the term "stand alone" simply does not compute. These days it's all about connectivity -- preferably without wires or configuration hassles, if you please. Underscoring the trend, Bluetooth, Wireless USB, an...

Austin, Texas-based mixed-signal IC provider SigmaTel Inc. today said it will license its MP3 intellectual property (IP) to U.K.-based consumer electronic retailer/distributor Techsplosion Ltd. As part of SigmaTel's global licensing program, Tech...

Players in the mobile phone market shouldn’t get too comfortable. According to an iSuppli report today, slowing growth and falling prices will push revenue in the worldwide mobile-phone market down 4.7 percent in 2006 to $109.7 billion. Sales will...

Global LCD-TV shipments soared past expectations in the second half of 2005 due to rising manufacturing capacity and falling prices. That’s according to analyst firm, iSuppli, which has raised its market estimate and forecast for the segment. A...

Corning Inc. expects the liquid crystal display (LCD) glass market, measured in square feet of glass, to grow more than 40 percent in this year, with the Corning, N.Y.-based company’s glass volume expected to grow at a faster pace given the higher gr...

Two things were highly visible at Samsung’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) booth earlier this month. One, that the company is staking a large part of its business on large screen flat TVs, and two, judging by the looks of awe from attendees, picture...

Consumer electronics topped holiday gift lists this year, at least according to shipments made from online retailer Amazon.com. The Seattle-based seller of a variety of merchandise said iPods “ruled the holiday season in Electronics, owning the to...

Consumer electronics sales were strong in the reports on the big Thanksgiving weekend kickoff to the Christmas shopping season, with most reports showing more sales growth for electronics than other types of gifts. For example, the consumer surve...

While China's Actions Semiconductor has scaled back its planned initial public offering (IPO) here in the United States, a Honk Kong financial publication is reporting that it is completely withdrawing its IPO. Mp3 chipmaker Actions Semiconductor ...