ELECTRONICS

Network equipment firm Netgear announced a slew of new products ahead of the official opening to this years Consumer Electronics Show, including a set of technologies aimed at making data ready and accessible from all corners of the home.

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Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros studio on Friday said it will limit releases on high-definition DVD to Sony Corp's Blu-ray format, giving a big blow to Toshiba Corp's rival HD DVD technology.

In a move that could put more pressure on an already declining DVD market, Netflix, the online DVD rental company said Thursday they will allow users to stream movies and other programming to high definition TVs through a set top box.

Motorola Inc, the world's third biggest cell phone maker, on Thursday introduced a mobile media player that shows live television, on-demand video clips and programming saved on digital video recorders.

China's Lenovo Group Ltd introduced its first consumer computers in the United States on Wednesday, expanding in a region it entered in 2005 with the purchase of IBM's PC business. The unveiling of three new notebook computers with advanced features is part of a broader expansion by Lenovo into the global consumer PC market. The company also plans to sell the new consumer computers in ...

Wireless chipmaker Qualcomm Inc.said on Wednesday an unfavorable ruling in a patent dispute with Broadcom Corp would hurt its business in the short term, sending its shares lower. A federal judge in California ruled on Monday that Qualcomm could sell through January 2009 some chips whose designs infringe three patents held by Broadcom, though it must pay royalties. After that, Qualcomm was permane...

The Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules giving broadcasters more flexibility in making the switch to digital television from traditional analog signals.

About 38 percent of U.S. consumers are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones as entertainment devices and 45 percent are creating online content like Web sites, music, videos and blogs for others, according to a new-media survey from Deloitte & Touche.

Apple is clearing up all rumors of its products, starting with the rumor sites sprinkled across the web.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and Hitachi Ltd are discussing multi-billion dollar deals on flat panels that could reshape an industry hit by fierce competition, a source familiar with the matter said.

Mac users are more likely than PC users to purchase music online, according to a new study, adding to a cultural divide between the two camps.A new survey by market researcher, NPD, shows that 50% of all owners of Apple's Mac computer's paid to download music, while just 16% of Microsoft Windows based computer owners did so in the third quarter of this year. Those same Mac user...

U.S. consumer electronics leader Best Buy Co reported a better-than-expected 52 percent jump in third-quarter profit on Tuesday on strong sales of laptops and video games, and raised its full-year earnings forecast.

Palm Inc, the maker of Treo cell phones, forecast lower-than-expected revenue amid tough competition from Research in Motion Ltd's Blackberry and Apple Inc's iPhone, sending its shares tumbling 12 percent on Tuesday.

Apple is in the middle of talks with Japanese mobile carriers, leaving consumers in eager anticipation for the iPhone launch in the country, news reports said on Tuesday.

Apple Inc is playing Japan's top mobile operator NTT DoCoMo Inc against No. 3 carrier Softbank Corp on selling the iPhone in Japan, meeting executives from both companies, sources said on Tuesday.

Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday it would join a group led by International Business Machines Corp to develop system chips using 32-nanometre circuitry, as chip makers increasingly team up to cut development costs.

In November, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has made an announcement that the company, along with Apple, will release a new, faster iPhone next year, though the comments were never confirmed by Apple.

Apple Inc.'s popular iPhone has been dubbed by many as the gadget to get for 2007, and new research shows that consumers have the same sentiment. The firm sold as many as 24-25 million iPods during the first two months of its December quarter, according to one research analyst.

After years of modest results, the digital marketplace in 2007 finally began to yield considerable revenue streams for Latin labels and acts.

Intel Corp., the world's top chipmaker, is set to increase its share of a growing global semiconductor chip market this year to 12.2 percent, research firm Gartner said on Friday.