Digital Television
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Japanese researchers downplay super CPU effort
News Alliance aims to create software standard for multicore chips in devices, including mobile phones and car navigation systems.
Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Embedded System, CPU, Chip Company, API, processor, researcher
US government transition sites launched
News President-elect Barack Obama's new transition site features a blog with YouTube videos, while the Government Accountability Office's site lists urgent priorities.
Tags: Government, Web sites, Web 2.0, Site, General Accounting Office, Video, comptroller, Afghanistan, Pakistan, space shuttle
Fiber optic facilities for Philippine IT zone
News Eastern Telecommunications Philippines, Inc. and Bonifacio Cable One Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding allowing ETPI to interconnect its fiber optic facilities to BCOC's designated access points within the Bonifacio Global City (BGC).
Broadcom to buy AMD's digital TV business
News Company will pay US$192.8 million for the assets, which include processors, receiver ICs, and a line of panel processors that perform advanced motion compensation, frame rate conversion and scaling.
Tags: Processors, Acquisitions, Digital Television, Integrated Circuit, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Broadcom Corp., TV, Compensation, processor, financial
Embedded Android code goes open source
News Company behind Mips has released the source code for porting the Android operating system to that processor architecture.
Tags: Operating systems, Digital Television, Smart Phone, TV, Electronics, Android, IP Telephony, processor, Internet, manufacturer
TI, Broadcom add to warnings chorus
News Chipmakers Texas Instruments and Broadcom are the latest companies to dramatically cut current quarter estimates amid the global economic slowdown.
Tags: Mobile processors, Earning reports/forecasts, Digital Television, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Broadcom Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., Electronics, Chip Company, revenue
AMD to take US$948M second-quarter charge
News Charges stem largely from chipmaker's former ATI handheld and DTV units. Company's stock falls as much as 7 percent in morning trading.
Tags: Processors, Corporate law, Legal, Graphics, Digital Television, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Security, Goodwill, Stock, payment
Telstra withdraws from Australian digital TV bid
News Telstra Corp, Australia's largest phone company, pulled out of the bidding for two national datacasting licenses that would have enabled it to make use of digital television technology.
Record ownership for digital TVs
News More than 50 percent of households in the United States own a digital television, according to preliminary report results released by the Consumer Electronics Association.
Tags: TVs, Digital media
China snubs U.S. digital TV standard
News Chinese authorities have decided to adopt a European standard for its digital television cable broadcasts, a move which could be driven by the high costs associated with a rival U.S. standard.
Alcatel Space wins US$118m Asia contract
News Alcatel Space announced yesterday that it has signed a US$118 milion contract with regional satellite operator APT Satellite Holdings Ltd.
Paul Allen's Charter to sell US$1.1b in shares, US$550m in notes
News Charter Communications, the cable-television company controlled by billionaire Paul Allen, plans to sell US$1.1 billion in stock and US$550 million of convertible notes to fund its purchase of cable systems from AT&T Corp.
Finland pushes for EU e-commerce law
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Sun, Sony to team on linking digital devices to Net
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Sony might pay US$1b for stake in Fuji TV
News Electronics giant Sony Corp might purchase a 13.9 percent stake in Fuji Television Network (Fuji TV) for more than US$1 billion from Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, a radio station operator and the second largest shareholder of Fuji TV.
