Lim Kian Seng has been appointed executive officer/director of manufacturing wef Jan 4
Work experience: Head of manufacturing, Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
As a place to buy electronics, Best Buy comes to mind ahead of Amazon.com and Wal-Mart, electronics shoppers told pollster Retrevo, although the gap is smaller than it was in 2008. Best Buy was also thought to have the best selection, though Wal-Mart reigned in the matter of low prices.
– When it comes to pulling in electronics shoppers, Amazon.com and Wal-Mart
are gaining ground on leader Best
Buy, according to a Jan. 6 study from Retrevo.
Retrevo polled more than a thousand online shoppers between Dec. 26 and Jan.
4 to learn how consumer attitudes toward electronics shopping s…
The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas isn’t particularly known for news of innovation in the data storage sector, but there were a few announcements made Jan. 7.
– The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas isn’t particularly known for news of innovation in the data storage sector, but there were a few announcements made Jan. 7. They are as follows:
–SanDisk announced Jan. 7 that the 64GB SanDisk pSSDTM Gen2 has been selected by LG Electronics as th…
A breathtaking wave of 3-D televisions hit the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Wednesday as the technology was touted as the next big thing in home theater. “When it comes to home entertainment, there really is no experience like 3-D,” Sony chief executive Howard Stringer said while
OCBC Investment Research in a Dec 11 research report says: “Avi-Tech Electronics recently missed our expectations slightly due to its dependence on capital equipment segment. We are raising our FY2011 forecasts by ~6% in anticipation of the improved business in its various segments.
LG Electronics X120 netbook, with Microsoft’s Windows XP and a SmartOn quick-loading interface, is being offered for $49.99 with a two-year AT T contract. RadioShack is running the deal through Christmas Eve.
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RadioShack is offering the LG Electronics X120 netbook for a
special rate through the holiday shopping season. Now through Dec. 24, the X120
will be available for $49.99 with a new two-year service contract with AT amp;T
or for $399 without a service plan.
LG
introduced the…
1904: British engineer John Ambrose Fleming invents and patents the thermionic valve, the first vacuum tube. With this advance, the age of modern wireless electronics is born.
Although the Supreme Court eventually invalidated Fleming’s U.S. patent — ruling that the technology he used for his invention was already known — he remains the acknowledged inventor of [...]
A transparent transistor that could be used in electronic displays
FAMILIAR friends can nevertheless sometimes surprise. Such has been the case with a compound used to make the first solid-state batteries some 40 years ago. Researchers have now found that it can also be used to build transistors that are transparent and hence suitable for use in electronic books and head-up displays.
Sodium beta-alumina was discovered in the 19th century when the process of extracting aluminium from its ore, bauxite, was being developed. It is formed of alternating layers of aluminium oxide and sodium ions. In 1967 researchers at the Ford Motor Company discovered that it conducts these ions as though it were a liquid. That spawned the first solid-state batteries. …
ST Engineering’s electronics arm, ST Electronics, today announced that it has been awarded a contract worth about $34 million by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) to transform the emergency call-taking and despatch system in its Operations Centre (Ops Centre) into a new generation command and control system called Advance Command, Control and Communications Emergency System (ACES).
Work on the project will beging immediately and is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2012. The contract is awarded to ST Electronics’ wholly-owned subsidiary, ST Electronics (Info-Software Systems) Pte Ltd.
ST Engineering today says its electronics arm, ST Electronics, has been awarded contracts worth about RMB58.8 million (about $12.8 million) by Changchun Rolling Stock Company (CRC) of China to provide a Passenger Information System and a Security Monitoring System for its project in the Saudi Mashaaer Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line in Saudi Arabia and a Passenger Information System for an MRT Line in China.
These contracts were awarded to ST Electronics (Shanghai), a wholly-owned subsidiary of ST Electronics. The contracts commence immediately and work will be completed by the second half of 2010.
Ericssons vision of an all-communicating world is now that much closer to reality. The 2G-, 3G- and 4G-technology provider introduced a tiny, low-power module for embedding high-speed HSPA mobile broadband connectivity in consumer electronics.
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Ericsson has introduced a new mobile broadband module, its
fourth in 12 months. While the
last, introduced, in June, put the focus on netbooks, this new module, the
C3706w, looks to bring embedded, high-speed wireless connectivity to consumer
electronics (CE) such as GPS n…
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5 will also roll out on three LG Electronics smartphone models in coming weeks, and eventually 13 devices made by the company by the end of 2010. Other manufacturers, such as HTC and Sony Ericsson, have announced this week that their upcoming smartphones will include Windows Mobile 6.5, which comes with features such as increased touch-screen functionality and Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Microsofts mobile applications store.
– LG Electronics announced on Sept. 3 that it would launch three
smartphones within quot;the next few weeks quot; equipped with Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5, and would release 13 Windows phones in total by
the end of 2010. By doing so, LG joined other smartphone makers planning to port
the opera…
Lowry Digital and JMR Electronics team up to restore and archive brittle, 40-year-old NASA footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing so that future generations will always have a clear look at space pioneering history. The NASA footage is edited on a Mac Pro Final Cut workstation and stored on JMR’s 16TB BlueStor storage array.
– The phone rang a few weeks ago at JMR Electronics, in Chatsworth, Calif. On the line was a company called Lowry Digital, of nearby Burbank, Calif., a pioneering expert in film and video restoration.
Lowry Digital was working on a rather unusual deadline job at the request of
NASA: The 1969 video…
Going downright bureaucratic, Samsung Electronics has crumpled up and cast aside its catchy codename for its first e-book reader.
The SNE-50K reader that was earlier known by the working label of Papyrus, will be sold first only in South Korea from today onwards.
But according to a Samsung spokesperson, the device is expected to reach the other [...]
ST Electronics, the electronics unit of ST Engineering, today announced it has won its sixth Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project in Guangzhou, China.
The Guangzhou-Foshan Line (GFL) contract worth RMB53.6 million ($11.7 million) requires the provision of Platform Screen Doors (PSD) for the GFL which will run 32.3km from Kuiqi Station in Foshan, to Lijiao station in Guangzhou, in Guangdong province.
LG Electronics is launching an online store for mobile phone applications with an initial focus on Asia and aspirations for a more global reach by year-end.
– SEOUL (Reuters) – LG Electronics, the world’s No. 3 handset
maker, is launching an online store for mobile phone applications
Tuesday with an initial focus on Asia and aspirations for a more global
reach by year-end.
Phone makers and mobile firms worldwide are in a race to match the
success of …
