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Wallet phones: Sony and NXP double team chips
News Former Philips' chip unit NXP and Sony have announced they are to create a joint venture to promote the adoption of mobile NFC a goal that trade association the GSMA has also announced it will be working on. [20 Nov 2006]
EC plans to turn Europe into tech powerhouse
News The board will be made up of execs from European tech's largest companies, including Nokia, Philips and SAP, as well as venture capitalists and academics. The European Commission has set up a taskforce designed to make Europe's IT industry more... [08 Jun 2006]
LG.Philips LCD Restructures Global Operations With Oracle E-Business Suite, Projects Benefits Totaling US$104.7 Million Over Five Years
White Paper Ltd.a joint venture of Netherlands-based Philips Electronics N.V and South Korean manufacturer LG Electronics Inc.achieved record sales revenue, setting an industry milestone by selling more than 1 million liquid crystal displays (LCDs) for monitors. [05 May 2005]
Unified Data Drives Operational Ef?ciencies and Cost Reductions
White Paper Lumileds Lighting was formed in November 1999 as a joint venture of Agilent Technologies and Philips Lighting. Lumileds Lighting looked closely at manufacturing as a way to consolidate the data-to get the entire inventory on one system-and be able... [09 Mar 2005]
Napster founder turns middleman
News At the core of Snocap's offering is audio "fingerprinting" technology licensed from Philips Royal Labs and used to identify songs being traded on a network by their unique audio characteristics. With $10m in venture funding and the backing of at... [03 Dec 2004]
Microsoft founder backs Zigbee
News A number of major IT companies are involved in ZigBee, including Honeywell, Invensys, Mitsubishi, Motorola and Philips. Ember, a start-up that is developing chips for ZigBee - the low-cost, low-power wireless networking standard - received $25m in... [04 Oct 2004]
Emblaze to take off with reviving telcos
News Adamind, Emblaze's transcoding division formed by a joint venture with Philips, is currently used for MMS by 70 operators worldwide and generating substantial royalties. Multimedia company Emblaze says that it will finally take off this year and... [28 Sep 2004]
Phase Change Recording in 12-inch TrueWORM Technology
White Paper As shown in the timeline below, Philips first exhibited this technology in 1979 and commercialized it five years later in a joint venture with Control Data Corporation. Optical Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) recording is a mature technology. [24 Feb 2004]
Microsoft Pocket PC to lock out non-ARM chips
News MIPS processors appear in Casio's Cassiopeia, as well as handheld devices from Philips, Samsung, Sharp and some other Compaq models such as the Aero. Cores from SuperH, a joint venture between STMicroelectronics and Hitachi, are used in Hitachi... [04 Aug 2001]
The best of 'Reader Comments': a future high-tech Dome, saucy email and Nazi memorabilia revisited
Comment I can't help wondering if the computer that designed the Dome's target of 12 million was the same computer that designed the millennium bridge, or the team PHILIPS yacht. An indoor, 24 hour, tropical beach resort studded with bars, restaurants and... [04 Jan 2001]
UK Bluetooth specialist brings funding total to $50m
News CSR has already secured funding from 3i, ALPS, Amadeus, ARM, Capital Research, Compaq, Gilde, Intel Capital, Mustang Ventures, Philips, Razorfish, Virata and Wavecom. The amount invested by the capital venture arm of Sony corporation was undisclosed. [04 Jan 2001]
Thomson takes Technicolor in $2bn deal
News Last week, the French giant acquired the broadcasting business of Philips Electronics. Under the terms of the agreement, Carlton will take a 5.5 per cent stake in the French firm as well as invest $15m in TAK, Thomson's interactive television joint... [11 Dec 2000]
AOL lines up digital TV alliances
News The Internet service provider is partnering Directv and manufacturers Hughes Network Systems, Philips Electronics and Network Computer, to develop technology which allows Web services through television sets. [12 May 1999]
Lucent and Philips in acrimonious split over mobile phones
News Lucent technologies and Philips Electronics have abandoned plans for a joint venture to supply the global market with mobile phones. The move signals an end to Philips' plans to make inroads into the US mobile phone market using CDMA technology. [23 Oct 1998]
Psion, Motorola, Nokia and Ericsson team up
News It claims it already has a number of vendors interested, including Philips. The joint venture will develop and sell smartphones and communicators that offer Internet access, messaging and information access in a pocket-size device. [30 Jun 1998]
