And Warner's move signals the studios are tiring of pitting the competing consumer electronics manufacturers against one another.

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At least, Cisco is likely to partner with consumer electronics manufacturers for that market, one analyst suggests.

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One challenge close to home: As other manufacturers follow its lead into touchscreen phones, LG Electronics wants to better adapt them to one-handed texting, which is big in Asia.

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Mahwah, NJ, May 11, 2009- Denon Electronics, one of the world's premier manufacturers of high-quality home entertainment components, today introduced two high-performance Blu-ray products, each designed to make the benefits of high-definition video and audio more available and affordable.

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On Sunday it announced its four supporting manufacturers so far: LG Electronics, ZTE and Alcatel One Touch will start shipping Firefox phones this summer as part of a first wave.

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"It's a case of the vertical business model's dying and another one's beginning, " says Eugene Polistuk, the CEO of Celestica, in Toronto, Canada, one of the new breed of contract manufacturers that dominates electronics products.

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"If you look at every consumer electronics market in the world, there isn't a single other one that isn't dominated by Japanese manufacturers, " says Rick Timmons, managing director of sales at J-Phone, Japan's No. 3 carrier.

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