That will include deploying Lockheed Martin's electronics and Raytheon's antimissile missiles aboard Aegis destroyers and land-based Patriot batteries.
Firms like GadgetTrak are developing systems like this to help quash the rising rate of electronics robberies in the U.S. The small size, sleekness and mobility that make today's electronics convenient also make them great targets for thieves.
And that's why LG Electronics , Samsung's nearest competitor, also based in South Korea, probably won't follow suit with its own Palm-based, phone-PDA combination device.
For Toshiba and allies Time Warner, Hollywood studio MCA, France's Thomson Consumer Electronics and Japan's Matsushita Electric, Hitachi and Pioneer, the immediate challenge is to make sure SD becomes the industry standard.
But the government, in an effort to protect Samsung Electronics, the country's largest electronics equipment manufacturer, has thrown an interesting twist into bid proposals due this week by pressuring the chosen to adopt a 3G technology not to their liking.
Setting the stage for further consolidation in Japan's electronics sector, Toshiba is in talks to buy Fujitsu 's hard-disk drive unit.
The collaboration will use MC10's revolutionary conformal electronics platform and Reebok's preeminent design capability to bring new products to the athletics market.
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RCA's toting its "Mobile TV Tablet" as, "the electronics industry's first dual-tuner mobile TV" -- making your on-the-go viewings of The View all the easier.
But with some of the largest players in today's consumer electronics industry shunning CES, the trade show's impact may be waning.
Already Japan's Kyocera (nyse: KYO - news - people ) and South Korea's LG Electronics have taken out licenses based on Arraycomm's technology.
That has kept Thailand's electronics exports robust even as its overall exports have declined.
Sony, Japan's electronics giant, is expected to report a record loss for the year to March.
In sad contrast Sharp, like the rest of Japan's electronics industry, has gone blunt.
This combination of digital diffusion and Chinese expansion is driving two profound changes among Japan's electronics firms.
Almost two-thirds of the investment will be allocated to increase production facilities at the group's electronics businesses.
In keeping with Samsung's electronics prowess, the Leeum uses its share of technology.
The Journal said Ausaf Umar Siddiqui, a former executive with the Fry's Electronics retail chain, also was under scrutiny.
From January to August this year, Singapore's electronics sector output grew an impressive 22%--even as disk drive production was falling.
That dinged the consumer electronics chain's shares, even though the company held firm on its outlook for the full year.
"Everything is focused on how you squeeze costs out of the equation, " says Ed Rodriguez, the head of KPMG's electronics practice.
The announcement specifically mentions the Korean electronics maker's Galaxy and ATIV lines.
Apart from the STOVL version's problems, the biggest issue was integrating and testing the software that runs the aircraft's electronics and sensors.
But Boeing had also acquired North American Rockwell with its space business, and later gained satellite expertise by buying parts of Hughes's electronics business.
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Malaysia's electronics exports are up 10% year-on-year, and orders are surging.
Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America's Presentation Products Division, known for its award-winning, high-quality presentation and display products, is announcing a number of new products today at InfoComm.
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But Singapore officials and electronics analysts are at pains to stress that all this does not add up to a "hollowing-out" of the island-republic's electronics industry.
Light striking this detector liberates electrons from some of the silicon atoms, producing an electrical signal that is converted by the chip's electronics into a picture.
"The electronics industry's groundbreaking launch of 4K Ultra HD TV has given us reason to even further elevate our Blu-ray offering, " said David Bishop, President, SPHE.
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Right after the New Year's bubbly goes flat, the world's electronics makers converge upon Las Vegas to reveal forthcoming digital wonders at the annual Consumer Electronics Show.
Packaged software will also be available starting September 4 at Apple retail stores, Apple.com, Amazon.com, Fry's Electronics, MicroCenter and hundreds of other resellers and retail locations nationwide.
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