The Japanese giants go open-source to shut Microsoft's window on home electronics networking.

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Dai, a native of Shanghai, bragged about her lack of hobbies, scheduled every weekend full of meetings and knew every major player in the world of networking hardware and consumer electronics.

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They are now working on adding improvements, like live data web-hooks, which make it possible to write a web app that talks to a sensor without first learning about embedded programming, electronics or networking.

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Ando's comments suggest that the early adopter phase of home networking is over, and that consumer electronics companies like Sony and others are going to start pushing networks for the home in a big way.

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Executives with Philips Electronics outlined strategy and gave advance demonstrations of new and upcoming peripherals, including a home networking system for consumers and thin-client products aimed at corporate users.

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Consumer electronics (CE) vendors and service providers are seeking standards-based Wi-Fi home networking solutions for HD video distribution to enable consumers to easily stream video content between CE devices, set top boxes (STBs) and personal computers (PC).

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As the world s second-biggest electronics manufacturer-for-hire, they ve seen them all: smartphones, storage hardware, networking switches.

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