"Open source has become an engine for innovation in the smart phone and consumer electronics market, " said Teppo Hemia, vice president, 3G Multimedia Platforms Business Unit of ST-Ericsson.
When he took the stage, Otellini told the crowd that the song reflected his view that smart networks and consumer electronics would drive the next generation of the Internet, making it into something predictive, proactive and context aware.
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Tessera is in the business of licensing miniaturization technologies, and such technologies are used in consumer electronics like smart phones and flat screen televisions.
Several companies also showed off prototype "smart glasses" at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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The device relies on the kind of off-the-shelf parts you might find in a smart phone or other piece of consumer electronics.
Within the world of consumer electronics, a smart marketing campaign can be relied upon to generate advance sales on the first batch of retail unit sales without relying on reviews or user feedback to drive demand.
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These technologies are fundamental to the world's growing image sensor industry, with sales of over two billion units annually, and found in almost every consumer electronics device including smart phones, automobiles, tablets, televisions, gaming platforms, medical equipment and digital cameras.
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Share premium video content, mobile games and movies and TV shows from Samsung Media Hub wirelessly with Samsung Smart TVs, laptops, tablets and other consumer electronics.
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Intel wants to promote this trend, and has had a hard time keeping the attention of other NAND flash makers who sell 95% or more of their product into consumer electronics products like cameras, smart phones, and GPS receivers.
Among those new opportunities: smart phones, hand-held devices, and consumer electronics.
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This is a wide thoroughfare right in the middle of this ever-expanding metropolis packed with shops and supermarkets selling consumer electronics, from the latest smartphones to smart televisions, from laptops to tablet computers.
"Freescale is taking a leadership position in shaping the future of consumer electronics by enabling entirely new categories of smart mobile devices based on processors, " said Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager of Freescale's Networking and Multimedia Group.
It's a smart piece of kit that became one of the fastest selling consumer electronics devices of all time when it was released in 2010.
The Acer C7 connects to popular consumer electronics devices such as camcorders, digital cameras and smart phones via its three USB 2.0 ports.
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Consumer electronics companies are not only preparing for streaming video on smart phones and tablets, but also on smart televisions.
They won best device manufacturer and best Best Mobile Enabled Consumer Electronics Device for the Galaxy camera, and Best Mobile Infrastructure for Smart LTE Networks (they also won the CTO Choice award for their LTE technology).
These myriad smart TVs, with their varying degrees of technological intelligence, were on display throughout the Consumer Electronics Show.
Gaikai has recently inked deals with major consumer electronics brands like Samsung and LG to provide cloud gaming services for their Smart TVs and other devices.
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Google's Android Honeycomb platform, for example, which was demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month, will contribute competition to future smart phone development.
As the worlds of digital media, consumer electronics and social media continue to collide, will.i.am further streamlines smart phones into a single multi tasking, high quality imagery social hub, with a unique social versatility.
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Now, according to tech companies at the Consumer Electronics Show, it's time to equip pretty much everything else in the home with smart technology, too.
All the rage at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) connections now cover much more than just smart energy delivery and smart cars.
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