Sales of smart electronics and smart cars will rise dramatically, as will leisure-plus-pleasure spending.
Hardis aims to improve growth and profit margins by embedding more smart electronics in the product line.
Is it such big a leap to think consumer electronics beyond smart phones can be used for payments?
Tessera is in the business of licensing miniaturization technologies, and such technologies are used in consumer electronics like smart phones and flat screen televisions.
"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.
"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications, " said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).
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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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The most menacing of these is that posed by archrival Samsung, whose windfall profits from sales of memory chips and huge internal demand for advanced logic chips for Samsung-brand electronics products like smart phones give it sizeable advantages in the form of both financial firepower and in-house vertical integration.
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"Before today, the Smart TV industry was a very difficult market for both TV manufacturers and application developers as TV's from different brands used different platforms and technologies, " said Bong-seok Kwon of LG Electronics, President of Smart TV Alliance.
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"The expansive selection of channels from FiOS TV and on-demand content from Verizon's Flex View library further strengthens LG's Smart TV platform, giving consumers of all ages a virtually limitless amount of entertainment on TVs, Blu-ray players, PCs, even tablets and phones, " said Samuel Chang, vice president, Smart TV and Innovation, LG Electronics USA, Inc.
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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.
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.
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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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.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week in a case of first impression that if you are carrying electronics like computers, hard drives, smart phones, digital cameras, USB sticks or anything else that may contain questionable data when you enter the United States, it may be analyzed by Border Protection agents, either at the point of entry, or at a forensic lab off-site.
Among those new opportunities: smart phones, hand-held devices, and consumer electronics.
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Samsung, Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Note, Smart TV, Captivate, and Exhilarate are trademarks of Samsung Electronics Co.
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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.
News overnight that Samsung has an active smart watch program will have surprised even close observers of the Korean electronics giant.
Seoul (Korea Newswire) August 26, 2012 04:08 PM -- LG Electronics (LG) unveiled its newest premier TM2792 Personal Smart TV at IFA 2012 in Berlin.
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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.
Schaefer said electronics and appliance stores stand to benefit as students replace smart phones and calculators, and as more schools allow or even encourage students to bring laptop computers to the classroom.
"This cooperation is nothing less than a watershed in the brief history of Smart TVs, " said Havis Kwon, President and CEO of LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company.
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The systems include laser scanners, haptic handles and gloves, a vibrating seat, lights, smart helmet-cameras and radar as well as a pannier full of the electronics that analyse data gathered by the sensors and pump out warnings.
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).
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