Samsung readies Philips&#39; near-field communications for cellphones
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MANHASSET, NY - Philips Electronics and Samsung Electronics have entered into a deal that will enable Samsung to deploy cellular devices using Philips&#39; near-field communications chip and technology.
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Samsung Electronics Co. showed off its vision for the future of mobile technology Thursday, sending data wirelessly at blazing speeds to a moving minibus.
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Next month, residents of a Farglory Land Development housing project in Taiwan will be invited to test a new mobile phone from BenQ, the T80, that uses NFC (near field communications) technology to access home security systems and pay for items including subway rides.
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Samsung unveils a new service and a player with slide-out speakers--in a crowded market for both.
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(InfoWorld) - Koninklijke Philips ElectronicsÂ hopes to dominate the market for electronic healthcare products in much the same way that Apple conquered the ears of consumers with its successful iPod portable music player. With the entertainment segment of consumer electronics likely to remain a high-volume, low-margin business, Philips views healthcare gadgets, targeted largely at an aging baby-boom generation, as a market with great potential, said Rudy Provoost, chief executive officer of Philips' consumer electronics division, in a speech Saturday at the IFA electronics show in Berlin. "Globally, the population of people 60 and older is growing by 2 percent per year, faster than the population as a whole," Provoost said, citing a United Nations report. "The most developed nations already have a higher proportion of 60-plus citizens than children up to the age of 15." As part of its Connect Care product development project, Philips is working on a variety of "body-driven" consumer electronics products that could help improve people's health and well-being. Provoost showed a video of a woman with a small, white iPod-like device attached to her that was designed to monitor her health using a conductive skin response technology. The device, when placed near a special display, shows images of the woman's health status, making suggestions where corrections are needed and also sending alerts where emerging problems are detected. It can also be programmed to help the woman overcome sleeping problems. Even if Philips is looking to healthcare to lift its profits, the company also hopes to squeeze more money out of consumers' pockets with innovative entertainment products. Provoost pointed to the company's Ambilight technology for reducing eye strain on flat-panel TV screens as an example of how to entertain consumers in a more "relaxing and exciting way." At the IFA show Philips, which introduced the world's first flat-panel TV a decade ago, showed a prototype 100-inch flat-screen TV with Ambilight. As part of its Lifestyle Home project, the company is using consumer electronics as a platform to connect diverse technologies, such as electronic paper, gesture-sensitive smart skin surfaces, algorithms that create ambient mood lighting, remote controls and contactless purchase systems for secure in-home payment. A video showed a women pointing a remote control at a movie on the TV and dragging the image over to a flat-panel in another corner and then to picture frames. Provoost made a pitch for "open innovation," calling on companies, universities and research institutes to combine knowledge, efforts and money to develop new consumer electronic products. A go-it-alone strategy in the 21st century, the Dutch CEO said, would be "outright suicidal."
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SEOUL (AFX) - Samsung Electronics Co said that it has developed a hard disc drive (HDD)-embedded mobile handset, claiming it the world&#39;s first.
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Samsung Electronics today introduced its latest Windows Mobile smartphone, a slim and trim handheld designed for mobile professionals needing access to next-generation wireless data networks and support for business communications applications.
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U.S. TV broadcasters will be ready to start transmitting signals for portable electronics like cell phones next year, the developers of the technology, LG Electronics Inc. and Harris Corp., said Sunday.
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Samsung&#39;s latest phone offers streaming video and audio, including from major old media companies, along with a megapixel camera.
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InfoWorld - Samsung Electronics will present the latest model in its popularÂ Ultra edition range of cell phonesÂ at the Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona next week.
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currently CEO of Philips&#39; consumer electronics business groups -- will succeed the unit&#39;s CEO Scott McGregor. The company is scheduled to hold a Semiconductors and Technology analysts day in Holland on Friday.
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LG.Philips LCD has reported that mass production at its sixth generation thin-film-transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) plant in Gumi, South Korea, began last month.
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Samsung mobile phones look set to double as m-wallets as the mobile phone manufacturer signs a Near Field Communication chip deal with Philips.
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TechWeb - The maker, LG.Philips, will also show an 84-inch LCD screen at the Consumer Electronics Show next week.
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DALLAS, Oct 21, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Texas Instruments unveiled plans Thursday for the industry&#39;s first cell phone capable of receiving high definition TV broadcast signals.
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co., has developed the world's first mobile phone with the capability to convert spoken words into text messages.
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Looking to turn its mobile phones into an electronic wallet, Samsung has inked a deal to use Philips Electronics&#39; Near Field Communication (NFC) contactless chip solutions in future devices.