Cell phones and laptops may seem like pretty minor offenders when it comes to energy guzzling. But as they become ubiquitous all over the planet, their growing power consumption is emerging as a major source of concern for those trying to conserve energy and stop global warming.
With the economy affecting all manner of consumer spending, it’s a little surprising to hear upbeat commentary from the flat-panel sector.
But according to Scott Birnbaum, vice president of Samsung’s LCD unit, its sales are benefiting from “vidification,” a term he uses to describe consumers trying to create a big-screen experience at home.
Five major U.K. carriers are banding together to pool customer data so that it can be put into a giant database and then be used to sell advertising, The Register reports today. How long do you think it will take before this “database” idea lands on American shores?
The Amish have the undeserved reputation of being Luddites, of people who refuse to employ new technology. It’s well known the strictest of them don’t use electricity, or automobiles, but rather farm with manual tools and ride in a horse and buggy. Yet Amish lives are anything but anti-technological.
We take them with us to the dinner table, the bedroom, even the bathroom stall. But in recent years, some of us have started taking our beloved cellphones someplace really startling: the grave.
A longish article from Reuters today speculates on whether Research in Motion (RIMM) could be bought out, now that its share price has received a 50 percent haircut in the last month, to $59.03, and its market capitalization has fizzled to a mere $33.4 billion.
Qualcomm (QCOM) CEO Paul Jacobs this morning said in an interview on CNBC that customers are keeping their cellphones for longer than they have in the past.
It must be tough to be a delegate at the Democratic National Convention–you have to know when to scream for Hillary, when to scream for Obama and when not to scream at all. And then you have to learn the art of shaking hands and networking while listening for really important announcements such as someone [...]
Nokia (NOK) shares are headed higher this morning on better-than-expected second-quarter results.
For the quarter, the company posted net sales of $13.151 billion Euros, up 4 percent both year-over-year and sequentially, and ahead of the Street consensus of 12.8 billion Euros. EPS excluding special items was in line at 36 Euro cents per share.
In a few weeks, the Apple faithful and other gadget mavens will line up as part of the mad rush to be among the first to buy the new 3G iPhone on July 11. Contrast that with the rest of the wireless business, where once-hot device makers such as Motorola Inc. cannot even give away many of their products.
YouTube videos that show a group of friends apparently cooking kernels of popcorn with their cellphones have been viewed more than a million times since they were uploaded last week. The clever parlor trick looks amazing enough, but there’s a hitch: It’s not physically possible, according to University of Virginia physics professor Louis Bloomfield.
We often cover semiconductors that require less energy, but we rarely talk to the companies behind those chips to find out what else they might be doing to reduce their power consumption. However, Norm Fjeldheim, chief information officer for Qualcomm, recently shared a few tidbits about what the cellphone chip maker is doing to keep corporate consumption down–and it all starts with information technology (not everyone is jumping ship to build “cleantech” firms).
Hospitals and airplanes ban the use of cell phones, because their electromagnetic transmissions can interfere with sensitive electrical devices. Could the brain also fall into that category? Of course, all our thoughts, sensations and actions arise from bioelectricity generated by neurons and transmitted through complex neural circuits inside our skulls.
Google’s biggest threat may not be Microsoft or Yahoo. No, one of the most formidable challenges facing Google is likely sitting in your pocket or purse. It’s your cellphone, and it will put added pressure on Google and other Internet companies to revamp the way they handle online marketing.
Last week, three of the nation’s largest cable companies quietly pulled the plug on a joint cellphone venture with Sprint Nextel Corp. called Pivot. The goal of this service offering was to help the cablers compete with the Telco Triple Play (video, voice and data). In theory, a Quadruple Play (video, voice, data plus a mobile phone) would seal the deal and make the cable offer irresistible to consumers. In practice, it just didn’t work.
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