Jason Oxman, senior VP industry affairs, Consumer Electronics Association, talks about the biggest opportunities in the consumer market in 2009, the digital TV switch-over, and suppliers meeting the challenge of potentially falling consumer spending...
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BBC and PURE join Internet media services group
An Internet industry forum including the BBC and PURE has the aim of developing open standards to support the growing use of web-enabled media devices
Success with AdvancedTCA and commercial grade Linux
Case study: Hans Jürgen Rauscher describes how "Platform for Network Equipment - Linux Edition", or PNE LE, can present a commercial Carrier Grade Linux software platform for deployment in ATCA devices like the Universal Access Gateway.
Manchester University celebrates Turing anniversary in PC soundscape form
The sixtieth anniversary of Alan Turing's arrival at the University of Manchester has been celebrated in music made from sounds recorded around a PC.
Intel and Celoxica run low-latency acceleration for data centres
Test have achieved latency of less than 10 microseconds, processing market data from ISE, OPRA and ITCH at over 3 million messages per second
Apple iPhone gets secure business management
WorkLight, an Enterprise 2.0 company, has announced server support for Apple's iPhone, allowing companies to securely conduct business on the mobile phone
IET launches new educational resource
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) launches Faraday 08/09 – a resource for teachers of science, design and technology, engineering and maths
Analysis: Embracing open source GPLv3 and avoiding hardware lock-in
An army of developers supporting your device isn't just for giant brands anymore, and the benefits of an open design can be so great that "Tivoisation" should not even be a consideration.
ARM Cortex enters mobile internet market
ARM is going head-to-head with Intel in the ultra-mobile PC space, dubbed MIDs or mobile internet devices
Intel group proposes content protection for WirelessHD
In a move which could facilitate the transmission of high definition video content over wireless links, an industry group has published a content protection method for the WirelessHD standard