Daewoo Electronics, the third largest electronics firm in South Korea after Samsung and LG, is looking to expand its presence in the U.S. home appliance market. Consumer Reports has tested a handful of Daewoo front-loader washing machines ...
Dongbu LED, the lighting affiliate of Dongbu Group, has signed a licensing deal with Osram over patents in LEDs. The agreement allows Dongbu to use key Osram-owned white conversion-related patents by paying royalties. Dongbu is the ...
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CCFL TV to be Phased Out, LED Specifications for TV Application to be Unified LEDinside’s latest market report showed that in 1Q13, the cost of direct-type LED BLU dropped by approximately 2.7%-4.7%, while the cost of edge-lit LED ...
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Samsung filed more patent applications in Europe last year than any other company, according to figures released by the European Patent Office (EPO) on Wednesday. In 2012, the EPO received a record number of patent applications, with ...
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They say baseball is a game of inches. So too is kitchen remodeling, another activity that heats up in the spring. The inches matter most if you're forced to work with the existing dimensions of the kitchen, including the openings for your ...
According to LEDinside, a research division of Trendforce, investigation on the latest LED light bulb retail price showed that global LED light bulb retail price remained volatile in January 2013. The retail price of LED replacements of 40W ...
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A version of LTE that could give consumers more mobile bandwidth for downloading content or apps is moving from the margins to the mainstream at Mobile World Congress this week. TD (Time-Division) LTE, which uses a single block of radio ...
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Sony Mobile will provide an experimental version of the Firefox OS on one of its smartphones so that advanced developers can try it out and start working on applications. Earlier this week, Sony said it is evaluating the Firefox OS ...
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Leveraging an asset—a Hollywood movie studio—that competitors like LG and Samsung must envy, Sony is planning a summer launch of a new distribution system that will allow Ultra HD TV owners to download 4K movies to a new ...
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While they may lack the pure wow factor engendered by a gigantic 84-inch screen, smaller higher-resolution Ultra HD TVs are on the way from Sony, slated to arrive this April or May. Exact pricing hasn't yet been announced, though they're ...
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The global average price of 40W retrofit LED light bulbs in January 2013 increased by 4% on month, reaching US$19.4/unit, while the price of 60W retrofit LED light bulbs dropped by 4.3% on month, at US$29.6/unit, according to studies. Among ...
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For years now, I dreamed of a mobile device with a huge screen, but in a compact form factor. And one way to get there is using a flexible display. Imagine curling up your iPhone or Android device and putting in your pocket, or donning ...
Products from several smartphone vendors and processors from the likes of Nvidia are helping drive down the cost of LTE-enabled devices. LTE smartphone shipments will grow from about 90 million units last year to 275 million in 2013, ...
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Dyson continues to push the limits of industrial design with the announcement of two new vacuums, each with space-age styling and impressive innovations. The question is, will the DC47 bagless canister vacuum and the DC50 upright vacuum ...
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In recent years, the global market share of the Japanese television industry fell significantly, while Korean and Chinese enterprises were achieving a catch-up. In 2012, China's color TV industry surpassed Japan. South Korea's Samsung ...
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