Stories about: Consumer Electronics

Asustek Computer has turned back the clock to use Intel microprocessors first launched in 2004 in its latest Eee PC netbooks, in part due to a shortage of Intel's Atom chips.

Embedded chips will fuel the growth of the Internet in the future, making it available everywhere, an Intel executive said on Tuesday.

Intel and Yahoo have partnered in the development of a hardware and software platform designed to meld television and the Internet.

At the Last Hope hackers conference in New York City the inventor of the infamous TV B Gone talked about his current projects, but also reminisced about the past.

Linux is set to make a major impact in the mobile computing realm, the executive director of the Linux Foundation stressed at a conference Monday morning.

The possibility of a gadget world without wires took a big step forward Thursday when 14 of the biggest names in consumer electronics said they would work with Sony on its short-range, high-speed "TransferJet" wireless data system.

Some of the most oft-repeated comments attributed to Bill Gates through the years were not uttered by Bill Gates. Take for instance "640K ought to be enough for anybody," which he supposedly said in 1981 to note that the 640K bytes of memory in IBM's PC was a significant breakthrough. Or his alleged comment that if General Motors "had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving [US]$25 cars that got 1,000 miles per gallon."

At the Consumer Electronics Associations' Digital Downtown event in New York City a number of new products were on display. While this was no Las Vegas CES there were some cool gadgets out.

The Consumer Electronics Association hosted Digital Downtown where analysts discussed how it's faring in the worldwide economic downturn.

Apple's new iPhone 3G could turn out to be the company's most profitable product, an analyst said.

A technology that could help the environment by eliminating the need to ship a power adapter with every electronics device got a vote of confidence Friday from consumer electronics maker Westinghouse Digital Electronics.