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LG in a spin
FinancialThe company's figures were not helped by the fact that in December, the European Commission imposed the biggest antitrust penalty in its history, fining six firms including LG, Philips, Panasonic and others a total of 1.47 billion euros for running two cartels for nearly a decade. -
Dutch chip maker, NXP, sues RIM
NXP was spun off from Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV in 2006, and it owns 1,000 issued or pending patents, and generated $4.2 billion of annual revenue. -
NXP abandons MRAM patents
The spin off of Philips - NPX Semiconductors - has apparently decided that there's no future in MRAM, once a most promising area of memory. -
USB toothbrush could raise house prices
Philips hasn't solved the problem of needing a dump mid-World of Warcraft - and we don't advise Cartman-from-South-Park-esque levels of fecal depravity - but at least it has invented an innovation to brush the Cheetos from your neckbeard, mid-Spell, you tremendous Mage. -
Vodafone to meet with human rights groups
Bond is being replaced by Gerard Kleisterlee, the former chief executive of Dutch electronics firm Philips. It is the first time that Vodafone's two most senior leaders are not British. Chief executive Vittorio Colao is Italian. -
Apple admits it has problems with its bottoms
Loose bottomed fanboys can now have an Apple Genius tinker with their bottoms, or simply order a replacement part online. The replacement kit comes complete with something to screw in your bottom and a Philips driver. -
Europe to dominate OLED panel market
Germany, as usual for newer technologies, will pave the way for driving sales in the foreseeable future. It'll make up a fourth of all sales between 2011 and 2018, while manufacturing will also find a steady home, concentrated in Germany by companies such as BASF, Fraunhofer, Philips and others. -
LG dodges Blu Ray patent group because it still wants to litigate
Cyberlink announced that it had joined forces with Hitachi, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung and LG arch-rival Sony to form One-Blue, LLC. The idea of the consortium is to help companies in the industry with a patent licensing service. -
Apple demonstrates staggeringly screwy arrogance on iPhone innards
It has found a screwdriver that works for the 5-point “Pentalobe” fasteners on the iPhone 4 case, which although isn't a true Pentalobe driver — the tip is more star shaped than “flowery,” so there may be some slight play in the fit when using - can unfasten these screws meaning you can replace them -
US claims record patent numbers in 2010, IBM leads
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TV sales drop in Q3
TV brand ranking was the same as in the previous quarter with Samsung, LG and Sony coming in as the top three positions followed by Philips and Panasonic. -
Government reveals "superfast" broadband and investment plan
Mr Philips agreed, telling TechEye: "Although it's a good thing that the government has pledged superfast broadband by 2015, it's also important to note that many of the technologies that need this will still be a minority. -
Dell, Funai, Kyocera sued over man-machine interface
LawThe case centres around remote control devices – Funai, it’s said has sold infringing devices with televisions and sold such packages under the trademarks Philips and Magnavox. -
TSMC takes patents out to cover LED business
Giant Number One Foundry TSMC will license light emitting diode (LED) patents from Dutch outfit Philips to ensure that everything goes nice and smoothly when it opens its LED fab later this year. -
Brits spend half their lives communicating
Peter Philips of Ofcom said that it was the first time his organisation has mapped the totality of communications use over a day. -
European project to use 3D imaging to diagnose and treat brain
Some of the 15 partners involved in the project include STMicroelectronics in Italy, the University of Bologna, Philips Electronics in The Netherlands, Guger Technologies OEG in Austria and the University of Pannonia in Hungary. -
Apple, Sony, Dell, others sued over pixellation
LawThe filing states: "To date, multiple third parties have licensed Positive Technologies' display drive control IP." Those include LG Electronics, Samsung, Toshiba, Sharp, Vizio, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Benq and NEC. -
LED lights have a very bright future
Bigwigs in lighting manufacturers such as Philips and Panasonic have realised that for LED to do well it needs total vertical integration all the way from chips to light source systems.
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