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The Khronos Group—the same industry consortium that manages the development of standards like the OpenGL 3D platform—has announced it is targeting the first half of 2010 for its first release of WebGL, a hardware-accelerated 3D platform for Web browsers based on OpenGL ES 2.0. Originally announced at the Game Developers Conference back in March 2009, the idea is to leverage recent developments in browser technology—like… Read More

Russia's most powerful business lobby, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, is taking the stance that VoIP services like Skype and ICQ pose a threat to both Russian businesses and Russian national security—because they undercut phone services offered by existing Russian businesses, and because they're owned and operated by foreign companies. The group works as a lobby representing Russian business… Read More

On Friday evening a large group of people, mimicking a popular T-Mobile television ad, descended on London’s Liverpool Street station, forcing it to close for 90 minutes. According to Vnunet, the group – a so-called ‘flash mob’ – was brought together by an announcement on a Facebook page that read: "The Liverpool Silent Dance, this is where everyone meets at Liverpool Street station, you play your ipod,… Read More

Another propaganda salvo has been fired in the high-definition disc format war: citing sales figures from marketing research firm GfK Group, the European HD DVD Promotional Group is claiming that standalone HD DVD players are outselling Blu-ray players in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom by a ratio of three to one. The group claims a 74 percent market share amongst standalone players in those counries, although the figured do… Read More

Internet titan Yahoo has announced a major strategic reorganization which will see the company re-align into three primary units focussing on technology, advertisers and publishers, and “audience.” The reorganization will also mark the departure of Chief Operating Office Dan Rosenweig. “We're moving aggressively to deliver the most possible value to our key customers—audiences, advertisers and… Read More

Last week brougt news of what may turn out to be one of the biggest leveraged buyouts in the history of the technology industry: a private equity group led by The Blackstone Group has negotiated a deal to buy U.S. chipmaker Freescale for some $17.6 billion&mash;assuming Freescale can't line up a more lucrative offer in the next 50 days. Freescale spun off from Motorola in 2004, and is the world largest supplier of chips and… Read More

Some of the world's largest technology and electronics manufacturers have announced major changes in their businesses, reflecting shifts in the global economy and marketplace: Technology giant Hewlett-Packard has announced it plans to eliminate its Global Operations group, moving its functions to the company's Technology Solutions Group, Personal Systems Group, and Imaging and Printing Group. Along the way, HP anticipates this… Read More

The Harman Consumer Group, which owns the brands JBL and Harman Kardon among others, today said they would be acquiring PhatNoise out of Los Angeles. PhatNoise is best known for their after market PhatBox car MP3 player hard drive. PhatNoise's team will join the Harman Consumer Group's engineering group in designing digital media systems in the automotive environment. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.… Read More

“Audio and video are the killer apps,” said Robin Heydon, a technical consultant for Bluetooth chip maker Cambridge Silicon Radio. Stereo audio headsets will be coming out very soon, he said, taking the concept of a Bluetooth headset a step further. On the other hand, a home automation working group has received confirmation, Cook said, signaling that the technology may soon seek to challenge Zigbee and other home automation… Read More

The group will identify which parts of the MPEG-4 standard are applicable, and review strategies for possible implementation. It will operate under the auspices of the 1394 Trade Association's Architecture Work Group, which is chaired by Peter Johansson. Don Harwood of Oxford Semiconductor, a leading member of the 1394 Trade Association, will direct the MPEG-4 over IEEE 1394 project, and the group will meet regularly beginning in March… Read More

According to new research from The Diffusion Group, despite the fact that media servers and digital media adapters were well-hyped and widely discussed, and despite the fact that early forecasts from a number of research firms were quite rosy, the devices have suffered from extremely limited demand. The Diffusion Group believes that demand for both these solutions will remain limited and that what unique functionality these solutions do… Read More

“The new TVs bring together a host of proprietary technology from throughout the Sony Group, including video, audio, game systems and semiconductors. The S-Master digital amp developed by Sony's audio arm for high-fidelity sound has been adapted to the needs of the TV, along with constituent technologies to improve image quality from group component and R&D arms, and improved operability thanks to the game systems arm. Sony… Read More

Mature markets in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific will add 150 million new PCs to the world market by 2010. More significant growth will come from emerging markets, for which Forrester forecasts that 566 million new PCs will be in use by 2010, up from 75 million in 2003, a 31% CAGR. Competition for market share will pit industry leaders like Dell and HP against local emerging market manufacturers and fundamentally change the rules of the… Read More

With built-in wireless technology, all the PCs are pre-configured to work seamlessly with Philips' Streamium family of wireless and broadband-enabled entertainment devices, enabling the enjoyment of music, video content, photos, games and Internet access anytime and anywhere in the home. "The Philips-Freeline range adds an important element to our vision of the Connected Planet," says Toon Bouten, Executive Vice-President &… Read More

“To do so, the company has set up a new Mobile DTV unit within its Mobile Connectivity Solutions Group, which also includes the wireless LAN, GPS and the Personal Area Networking Group. That new group will be managed by Kush Parikh, strategic marketing manager for the Connectivity Solutions Group. “We are leveraging all the coexistence issues you have with the wide-area network as well as Bluetooth and wireless LAN