Tag archive: Siemens

Samsung LED—a subsidiary of South Korean tech giant Samsung—has ratcheted up its legal battle with German rival Osram by filing a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission, asking that Osram LED lighting products be barred from importation into the United States. Samsung LED claims the Osram products infringe on eight core LED lighting patents held by Samsung; the company is also seeking unspecified damages. LED… Read More

German industrial giant Siemens has filed suit against both South Korea's LG and Samsung in Germany and the United States, alleging the companies are infringing on Siemens LED patents in both back-lit flat-panel LCD displays and in LED lighting. Similar suits are expected to be filed in China and Japan this week. LED lighting applications are particularly in-demand, with the technology being applied to everything from conventional and… Read More

The future of warfare may have just begun, but rather than being heralded by an explosion, it began without a sound or a single casualty. It is the first of its kind, and could be a signal of the ways all wars are fought from now on. It is a cyber weapon so precise that it can destroy a target more effectively than a conventional explosive, and then simply delete itself, leaving the victims left to blame themselves. It is a weapon that is so… Read More

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and various radio-based technologies might be all the rage in current wireless technology, but researchers at Siemens are moving things up the spectrum a bit: they've just concluded new tests of wireless networking using visible light from white LEDs…and successfully transmitted data at rates of 500 Mbps over a distance of 5 meters. The tests were conducted in Berlin by Siemens in conjunction with the Heinrich… Read More

Nokia Siemens Networks said Tuesday it will lay off up to 5,700 workers globally as part of a move to cut annual costs by euro500 million ($740 million). The mobile network equipment maker — a joint venture between Finland's Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG of Germany — said it will reduce its five business units to three by January, and strengthen its business through partnerships and acquisitions. The savings program could include cutting 7… Read More

Fujitsu has announced it will be buying out Siemens' stake in their European computer-making joint venture, Fujitsu-Siemens Computers. The 50-50 joint venture was set up in 1999 and, while it has never had a significant presence in the North American market, the company has been a player in Europe, and the firm now operates in 36 countries and pulled in revenues of €6.6 billion in its last fiscal year. Fujitsu will pay €450… Read More

Fujitsu-Siemens seems to be of the opinion that Fujitsu's LifeBook line of notebook computers doesn't quite meet the needs of the business market, so the combined company is introducing a new line of three business-oriented notebooks dubbed “Esprimo”—the U9200, M9400, and D9500. The new notebooks all sport Intel's Santa Rosa chipset and Core 2 Duo processors, and sport embedded UMTS mobile data access for… Read More

At this week's Nokia Connections 2006 conference in Singapore, Nokia and Siemens announced plans to create Nokia Siemens Networks, a new company in which they will each hold a 50 percent stake. Nokia Siemens Networks will merge the fixed-line and mobile networks and offer a “quadruple play” of products and services (data, phone, television, and mobile) which the companies anticipate will generate some $20.2 billion in sales… Read More

German electronics giant Siemens has exhibited paper-thin flexible display screens at the Plastics Electronics trade show in Frankfurt. Although displays still need to be refined and costs would make them impractical for consumer products today, Siemens anticipates they'll be available on the market by 2007. The displays really aren't the stuff of science fiction or Harry Potter novels. According to an article on PhysOrg.com,… Read More

With BenQ acquiring Siemens Mobile, the new company will be listed as the world's fourth largest cell phone maker with expected combine annual revenue of $10.9 billion USD. "Today marks the next step in bringing BenQ's enjoyment philosophy to the worldwide market," said K.Y. Lee, BenQ Chairman & CEO. "The acquisition of Siemens' mobile handset business allows us to bring the strengths of both companies together,… Read More

“Siemens CEO Klaus Kleinfeld announced the transformation of the mobile device division into an independent company during a press briefing here. Besides mobile phones, Siemen wants to outsource cordless DECT phones, set-top boxes and other consumer appliances from the new group. Siemens will soon introduce further cost reductions and new mobile phone models. The market has already reconsidered the mobile unit's position,… Read More

“The paper reports a final decision will be announced at the Siemens annual general meeting on 27 January. A spokesman for Siemens declined to comment on the report but confirmed to the Scotsman newspaper that the division's future was under review by chief executive Heinrich von Pierer and that an announcement will be made at the annual meeting.” Apparently NEC was rumored to be purchasing the unit, but they have gone on… Read More

The CT66 will be available in October for young people who enjoy using colors, pictures, sounds and messaging in communicating with others. Siemens' CT66 offers youth a variety of communication and entertainment capabilities that enables them to stay connected to peers in a fun yet practical way. The CT66 comes equipped with a high-resolution up to 65,536 color screen, an integrated CIF camera(a) (with attachable flash sold… Read More

At roughly half the size of a postage stamp, the SanDisk RS-MMC is one of the world's smallest flash memory form factors. A 32-megabyte RS-MMC will be bundled with sales of the Siemens mobile phones, which are expected to reach dealers in Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America by October 1, 2004. “This represents a significant OEM design win for the RS-MMC flash memory form factor, which we recently introduced, and we're… Read More

Research In Motion (RIM) today introduced a new licensing program that allows other device manufacturers to incorporate BlackBerry software applications in addition to supporting BlackBerrywireless services. Through the BlackBerry Built-In licensing program, mobile device manufacturers can incorporate various BlackBerry applications into their own phones or handheld devices includingBlackBerry Email, BlackBerry Calendar and BlackBerry… Read More