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- Philips Semiconductors Manufactures Innovative Inventory Management Processes
- As part of an initiative to improve efficiency and enhance customer service, Philips determined it needed to streamline information management processes within its manufacturing and distribution supply chain. Philips turned to IBM Business Consulting Services to help infuse its supply chain with more responsive, efficient inventory management processes. The introduction...
- Tags: Philips Semiconductor, Inventory Management, IBM Corp., Philips Electronics N.V., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
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- Philips Semiconductors Manufactures Innovative Inventory Management Processes With Help From IBM
- Philips needed to improve inventory management for high-volume integrated circuits to respond quickly to customer demands, minimize waste and reduce errors. By infusing its supply chain with sense-and-respond capabilities, Philips enabled greater responsiveness to market dynamics. A state-of-the-art real-time inventory tracking system - built with IBM's help using Philips RFID...
- Tags: Philips Semiconductor, Inventory Management, Inventory Tracking, IBM Corp., Philips Electronics N.V., Enterprise Software, Software
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- Philips Semiconductors Uses TIBCO to Improve Its Supply Chain
- Philips Semiconductors is a world leader in silicon systems and standard products for wireless communications, digital entertainment, computing, and automotive applications. The company still faces increased customer demands for faster time to market. To stay competitive, companies are being forced to reinvent themselves so that the supply chain - encompassing...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Supply Chain, Philips Semiconductor, Supply Chain Management (SCM), B2B, EAI, Business Process Automation, Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Software, Wireless, Software, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Middleware, It Operations, Business Operations
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- 2008 Holiday Buying Guide: Midrange home theater setups
- Last week, I gave some recommendations for budget home theater setups. This time, I'm looking at home theater products for a slightly larger budget: TVs that cost between $1,000 and $2,000, plus slightly more expensive components. Even with the additional outlay, it doesn't add up to...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Home Theater, Video, 1080p, Blu-ray, PN50A550, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, DVD, Personal Technology, Marketing, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guide
- There's always a lot of madness surrounding consumerist pseudo-holiday Black Friday, but with the economy in a chokehold, this year's event has been hard to predict. Will there be good deals because of a tanking economy, or did companies sign off on their specials before the...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Home Theater, Savings, HDTV, Price, LCD, Laptop Computer, Approx, SKIP, Home Entertainment, GPS, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Bargain Apples
- Apple is undoubtedly one of the hottest tech and consumer brands in the world and they should easily sell more than 2 million Macs and 20 million iPods in the upcoming holiday quarter. With all the Mac gear out there it's sometimes hard to choose. Here are...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Battery, Richard Solo 1800 mAh Battery, Inserts, NewerTech Voyager, Engineering, 3G, Digital Music, Digital Media, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Budget home theater setups
- This is the first of a series of buying guides for those looking forward to this holiday season as a time to assemble a home theater system. First up: budget setups. Whether you need to create a home theater...
- Tags: Panasonic, Plasma, DVD Player, Home Theater, LCD, 1080p, Prestigo SRU8010, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, DVD, Media Players, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Worldwide semiconductor sales to fall 2.2% in 2009
- Global sales of semiconductors are likely to fall 2.2% in 2009 due to weak demand for electronics worldwide, World Semiconductor Trade Statistics said. The chip market will shrink to $256 bln 2009, down from an expected $261.9 bln in 2008, said WSTS. by AM
- Tags: Sales Strategy, Semiconductors, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, AM
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Tech workforce pinched by economy, feeling like 2003
- That economic doom-and-gloom has finally hit the tech sector and it looks like job cuts in the electronics, telecom and computer industries could be flirting with numbers they haven't seen in years. According to Challenger, Gray and Christmas, a global outplacement firm that tracks daily job cut...
- Tags: Job, Technology Sector, Industry, Job Cut, Workforce, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Will Tim Cook be the next Steve Jobs?
- Last month, after a press event at Apple's Cupertino headquarters, I made an off-the-cuff observation about the future leadership of the company. In short, I commented on how Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, who took a portion of stage time from Jobs to talk about new notebooks, was wearing blue...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CEO, Leadership, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- WLAN semiconductor market to pass the $4 bln by 2012
- The worldwide wireless LAN WLAN semiconductor market is expected to pass the 4 bln USD mark by 2012 with a compound annual growth rate CAGR of 22.8%. While PCs will remain the largest application segment for WLAN semiconductors, mobile phone applications will grow at a CAGR of 49.3% and become...
- Tags: WLAN, Semiconductor, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, NB
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony!
- Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony!AgreedThey really have priced themselves out of the "Average Joe" market. Why should I pay to get all of my DVDs on BDs again when they're usually at least 10$ more expensive?Downloaded video can't even compete with DVD, look at the MB/s rateDVD's...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Blu-ray, HD DVD, job, Sony Corp., DVD, Blu-ray disc, PS 3
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
- Improving chip density by a factor of 100
- According to the semiconductor industry, maskless nanolithography is a flexible nanofabrication technique which suffers from low throughput. But now, engineers at the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new approach that involves 'flying' an array of plasmonic lenses just 20 nanometers above a rotating surface. With this approach,...
- Tags: Technique, Researcher, Chip, Productivity, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille, University Of California At Berkeley, Lens, Lithography, Laser Pulse
- Blog posts 2008-10-26
- Sharp Aquos LC-52D65U
- In November, Energy Star will update its certification for televisions with a new standard, version 3.0, that for the first time takes into account actual power used when the TV is turned on. We've tested numerous HDTVs this year that comply with the new standard, and the Sharp LC-52D65U is...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sharp Corp., Sharp LC-52D65U, TV
- Product reviews 2008-10-24
- There's something nasty lurking beyond the horizon - notes on life in Silicon Valley
- It feels as if our economic version of Hurricane Katrina is building up energy, just off the coast of Silicon Valley. There is a definite feeling of something huge and nasty lurking just over the horizon. It's an ominous feeling highlighted by the fact that we...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Financial, Recession, Industry, Chip, Financial Crisis, VC, Capital Efficiency, Sequoia RIP Powerpoint Presentation, Public Relations, Web 2.0, Semiconductors, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Hardware, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Motorola pushes secured wireless LAN into enterprise
- Motorola, with the close of its acquisition of AirDefense at the end of last month, is wasting no time integrating AirDefense's wireless security technology into its wireless LAN access points. Today, as part of the company's announcement of a hardware-based wireless intrusion prevention system built into its...
- Tags: Network, WLAN, Motorola Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless, LANs, Wireless LANs, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- URC Digital R50
- With a wide range of ever-improving offerings, Logitech's Harmony line of PC-programmable clickers have gobbled up a large share of the universal remote-control market in recent years. Still, there are plenty of people who just don't like the fact that you need to do the bulk of the setup duties...
- Tags: DVR, Digital video, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Consumer electronics, Cable, Digital R50
- Product reviews 2008-10-19
- Broadcasters fume as FCC moves forward on white spaces
- We won't have nationwide wireless without a fight. The National Association of Broadcasters came out swinging against the FCC report passing white spaces devices. "It would appear that the FCC is misinterpreting the actual data collected by their own engineers," said...
- Tags: FCC, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- NewerTech 11 piece portable toolkit
- Anyone who's had the pleasure of taking apart an early-2008 MacBook Pro, or an iBook can appreciate the need for a good set of tools. If you frequently take apart Apple notebooks or iPods then a good set of tools is essential. I have a drawer full of Torx and...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Nylon, Tool, Productivity, Consumer Electronics, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
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