Feb 03

Nokia ramping orders in preparation for “several” multi-touch phones?

Posted in: cellphone, nokia, qualcomm, rumor, texas instruments, ti, Today's Chili, touchscreen

While DigiTimes tends to nail rumors focused on Taiwanese companies like Acer and ASUS, its component supplying sources can be hit or miss across other geographies. So take it with the usual lump of NaCl when talkative sources say that Nokia is increasing orders in March as it prepares to “launch several 3G and 3.5G products with multi-touch and multimedia functions in 2009” — Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, and Synaptics being the chief beneficiaries. Of course, Nokia has been perfectly clear that its 5800 was the just the initial salvo in an onslaught of touchscreen devices to come and led by its flagship N97. Nevertheless, with profits down and the economy mired in the suck, it’s nice to have confirmation (as tenuous as it is) that things are on track in Espoo.

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Nokia ramping orders in preparation for “several” multi-touch phones? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 30

Texas Instruments unleashes pico projector dev kit on the world

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Pico projectors have been multiplying like gerbils over the past year and a half, so it was probably only a matter of time until we saw a developer’s kit released upon the market, right? Right. Well, Texas Instruments has announced it’s doing just that — released through Digi-Key Corporation. The kit will contain an HVGA resolution DLP projection device, a three color LED, a power supply, and a video cable connected to a BeagleBoard which boasts an OMAP35x processor, supported by Linux. The kit costs $349 and it’s available now, so all you would-be miniature projector designers, get to it: the world is waiting.

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Texas Instruments unleashes pico projector dev kit on the world originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 28

Recession roundup: volume eleventeen zillion

Posted in: Panasonic, recession, texas instruments, Today's Chili

We’re getting rather tired of having to “roundup” the misery, loss of profits, and layoffs in this modern era of plenty and luxury, but there’s seemingly no end in sight, so here we go. Texas Instruments announced plans to cut 12 percent of its workforce (apparently as a safety measure as its profits last quarter actually topped analysts’ estimates). Meanwhile, Panasonic’s announced some modest cuts of roughly 600 workers, in addition to closing some of its plants in Asia as it posted a net loss for the first time in six years. Moving on, Hewlett-Packard’s laying off nearly 25,000 people in a “restructuring” scheme, while those IBM losses we’ve been hearing about (and which have been rumored to number nearly 16,000) are now quietly happening in several locales across the U.S. Finally, big boxer Best Buy’s just confirmed impending cuts at their headquarters in Minneapolis, but won’t release any hard numbers until February. Seriously, world: the future is disgusted with us.

Read – Texas Instruments cutting jobs
Read – Panasonic to cut 560 jobs, close plants
Read – IBM, HP quietly cut thousands of jobs
Read – Best Buy plans layoffs at headquarters

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Recession roundup: volume eleventeen zillion originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 06

Hillcrest Labs hops on the RF4CE remote control bandwagon with TI

Posted in: remote, remote control, RemoteControl, texas instruments, ti, Today's Chili

Hillcrest Labs and TI RF4CENothing is more frsutrating than when your IR remote “misses” a piece of gear — your whole carefully synchronized setup goes out of whack, especially if you’ve got macros programmed on that remote. Hillcrest Labs is hoping to save you some headaches by joining up with Texas Instruments to produce RF remotes that comply with the RF4CE standard that came out last summer. They’ll be showing some of these new wares off at CES, and we expect RF technology is pretty much essential for use with Hillcrest’s Freespace motion control where the whole point of the device is to wave it about with reckless disregard for a chicklet-sized IR sensor. Press release past the break.

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