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The name “Skyhook” may not be familiar to a lot of you.  If you’re an Apple keynote watcher, you may remember Steve Jobs mentioning a deal with them when talking about GPS.  They are the company that allows location triangulation using Wi-Fi access points.  Now Texas Instruments is interested in… Continue Reading »

Archos, a company mainly known for their PMPs, is planning to enter the smartphone market with their Internet Media Tablets (“IMT”) by employing Google’s Android OS.  If you are familiar with Archos’ IMT features, then you will be pleased to know that they would remain the same in an Android… Continue Reading »

Monday, January 26, 2009 may earn the name Black Monday as over 40,000 people were told they were losing their jobs as several large corporations cut labor forces in an increasingly weak economy.  Global technology company Texas Instruments was one of those companies, cutting 1,800 workers and 1,600 jobs that… Continue Reading »

Fulton Innovation brought its ecoupled wireless charging system to CES.  While a competitor showed marketable products, Fulton showed working models but no finished products with release dates.  The booth simulated a home with an office, a living room, and a kitchen so a consumer or manufacturer could see how the… Continue Reading »

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You probably remember sitting in a movie theater, wearing those crazy blue and red glasses, the big monster seeming to come off the screen right at you.  Well, 3D has come even further, and is even more amazingly lifelike.  And one of the latest steps forward is actually a step… Continue Reading »

Imagine being able to power your smoke alarm in your house without ever needing to change your batteries. It would get it’s energy simply from the energy and vibrations from everything around it. That is the goal of Texas Instruments. They call it “energy scavenging”, and they say the reality… Continue Reading »