Rambling 'Round
Junko Yoshida
5/10/2012 3:10 PM EDT
We all pay abject lip service to China. The business community and the media are equally in thrall to the world’s second largest – and fastest growing economy. But China’s also a handy device for fear mongering.
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KB3001
Wish you the very best of luck Junko! It's an excellent assignment and I personally look forward to ...
Weigh in on the greatest hits in electronics
Junko Yoshida
5/9/2012 4:04 PM EDT
This fall, EE Times will kick off a yearlong celebration of its 40th anniversary year. Through coverage and various activities online, in a special digital edition and at events, we plan to honor 40 visionaries, technologies and disruptions that have rewritten the rules—of technology, of the industry, sometimes of society—over the last four decades.
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RICK.HILLE
In keeping with the "Greatest Hits" theme of this survey (borrowed from the music industry), I'd ...
Seeing is believing, but vision isn't video
Junko Yoshida
4/25/2012 12:31 PM EDT
The son of Shooter in the film, "Hoosiers," said to Gene Hackman, "Coach, I'm not seeing it." I know how the kid felt. I've always had the same problem distinguishing —in technology terms — between "vision" and "video."
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jtdavies
Think of video as doing stuff with the entire image. Make the reds more vibrant, compress to fit on ...
Inward looking Renesas needs to spin outward
Junko Yoshida
4/19/2012 10:49 AM EDT
Whatever happened to the proposed merger of Japan’s chip vendors reported earlier this year? If you’ve been thinking that this big deal was idle, media-led speculation, I beg to differ. This baby’s still in the womb.
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sharps_eng
The Chinese seem to have a 'team'approach to managing things including their country. It is hard to ...
Sony pride turns to disillusionment
Junko Yoshida
4/12/2012 3:42 PM EDT
It’s painful for me to watch the downfall of Sony Corp. -- once one of the best known and most admired consumer brands in the global market.
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DutchUncle
Other companies had MP3 players first. No DRM, no complexity, no interference with my computer. I ...
Two-faced Facebook takes 'social' out of social networks
Junko Yoshida
2/10/2012 11:09 AM EST
Facebook, having neglected to acknowledge your fake account report in the first place, goes into your actual Facebook page and deletes the warning message that you posted to alert your friends that you’ve been hacked.
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Duane Benson
@Battar - You've hit on a real key point here. We pay for our electricity, Internet service, water, ...
Rebuilding America: Really? Have we given up?
Junko Yoshida
1/28/2012 12:52 PM EST
EE Times editorial team has embarked on a new series of stories focused on “Rebuilding America.” Our premise is simple: Are jobs coming back to the United States?
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landar
Well said, weflynn!
Docomo, Fujitsu, Renesas: The triangle thickens
Junko Yoshida
12/30/2011 11:27 AM EST
When NTT Docomo announced its plan for a new consortium with five companies for LTE products, the void that caught my eye was the conspicuous absence of Renesas Mobile from NTT Docomo’s list.
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KB3001
or may be it is just another distribution of roles: Fujitsu to replace Renesas as Docomo's preferred ...
Chronic Christmas gadget conundrum
Junko Yoshida
12/14/2011 3:30 PM EST
According to Accenture, customers returning electronics products will cost “U.S. consumer electronics retailers and manufacturers nearly $17 billion this year, an increase of 21 percent since 2007.”
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hm
Asking children in advance or giving them gift cards will substantially save the problem of returns. ...
If it’s not an iPad, is Vanity Fair?
Junko Yoshida
11/28/2011 12:32 PM EST
Most people in the electronics industry today are aware of the revolutionary job they’ve done in developing technology that has changed forever the way we live. But are they ready to take full responsibility for it?
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eembedded_janitor
I am not so convinced that there is deliberately planned obsolescence to get us to buy more. What ...
