Nokia is suing 11 LCD manufacturers--including Toshiba, Sharp, Philips, Samsung, and LG Display--for price-fixing. It alleges that from 1996 to 2006, these companies artificially inflated the prices of the displays Nokia uses in ...READ»
An uber-athlete, I'm not. But over the last year I have learned to balance long shifts hunched over a desk with regular time on my yoga mat and I begrudgingly took up running to whittle my waist. So nothing short of dread skipped down ...READ»
My fitness regime just got a whole lot easier to manage. Or at least that's the promise implicit in Philips' DirectLife program. The idea seems simple enough: Carry around a small piece of plastic every day for the next 12 weeks, ...READ»
Philips DirectLife monitors your daily activity and attempts to translate it into a healthier lifestyle. Fast Company staffers take the $99 device, and its accompanying website, for a test-run.
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It seems like just yesterday when burning a CD could score big points with the ladies. These days, Philips is still helpin' a brother out -- but now it's with LED-powered, super-efficient $40 lightbulbs that last 25 years. The ...READ»
It's an exciting time to be in the light bulb business. With incandescent bulbs being phased out gradually in the EU and the U.S., the playing field is wide open for companies to create attractive alternatives. Enter the $10 million ...READ»
Despite protestations from the Bush administration, the FCC succeeded last year in making a certain chunk of the nation's TV and radio spectrum--dubbed "white space"--available to unlicensed broadcasters. That meant that companies ...READ»
Several years ago, I moderated a panel at a design conference in Dubai. Among the panelists was a guy from Boeing, who dazzled the crowd with a slide show of the interior of the 787 Dreamliner. It was a view into an aviation ...READ»
I believe that success requires constant evolution and like all successful innovators, Global Medical Imaging (GMI) is ready to change again. Two years after successfully shifting its business model from only offering medical ...READ»
Tiny, cold, super-efficient at turning electrical energy into light, and relatively cheap--that's a summary of light emitting diode technology as it stands. Given this fact, and the pressure to make electrical items greener in terms ...READ»
At the 2009 World Haptics Conference last month, Philips demonstrated an intriguing project: An "Emotion Shirt" that simulates the body's emotional responses. As Paul Lemmens, a cognitive scientist in Philips's User ...READ»
Beautifully designed, highly functional and easy to set-up, Philips' Prestigo remote rivals top-of-the-line models with similar features but costs significantly less. The latest model, the STR9320 (still yet to hit the market), ...READ»
What do the Miami Heat, Atlanta Thrashers, and Atlanta Hawks have in common? As of today, all three teams play in LEED-certified arenas. The Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia and the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida became ...READ»
Rising energy prices are forcing us to look in all sorts of odd places for spare power--including ourselves. Philips subsidiary Ledalite Architectural Products' Airwave exploits fingertip energy with battery-free lighting ...READ»
Ah virtual reality--it never seems to go out of fashion. And now electronics giant Philips weighs in with its prototype "enhanced reality" clothing--a jacket jam-packed with haptic feedback devices that's designed to ...READ»
When a major player like Philips Electronics invests heavily in something, you know it has hit the big time. The world's number one lightbulb maker launched its first mainstream LED product last week--a down bulb for recessed ...READ»
Microsoft's 5,000 laid-off employees are being joined by thousands more, this time from Texas Instruments, Sprint Nextel, Philips, Intel and tech giant IBM. The fact that Big Blue itself is shedding jobs is an indicator of just how ...READ»
It's hard to get too excited about TVs at the moment: There are so many innovations, from super-slim to OLED, that a new gizmo has to be truly amazing to stand out. And that's something Philips seems to have achieved with its new ...READ»
In New York today, electronics maker Philips [NYSE: PHG] announced a slew of new HDTVs, filling out its 5000, 7000 and “Eco” series of LCD sets. The 5000 series lineup includes 32-, 42-, 47- and 52-inch sizes, starting at a ...READ»
Leave it to the FCC to out any company's best-kept secrets.
Today the commission released photos and the description of a new Bluetooth headset being introduced by Philips (NYSE: PHG), that the company claims is “designed by ...READ»
