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Flexible Displays – The Lion’s Den

          Flexible screens are Samsung’s patch, not Apple’s    Apple Patent applications and job filings are an admission of what I have long suspected. Flexible and...

Samsung vs. Google – Game of Thrones

          Samsung and Google will end up in a struggle for the user. So far Samsung and Google have been on good terms given the symbiotic...

Intel TV – Chip magnet

          Intel’s aspirations in TV are about supplying chips. Intel appears to be closing in on acquiring TV shows and movies to offer to consumers as...

Samsung Galaxy S4– All the rage

          The Galaxy only evolves slightly but it makes iPhone 5 look more and more out of date. Samsung launched the Galaxy S4 with much fanfare...

MWC 2013 Day 4 – Missing Persons

            At this year’s show, what was missing is actually much more interesting. It was all downhill from Monday, with very little news being announced...

Japan TV – A glimmer of hope

          I have been very damning on the outlook for Japanese Consumer Electronics, but have I been slightly too hasty? Japanese Consumer Electronics looks to be...

RFM 2013 Top 5 – Part 2 – Samsung bendable displays

          Samsung consolidates its handset gains with bendable and foldable displays. In a commoditising market where Samsung has no ecosystem with which to differentiate, this is...

ARM, MIPS and IMG – Reducing RISC

          With ARM becoming an ever more dominant force in the world of microprocessors, the fate of its erstwhile competitor MIPS has long been uncertain. That...

Apple and Intel – Birds and stones

          The result of the recent management shake-up at Apple seems to have opened up a series of new avenues that had previously been considered closed....

Japanese Consumer Electronics – Apocalypse Now!

          Things are so bad at Sharp that it may have to ask the Japanese state to bail it out when its $2.5bn of convertible bonds...