The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday it had settled charges that Philips Electronics North America misled customers about rebates used to promote its computer...

PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V. has started patent licensing programs for DVD ReWritable/Recordable systems. The licensing program covering essential patents for DVD+RW and DVD+R Discs, Recorders and...

The U.S. International Trade Commission said Monday it will investigate charges by a subsidiary of Dutch electronics manufacturer Philips Electronics NV that importers are violating...

The U.S. International Trade Commission said Monday it will investigate a Philips Electronics NV subsidiary's charges that importers are violating its patents on recordable and...

Recordable or Write-one, CDs (CD-R) were launched on the market in 1990, quickly followed by multiple re-writable discs (CD-RW). These were 1X systems, meaning that...

The CD replication industry developed a code system (SID also known as IFPI code) to be employed by CDs manufacturing plants to identify all CDs...

Philips has released in June 2002 a new version of the Orange book Part III CD-RW Volume 3, Ultra Speed. This book describing CD-RW discs...

Philips Electronics has demonstrated the FireWire protocol running over an 801.11a wireless LAN interface. Using a 5GHz carrier, 802.11a is capable of data transmission in...

Hitachi, Matsushita Electric (Panasonic), Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson Multimedia and Toshiba have announced their draft specification for a next-generation consumer electronics (CE) digital interface.....

Today we post two more hardware reviews. This time we examined the recorder with the faster specifications around (48x writing, 16x re-writing and 48x reading)...