Posted on 01/06/2011 12:18:51 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Chips Makers Target Everything But Kitchen Sink
LAS VEGAS—Chip makers, already competing to get their products into computers and cellphones, are preparing for a wider battle as more devices connect to the Internet.
The stakes were underscored Wednesday by chip giant Qualcomm Inc., which confirmed it will spend $3.1 billion to buy Atheros Communications Inc., a fast-growing Silicon Valley company that specializing in making chips used in wireless devices.
Qualcomm's move comes as many companies at the giant Consumer Electronics Show here discussed plans to add processing power, networking and wireless Internet connections to devices including TVs, DVD players, TV set-top boxes and other consumer gadgets.
A key goal, said Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs, is to allow many home devices to be controlled by smartphones or other mobile devices, which can act as a kind of universal remote control for many gadgets consumer use.
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A great boon for mankind. Entrancing electronic images everywhere to better zombieify the great unwashed. Girls and women can babble on cellphones every waking minute. More better 3D video games for kids to play indoors and grow into pale doughy slobs.
All this connectivity, audio and imagery is cool but has its negatives. 90% of it is BS as far as I’m concerned.
And from there it' s a small step for the government to control those electronic remote control devices.
Non-Apple tech ping...
They started that years ago.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4429-creditcard-implant-provokes-criticism.html
...pump more advertising into the consumer's face.
In the state that Fast Eddie Rendell used to rule, well water rules were floated by our legislative body a few years ago that would have required people that use well water to pay for it. They briefly thought that i would allow them to place a water meter on my well inside my home for a commodity that lies under my own basement floor. While we were going through a dry period that is what the dunderheads came up with so people would use less water.
Only could happen in Pennsylvania.
Nope. Maryland tried to do it, as well.
Metering your private well water...that would have been a first. Looks like Pennsylvania lost a golden opportunity to hire more Democrats to feed at the public trough
I wish my cell phone had fewer features.
I just want it to dial and ring. I don’t need texting, whatever that is, I never open voice mail and I want the ring to sound like a ring and not some rap tune.
The IP protocol will need to be upgraded to ver 6 in order for this to happen with any kind of success. This could be a tall order.
There goes my invention for the SmartSpoon. It’s a spoon that calibrates the amount of milk I get with each bite of cereal and sends a note to my wife when the milk gets too low so she can remind me to get more milk.
Butler County?
——90% of it is BS as far as I’m concerned.——
I am connected but since I no longer participate in much of the working world don’t get full value for the ability.
The question arises.....are you retired or are you still active in business or industry where connectivity is beneficial?
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