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Num, num, num… SMSC hearts STS (and Kleer)

By mtc | Published: June 15, 2010
SMSC builds upon their wireless audio team by acquiring STS. SMSC paid upwards of $25 million for $15 million in 2011 revenues.  Add to that what they paid for Kleer earlier this year, about $7.5 million, and you have about a $30 million dollar investment in a wireless audio baseband team, and an impressive client [...]
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Sony ICF-CL75iP alarm clock / digital frame / iPod dock a surprisingly attractive assimilation

By mtc | Published: September 3, 2009
Hot.  A true sign of what’s to come for home electronics.  Lack of networking is a disappointment though. Sony ICF-CL75iP alarm clock / digital frame / iPod dock a surprisingly attractive assimilation.
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Sony @ IFA. A cautionary tale about out of touch marketers

By mtc | Published: September 2, 2009
5:45PM Sony now covering new Sony Readers already announced, but pretending that Europeans don’t know anything about them. An odd approach that’s being met with a lot of uneasy seat-shifting by the journalists in the room. via Live from Sony IFA 2009 press event. Ha!
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Link to Engadgets live blog from Sony’s IFA press event

By mtc | Published: September 2, 2009
Should be some Sony ALTUS discussion coming in the next couple minutes. Live from Sony IFA 2009 press event.
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Sony and Best Buy coordinate on S-AIR wireless audio

By mtc | Published: August 18, 2009
Sony released a story today about their invigorated S-AIR wireless system and new ALTUS product line.  They presented the story as a tale of Best Buy partnership.  Interesting.  Certainly in order to market an iPod story, a PC story, a Blu-ray HTIB story, and an add-on story, Sony had to collaborate on nailing feature requirements [...]
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It’s the centers of gravity, stupid.

By mtc | Published: July 16, 2009
I wanted to write a little about interface standards in consumer electronics.  My purpose here isn’t to write an exhaustive history of standards and formats – far from it, in fact – rather I want to present some background as a lead-in to some product-specific discussions that will be coming here on wab in the [...]
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