"With the rising popularity of social networking, consumers are more connected than ever to the online world," said Ray Sawall, senior manager of product marketing for Acer America.
They are enabled by technologies such as Internet convergence and integration, wired and wireless communications, software applications, semiconductors technology, personal computing, networking, and consumer electronics.
The computing, networking and consumer-electronics industries have to agree on standards and communication protocols and on compatible copyright software.
Freescale was also battered by the recession, which reduced demand for the products containing its chips like cars, networking equipment and consumer products.
A home videoconferencing system based partly on the Flip would likely make use of Cisco's other consumer networking assets, including its Scientific Atlanta TV set-top boxes.
Can we expect home networking or consumer electronics products from Juniper?
Volterra Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops and markets analog and mixed-signal power management semiconductors for the computing, storage, networking, and consumer markets.
As the threats change, the skill sets of ethical hackers are changing too, encompassing social engineering, social networking and consumer mobile technologies.
Fister has also pushed the idea of packaging Cadence's tools into "kits" with such themes as wireless networking or consumer electronics, to better fit the projects its customers are tackling.
