Five years ago, Kathy and Josh Gunn were typical urban professionals. Kathy started her day at 5 a.m. to get in a session with her personal trainer before heading to the office, where she put in 60 hours a week as an executive at a consumer electronics company. Josh traveled four days a week as a crop systems specialist for John Deere.
Remember the promise of the paperless office? Anyone in front of a monitor can testify to just the opposite having taken hold.
First it was the airlines, now it's the turn of hotels to take the budget concept into the mainstream. Demand is surging for cheaper hotel rooms, not just from thrifty tourists but also from business travelers in search of value. And budget brands are responding to the demand with ambitious expansion plans.
At CNET, we take HDTV power consumption seriously, which helps explain our excitement when Philips announced its Eco TV. The 42-inch, 1080p resolution, flat-panel LCD, model 42PFL5603D (due in March, $1,399 MSRP), is packed with power-saving features.
The choice between plasma and LCD becomes increasingly difficult at the 42-inch screen size, where both offer similar features for around the same price. Philips' 42PFL7432D, a 42-inch flat-panel LCD, tries to compete against similarly priced 42-inch plasmas by bringing the company's trademark Ambilight system to the table.
U.S. stocks were ready to open higher early Friday as deals or talk of deals gave some lift to investors.
A CNN analysis of four common brands of Christmas lights shows levels of lead experts say are high enough to be dangerous to children.
Michael Vick and his legal team received potentially discouraging news this morning, when U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson sentenced two of Vick's co-defendants, Purnell Peace and Quanis Phillips, to longer prison sentences than federal prosecutors had recommended. Peace will serve 18 months, while Phillips will serve 21 months. In exchange for the defendants' cooperation, prosecutors had recommended that each receive a sentence consistent with the lower end of the federal sentencing guidelines (12 to 18 months for Peace; 16 to 24 months for Phillips). Just as he has with Vick, however, Judge Hudson had the discretion to issue sentences in excess of the guidelines and to discount -- or altogether ignore -- the prosecutors' recommendation.
Even though the sun was hours away from rising, bargain-hunters at a Wal-Mart store in Union were fully awake and ready to shop.
Worried retailers and mall operators breathed a sigh of relief after the 2007 holiday shopping marathon off to a robust start Friday.
Five years ago, Kathy and Josh Gunn were typical urban professionals. Kathy started her day at 5 a.m. to get in a session with her personal trainer before heading to the office, where she put in 60 hours a week as an executive at a consumer electronics company. Josh traveled four days a week as a crop systems specialist for John Deere.
Remember the promise of the paperless office? Anyone in front of a monitor can testify to just the opposite having taken hold.
First it was the airlines, now it's the turn of hotels to take the budget concept into the mainstream. Demand is surging for cheaper hotel rooms, not just from thrifty tourists but also from business travelers in search of value. And budget brands are responding to the demand with ambitious expansion plans.
At CNET, we take HDTV power consumption seriously, which helps explain our excitement when Philips announced its Eco TV. The 42-inch, 1080p resolution, flat-panel LCD, model 42PFL5603D (due in March, $1,399 MSRP), is packed with power-saving features.
The choice between plasma and LCD becomes increasingly difficult at the 42-inch screen size, where both offer similar features for around the same price. Philips' 42PFL7432D, a 42-inch flat-panel LCD, tries to compete against similarly priced 42-inch plasmas by bringing the company's trademark Ambilight system to the table.
U.S. stocks were ready to open higher early Friday as deals or talk of deals gave some lift to investors.
A CNN analysis of four common brands of Christmas lights shows levels of lead experts say are high enough to be dangerous to children.
Michael Vick and his legal team received potentially discouraging news this morning, when U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson sentenced two of Vick's co-defendants, Purnell Peace and Quanis Phillips, to longer prison sentences than federal prosecutors had recommended. Peace will serve 18 months, while Phillips will serve 21 months. In exchange for the defendants' cooperation, prosecutors had recommended that each receive a sentence consistent with the lower end of the federal sentencing guidelines (12 to 18 months for Peace; 16 to 24 months for Phillips). Just as he has with Vick, however, Judge Hudson had the discretion to issue sentences in excess of the guidelines and to discount -- or altogether ignore -- the prosecutors' recommendation.
Even though the sun was hours away from rising, bargain-hunters at a Wal-Mart store in Union were fully awake and ready to shop.
Worried retailers and mall operators breathed a sigh of relief after the 2007 holiday shopping marathon off to a robust start Friday.
U.S. stocks were just slightly higher at the start of trading Monday as investors considered a new plan to help major banks deal with troubled debt.
While contemporary works like Damien Hirst's $100 million diamond skull have dominated the headlines, a rare old master study by Peter Paul Rubens is quietly generating buzz among art collectors.
With a wave of his hand over a homemade receiver, Georgia Tech professor Joy Laskar shows how easily -- and quickly -- large data files could someday be transferred from a portable media player to a TV.
We thought we'd seen it all until we came across the jWin iLuv i1055, which is designed to be both a portable DVD player and an extension screen for the iPod with video.
Philips Electronics reported a 22 percent rise in its second-quarter operating profit Monday, in line with expectations, and said it was on track to meet its sales and profit margin targets.
Nothing makes a business story more gripping than a great rivalry and there is no larger one today than the ongoing showdown between Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman and KKR's Henry Kravis. At stake: Just who is the biggest, baddest man in the world of private equity, which nowadays means Wall Street writ large.
The European Commission has expanded an informal probe into whether the licensing strategies of two rival groups of DVD developers are anti-competitive by seeking information from film studios, the EU executive said.
General Electric announced early Monday it would sell its plastics business to Saudi Basic Industries Corp. in an $11.6 billion deal.
A true convergence product, the Philips DCP850 ($199.99) is among the first portable DVD players to incorporate a video iPod dock.
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Logitech has been gradually going more upscale with its PC-programmable Harmony remotes, so it's no great surprise that it's finally entered high-end territory with a touch screen, tablet-style model, the Harmony 1000.
Everyone from Wal-Mart (Change a Light, Change the World) to Yahoo (www.18seconds.org) to the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (How Many Jews Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?) wants you to buy compact fluorescent light bulbs to help save the planet.
Late last year, Philips quietly put out one of the best photo frames on the market, the Digital Photo Display 7FF.
Problem: Indoor cooking fires create toxic fumes.
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Royal Philips Electronics ranks no. 145 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $38.6 billion in revenues, up 2.3% from the previous year. The Amsterdam, Netherlands-based company was ranked no. 116 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $3.6 billion, up 1% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.
With online videos hotter than ever, the timing apparently couldn't be better for the market debut of digital media firm DivX.
A century age high-tech travel meant a horseless carriage or steamship and a postcard that arrived home long after the traveler did.
Three groups of private-equity firms are in the final stage of bidding about €8 billion, or $10.2 billion, for the semiconductor business of Philips Electronics, according to a published report Monday.
Deals - both completed and in the works - could help push U.S. stocks higher when the trading week begins later Monday.
Dutch conglomerate Philips Electronics on Monday said it was buying back $1.9 billion ( 1.5 billion euros ) of its own shares after its quarterly profit tumbled 69%.
Fund management firm Southeastern Asset Management said Monday it would reopen its shuttered Longleaf Partners International Fund effective immediately, citing a number of "compelling investment opportunities" in global markets.
The human heart won't stop beating for an X-ray, so capturing the nuances in the inner workings of a living heart presents a challenge.
A talking defibrillator, the first of its kind, could soon be in the hands of paramedics to help them focus on one of the most important but often downplayed aspects of CPR following a heart attack, chest compressions.
So you have a remote to turn on the TV, another to power up the cable box and a third to control the volume on your audio receiver. And don't forget the ones for the DVD, the TiVo and the VCR. All ...
When Oran Muduroglu co-founded Stentor, hospitals were printing digital X-rays and hand-delivering them to doctors. "People didn't have the infrastructure to move these 500-megabyte files around," ...
Where do ideas for new products come from? In the case of the home heart defibrillator, the answer is Mary Lynn Grizzell, a mother of three from Walla Walla, Wash. She went to Seattle a few years a...
Of the thousands of new product designs that manufacturers sprang on the public this year, which ones qualify as truly great--and why? Check out FORTUNE's second annual design roundup, which focuse...
Old-fashioned bus and train tickets may soon be a thing of the past -- and mobile phones look set to replace them.
Every year 340,000 Americans die from sudden cardiac arrest, with about 80% collapsing at home, according to the American Heart Association. Automated external defibrillators (AEDs), which require ...
What has been a down week on Wall Street isn't likely to get much of a lift Friday, as continued jitters about oil and Iraq pointed to a soft opening for stocks.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI, revolutionized diagnostic medicine by allowing doctors to create detailed pictures of a patient's organs and tissues. The catch is that the huge machines typical...
In the last week of April, Kimberly-Clark wrapped, sealed, and tagged several pallets of Scott paper towels and shipped them to a Wal-Mart distribution center in Sanger, Texas. Small electronic tag...
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Last month, when Microsoft announced its bellwether decision to award employees restricted stock instead of options, it also made news in a federal courtroom--the kind of news you keep quiet about....
Philips' new DirecTV/TiVo-powered receiver (DSR708) is a great gift for TV fanatics. For $299 (plus $33.99 and up a month for DirecTV and $4.99 a month for TiVo), you get the double whammy of Direc...
Some months back, there was all manner of crowing about how the tablet PC would revolutionize computing. I took a few early models out for a spin. Sure, a wireless notepad with scribble recognition is handy, but it didn't exactly have me breaking into song.
One night in the spring of 1993, University of Texas cardiologist Ward Casscells stayed up late, lighting matches and burning the skin on his inner left arm. Earlier that evening he'd been tending ...
Combat veterans of the two great format wars of the late 20th century, Betamax vs. VHS and Macintosh vs. Windows, may still be suffering from post-traumatic technology stress syndrome. Brace yourse...
I'll be wearing a bow tie," Chris Whittle had said as we were making plans to meet for a drink. That struck me as a tad disingenuous. With his trademark neckwear, floppy Hugh Grant haircut, and gla...
In the future mapped out by Cambridge Silicon Radio, life will become a breeze. Here is one scenario envisioned by Phil O'Donovan, a radio engineer who, with two other founding directors, spun off ...
Every year top interior designers declare what's hot and what's not at New York City's Kips Bay Decorator Show House (April 25 to May 21, $20; 212-987-5400). Joining in the fun this time around is ...
For years companies like Du Pont have been struggling to find better ways to market their intellectual property. In Du Pont's case, the chemical giant has a warehouse of 18,000 patents, a huge sour...
SCUBA PACKAGE Diving in Belize. Home to the second longest barrier reef in the world, Belize is a scuba enthusiast's dream. If you travel by April 30, Capricorn Leisure will fly you into the coasta...
We all hate CD jewel boxes. They're hard to open, their hinges snap, and those little plastic hubs that hold the disk inevitably break. Who is responsible for the jewel box, paragon of consumer pac...
If you like to watch movies at home, forget your VCR. In fact, clear out some room next to it, buy a DVD player, and pop a disk in the drive. You'll be amazed by the performance.
The Microtek ImageDeck scanner humming atop my desk is different in an important way from any scanner I've owned before: It's working without my PC. The $500 unit does away with the need to be hook...
To select the world's most admired companies, FORTUNE went straight to those in the know: senior executives and outside directors in each industry, plus financial analysts who earn their living com...
Since its debut two years ago, when it was called the PalmPilot, more than two million Palm hand-held computers have flown off store shelves. The device's appeal is its size and speed--and the fact...
It is a recent Monday morning in midtown Manhattan, and Al Dunlap is taking the stage before 200 Wall Street analysts and major investors to do something he has never done--explain why his stock, u...
Not much qualifies as truly awe inspiring in the world of mutual funds except maybe this: Fidelity Magellan's asset total of $56 billion. That's bigger than the entire mutual fund industry of 20 ye...
It is fitting that the first man to place big bets on the digital convergence of electronics and entertainment should have been Akio Morita, a student of both physics and marketing. Well over a dec...
-- It's been a tough couple of years for American companies with extensive operations abroad. Deep recessions in Japan and Europe have depressed sales and squeezed profit margins. But now, with tho...
First, Japan threatens to abandon its analog high-definition television system. Then, bowing to pressure from electronics companies, it changes its mind. The clear winner in this round: NHK, the st...
Corporate America has long criticized the nation's leading business schools for producing high and mighty MBAs, trained to do anything but -- yecchh -- real work. Now, in an effort to address this ...
DISAPPEARING HEARING AID -- Many people who suffer from hearing loss would rather live with the problem than wear a hearing device. Now Philips Hearing Instruments has developed a practically invis...
When 1992 began, the initial public offering (IPO) market was sizzling. Over the previous 12 months, investors had put a record $25 billion into the stocks of largely unproven companies. At the boo...
ONLY A FEW MONTHS AGO Jan Timmer, president of Dutch giant Philips Electronics, looked poised to win his high-tech showdown against the Japanese. Since taking over in 1990, Timmer has shaken up the...
ONLY A FEW months ago Jan Timmer, president of Dutch giant Philips Electronics, looked poised to win his high-tech showdown against the Japanese. Since taking over in 1990, Timmer has shaken up Phi...
His elastic grin framed by a Harpo Marx coiffure and Barney Google glasses, Alain Levy, 45, chief executive of Polygram, the $4-billion-a-year record company, could be just another oddball impresar...
SMART PHONE Need to shop? Do some banking? Pay some bills? Put away that checkbook, and for heaven's sake don't get out of that chair! Just reach for AT&T's Smart Phone 2100, with its built-in mode...
Where there's high tech, there's jargon. A guide to some terms related to CD- ROM:
DESKTOP COLOR COPIER This digital desktop machine can work a triple shift as color copier, printer, and scanner at about one-quarter the price of most free-standing units that perform the same func...
If there were a stock market on Pluto, Barton Biggs would have a fix on it. Morgan Stanley's chief global strategist keeps track of everything that trades, no matter where. Biggs knows when to poun...
When General Motors' 1991 results come in, the company may win the questionable distinction of having run up the biggest annual loss ever by a shareholder-owned company. GM is expected to post a 19...
The shimmering silver compact disks look just like those that play music; their player-machine, like another black box for your stereo rack. But this gear gets hooked up to your television set. And...
The ouster of Cornelis J. van der Klugt, chairman of Philips, the Dutch electronics company, got the headlines. But his was only one in a recent series of forced resignations of top European execut...
The preliminary agreement between United Technologies and West Germany's Daimler-Benz to invest in each other's jet engine companies adds to the growing list of corporations that are expanding glob...
Faced with ongoing globalization of their businesses, an increasing number of U.S. executives are learning a second language. Du Pont Chief Executive Edgar S. Woolard Jr. just completed a crash cou...
There's still plenty of static ahead for Zenith Electronics. The roughly $635 million the company will get from France's Groupe Bull for its personal computer manufacturing business will give Zenit...
When Jean-Marie Descarpentries, the burly boss of French packaging group Carnaud, paid $1.4 billion for Britain's Metalbox Packaging last October, he acquired more than just a business. He bought h...
The clock is ticking toward 1992, the year Europe will dismantle its trade barriers and become one unified market. American companies, fearful of mounting sentiment to lock out foreign investment, ...
Remember the laser disc, the video technology that VCRs trampled? Well, it's back. This time the laser disc looks and sounds like a CD. By summer five-inch golden CD videodiscs -- perfect for the l...
The Really Useful Group PLC British pop composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and his publicly held theater production company are about to launch another American invasion. The mop- haired creator of Cats,...
Making the megadeal was surprisingly simple and sweet. On a visit to Paris in June, Jack Welch, General Electric's chief executive, sat down with Alain Gomez, his counterpart at Thomson SA, the sta...
Make space in your living room for one more electronic gadget. The videodisk player, which once seemed hopelessly outgunned by the VCR, seems to be staging something of a comeback. Some 200,000 of ...
EVEN AMONG Rust Belt cities devastated by the recession and the decline of heavy manufacturing, Fort Wayne, Indiana, seemed in l982 to be down on its luck. In March, a once-in-a-century flood swept...
Hunkered down for communion with the tube, you tune in NBC's Miami Vice in time to see stubbly star Don Johnson open fire from the careering car at screen right. The shot barks in your right speake...
Practicing for a five-day cheerleading competition in Dallas, 14-year-old Karen Immerman and five of her friends ran through routines in Karen's front yard. To help the girls perfect their performa...
TECHNOLOGY, often cited as a cause of runaway health costs, may yet help slow the rate at which hospital bills are rising. An innovation called PACS, for picture archival communications system, pro...
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