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• Energy Roundup: Europe's Solar Play, Offshore Wind Flies, Climate Vote Approaching and More

  BNET - 2009-06-24

  Europe plans massive solar power project -- If $555 billion can be raised for construction, Europe could someday have a massive electrical network sending solar power from Northern African deserts to the chilly states of the EU. The Desertec consortium of 20 companies, with support from national governments, will hold...

  Tags: Offshore, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, California, LG Electronics Inc., Europe, Sanyo Electric Co., Renewable Energy Advocate, Telecom & Utilities, Chris Morrison

• LG Lauching App Store In South Korea; Releasing Android Phone Later This Year

  Content Next - 2009-06-11

  LG Electronics (SEO: 066570) is planning to launch an app store in its home market of South Korea in July, reports Reuters. It's unclear at this point whether the store will be available to LG phone owners around the world. According to an LG spokesperson, the mobile phone maker...

  Tags: Phone, Mobile, LG Electronics Inc., Cell Phone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Companies, Google, LG, Samsung, Countries, Asia, Korea, Dianne See Morrison, Nokia Corp.

• LG to make 50 Windows Mobile handsets

  Strategy Eye - 2009-02-18

  LG Electronics plans to produce 50 mobile phones running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system, with 10 handsets due out this year and another 16 to be released by 2012. LG and Microsoft are forming a joint R&D team to develop phones with tighter integration between software and handset. ...

  Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, LG Electronics Inc., Handset, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, LG Electronics, Jasper Jackson, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

• Intel and LG move into mobile internet

  Strategy Eye - 2009-02-16

  Intel and phone manufacturer LG Electronics are partnering to make mobile internet devices MIDs having announced the partnership at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. Smaller than netbooks and lacking a full-size keyboard, MIDs are more similar to a phone than a computer. ...

  Tags: Mobile Internet, Mobile, LG Electronics Inc., Internet Device, Intel Corp., Mobile Internet Device, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Marketing, LG Electronics, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Jasper Jackson

• Cree to supply LEDs to LG

  Strategy Eye - 2009-02-01

  US-based semiconductor manufacturer Cree will supply light-emitting diodes LEDs to South Korea’s LG Display. The LEDs will be used in LG’s flat screen products and are said to be more energy efficient than LCD panels which use CCFL cold cathode fluorescent lamp backlights. Financial details of the deal were...

  Tags: Light-emitting Diode, LG Electronics Inc., Cree, Engineering, Editorial, LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd.

• How Branding Can Kill Your Profit

  BNET - 2009-01-29

  Earlier this week, I posted what I thought was a fairly innocuous poll "Do Your Marketers Produce Good Leads?"  Anyway, it elicited a fair number of angry responses from marketeers who objected to my long-held opinion that B2B marketing's primary job should be lead generation. ...

  Tags: LG Electronics Inc., Product, Coke, Branding, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Geoffrey James

• LG to supply batteries for GM’s Volt

  Strategy Eye - 2009-01-15

  South Korea’s LG Chem will supply lithium-ion batteries to General Motors GM for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicle PHEV, the Chevrolet Volt. Under the five-year deal, LG will manufacture the battery cells at its Korean facility and GM will assemble them at a plant to be constructed in Michigan....

  Tags: LG Electronics Inc., Battery, General Motors Corp., Engineering, Ranil Pilimatalawa

• Report: Motorola's Reign Over The U.S. Market Ends Next Year

  Content Next - 2008-12-09

  Motorola (NYSE: MOT), – still riding its years-long wave of success from the Razr, will end this year on top once more after selling the most consumer handsets in the U.S., but the dance ends next year, according to a new report from MultiMedia Intelligence. The handset manufacturer is...

  Tags: Apple, Apple Inc., Cellular Phones, Companies, Consumer Electronics, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, LG, LG Electronics Inc., Matt Kapko, Motorola, Motorola Inc., Nokia, NYSE Euronext, Personal Technology, Research & Metrics, RIM, Samsung, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., U.S.

• Legal Tech Week: Spansion, Samsung, LG, Kodak, Google, Microsoft, More

  BNET - 2008-11-22

  I thought that adding an occasional round-up of high tech legal machinations might be interesting to readers. If you think it's worthwhile, or not, email or comment and let me know. Spansion sues Samsung -- Memory chip maker Spansion, a Fujitsu and AMD joint venture, has decided...

  Tags: Google Inc., Patent, Eastman Kodak Co., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics Inc., Microsoft Corp., Spansion Inc., Erik Sherman

• Kodak Sues Samsung, LG Over Digital Camera Technology Used In Phones

  Content Next - 2008-11-19

  Eastman Kodak has filed a pair of lawsuits against LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung alleging that the companies infringed on patents involving digital cameras in some of their devices. The complaints, which were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York and with the...

  Tags: Phone, Eastman Kodak Co., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics Inc., Digital Camera, Camera, Digital Cameras, Document Management, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Matt Kapko, Companies, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Legal, Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp.