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A Matter of Timing: Consumer Electronics & Network Time
(IEEE, 2013-10)
Network time protocol (NTP) has become widely used across the Internet to synchronize clocks on computers and, more recently, on a wide variety of handheld devices. You are using NTP on a daily basis without even knowing ...
Effect of modeling approach on climate change focused life cycle assessments for a contemporary smartphone device
(2014)
Life cycle assessments (LCA) of consumer electronics and beyond are usually performed and reported very differently. As a result it is often difficult to assess the robustness, variability and transparency of reported LCA ...
Repairability Smackdown II: iPhone versus iPhone
(IEEE, 2013-01)
Following our award-winning article last January [1], I thought it might be time to have another repair "smackdown," courtesy of Kyle Wiens and the iFixit repair gurus. But what could we do that would equal our previous ...
Welcome to Our CES Show Issue [Notes from the Editor]
(IEEE, 2013-12-17)
[no abstract available]
The Patent Prosecution Process [IP Corner]
(IEEE, 2014-01)
Patents are legal documents, but they capture and preserve rights to important
engineering ideas. For this reason, they are very important to the corporations
and research institutions that employ engineers. And as a ...
Broadening Our Horizons [Notes from the Editor]
(IEEE, 2014-04)
As many of you will be aware,IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine evolved from the quarterly newsletter of the IEEE Consumer Electronics (CE) Society. Jim Farmer edited the newsletter before I took over from him during 2010. ...
Electricity in a Climate Constrained World [Book Review]
(IEEE, 2014-01)
This latest study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on world
electricity consumption, its current status, and the most likely developments we
are going to see during the next few years. If you are familiar with ...
PTP/IP adapter design and connectivity techniques for legacy imaging appliances
(IEEE, 2007)
PTP/IP is an emerging connectivity standard for networked imaging appliances. It combines the ease of use and seamless connectivity of Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) with the ubiquity of TCP/IP networks. In this paper we ...
The rôle of information technology in enterprise reengineering.
(Wiley, 1997)
Information
Technology has often been argued to be central to the development and
implementation of redesigned business processes from the first appearance of
the term Business Process Reengineering . Yet, the contribution ...
A portable Java API interface to simplify user access to digital cameras
(IEEE, 1998-08)
The digital camera is one of the main successes of recent years in consumer electronics. However ii typical digital camera remains tied to proprietary software on a personal computer. In this paper we describe the design ...