Consumer Electronics |
| Consumer electronic devices like hand-helds, palmtop devices, smartphones. are now becoming an integral part of enterprise application architectures, delivering mobile solutions for increased productivity. No longer is Consumer Electronics a purely hardware domain. Software solutions are now key to digital entertainment, with emerging technologies such as Bluetooth, Wireless LANs, PDA phones, and automotive telematics, driving the coherence between hardware and software. Moreover, the boost in the sale of digital consumer electronics products such as DVD players, video game consoles, Internet audio players and digital camcorders, and the rush to beat competitors to market, are increasing the time-to-market pressures on the vendors. These vendors now need to deliver a wider range of products in a shorter time-frame, to a choosy and more demanding consumer base. |
