Berlin - Flat-panel televisions were the dominant product at the opening to the public Friday of the IFA fair, an annual consumer-electronics extravaganza in the German capital Berlin.
Ticket booths and turnstiles matched the pace of arrivals of trade buyers from around Europe and gadget lovers streaming into the fairgrounds during the morning.
The event this year features 1,245 manufacturers of screens, cameras, phones and sat-navs from 63 nations.
Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia are among countries represented for the first time at the event, which has been expanded this year to include home appliances such as washing machines for the first time.
Berlin - A slide in oil prices lead inflation in the 15-member eurozone to drop below 4 per cent in August, data to be released Friday is forecast to show, as a result helping to ease the pressure
Berlin - Flat-panel televisions are becoming even slimmer, according to manufacturers offering new products this week at the IFA consumer-electronics fair in the German capital Berlin.
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel inaugurated the fair Thursday evening. Buyers were to begin inspecting the merchandise Friday.
The fair, which runs for six days, is an annual parade of digital cameras, mobile phones, audio devices and televisions.
Berlin - Airbus SAS is considering an extended 1,000-passenger version of the A380 aircraft, Louis Gallois, chief executive of Airbus's parent company, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) NV, told a German newspaper in an interview to be published Friday.
The airlines, Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Air France-KLM SA, were both interested in the extended version of the A380, Gallois told the Dresden-based Saechsische Zeitung.
Berlin - Japanese electronics group Sharp forecast Thursday that annual world demand for LCD flat-panel televisions would burst through the 100-million barrier some time this year.
At a news conference on the eve of the IFA consumer-electronics fair in Berlin, Sharp also boasted its thinnest flat-panel yet, with the thinnest part of the device just 22 millimetres from front to back, or less than on inch. The thickest part was just two inches.
Berlin - This year's most exciting new electrical gadgets surface on Friday at the IFA consumer-electronics fair in the German capital Berlin.
An annual parade of flat-screen televisions, sleek digital cameras and mobile phones with all the extras, this year's IFA has been expanded to include home appliances such as dishwashers and stoves.
That reflects the fact that many electrical retailers - the main target of the show - sell both types of product. Many big electrical conglomerates, who pay for the show, make both sorts of device too.
Berlin - Flat-panel televisions are becoming even slimmer, according to manufacturers offering new products this week at the IFA consumer-electronics fair in the German capital Berlin.
Berlin - Airbus SAS is considering an extended 1,000-passenger version of the A380 aircraft, Louis Gallois, chief executive of Airbus's parent company, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) NV, told a German newspaper in an interview to be published Friday.
Berlin - Japanese electronics group Sharp forecast Thursday that annual world demand for LCD flat-panel televisions would burst through the 100-million barrier some time this year.
