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Panasonic, Qimonda cuts hit M'sian electronics
News At stake is the livelihood of nearly 2,000 employees at the Malaysian manufacturing plants operated by the Japanese electronics company and German chipmaker.
Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., Plant, Electronics, Manufacturing, Chip Company, Nikkei, Malaysia, Panasonic, Qimonda
Solar uptake for mobile devices 'limited'
News Photovoltaic cells will not replace batteries in mobile computing devices for now, as performance and price issues continue to hamper adoption, say analysts.
Tags: Green IT, Development/design, Battery, Photovoltaics, Mobile Device, Sharp Corp., Gartner Inc., solar cell, performance, mobile computing
PC sales surge in Japan
News Personal computer sales at large electronics retail stores in Japan rose in the week ended January 16 from the same period a year earlier, a technology weekly reported.
Report: Google readying its checkbook
News Google thought startups were overpriced earlier in the year, but its recent purchase of On2 Technologies may be a sign that it's once again in the acquisition market.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Charlie Rose, Video, Cloud Computing, Nikkei, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Eric Schmidt, Google Apps, acquisition
Sony considers adding phone to PSP
News Sony looking into making a combination gadget that would meld its PlayStation Portable gaming system with cell phone technology from Sony Ericsson.
Tags: Games, Cellular phones, Mobile platforms/communications, Game players, Electronics, British Telecommunications, Sony PlayStation Portable, Nikkei, phone, Cellular phones
Recession can't stop Japan's online shoppers
News Rise in number of stay-at-home shoppers in Japan means the online shopping industry outstrips sales at department stores and convenience stores.
Tags: E-commerce, High-speed Internet, Sales, Japan, mail-order, recession, Tokyo, E-commerce
Sony plans to sell stock tracking Web unit next week
News Sony Corp, the No 2 electronics maker, plans to start marketing Japan's first tracking stock next week.
Sunburn alert phone unveiled
News A Japanese firm has demonstrated a tiny ultraviolet light sensor that can be mounted on a mobile phone to warn users of bright, sunburn-causing sunshine.
NEC, Toshiba, Mitsubishi Electric to trim chip output
News NEC Corp, Toshiba Corp and Mitsubishi Electric Corp plan to reduce 64 megabit dynamic random access memory chip production because of sluggish demand.
NTT DoCoMo to spend US$405m to upgrade i-mode system
News NTT DoCoMo Inc plans to spend ¥50 billion (US$405 million) to upgrade its i-mode system and raise capacity to handle 25 million users.
Nokia crows over karaoke phone
News Nokia thinks that users in karaoke-crazy parts of Asia will want to sing here, there and everywhere. The telcom equipment giant has worked with Japanese videogame machine maker Taito Corp to provide handsets with karaoke.
Mercatela wins 2-year contract with British Airways
News Hong Kong-based Web design house Mercatela Ltd announced today that it has inked a two-year deal with British Airways (BA) for an undisclosed amount.
Japan may sell NTT shares to fund Net use
News Japan may use money raised through a sale of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares to help the former domestic telephone monopoly promote greater use of the Internet, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported.
Japan firms to test radio-tagged luggage
News Singapore's Changi Airport, Amsterdam's Schiphol, New York's John F. Kennedy International will later this year take part in an experiment testing radio-tagged luggage.
Ramping up Rambus memory
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