Electronics giant Sony has been fined by Britain's data watchdog for a breach that compromised the personal information of millions of customers using PlayStation video games consoles. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK ...
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A NEW product that doesn't need speakers or even ears has been launched by Panasonic - wireless bone-conduction headphones. The headphones connect to a TV via the Bluetooth wireless standard and attach to your head like a normal set of ...
IDG News Service - A new television format that has 16 times the resolution of current High Definition TV has been approved by an international standards body, Japanese sources said Thursday. UHDTV, or Ultra High Definition Television, ...
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Japan's Sharp is seeking an investment from U.S. chip giant Intel and other companies. A day after Kyodo News, Japan's largest news agency, reported that Sharp is in final negotiations for Intel to invest up to $500 million, the Japanese ...
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Sony said Thursday that hackers accessed about 400 names and email addresses of its mobile customers in China, but that no credit card or banking information was compromised. The company said it became aware of the hack several days after ...
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NEC is working on a new type of small data center unit that uses convection to slash power usage by a third, even in Japan's hot, sticky climate. The Japanese electronics giant said Tuesday it has designed a new type of portable data ...
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Seven international electronics manufacturers were fined a total of $1.92 billion by the European Commission on Wednesday for conspiring to fix the price of cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) in two separate cartels between 1996 and 2006. European ...
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Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu on Monday showed a new smartphone for the elderly, with a simplified Android user interface and a new touch screen designed for senior users. The F-12D phone is the latest in Fujitsu's popular "RakuRaku" ...
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Japan's Sharp said Wednesday it will soon launch a 7-inch tablet with its new IGZO displays, a week ahead of an Apple press event that is widely expected to reveal a mini tablet also linked to the new power-saving technology. Sharp's new ...
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Japanese electronics heavyweights Fujitsu and NEC, together with the country's largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo, said Wednesday they will form a new joint venture to build and sell wireless chips for smartphones. The venture, Access ...
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Toshiba today confirmed ccc: It won't be delivering a Windows RT-based tablet anytime soon. "Toshiba has decided not to introduce Windows RT models due to delayed components that would make a timely launch impossible," the Japanese ...
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Sharp is expected to sign an agreement by the end of November with Qualcomm US based Intel and Qualcomm considering joint investment of about JPY30bn ($369m) in the struggling Japanese electronics firm Sharp. Sharp is expected to sign ...
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The new MRAM can be used in smartphones as cache memory for mobile processors, replacing the SRAM Japanese electronics maker Toshiba has developed a spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) element which the ...
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Both firms will co-operate in developing next-generation displays for mobile phones and tablet computers US based chipmaker Qualcomm will invest about JPY9.9bn ($121m) in the struggling Japanese electronics firm Sharp which could be used ...
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To handle oversupply of NAND flash memory in the retail market Japanese electronics maker Toshiba said it will cut production of its flash memory chips, used to store data in mobile gadgets, by around 30% to adjust excess inventory ...
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