Bright ideas are often depicted with a light bulb.And in Hollywood these days,that light is more likely to be LED than the traditional tungsten. The industry standard is shifting as cinematographers are turning to light-emitting diodes to ...
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At RSNA 2012,Sony Electronics is unveiling its latest display innovation for the medical industry:a work-in-progress 20.5-inch OLED display. This newest technology demonstration follows a string of recent Sony monitor ...
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IDG News Service-It's the one thing TV makers don't highlight when gushing over the colors,detail and sharpness of pictures on their new higher-than-high-def televisions:How consumers can get suitable content into their homes and then onto ...
Tags: Japan, Sony, 4K TV, HD televisions
Tape media and drive companies have begun shipping the sixth generation of linear-tape open(LTO)technology,which like previous generation upgrades,significantly increases the capacity and data throughput capabilities for backup and archive ...
Imagination Technologies risks being gazumped in its$60m(£37.6m)bid to acquire microprocessor designer MIPS Technologies after the board of MIPS opened talks with rival CEVA. The news follows a significantly ...
Nintendo's new games console,the Wii U,has apparently had its user network cracked within hours of the machine's retail release,and by only a regular end user who reached debug menus by accident. A poster going by the name of Trike on ...
Tags: Nintendo, gaming forum NeoGAF, hacks, UK
Japanese consumer electronics firm Panasonic is to axe 8,000 jobs by the end of March 2013 as it continues its restructuring plans. The company has already axed 38,800 staff in a bid to return to profit, and the additional cuts will mean ...
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IDG News Service - Texas Instruments will lay off 1,700 employees as it refocuses its efforts away from the wireless sector -- including cellphones and tablets -- and toward embedded systems, the company announced Wednesday. The news ...
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A jury in the US state of Delaware has found that Apple's iPhone infringes three patents that are held by patent-licencing firm MobileMedia Ideas. The firm holds patents for struggling Japanese giant Sony and Nokia,among others. Further ...
Sony said Thursday that the executive in charge of its online products,and linking them up to its broad hardware holdings,will leave the company at the end of the year. The Tokyo-based electronics giant said Tim Schaaff,who it poached ...
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Japanese electronics firm Sharp has issued a profit warning,expressing"material doubt"that it will be able to stay in business. Expecting to end the financial year in March 2013 with a net loss of Y450bn(3.5bn euros),Sharp's main problems ...
While most have yet to hear about a powerful next-generation computer interface called the"Brain Computer Interface"or BCI,it's one that's getting more attention from gaming companies like Secret Exit and Sony who are now actively ...
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The name Foxconn has become shorthand for the human costs of building the iPhone in China, linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides, deaths from a plant explosion and rioting factory workers. But many other companies besides ...
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Taipei, Oct. 23, 2012 (CENS)--Not to lag behind its competitors, HTC Corp., a Taiwanese smartphone vendor, is reportedly to launch its Google Nexus Android phone in the fourth quarter of this year as the fourth smartphone brand joining the ...
Tags: HTC Corp., LG, Samsung, Sony, smartphone, Google Nexus Android phones
Sony has given investors a more accurate breakdown of the 10,000 job cuts it announced earlier this year. The company admitted it would be slashing the workforce at its Japanese headquarters by 20%,along with 20%of its home entertainment ...
Tags: Sony, job cuts, Minokamo, mobile handsets