Jay Alabaster - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 5/01/2012 Has the world's largest gadget expo lost its mojo?

The International Consumer Electronics Show takes place next week in Las Vegas, and as always there will be plenty to trigger our technolust. Teaser p...

Article | 30/12/2011 Researcher: Google+ growth accelerating, passes 62 million users

Google+ membership is accelerating, and the young social network is now adding 625,000 users a day with over 62 million in total, a researcher has est...

Article | 28/12/2011 Japan's Mitsui to invest in U.S. Tres Amigas smart power grid project

Mitsui, a massive Japanese conglomerate, will invest US$12 million in an ambitious smart grid project that is being constructed in New Mexico.

Article | 27/12/2011 Samsung, NTT DoCoMo and others to set up LTE chip joint venture

NTT DoCoMo said Tuesday it will form a joint venture with Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC and two other Japanese companies to design and sell chips for high-spe...

Article | 26/12/2011 Samsung to buy Sony's share of LCD panel joint company for $934 million

Sony said Monday it will sell off its entire stake in an LCD (liquid crystal display) manufacturing joint venture with Samsung Electronics for 1.08 tr...

Article | 22/12/2011 Japan mobile carriers to expand mobile touch payment beyond Sony standard

Japan's three biggest mobile phone companies said Wednesday they will adopt international standards for touch payment systems, expanding beyond the cu...

Article | 19/12/2011 Japanese game maker Square Enix to reopen hacked site, says no private data lost

Japanese game developer Square Enix said Monday that no private data was stolen when a server for a fan site was hacked last week, and it plans to reo...

Article | 15/12/2011 Japanese game company Square Enix shuts fan site after hack

Japanese game developer Square Enix said Thursday that a server for a fan site with information on 1.8 million users had been hacked, but it was uncle...

Article | 15/12/2011 Sony Playstation chief: Vita has advantages over 3DS at launch

The Sony PlayStation Vita is well-positioned to avoid the struggles of its main handheld rival, Nintendo's 3DS, the executive in charge of Sony's game...

Article | 14/12/2011 Japan's DeNA to offer game platform on Alibaba's mobile OS

Japanese mobile platform operator DeNA said Wednesday it will offer its core game software on the Aliyun mobile OS developed by Chinese e-commerce gia...

Article | 14/12/2011 Salesforce.com opens Tokyo data center

Salesforce.com's first data center in Japan has begun operations, the company said Wednesday.

Article | 12/12/2011 Hitach GST begins shipments of a 4TB disk drive

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) said Monday it began shipments of its first 4TB, 3.5-inch hard drive, targeted at the PC market, thr...

Article | 12/12/2011 Japan group to build smart power grids that treat energy like network data

Using concepts from IT and networking, a Japanese consortium plans to develop large-scale energy grids that will handle power the way the Internet han...

Article | 9/12/2011 Panasonic to venture abroad in smartphones, plans Europe launch in March

Panasonic said Friday it would venture abroad to sell smartphones, beginning with Europe in March and then expanding to the U.S., China, and rest of A...

Article | 9/12/2011 Toshiba seeking exclusive content to boost tablet sales in developing countries

A Toshiba executive said his company will look to differentiate its tablets in emerging countries by pre-loading them with exclusive, local content.