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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.

Article | 9/12/2011 Sharp executive: Not concerned about Apple iTV launch in the U.S.

A Sharp executive said Thursday he was not concerned with the introduction of a rumored "iTV" designed by Steve Jobs and other smart TVs in the U.S. m...

Article | 8/12/2011 NTT DoCoMo, Omron form venture to collect, analyze personal health data

NTT DoCoMo and a unit of electronics giant Omron said Wednesday they will form a joint venture to produce products and services that record and analyz...

Article | 7/12/2011 Fuji Xerox to launch Dropbox-like cloud storage service for its copiers

Fuji Xerox will launch a new cloud storage service that hooks directly into its multifunction copiers next week, allowing documents to be uploaded by ...

Article | 6/12/2011 Japan's Gree aims to take on Facebook, Zynga with social gaming platform

Japanese mobile game provider Gree said Tuesday it would launch a new gaming platform next year as it looks to take on heavyweights like Facebook and ...

Article | 1/12/2011 Renesas plans upgrade for Japan chip production to handle major earthquakes

Renesas Electronics will upgrade its Japanese factories so that they can be up and running within a month after a major quake like the one that struck...

Article | 29/11/2011 NTT DoCoMo strongly backs smartphone TV service, aims for global adoption

NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile carrier, said Tuesday it will strongly back a new TV service for smartphones to launch next year, and will work to ...

Article | 29/11/2011 Rohm builds chip that will send data at 30Gbps, through clothing, paper

Japanese component maker Rohm said it has developed an experimental chip that can send and receive signals at terahertz-range frequencies, which can c...

Article | 24/11/2011 Hitachi plans to sell systems that integrate data from cities in the cloud

Hitachi plans to aggressively pursue large cloud computing projects and market software that will integrate data from infrastructure across entire cit...

Article | 22/11/2011 Qualcomm's Mirasol reflective color display debuts on Korean e-reader

Qualcomm's long-awaited Mirasol reflective color screen technology is on the market, in an e-reader that launched in South Korea on Tuesday.

Article | 21/11/2011 Japan mobile game giant Gree sues rival DeNA for blocking developers

Japanese mobile game platform operator Gree said Monday it has sued rival DeNA for obstructing game developers that try to launch games on both of the...

Article | 18/11/2011 Sega acquires US online game developer Three Rings

Sega said Friday it has acquired U.S. online game developer Three Rings Design, in an effort to grow outside its traditional video game business overs...