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• Article | 11/05/2012 Panasonic books US$10 billion annual loss, largest ever by Japan manufacturer

  Panasonic said Friday it booked a loss of nearly US$10 billion for the fiscal year that ended March 31, the largest ever loss by a Japanese manufactur...
• Article | 19/04/2012 Panasonic team to lug solar-charged batteries up Mt. Fuji, live-stream eclipse

  Panasonic will broadcast live a solar eclipse next month over Japan from the top of Mount Fuji, using batteries that are charged at the base using sol...
• Article | 5/04/2012 Use voice, gestures to control TV

  A new wave of TVs this year will provide the option of using voice controls or hand gestures to navigate channels, change volumes or find the right co...
• Article | 23/03/2012 Panasonic rice cooker can exchange recipes with Android app via RFID

  Panasonic will launch a new line of rice cookers from June that can save recipes and settings online, using touch-card technology to sync with an Andr...
• Article | 22/02/2012 Panasonic reveals thin, waterproof mobile phone for re-entry into European market

  Panasonic has revealed its first mobile handset for the international market since 2005, a sleek Android-powered smartphone that is dustproof and wate...
• Article | 27/01/2012 Panasonic offers wireless broadband service to connect its products

  Panasonic launched a wireless broadband service in Japan this week that is intended to encourage customers to use its coming wave of Internet-ready ap...
• 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 | 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 | 15/11/2011 Panasonic to sell TV panel factory to new Japan Display venture

  Panasonic said Tuesday it will sell one of its main domestic TV panel factories to a new joint venture focused on producing smaller screens, as Japan'...
• Article | 9/11/2011 HP, Dell overtake Nokia in updated Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics

  While some consumer electronics manufacturers have cleaned up their act, making more energy-efficient gadgets with fewer toxic materials, others are c...
• Article | 13/09/2011 Report: DoCoMo, Samsung to form mobile chip venture

  NTT DoCoMo will partner with several Japanese hardware makers and Korean manufacturer Samsung Electronics to develop core chips for use in future sma...
• Article | 1/09/2011 Panasonic touts 3D Olympics film deal and HD 3D camcorder

  A handshake, but no shaky hand: Panasonic executives shook hands on a deal to broadcast the 2012 Olympics live in 3D, and unveiled the company's HDC-Z...
• Article | 18/06/2011 Panasonic reveals ruggedised Android tablet

  Panasonic joins the long list of notebook manufacturers getting into the tablet game. The company announced it would release its Toughbook Android tab...
• Article | 16/06/2011 Gadgets for cloud computing

  A flood of simple computing devices is hitting the market, aimed at pushing the cloud outside of the enterprise. Samsung and Acer have announced Chrom...
• Article | 21/05/2011 REVIEW: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2 digital camera

  More than any device in recent memory, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2 is a showpiece for the benefits and drawbacks of a touchscreen interface. Although ...