panasonic

News.blog: iPods get in-air connectivity

News The connectivity technology has been manufactured by Panasonic Avionics. United Airlines has been subject to some pretty bad press recently for being one of several American airlines to slap a $15 (£7.50) fee on checked bags, but here's a perk: the...

Tags: connectivity, flight, plane, planes

17 June 2008, 8:43

News.blog: OLED panels promised for 2009

News However, Panasonic, which owns the plasma TV market, doesn't anticipate LCD or plasma TVs fading out anytime soon. Sony's teased us for a bit with its impossibly thin, 11-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV, and finally brought it to the US...

Tags: samsung, inch, market, lcd

23 April 2008, 9:12

Intel unveils Atom chips

News MIDs, coming from companies such as Lenovo, Asus and Panasonic, will run Windows or Linux and are being promoted as the functional equivalent of a wireless-connected PC in pocket format. Intel launched its Atom range of processors at the Intel...

Tags: inch, intel, atom, fujitsu siemens

3 April 2008, 9:42

Greenpeace criticises wasteful IT industry

News Alhajj said many companies manufacturing desktops, laptops, mobile phones and PDAs -- including Lenovo, Panasonic, Samsung and RIM -- do not have a high level of recyclability in some products due to the use of BFRs in components, which in turn...

Tags: companies, components, technologies, products

6 March 2008, 9:18

News.blog: Pioneer drops plasma production

News Matsushita, parent company of Panasonic, the Nikkei business daily reported. Panasonic is the biggest plasma TV vendor in the world, shipping nearly 40 per cent of all plasma displays, while Pioneer ranks fifth, shipping just over 6 per cent of...

Tags: pioneer, cent, plasma, panels

6 March 2008, 9:12

Plasma TVs making a comeback

News Panasonic brand maker Matsushita also expects strong sales momentum in the US in 2008, following sluggish sales through the summer, on demand for high-definition TVs, its regional head said. In a market where bigger screens have higher price tags...

Tags: consumers, high definition, american, demand

10 January 2008, 10:24

News.blog: Panasonic to debut 150-inch plasma

News Panasonic is expected to unveil a 150-inch plasma television during a keynote speech Monday by Toshihiro Sakamoto, president of the Panasonic Audio Visual Networks Company (Panasonic is owned by Matsushita Electric).

Tags: speech, inch, panasonic, electronics

4 January 2008, 8:36

Sony CEO calls format war stalemate

News Sony and Panasonic. Howard Stringer, Sony Corporation of America's CEO, told the AP news agency that he believes HD DVD and Blu-ray are now at a stalemate. It's been a difficult fight. We were trying to win on the merits, which we were doing for a...

Tags: ray, matter, hd, blu

12 November 2007, 9:16

Photos: Ceatec's consumer electronics

News National, the sister company of Panasonic in the Matsushita conglomerate. Panasonic has shown off similar wall TV concepts, so this shouldn't be too far away from being seen in living rooms. This is a wall TV/family organiser from Sharp Electronics.

4 October 2007, 9:32

News.blog: Panasonic exec calls Blu-ray Christmas win

News CHIBA, Japan--The decisive battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD is at hand, says a prominent Panasonic exec.Blu-ray manufacturers are going to start cutting prices and go out on a promotional binge this Christmas, Matsushita Electric

Tags: money, disc, christmas, ray

3 October 2007, 10:19

Nokia offers to swap 46 million batteries

News Of these, 46 million manufactured between December 2005 and November 2006 by Matsushita, parent company of Panasonic and one of 14 manufacturers that supplies batteries to Nokia, may be defective. Nokia has offered to replace 46 million mobile...

15 August 2007, 10:02

News.blog: New top-end Olympus dSLR in October?

News Olympus SLRs, along with those from Panasonic and Leica, employ the Four Thirds lens mount system, so lenses and cameras from those companies are compatible. Olympus publicly showed prototypes of its new top-end digital SLR in March, but a leaked...

13 July 2007, 8:44

Qantas to trial in-flight SMS

News Telstra, Panasonic Avionics and AeroMobile will be part of the exercise. Australia-based airline Qantas has been given the green light to start testing in-flight mobile phone services, but voice services will be disabled.

19 April 2007, 9:40

SLRs drive digital camera sales surge

News Samsung and Panasonic also debuted to the tune of 43,000 and 36,000 SLRs, respectively, giving the newcomers 405,000, or 8 per cent, of the 5.3 million total SLRs shipped. Digital camera shipments increased 15 per cent from 2005 to 2006, but the...

4 April 2007, 8:42

Panasonic developing lower-end dSLR

News Beefing up its attempt to penetrate a high-growth segment of the camera market, Panasonic plans to release a second digital SLR camera this year. The new lower-end model will be a geared for a more mainstream audience than the company's debut model...

12 March 2007, 10:36