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Japanese PC makers back Sony batteries

News Fujitsu and other Japanese computer makers said on Thursday that no recall of batteries made by Sony was necessary as their laptops were designed to avoid overheating. Most Japanese makers don't allow high voltage to flow from their AC adaptors to...

18 August 2006, 9:27

Japanese PlayStation 3 turns silver

News Japanese PlayStation 3s will soon be going silver -- and the metallic colour doesn't come as a major surprise following similar variants for the slimline PlayStation 2, original PS2 and PlayStation Portable.

Tags: silver, colour, playstation, controller

6 February 2008, 9:17

WiiWare platform gets Japanese launch

News Originally scheduled for a vague "early in 2008", WiiWare now has an official date -- in Japan at least. The platform is coming to the country on 25 March and will feature nine games available for purchase to begin with, each weighing in at between...

Tags: points, puzzle game, king, tetris

12 March 2008, 8:52

Japanese PS3 launch disappoints many

News For the hearty souls willing to brave the chill of a November night in Tokyo, it didn't take more than a few minutes past midnight to know if a PlayStation 3 would be theirs -- those lucky gamers were handed a numbered ticket that guaranteed them...

14 November 2006, 10:49

News.blog: JVC to merge with Kenwood

News The two Japanese audio equipment makers will combine to form JVC The two companies are combining in hopes of reducing costs and scaling their distribution in the already-crowded Japanese consumer electronics market.

Tags: company, market, car, japanese

13 May 2008, 9:17

News.blog: Hitatchi to start new storage company?

News We haven't able to confirm this, but we've heard it now from a couple of people: Hitachi, the Japanese conglomerate, is talking to Toshiba and Fujitsu about forming a new company dedicated to hard drives and storage systems.

14 January 2008, 9:10

Vodafone hightails it out of Japan

News Vodafone has completed the sale of its Japanese arm to local Internet and telecoms company Softbank in a deal that values the company at ¥1.8tr, or around £8.9bn. Vodafone were arrogant -- they thought 'If anyone can compete against DoCoMo, it's us...

20 March 2006, 9:33

Small discs for camcorders get the blue light

News A Japanese group promoting blue-laser optical discs is developing a smaller version of the technology for devices such as camcorders in an effort to make the format more widely accepted. However, Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, citing...

13 April 2005, 13:21

'Sim City DS' being built for Japan

News The Japanese market is notoriously wary of foreign games. The game seems designed with the Japanese market in mind. Also, the character designs shown for the townspeople are distinctly Japanese. There's a uniformed high school girl with baggy socks...

5 September 2006, 9:34

PlayStation 3 delayed in Europe to March

News When Sony's PlayStation and PlayStation 2 consoles launched worldwide, there was up to nine months between the Japanese and European releases. The Japanese and North American release dates are unaffected by the delay, with scheduled 2006 launches...

6 September 2006, 10:26

Report: $250 Wii for 19 Nov US launch

News As Nintendo officially revealed details about the Wii's Japanese launch in Tokyo, a New York Times report answered the questions on millions of US gamers' minds: when will the Wii go on sale there? These media functions are demonstrated at length...

14 September 2006, 11:18

Virus-infected PC leaks nuclear secrets

News Citing Japanese press reports, antivirus services provider Sophos reported that the infected computer of an employee from Mitsubishi Electric is believed to have leaked about 40MB of confidential reports.

Tags: japanese, employee, peer, electric

5 July 2005, 8:33

Hitachi cooking up Blu-ray camcorder

News This will appear in one to two years, Hiroto Yamauchi, general manager of storage products marketing at Hitachi, told CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com during an interview at CEATEC, a large Japanese trade show taking place near Tokyo this week.

Tags: hitachi, ray, disc, burner

4 October 2006, 10:53

News.blog: Survey says PS3 too expensive

News But now, according to Ars Technica, that suspicion has been confirmed, thanks to the good folks at the Japanese-language game and entertainment magazine, Famitsu. Of course, the survey seemed to be for the Japanese market only, so there's no...

31 May 2006, 11:07

Photos: Ceatec's consumer electronics

News Dolby, which just officially opened a Japanese branch, is showing off technologies for 3D cinema and for bringing greater contrast to LCD TVs. Japanese market on 1 December. Panasonic has shown off similar wall TV concepts, so this shouldn't be too...

4 October 2007, 9:32