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News.blog: Pioneer drops plasma production

News Pioneer plans to let someone else make its plasma TV panels, according to several reports. 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...

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6 March 2008, 9:12

Pioneer's first 1080p plasma TVs to arrive in October

News Japan's Pioneer announced on Thursday it will launch its first full high-definition plasma televisions in October, playing catch-up with larger rivals such as Matsushita. Pioneer's plasma operations swung to a quarterly loss in April-June, hit by...

3 August 2007, 10:29

Pioneer says 4 to 7 million PS3s to ship in 2006

News However, Wilson's optimism looks like it's coming from the Grim Reaper in comparison to Pioneer executive Andy Parson's belief. Speaking with Web site The Digital Bits, Parsons talked about the Blu-ray disc format (Pioneer announced several Blu-ray...

20 January 2006, 11:07

Pioneer unveils revamped plasma tech

News For Pioneer, black is the new black. And black was the focus of the event: after all, Pioneer claims that its new eighth-generation flat panels provide the most advanced levels of deep black of any television on the market.

10 May 2007, 11:44

Pioneer set to launch Blu-ray products in early 2006

News Pioneer Electronics announced its first Blu-ray Disc drive Tuesday, the BDR-101A, which will store as much as 25GB of data when it goes on sale in the first quarter of 2006. The drive isn't expected to be for everyone, Pioneer said.

28 December 2005, 14:02

IBM and Pioneer's hands-free GPS system

News IBM has licensed voice-recognition software to Pioneer Europe for use in hands-free GPS navigation systems that allow drivers to keep their hands on their steering wheels. Pioneer will be using the technology in its new AVIC-HD1BT console, which...

26 October 2006, 10:24

DivX links up with Google Video and Pioneer

News DivX also announced that Pioneer will introduce a new line of DivX-certified DVD players and recorders in the US and JVC will introduce a new line of DivX Ultra-certified in-car DVD receivers in North America.

9 January 2006, 11:04

Google hires Net pioneer Vint Cerf

News Google announced on Thursday that it has hired Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, as the search leviathan seeks to build a network foundation for its future Internet applications. Cerf, who co-designed TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet...

9 September 2005, 9:47

Sharp buys shares in Pioneer

News Japanese electronics maker Sharp will buy about $357m (£177m) worth of new shares from Pioneer and work with its loss-making rival in developing DVD players, car electronics and displays. Sharp is one of the world's top makers of LCD TVs, competing...

21 September 2007, 10:19

Swedes pioneer greener sat-nav

News An eco-friendly satellite-navigation system offering routes to save fuel and minimise greenhouse gas emissions is being developed by Swedish scientists. Their sat-nav system has reported an average fuel saving of more than eight per cent compared...

5 January 2007, 9:12

Microsoft and Yahoo re-enter talks

News The announcement comes just days after billionaire investor Carl Icahn launched a proxy fight to unseat Yahoo's current board at the Internet search pioneer's upcoming 3 July annual shareholders meeting.

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19 May 2008, 11:21

Wikipedia's growing pains

News Then, on 1 December, a new flurry of attention came when former MTV VJ and podcasting pioneer Adam Curry was accused of anonymously editing out references to other people's seminal podcasting work in an article about the popular new digital medium.

6 December 2005, 10:04

Firefox downloaded 75 million times

News He did say that Pioneer planned to use the project's 'Spatial Navigation' feature for surfing Web pages with directional keys, a feature Pioneer funded. As it marked the 75 millionth download of its Firefox Web browser, the Mozilla Foundation said...

27 July 2005, 9:53

Where genius, art and gadgets mix

News We're getting to the point in science where we can't just think with our minds anymore, we have to have this visualisation," said Danny Hillis, an Applied Minds co-founder who earlier helped pioneer the idea of parallel computing.

6 February 2006, 9:42

HP signs up new LightScribe licencees

News The company plans to announce Tuesday that it has added 17 new licencees, including prominent drive makers Panasonic and Pioneer. Hewlett-Packard has signed up a number of key backers for its LightScribe technology, which uses a laser to etch...

24 May 2005, 9:42