Sony and Olympus – New joint medical company – Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. – will be established on April 16

SONY and Olympus - New joint medical company - Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. - will be established on April 16
SONY and Olympus - New joint medical company - Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. - will be established on April 16

A new medical company, “Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.,” will be established on April 16 through a joint investment by Sony and Olympus. The new company’s president and vice-president will talk in the press conference on the same day. The company will work on developing next-generation medical equipment by using both Sony and Olympus’s know-how and technologies.

Panasonic Announces Delisting from New York Stock Exchange

Panasonic Corporation (NYSE:PC) (TOKYO:6752) announced its delisting schedule from the New York Stock Exchange. The company has American Depository Shares (“ADS”) listed, which the company first listed in December 1971.
The company’s shares are also listed and mainly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Osaka Securities Exchange and Nagoya Stock exchange.
The company said that the listing of its ADS was originally done to promote trading of its shares and to raise the …

Sharp – Samsung completed payment for the issue of new shares of Sharp

We introduced this news about Sharp’s capital alliance with Samsung recently, and today, Sharp announced that they have received payment for their new shares equivalent to 10.4 billion yen (109.3 million USD) from Samsung.
Number of new shares issued: 35,804,000 shares
Issue price: 290 yen per share
Amount of proceeds: 10,383,160,000 yen
Method of offering/allotment: Third party allotment

NEC and Nippon Express form strategic partnership to strengthen global logistics services

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NEC and Nippon Express form strategic partnership to strengthen global logistics services
– NEC Logistics to become joint venture of NEC and Nippon Express –
NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Nippon Express Co., Ltd. (Nippon Express; TSE: 9062) have reached an agreement to form a strategic partnership in order to strengthen their global logistics business. As part of this partnership, NEC will transfer a portion of its shares in NEC Logistics, Ltd. (NECL) to Nippon Express …

Lenovo out 27″ Tablet PC, behold the IdeaCentre Horizon

Was Sony’s Tap 20 too small for you? Then what about a gorgeous 27″ Lenovo then? Yep you are reading this right, Lenovo announced today the IdeaCenter Horizon a gorgeous 27″ 10 point multi-touch screen (Full HD) that comes with a Ivy Bridge Core i7, an Nvidia GeForce GT 620M, WiFi N, USB 3.0, Optional SSD and an Internal Battery that will give you up to 2h of battery life for just 1699 USD. Sure this new IdeaCentre Horizon may not be for everyone but if developers start …

iPhone App Makes Map Navigation Easier to Visualize

Crossfader has developed Version 1.4 of AR-MAPS, an iPhone app that supports augmented reality (AR) on maps. AR is one of visualization solutions. This map application represents the ground on the bottom half of the screen, showing a map there. On the top half, it shows a video, with AR tags attached to destinations on it. This makes navigation easier to visualize.
“AR-MAPS supports the iPhone. On the iPhone 5 (recommended models are iPhone 4S/5), you can choose between standard maps and …

Sony grows large sensor camera family with new 4K camera systems with PMW-F55 and PMW-F5

The new PMW-F55 and PMW-F5 CineAlta 4K cameras deliver unprecedented creative options for HD/2K/QFHD/4K (PMW-F55) and 2K/HD (PMW-F5) production. Both offer multi-codec support featuring Sony’s new XAVC MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format, the SR codec (MPEG4 SStP) and the industry-standard High Definition XDCAM 50Mbps 4:2:2 codec. In-camera recording is on Sony’s New SxS media, SxS PRO+ (Plus ) which can be used to record XAVC in HD High Frame Rate and in 4K at up to 60fps (in the PMW-F55), …

Panasonic outs new Toughbook C2 running on Windows 8 Pro

Panasonic introduced last Friday in the US its new 12.5″ convertible with the Toughbook C2. Designed for professional the new C2 comes by default with Windows 8 Pro, a nice 5-point capacitive multi-touch 12.5″ 500 nit LCD IPS display, 4GB of RAM, an Intel Core i5-3427U vPro CPU, USB 3.0, WiFi, Bleutooth, LTE or 3G and a battery life announced for 11h! The Panasonic Toughbook C2 is available this December from authorized Panasonic resellers starting at $2949. The Toughbook C2 …

About time! JVC finally announces its latest D-ILA 4K projector in Japan

Yep it is about time! JVC finally announced for the Japanese market its latest D-ILA 4K projector with the DLA-X95R, DLA-X75R and DLA-X55R! Introduced at CEDIA 2012 early September for the first time these projector comes with JVC e-Shift technology that upconverts and scales 2D HD content to a 4K signal (3840 x 2160) and displays it at full 4K precision. Anyway nothing new here and I will advise you to check the press release below to refresh your memory.
INDIANAPOLIS, September 6, 2012 – …

Acer outs a new Atom based Iconia slate with the W510

Just a week after Acer’s announcement of their Windows 8 Iconia W700, the company announced yesterday in the USA the Iconia W510 another Windows 8 Tablet but this time powered by an Intel Clover Trail Atom Z2760 CPU! the Iconia W510 will come in four different flavors (see details below) with a price starting at $499.99 USD and sold without its docking keyboard (That also includes an internal battery). By default the Iconia W510 will come for all models with an Atom Z2760, 2GB of RAM, …