Japanese electronics

Australian Open snares another sponsor

Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | yesterday

Australian Open organisers announced a three-year product sponsorship deal with Japanese electronics company Panasonic Corp.

BRIEF-Tennis-Australian Open snares another sponsor

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

SYDNEY, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Australian Open organisers announced a three-year product sponsorship deal with Japanese electronics company Panasonic Corp on Monday.

Akai set to make a comeback

Times of India (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

Twice unlucky Japanese electronics brand, Akai is staging a comeback in the country soon.

Pioneer shares up on smaller loss

BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Shares in Japanese electronics maker Pioneer rise 9% after the company announced smaller-than-expected losses.

IronMan for Sick and Injured People

Patient Centric Healthcare (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

If you ever saw the movie Ironman, you will find this interesting. Cyberdyne, a Japanese electronics company, has released a promotional video showing an elderly patient with Parkinson’s disease using a robotic skeleton to walk for the first time in two years. Of course, we have some skepticism and paranoia about robots which [...]

Panasonic begins takeover of Sanyo

India eNews (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

The Japanese electronics company Panasonic Corp Thursday began its planned takeover of the battery manufacturer Sanyo Electric Co Ltd.

• Panasonic begins takeover of Sanyo - Sify
• Panasonic begins takeover of Sanyo - The Earth Times Online Newspaper

Panasonic begins takeover of Sanyo

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Tokyo - The Japanese electronics company Panasonic Corp on Thursday began its planned takeover of the battery manufacturer Sanyo Electric Co Ltd. The world's largest producer of consumer electronics started its bid for the world's largest manufacture...

Panasonic begins takeover of Sanyo

Sify (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

The Japanese electronics company Panasonic Corp Thursday began its planned takeover of the battery manufacturer Sanyo Electric Co Ltd.

Panasonic begins Sanyo takeover

SiliconRepublic.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Japanese electronics giant Panasonic has announced it has begun the takeover of its smaller rival Sanyo.

Panasonic begins Sanyo takeover

BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Japanese electronics group Panasonic says it has begun the process to take over smaller rival Sanyo.

Fujitsu UK staff vote for strike

BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Workers at Japanese electronics firm Fujitsu in the UK vote to go on strike in a dispute over pay, job losses and pension cuts.

Japan's technology champions: Invisible but indispensable

The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

A host of medium-sized Japanese electronics firms have developed dominant positions in many areas of technology. Can they keep them? ABOUT 40 nuclear reactors are under construction around the world, designed by half a dozen companies from America, China, France, Japan and Russia. But to obtain a huge, solid-steel vessel to contain the radioactivity, all must turn to a single firm, Japan...

Rising Sun by Michael Crichton

Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Book Details Paperback, 416 pages 1992, Ballantine Books ISBN: 0345380371 Synopsis A young American model is murdered in the corporate boardroom of Los Angeles's Nakomoto Tower on the new skyscraper's gala opening night. Murdered, that is, unless she was strangled while enjoying sadomasochistic sex that went too far. Nakomoto, a Japanese electronics giant, tries to hush up the embarrassing...

Panasonic to Pay at Least $4.5 Billion for Sanyo

Business Week (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009

The Japanese electronics company's long-expected purchase would create a powerhouse in batteries for hybrid gas-electric cars

A glimpse of the future: Robots aid Japan's elderly residents

USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

... feats of strength.But this is no sci-fi film — it's a promotional video by Cyberdyne, a Japanese electronics company. It shows an elderly male patient with Parkinson's disease being strapped into a robotic skeleton that, using sensors attached to the wearer's skin, reacts to nerve impulses and moves its "arms" and "legs" accordingly.The robotic suit, known as the Hybrid Assisted Limb...