Blogs your wayJapan Times (Free subscription) | 02/25/2010
NEC Corp. said Thursday it plans to promote Senior Vice President Nobuhiro Endo to president April 1, replacing Kaoru Yano. NEC decided to appoint Endo, 56, to rejuvenate its management after the steps taken by the current management team under Yano, 66, to strengthen business operations, such as a planned merger of its money-losing chip maker NEC Electronics Corp. with Renesas Technology...
Business Week (Free subscription) | 02/25/2010
NEC Corp., Japan’s largest maker of personal computers, aims to boost net income 10-fold over three years by shifting focus toward overseas markets and bolstering its cloud computing-related businesses.
Channel Insider (Free subscription) | 02/12/2010
NEC of America has given channel partners another tool to add to end-customer unified communications systems -- integration with Polycom video conferencing. Now NEC Univerge Sphericall users can access video conferencing from within their familiar UC interface. - NEC Corp. of America is stepping up its unified communications game with enhanced integrations for its Univerge Sphericall software-based...
Channel Insider (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
NEC will build database computers that allow companies to store and analyze data about their operations using NEC blade servers and Netezza software, the two companies said. - (Reuters) - Netezza Corp, a small maker of database computers, is teaming up with Japan's NEC Corp to take on Oracle Corp in the market for database computers. The tie-up comes partly in response to Oracle's...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
BOSTON (Reuters) - Netezza Corp, a small maker of database computers, is teaming up with Japan's NEC Corp to take on Oracle Corp in the market for database computers.
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 03/15/2010
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japanese shares climbed Monday morning in Tokyo as a weaker yen provided support for shares of exporters. The Nikkei 225 was up 0.3% at 10,779.44 and the broader Topix was at 940.36, up 0.4%. Shares of Isuzu Motors Ltd. tacked on 1.3%, Canon Inc. added 1.6% and NEC Corp. rose 1.5%. But shares of JVC Kenwood Holdings Inc. dropped 9.3% after the company last week said it...
Laptop battery review (Free subscription) | 02/21/2010
... as the worst for the braces, ever annual loss for the year ending this month. Earlier this month NEC Corp (6701.T) said it will close an LCD factory in Japan, while Sony Corp (6758.T) and fSeiko Epson Corp (6724.T) announced that it was considering an alliance in small screen LCD. Toshiba Satellite P35 Series Matsushita Display Technology, which is currently owned 60 percent...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 02/19/2010
NEC Corp. announced today the development and successful demonstration of LSI technology for next-generation high-speed serial communication interfaces. This new technology allows inter-chip communication that is three times faster than modern communication interface standards, such as USB 3.0 and PCI Express 2.0, without using complicated transmission modes like multilevel transmission.
AdPulp (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
George Orwell argues in 1984 that Big Brother is watching you. I've long held that in reality we are watching Big Brother, but I'm willing to concede we're watching each other. According to The Wall Street Journal , NEC Electronics Corp. has designed a method for digital signs to track the age, gender and number of pedestrians that walk by them, providing advertisers with a more accurate reading...