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NEC pledge WiMAX support to Moblin-based PNDs and mobile devices

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 21st 2009 No Comments

car pnd NEC have announced that they will be supporting Moblin-based mobile devices and in-car PNDs with WiMAX functionality. The company already develops WiMAX mobile broadband modules and has recently unveiled a battery-powered WiMAX router; this new announcement will see Intel’s open-source Moblin OS get native support for the high-speed wireless technology.

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NEC VersaPro VS netbook in the wild: painfully skinny

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jul 8th 2009 No Comments

We knew NEC’s VersaPro J UltraLite VS netbook was slim – how else could the company justify the fat price tag? – but even the teardown we saw back in May didn’t quite convey quite how skinny the Atom Z540 ultraportable really is. Thankfully Akihabara News have righted that situation, being in the enviable position of having the 15.8mm thick netbook in to play with.

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NEC LaVie Light Lui Mobile with VNC and WiMAX

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jul 1st 2009 No Comments

NEC have announced a new netbook, the LaVie Light Lui Mobile, an Atom N280 machine with the usual 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 display. There’s nothing much to differentiate this from the sea of other Atom netbooks, frankly; the best you’ll get is NEC’s own Lui Remote Desktop system, basically a branded VNC client.

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NEC reveals new 24-inch LCDs for U.S. market

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Jun 8th 2009 No Comments

NEC has made two new LCD displays available in the U.S. today to match the recent release of similar models in Japan. The LCD2490WUXi2 and the LCD2490W2 both sport 24-inch screens and feature IPS panels.

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NEC CRV43 43-inch curved LCD arrives July for $8k

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jun 4th 2009 No Comments

NEC’s huge CRV43 LCD display – which offers a gently curving 43-inch 2,880 x 900 resolution panel – has finally got a release date and price, though don’t expect much change from $8k. Intended for graphic designers and command/control users, the CRV43 runs at double-WGXA resolution and connects with a single DVI-D or HDMI 1.3 connector.

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NEC LaVie Light BL300-series N280 netbooks

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jun 2nd 2009 No Comments

Could someone please ping NEC and remind them that we’re drowning in Tegra, Ion and Snapdragon loveliness at Computex and Intel’s Atom N270 simple won’t cut it any more? NEC have announced a new netbook series, the LaVie Light BL300, using the N280 processor and a choice of HDD or SSD.

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NEC VersaPro VS netbook gets breakdown

By Chris Davies on Friday, May 29th 2009 No Comments

The life of a super-skinny netbook is never straightforward. Just when you think you’re set for a simple photoshoot, with journalists pawing at your 15.8mm chassis, along come Tech-On! and perform an impromptu teardown. That’s been the fate of the NEC VersaPro VS, the Intel Atom Z540 based 10.2-inch netbook we saw earlier this week.

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NEC VersaPro VS: super-thin netbook, super-huge price

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, May 26th 2009 1 Comment

NEC have unveiled a new netbook, and when it comes to style the super-skinny VersaPro VS has Sony’s VAIO P firmly in its sights. Based around Intel’s Atom Z540 processor, a 64GB SSD and 10.2-inch 1280 x 768 display, the 15.8mm thick netbook weighs just 725g.

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NEC updates LCD2490WUXi2 with improved color

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, May 21st 2009 No Comments

NEC released an updated to their LCD2490WUXi2 display today in an effort to boost the color on this 24-inch LCD display. As a part of the MultiSync 90 series, NEC hasn’t updated these models in a while, so this is a welcome announcement.

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NEC 32Mb MRAM chip with super-high memory density

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Feb 12th 2009 No Comments

nec logo NEC have developed a 32Mb MRAM chip that, thanks to the company’s efforts to miniturize the control circuits, allows 73-percent of a memory macro’s area to be allocated to memory cells. The MRAM chip, which is intended for SoC (System-on-Chip) products such as those found in embedded and mobile devices, is also compatible with asynchronous SRAM.