Panasonic has updated its fully rugged series Toughbook CF-19 and CF-30 in Japan today, with extended battery life, increased onbroad memory and lower reflective screen costing to improve brightness. Both models now come standard with 2GB of memory, 160GB of storage space, and have the same screen brightness rating of 1000 nits, Wifi Link 5100AGN and Bluetooth feature.
HTC, RIM, Palm, Nokia and Panasonic are among multiple cellphone manufacturers against whom a Texas company, Saxon Innovations, have filed complaints regarding alleged patent violations. The case, which the US International Trade Commission (ITC) has decided to investigate following a vote on Thursday, suggests that various products from the companies use intellectual property first filed in three patents by AMD, and which was subsequently bought by Saxon in July 2007. If the ITC finds in favor of the complaint, the manufacturers could be barred from importing their devices.
Another digital cam to join the new Panasonic lineup is the Lumix DMC-LS85. Like its presuccesor LS80, it’s a basic model with an improved Panasonic Venus Engine IV image processor and extended tele-end zoom lens.
Panasonic have announced a pair of new LUMIX FS-series cameras today, the 12.1-megapixel DMC-FS15 and the 10.1-megapixel DMC-FS7. Each has a 29mm wide-angle lens, Panasonic’s Venus Engine IV image processor, and as well as stills can record 30fps 16:9 WVGA (848 x 480) video. To that, the DMC-FS15 adds a 5x optical zoom with the company’s Mega OIS (Optical Image Stabilization).
It seems that Panasonic is working hard to keep your home theater setup as neat as possible. They’ve pulled the wraps off of the Z1, an HDTV that, in addition to being only 1 inch thick, employs technology to transmit an HD signal wirelessly. No HDMI cable needed.
The Format War might have ended many moon’s ago, but Blu-ray never took control of the world’s largest market, and in fact, China has its own HD format (China Blue High-Definition) to counter foreign license fees from BDA. Darn CBHD is much more resilient than HD-DVD despite having zero studio endorsements. Nevertheless, recent setback; the Taiwanese pullout, and now the China made Blu-ray for Chinese market could finally put this issue to rest, or could it?
Panasonic’s controlling-stake acquisition of Sanyo has been confirmed, in a deal that will see the company pay $6.4bn to stakeholders. The deal, which was confirmed back in November but delayed after 29-percent Sanyo stakeholder Goldman Sachs refused Panasonic’s earlier offers, will see the combined company take the number two spot in the league of Japanese electronics manufacturers, with Hitachi maintaining first place.
Panasonic are withdrawing from the European satnav business, after drastically falling prices have made it economically unfeasible. While no official release has been made, UK site The Register is reporting that Panasonic will now instead focus on in-car entertainment hardware that will be marketed at car manufacturers rather than individual end-users.
Panasonic looks forward to expand and standardize its 3D imagery technology with Blu-ray Disc Association at consumer level. The company has submitted an official proposal to take on the technology wet-dream that has been proven to fail time after time- a visual entertaining home-theater system that required awkward goggle to process its third dimension imagery, straight to your Blu-ray player with a collaborated HDMI standard.
I’ve had a lot of trouble with keeping my iPhone charged up for a full day. And while there are more and more on-the-go charger options around these days, there can never be enough. That’s why this Panasonic Pocket Power phone charger really caught my eye. The price tag’s not too bad, either.
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