Confined to flat panel display conferences and shows until now, organic electroluminescence displays (OELDs) made an appearance at the CeBIT show in Hanover last week as industry buzz surrounding the new displays continues to build on the back of a s...
Nintendo Wednesday launched the successor to its popular GameBoy portable games terminal -- the first of three major new gaming platforms due out this year.
Sharp and Sony have completed development of an IEEE1394-based optical fibre home-networking system and will shortly begin licensing the technology.
As the saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them. After battling Connectix in court for two years, Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) signed a development deal Wednesday with the company under which the two will jointly work on emulation...
Toshiba plans to begin international sales of a 20.8-inch flat panel monitor later this year and will use the CeBIT 2001 trade show, which opens next week in Hanover, Germany, to kick off marketing of the device.
S3 Graphics, the recently formed joint venture between SonicBlue and Via Technologies, launched Thursday the successor to its Savage series of graphics processor chips for notebook computers -- the SuperSavage processor.
Sony said Wednesday it plans to launch in April a new type of CD that can hold twice as much data as the current format. The Double Density CD format allows up to 1.3GB of data to be stored on a disc, although the new system is not compatible with th...
Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI) is planning to double production of its hugely popular PlayStation 2 console this year, the company has announced.
Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive officer, delivered a keynote speech to the MacWorld Tokyo exhibition Thursday that managed to live up both to the expectations of Japan's loyal Mac users and to the rumours that had been circulating online in the l...
Toshiba and Munich-based Infineon Technologies have begun working together on MPEG4 (Motion Picture Experts Group) video systems for third-generation (3G) cellular telephones, the two companies announced Monday.
Spot prices for DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips on the world market fell sharply last week and look set to continue moving downward amid market conditions some observers describe as "crazy."
Casio Computer has announced details of its long-awaited Crusoe microprocessor-based notebook PC. The Cassiopeia Fiva, which was first previewed at the Comdex show in Las Vegas in November last year, will go on sale in Japan from March, according to ...
Matsushita Electric Industrial said it has developed a chip for next-generation video cellular phones that can simultaneously encode and decode multiple video streams.
Hitachi is bringing wall-hanging PDP televisions down in size and price announcing plans to sell a new 32-inch flat screen PDP (Plasma Display Panel) high definition television by April.
The floppy disk could be about to make a come back. Matsushita Kotobuki Electronics Industries, better known by its Panasonic brand name, has announced the development of a new technology that can increase their capacity more than 20-fold.