Worldwide shipments of digital still cameras will hit 10.8 million units in 2000 and are poised to rise higher still in 2001, according to an estimate from Japanese market research company Nikkei Market Access (NMA).
Telstra announced Tuesday it had signed a deal with Asia Satellite Telecommunications (Asiasat) to use the Asiasat 3S satellite to offer a nationwide broadband Internet service from 2001.
In the wake of a fault discovered in Transmeta's 600MHz TM5600 Crusoe microprocessor, Sony said Friday it will offer replacement machines to any users in Japan that report problems. Sony, however, stopped short of following the lead of NEC, which on ...
Several of Japan's largest notebook computer manufacturers were put into a spin Thursday morning after NEC announced it was recalling around 10 per cent of notebooks it has produced based on Crusoe microprocessors from Transmeta because of a fault in...
Canon has unveiled a prototype of a digital still camera with an integrated bubble-jet colour printer.
Honda Motor Company used the Robodex 2000 exhibition that opened here Friday to show off Asimo -- a 120-centimetre tall humanoid robot that walks in a similar way to a real person.
Sharp unveiled its next-generation Zaurus this week -- a machine that goes the farthest yet towards bridging the gap between a PDA (personal digital assistant) and personal entertainment computer.
Canon demonstrated Wednesday a prototype digital display that is only slightly thicker than a sheet of paper. The technology, which could be on the market as soon as the end of next year, is hoped to become a major component of future electronic book...
The recordable optical media marketplace is growing fast. While a host of brand new formats, such as DVD+RW, are nearing launch existing formats are getting make-overs that allow more data to be stored on seemingly identical 12-centimetre optical dis...
Sony on Tuesday lifted the veil on its latest entertainment robot development efforts and demonstrated it has made the evolutionary jump from four legs to two legs.
Sony is enlisting support in its battle for supremacy in the memory card market. The company, which has been battling alone since the 1998 launch of Memory Stick against formats with wider industry support, demonstrated a selection of products from o...
Trade organisations representing most of the world's largest Internet backbone operators and service providers have established a hotline where operators can get legal advice when they receive US federal government wiretap requests.
Japan's DoCoMo and Telecom New Zealand are in talks about the possibility of jointly bidding for a slice of the mobile business of the Australian company Cable & Wireless Optus, the Financial Times reported Thursday in its Asian edition.
Police arrested Wednesday the former president of Internet music distribution company Liquid Audio Japan and four others on suspicion of confinement of a business colleague who was planning to start a similar company in the US, Japanese media reporte...
Sony and Real Networks announced Monday a digital music alliance that stands to benefit both companies by getting their respective technologies into more widespread use.