Even as the electronics industry pushes televisions for watching three-dimensional videos as a future growth area, Panasonic Corp. acknowledged that it will be challenging to get consumers to upgrade to 3-D sets so soon after many purchased new flat-screen TVs.
Break out that mixtape. You know, the one with “Don’t Stop Believin’” and “Thriller.” It’s the Sony Walkman’s 30th birthday.
And it got a present. Kind of. The modern Sony Walkman digital music player beat out Apple’s iPod share of the portable music player market in Japan in the last week of August, according to a study by BCN, a Japanese electronics research firm.
With 3-D movies popping up more frequently at the cinema, several companies are working through significant challenges to make 3-D viewing available in the home too.
Satellite-TV operator British Sky Broadcasting PLC is preparing to debut a 3-D television channel in the U.K. next year that will require specially-equipped TV sets.
Satoru Iwata is not your typical Japanese company president.
Shares of both Seagate and Western Digital are getting battered on fears that the hard-drive sector could once again soon find itself with a glut of supply.
At least in part, the Street is reacting to this morning’s downgrade of Marvell by Barclays Capital, which as I noted earlier was in response to indications from Taiwanese component makers of a slowdown PC demand.
In the past week, eBay Inc. chief executive John Donahoe has taken steps to divest two businesses, acquire another, and revamp his company’s core e-commerce website.
During a call with investors Thursday morning, Donahoe said he thinks an initial public offering for eBay’s Internet-phone unit Skype will best “maximize value,” but he would be open to an unsolicited offer from another company to buy it outright.
Dell CEO Michael Dell has done little to dispel rumors that his company is working on a mobile computing device. In fact, he all but confirmed them while traveling in Japan on March 24 when he said: “It is true that we are exploring smaller-screen devices.” What form those devices will take remains a matter of heated debate.
Cowen analyst Robert Stone this morning cut estimates for the solar sector across the board, asserting that Street estimates for at least the first half of 2009 are too high, and there could be further downside if project credit conditions do not improve. Project financing seems to be the issue rather than the cost of individual panels.
Toshiba is suspending flash memory production at two of its plants, but only for nine days. The company denies plans to shut down the plants completely, though it plans to speed up restructuring at its money-losing chip operations.
Nintendo Co.’s sales are speeding along faster than a getaway car, shrugging off economic woes as if they were bugs on the windshield.
Its Wii videogame console continues to be sold out in many stores. Sales of its DS handheld console remain hot despite its being a four-year-old product, ancient by game technology standards.
Sunshine is free. Solar modules are not. But they are getting cheaper: UBS analyst Stephen Chin today revised his forecast for solar module pricing to down 20 percent from a previous estimate of down 14 percent.
For the solar industry, some promising news from the land of the rising sun.
According to Reuters, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is discussing bring back subsidies for the country’s solar sector. The story, citing unidentified ministry officials, says that the country is considering subsidies and tax breaks that could halve the cost of [...]
The stereotype of Japanese office culture–rigid, formal and hierarchical–is still the norm in most of the country. Hiroyuki Nishimura observes none of those rules. In spite of that, or perhaps because of it, the lackadaisical 31-year-old with a soul patch and wispy goatee has become the most influential figure on the Japanese Web.
Japan’s four big ISP organizations have taken a logical step toward controlling file sharing: Flagrant violators will be warned via email and then disconnected, the Yomiuri Shimbun says. Although this practice will horrify the content-should-be-free community, it’s actually a far more sensible approach than, say, the RIAA’s suing sharers. It is also, presumably, a smart step for ISPs struggling to control the exploding use of bandwidth.
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