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  • Nokia hooks up with Chinese firm for localized software and services

    Nokia hooks up with Chinese firm for localized software and services

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    RIM's not the only manufacturer making a new play to cozy up with China this week -- now it's Nokia making an announcement that it'll partner up with local firm New Alliance to develop software and services more appropriate for the local market. In a brief press release cut loose today, the companies have revealed that they'll form a new joint venture -- the clumsily-named Nokia Alliance Internet Services Company Limited -- to push specific pieces of Ovi fine-tuned for China while helping out local content creators and developers looking to bring their goods into the platform. The venture goes live next month with about 80 staffers involved; Nokia's pretty heavily invested in China as it is, so we're thinking this is a power play to stay engaged in the face of growing competition.

    Nokia hooks up with Chinese firm for localized software and services originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Done Deal: Comcast Takes Over NBC Universal

    Done Deal: Comcast Takes Over NBC Universal

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Comcast and General Electric announcedearly this morning that they agreed to form a joint venture that will be 51 percent owned by Comcast and 49 percent by GE. The joint venture, which will consist of the NBC Universal businesses and Comcast’s cable networks, regional sports networks and more, will be managed by the newly formed Comcast Entertainment Group (CEG).

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  • Report: Sony and Sharp shake hands in another LCD TV deal

    Report: Sony and Sharp shake hands in another LCD TV deal

    Posted on November 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Globally speaking, there is one clear leader in the LCD TV business: Samsung. The company commands a 23.2% share in this segment, with Sony (13.7%) and Sharp (7%) almost hopelessly behind (according to DisplaySearch). So in June this year already, Sony and Sharp inked a joint venture deal to produce LCD TVs together. And today, the Nikkei (Japan's biggest business publication), reports that the two former arch rivals decided to further expand their alliance.

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  • Casio plans to enter the OLED game

    Casio plans to enter the OLED game

    Posted on November 9, 2009 | No Comments
    OLED can still pretty much be considered a thing of the future, but we're getting closer to use the technology in our homes every month. Today, Casio Computer announced [JP] it has teamed up with Tokyo-based technology company Toppan Printing to develop and produce OLED panels. The new joint venture will start operations from April 2010, with both companies involved saying they'll focus on manufacturing OLED panels sized ten inches and smaller first (like the one you see in the picture).

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  • Curious XPERIA X3 tweet by Ericsson Labs makes you wonder

    Curious XPERIA X3 tweet by Ericsson Labs makes you wonder

    Posted on October 18, 2009 | No Comments

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    Obviously, not every part of Ericsson (or Sony, for that matter) knows what's going on over at Sony Ericsson HQ -- though they share names, joint venture Sony Ericsson is a separate company, by and large, joined to its corporate parents more by ownership than by mindshare. Still, though, you can't help but find it interesting that Ericsson Labs' official Twitter account is tweeting about a story on Softpedia echoing recent rumors that the Android-powered, Rachael-skinned XPERIA X3 will finally bow next month. In the most sensational version of the conclusion-drawing that's about to occur, we'd say that Ericsson just underhandedly confirmed the story, the product, and the product's name -- and in the least sensational version, a dude in one division of a largely unrelated company is simply throwing out a story that he finds interesting. Considering the rumored specs on the X3, we're hoping its the former -- and realistically, we might only have a few more weeks before we find out.

    Curious XPERIA X3 tweet by Ericsson Labs makes you wonder originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • After 55 years: Panasonic pulls the plug on tube TV production

    After 55 years: Panasonic pulls the plug on tube TV production

    Posted on October 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Kids, do you remember those big, clunky things in the living room we older people called tube TVs? They are dying off. One of the world's biggest TV manufacturers, Panasonic, announced yesterday [JP] it will stop producing those TVs after 55 years.

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  • Time Inc. wants a Kindle-alike

    Time Inc. wants a Kindle-alike

    Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Is this what Peter Ha is working on? Owen Thomas wrote a piece about Time Inc. wanting a specialized e-reader a la the Kindle, thereby allowing them to eschew paper magazines entir

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  • Major shake-up in Japan’s mobile world: NEC, Hitachi and Casio to merge cell phone businesses

    Major shake-up in Japan’s mobile world: NEC, Hitachi and Casio to merge cell phone businesses

    Posted on August 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Big news from Japan's mobile phone industry today (Friday afternoon Japanese time). Various Japanese media are reporting that NEC, Hitachi and Casio are in talks to merge their cell phone operations to become Japan's second biggest manufacturer, following Sharp. Reportedly, NEC plans to integrate its cell phone business into a tie-up that already exists between Hitachi and Casio. According to rumors, NEC wants to take a majority stake in the new entity, which would then control about 20% of the Japanese cell phone market.

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  • CrashCorp Demos Augmented Reality iPhone Application

    CrashCorp Demos Augmented Reality iPhone Application

    Posted on August 13, 2009 | 1 Comment
    CrashCorp, the joint venture between former Digg Lead Architect Joe Stump, and former co-founder of Socialthing, Matt Galligan, have released two videos of a proof-of-concept app developed for the iPhone. After speaking Matt Galligan, he mentioned that CrashCorp is changing the direction of their company. He also notes:
    Right now, there's a gap in the market, as it relates to making it easy to add persistent location to mobile apps. We're simply addressing that gap by providing an end-to-end location solution for app developers. Part of that solution will include developing SDK's for mobile devices, that will allow app developers to quickly add new ways to view location data.

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  • Rumor: Nokia places orders with Taiwan’s big netbook and smartbook manufacturers

    Rumor: Nokia places orders with Taiwan’s big netbook and smartbook manufacturers

    Posted on June 24, 2009 | No Comments
    compalEven though Nokia and Intel were both relatively tight-lipped yesterday about the actual hardware products that'll spring forth from their new joint-venture, rumors are already circulating that Nokia has placed orders with Quanta and Compal, Taiwan's number one and two netbook/smartbook manufacturers, respectively.

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