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Since Blu-ray has officially won the format war earlier this year and camcorders capable of recording onto optical media are not exactly a great novelty, Hitachi has decided to put two and two together and launched its DZ-BD10HA Blu-ray Disc Hybrid Camcorder, a device capable of recording high-quality videos directly... |
12 August 2008
02:23 GMT |
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E Ink, a leading company in electronic paper display technologies, announced that the Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications joint venture has chosen the E Ink Vizplex Imaging Film based displays to be integrated into its new handsets. The very-first mobile phone to use an E Ink Vizplex display is already on the market... |
24 July 2008
06:06 GMT |
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For the past few days everybody has been talking about the future of storage, with Solid State Drives replacing current magnetic hard drives. But some recent news, which has surfaced thanks to Tom's Hardware, has put this future in a light of uncertainty. It seems that SSDs aren't all everybody expects them... |
3 July 2008
04:59 GMT |
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Hitachi, one of the largest Japanese companies in terms of employee number (more than 380,000), recently released a new mobile phone, the Wooo W62H. The new Wooo handset comes after the W61H model, which has, besides a normal display, an e-ink one that allows users to personalize its look with 95 pre-set graphic pa... |
9 June 2008
07:58 GMT |
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Storage specialist Hitachi has introduced a new notebook hard disk drive that packs 320GB of storage space in a 2.5-inch form factor. While the storage performance is not out of the ordinary, the new drive from Hitachi spins at 7.200 rotations per minute, just like an average desktop hard disk drive. 7,200 RPM 2.5-in... |
7 May 2008
09:33 GMT |
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and PMC-Sierra have jointly announced the complete integration of PMC-Sierra's end-to-end Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 6Gb/s chipsets and Hitachi's SAS 6Gb/s prototype hard-disk drives. "PMC-Sierra is committed to ensuring full interoperability with 6Gb/s components to redu... |
5 May 2008
10:56 GMT |
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Japanese conglomerate Hitachi has announced that it dropped its plans of exiting from the hard-disk drive business, and is now gearing up to make a comeback by cutting down on production costs. The news was broken by Hitachi's storage division head during yesterday's conference.Hitachi's decision is so... |
17 April 2008
04:10 GMT |
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Hitachi has just announced its Ultrastar 15K450 hard-disk drive that packs 450 GB of storage space using perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. It's true that such capacities are no longer new, since other companies ship 1 TB disk drives, but Hitachi's 450 GB offering spins at 15,000 rotations p... |
16 April 2008
10:49 GMT |
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On Monday, Hitachi announced it had bought a majority stake interest in M-Tech Information Technology, a password management software vendor, in the idea of expanding its own line of products for identity management. Hitachi already has an important role in the ID management products market. The authentication produc... |
9 April 2008
10:42 GMT |
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IBM and Hitachi have jointly announced their first-ever partnership for researching the next chip technology for 32-nanometer semiconductors. According to the company officials, IBM and Hitachi will use brand new technologies that would allow them to improve the measurements in the transistor variations.The two compa... |
10 March 2008
12:30 GMT |
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It seems that you can run, but you can't hide from the sharp claws of the modern technology, and continuous research is about to open the doors for computers even inside your mind. The picture is frightening similar to the science-fiction apocalypse: beloved audience, the human-machine interface is here!At the m... |
29 February 2008
07:04 GMT |
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Hitachi has announced that it has inked a purchase agreement with its former rival company Canon that will lead to a LCD panel business alliance. Hitachi has previously sold an important part of its Display Unit shares to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. who manufactures LCD TVs under the Panasonic brand.The agreem... |
28 February 2008
06:55 GMT |
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Hitachi has just announced the availability of its new 320GB notebook hard-disk drive in its TravelStar family. Despite the launch, the company is still way behind its heavy-weigh competitors such as Toshiba, Western Digital, Fujitsu and Seagate, that have previously released 320 GB versions and now they're comp... |
26 February 2008
11:12 GMT |
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Chartered Semiconductor has just announced having signed an agreement with Hitachi regarding the buyout of its 8-inch fab in Singapore for $233 million. The purchase is meant to expand Chartered's production capacity for eight-inch wafer semiconductors.The agreement between Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing ... |
15 February 2008
08:16 GMT |
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Hitachi and Phoenix Technologies today announced that they have joined forces in order to deliver next-generation mobile PC security on notebooks equipped with Hitachi hard-disk drives. The upcoming laptops will feature the Phoenix FailSafe theft-deterrence service that will allow their owners to track, disable and s... |
4 February 2008
11:48 GMT |
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Hitachi, the giant Japanese manufacturer and service provider, unveiled its latest mobile phone, Hitachi W61H, a handset that comes to emphasize the company's slogan, "Inspire the Next", with its e-ink display and its exquisite look. Hitachi W61H is a clamshell phone with two displays, a normal one and an e-ink ... |
31 January 2008
03:15 GMT |
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The storage market is somewhat similar to the DRAM battlefield and can be translated into a single sentence: "you're late, you're dead". No wonder that the industry titans are in a continuous battle for the largest and cheapest hard disk drives. As if it were not enough, there's the new and shiny solid... |
24 January 2008
06:54 GMT |
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Hitachi, the Japanese giant has started talks with Toshiba and Fujitsu about forming a new company to produce hard disk drives and storage systems. This is quite a surprise, since Hitachi is about to sell its own hard-drive business, and the eternal rivalry between the three companies are highly unlikely to bring som... |
12 January 2008
03:40 GMT |
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Samsung has announced their new line of 2.5-inch form factor notebook HDD to store 500 GB of data. The announcement comes only three days later after Hitachi unveiled industry's first 500GB 2.5-inch hard drive. At the moment, the largest notebook hard-disk drive is a 320 GB model manufactured by Western Digital.... |
7 January 2008
03:22 GMT |
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The Japanese storage expert Hitachi is full of surprises at this time of the year. After a series of reports claiming that things are far from normal with its storage business, the company has announced a new 500GB 2.5-inch hard drive.The TravelStar disk comes in two flavors: the standard 5K500 is designed for lapto... |
3 January 2008
06:05 GMT |
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Japanese storage solution provider Hitachi Global Storage has officially shut down production of 1-inch hard drives, and considers to terminate the 1.8-inch hard drives line as well. The miniature hard-disks were used in digital music players and video cameras, and lost a considerable amount of market with the adven... |
3 January 2008
04:58 GMT |
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LCD panels are present everywhere, from the portable gaming systems and cell phones to the wide display in the living room or the huge billboards on the American skyscrapers. The demand is so high that more and more manufacturers emerge in this sector and powerful alliances are continually forming to defend their sup... |
28 December 2007
04:35 GMT |
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The LCD panels' market seems to be the hottest point of interest for the most important names in the CE industry these days and we're witnessing what could be very well history being written, as the major players in this field are teaming up, presumably to counter Samsung's iron-fisted market dominance... |
26 December 2007
01:12 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics has announced that it has agreed with Hitachi to exchange technology licenses to include their hard-disk drive patents. The deal has been filled with the Korean Exchange, and the agreement with Hitachi covers technology patented by both Hitachi and IBM (as the Japanese electronics conglomerate bo... |
21 December 2007
08:25 GMT |
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Hitachi, Japan's biggest electronics conglomerate, is rumored to think of selling its hard-disk manufacturing units. Recent news emerging from the hard-disk manufacturer says that Hitachi is currently in talks with U.S. private equity firm Silver Lake about the possibility of selling it a stake in its hard drive... |
21 December 2007
04:41 GMT |
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Wireless projectors (namely, digital projectors with built-in wireless modules) are extremely useful devices, since they can be controlled from a distance, thus making presentation setups a lot easier. And the latest info regarding such a product comes from Hitachi, who has just announced the availability of the CP-X... |
11 December 2007
03:06 GMT |
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If you are not Western Digital and still want to jump in the eco-friendly bandwagon, you have to be smart enough to find an alternative. This is the case of another well known storage solution provider, Hitachi Data Systems, who has signed a partnership with Data Islandia to offer disc-based archival data management ... |
10 December 2007
11:03 GMT |
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Storage solutions provider Hitachi Data Systems has announced the availability of two new network attached storage (NAS) solutions focused towards go mid-market: NAS Platform 2000 and the NAS Platform 2000 Nearline to integrate with the existing NAS 2100 and 2200 models.The new storage framework integrates advanced s... |
28 November 2007
10:41 GMT |
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Digital video recorders and set-top boxes with recording capabilities are becoming increasingly important nowadays, as they allow users to enjoy their favorite shows even when they don't have the necessary time to watch them exactly when they're aired. And this is the reason why the people over at Hitachi c... |
7 November 2007
07:21 GMT |
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RFID is becoming an increasingly important technology nowadays, as it can prove extremely helpful in tracking certain items, providing identification data (as for example, biometric passports) and much more. And in order to boost the larger-scale integration of RFID solutions, the Japanese Hitachi company has develop... |
29 October 2007
04:21 GMT |
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Although Hitachi has had some problems lately, at least with its consumer desktop computing systems' branch, the company's other departments seem to be doing quite well, as the Japanese company has just announced the release of a new line of ultra-thin LCD displays, dubbed the UT line, whose models are just... |
23 October 2007
12:06 GMT |
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Clearly, we are going through a period of time dedicated to hard disks. Not long after Western Digital announced its ground-breaking storage density for 3.5-inch HDDs, Hitachi is now touting the "world's most energy-efficient desktop hard drive."The P7K500 is designed for desktop computers and has 7200 RPM and a... |
22 October 2007
06:07 GMT |
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Hitachi announced the successful testing of a new key technology that will be used to manufacture hard disk drives which will offer very high storage capacities, effectively pumping at least four times the currently high end storage systems. Researchers from Hitachi expect to have a commercially viable storage soluti... |
15 October 2007
12:12 GMT |
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It would seem that very short-throw projectors are quite popular nowadays, considering the fact that an increasingly higher number of manufacturers come up with certain models of their own. So, after Toshiba released a short-throw projector a while back, Hitachi released a model of its own, dubbed CP-A100 3LCD and ta... |
9 October 2007
07:36 GMT |
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Although whiteboads have been one of the most useful interactivity tools ever developed, the huge technological developments achieved over the past few years made possible the appearance of the electronic whiteboard. However, as R&D work never stops, the people over at Hitachi Software Engineering America have come u... |
3 October 2007
08:11 GMT |
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The virtualization market which is aimed at enterprises and data centers is fast becoming a very popular target for the big hardware manufacturing companies that are struggling to carve themselves a niche on that growing market. As virtualization software applications can always put to good use every little bit of ha... |
19 September 2007
06:13 GMT |
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Water cooling is now widely used as a custom cooling solution for overclocked machines because it is cheaper and more easily installable than other more exotic solutions while being more efficient than the default air cooling kits that are installed for factory on the hot computer hardware parts.Commonly only the cen... |
5 September 2007
09:11 GMT |
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Hitachi announced the launch of two more multimedia projectors, the CP-X205 and the CP-X305 3-LCD based projectors, expanding this way the total number of its multimedia offering as the new models cone to supplement the CP-X200 and the CP-X300 products that lack network support.Apart from being network enabled becaus... |
28 August 2007
10:59 GMT |
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After the NAND memory crash down from Samsung, when the manufacturer ceased production for a few hours because of a power leakage at one of its production facilities in Korea, it looks as if the hard disk drive market is next on the list of disasters just waiting to happen. Hard disk drives inventories are running lo... |
14 August 2007
03:14 GMT |
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Once upon a time not even the processors really, really needed active cooling but now those days are long gone and it looks like the performance we get from the hardware comes at the price of heating it up. A lot of cooling methods appeared over the years from the simple "put a fan" near the troubling spot to the com... |
4 August 2007
07:40 GMT |
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The hype around Sony's Blu-ray format has reached new levels lately, partially caused by all the controversy surrounding the conflict between its supporters and their adversaries from the HD DVD camp, but also for other reasons as well. And among all this ruckus, the people over at Hitachi have decided that it&#... |
2 August 2007
11:36 GMT |
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Nowadays most companies use only credit card and numbered accounts in order to pay their employees and cash payments are growing rarer by the day. One problem that arises from this approach is the identity theft or the loss of valuable information like PIN numbers and so on.A number of hardware companies tried, with ... |
24 July 2007
11:41 GMT |
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There is an ever increasing demand for more and more hard disk drive storage space and general performance and the Hitachi company has just released a product that should address the high-end need of storage solutions with the competing Samsung and Seagate offerings soon to follow. Since the competing products from S... |
21 July 2007
06:01 GMT |
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Recently, it seems that Hitachi is targeting the smaller and much more affordable MP3 player market. The company has announced its "I'm Muse" HMP-X5 player, the successor of the previous HMP-G1 player, which was dubbed "Eye Muse" and featured amazing resemblance to an electric shaver. But that's another sto... |
5 July 2007
04:45 GMT |
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Summer is always a slow season for the manufacturers and retailers of electronic products, especially when it comes to TV sets. However, things change dramatically in fall and this is the reason why the people from Hitachi have already announced their fall line-up, consisting of all 1080, all flat panel, all large-sc... |
29 June 2007
03:26 GMT |
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Although the idea of HD broadcasting is generally associated with large, widescreen displays, either using LCD or plasma technology, sometimes it's rather useless to purchase such an item, simply because you don't have the necessary space in your house in order to setup and enjoy such a huge screen. This is... |
19 June 2007
05:11 GMT |
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is the manufacturer of the current king sized hard drive in the world, the Hiachi Deskstar 7K1000, which has become available for sale at a recommended retail price of $399.The drive itself uses the Serial ATA 300 interface, has 32MB of data buffer, 5 platters, 10 recording heads, ... |
26 April 2007
11:34 GMT |
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Mobile phone producers stop at nothing when it comes to easing the user's job and to bringing an extra drop of advanced technological luxury. With that consideration, Hitachi has announced that they will be using the fingerprint sensor on all their W51H phones from now on.For enabling this technology, they will ... |
26 April 2007
04:09 GMT |
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Not so long ago there was little need for massive data storage, but then again, networks weren't that big, content, whether digital or otherwise, wasn't generally available, and many of the people didn't have desires such as downloading movies off the Internet. As the expansion of the Internet and of e... |
11 April 2007
09:12 GMT |
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Since the beginning of the High Definition format wars the battles have been carried out on multiple fronts, starting with the codecs and video file formats, continuing with the High-Definition Multimedia Interface, LCD TVs with staggering resolutions and ended up even in the storage medium market for this enchanting... |
15 March 2007
11:57 GMT |
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