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NEC Introduces 24- and 19-Inch Desktop LCD Displays

NEC Display Solutions is one of the world's best-known manufacturers of PC monitors, launching a very large number of products in several ranges over the past couple of years. And in order to complete its MultiSync EA Series, NEC has launched two new models, the 24-inch MultiSync EA241WM widescreen LCD monitor a...

2 October 2008
11:01 GMT

NEC Rolls Out an 82-Inch, 80,000 USD LCD Monitor

Over the past couple of years, NEC has rolled out quite a few digital signage solutions, very large displays used in public venues in order to deliver different types of content (promotional videos, various announcements, train/plane schedules, etc.). Most of these products target the corporate or public service...

17 September 2008
14:31 GMT

NEC to Launch Xeon Server for U.S. This Month

NEC intends to gradually become more visible on the U.S. market, and has consequently introduced a high-end enterprise Xeon server this month, following a period of six to eight months during which the company has been constantly releasing products for the U.S. The new low-power Intel-based rack-mount server and a fo...

3 September 2008
05:16 GMT

NEC Announces New Premium LCD

NEC, a world-leading provider of commercial and residential LCDs, plasma displays and projectors, has announced today a new 22-inch LCD monitor, as part of the company's MultiSync EA series of products. The new LCD monitor is the second in the series, following the launch of the 26-inch EA261WM earlier in June.&...

2 September 2008
09:46 GMT

Sony, Toshiba and NEC to Release Low-Cost Notebooks

As we mentioned in previous articles as well, the netbook market is currently marked by a tendency of gradual growth, so the fact that more and more manufacturers are reported to be working on their own low-cost notebooks should come as no surprise. However, this might mean that, by sometime next year, ASUS, MSI, and...

22 July 2008
05:40 GMT

NEC Takes an Important Step in the Deployment of WiMAX in Taiwan

If the topic of WiMAX happens to pop in one of your conversations these days, you will most certainly mention Taiwan, which is the country that seems to show the highest concern with the fast deployment of a WiMAX network at a national scale. And, because WiMAX is expected to become the next widespread standard in wi...

11 June 2008
05:56 GMT

New NEC N706ie Clamshell Announced

NEC Corporation recently unveiled the future availability of a new mobile phone, the N706ie. As most of the handsets coming from NEC, the N706ie is a clamshell created to answer the needs of Japanese users. NEC N706ie has a simple overall look and it's probably very easy to use. Its features include: a 3.0 in...

30 May 2008
08:12 GMT

NEC N905i and NEC N905iµ Unveiled

NEC Corporation rolled out two new phones, NEC N905i and NEC N905iµ, both coming as clamshell handsets that run on the new LiMo open source mobile platform. The two devices are announced in the same period with NEC N705iµ, one of the most slimmest clamshell phones ever created. NEC N905i brings an easy to use interf...

21 February 2008
07:00 GMT

Nec N705iµ, the Slimmest Clamshell Phone Ever?

Nec, the Japanese multinational company, recently unveiled one of the slimmest clamshell phones ever produced, Nec N705iµ, a handset that comes at only 9.8 millimeters in thickness and emphasizes the company's ambition to bring unique products (remember the Flask Fuel Cell concept?). Together with Panasonic P...

20 February 2008
13:39 GMT

Nec to Introduce the LaVie J Notebooks With Wireless USB

NEC has officially introduced three new ultra-mobile laptop PCs in the LaVie J Series. Called the LJ750/LH, the LJ700/LH, and LJ730/LG, the three notebook models are built around an ultra-low voltage Intel Core 2 Duo U7600 processor running at 1.20GHz. All models come in almost the same hardware configuration. They f...

19 February 2008
08:49 GMT

NEC Flask Phone: Fuel Cell Power and Transparency

NEC, the Japanese electronics manufacturer, recently unveiled a new concept phone that uses fuel cell as power. While the idea is not new, as Motorola, Samsung and Toshiba also consider implementing this technology into handsets, NEC's fuel cell phone is really something that we haven't seen until now. ...

3 February 2008
02:06 GMT

NEC to Unveil the AccuSync 3-Series of Monitors

NEC Display Solutions announced the availability of five new LCD monitors in the AccuSync 3 display family. The new monitors will replace the older AccuSync 2 series. The refreshed monitors range from 17 to 19 inches, and support a native resolution of 1280 x 1024.Three LCD displays will spot a resolution of 17-inch ...

30 January 2008
04:48 GMT

NEC to Introduce Amazing 30-Inch, 2560 x 1600 Monitor

NEC has introduced its 30-inch MultiSync LCD3090WQXi wide-screen display that is especially targeted at users in the graphic design, photography, print production, and CAD/CAM industries. The new creation has been unveiled during the 2008 Macworld Conference and Expo.The new LCD display is built on NEC's MultiS...

17 January 2008
09:48 GMT

CES 2008: NEC to Show Yet Another Curved Monitor

Remember the ultra-wide, curved and extremely expensive gaming monitor from the Alienware / Dell joint venture we have told you about? It was one of the biggest attraction points at the Consumer Electronics Show, since the next-gen Eee PC went missing and people usually got fed up with iPods and the like.As striking ...

10 January 2008
09:42 GMT

Nec Electronics: 2007 Was a Good Year for Business

Japanese chip manufacturer NEC Electronics is reported to have exceeded its operational profit expectations for this year. Company officials confirmed that the production of microcontrollers has greatly contributed to their final revenue. The semiconductor industry is sitting on quicksand, with prices sinking and ris...

19 December 2007
11:18 GMT

Nec to Deliver Hardware-Sealed Laptop

Nec has unveiled a new series of laptops that include built-in hardware security in order to prevent illegal access on the hard disk drive. These hardware features are included in the Versa M370, P570 and S970 models, and are comprised of an advanced, hardware-based security chip - the TPM (Trusted Platform Module), ...

14 December 2007
11:37 GMT

NEC to Develop Next-Generation of Non Volatile RAM

NEC has announced that it has succeeded in developing a new type of memory that preserves the SRAM compatibility. The new discovery has been named MRAM, which stands for Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory, and is alleged to run at a speed of 250 MHz, the fastest MRAM speed in the world. Apart from the fact that th...

8 December 2007
05:35 GMT

NEC Intros a Whopping 65-Inch Commercial-Grade LCD Display

The LCD displays' market is constantly evolving whether we're talking about your ordinary PC monitor, high-definition TV sets or huge, widescreen panels, used in large venues or for commercial purposes. And a very good example of this constant evolution is the latest announcement from NEC who has just launc...

3 December 2007
10:12 GMT

Real-time Translation on Mobiles, From NEC

NEC, the Japanese multinational company, revealed it has created the world's first real-time language translator for mobile phones, which can convert Japanese words and phrases into English almost instantly. The new software has an integrated voice-recognition system, as well as advanced translation functions an...

3 December 2007
07:08 GMT

Toshiba and Nec, Hand in Hand for 32 nm Chips

The leading chip manufacturers on the Japanese market, Toshiba and Nec have recently announced their joint project to develop competitive 32-nanometer chip in order to maintain a tight competition on the chips market.This would not be the first partnership between the two semiconductor industry giants, as they have b...

27 November 2007
08:54 GMT

NEC Releases a Hot New MultiSync 5-Megapixel Grayscale Display

Like many other major technology manufacturers around the world, the NEC company is involved in a very large number of market segments, including several which are less advertised, as for example that of medical devices. And the company's latest announcement is related exactly to this particular field, as NEC ha...

27 November 2007
03:36 GMT

NEC N905iµ, Anorexic Japanese Handset Unveiled

NEC N905iµ has been unveiled in Japan, along with some impressive features that should make all other continents crave for such a release too. As it usually happens with such phone models, the clamshell will see only a local release, with no chances for the high-tech hungry ones waiting at the borders to get one.The ...

5 November 2007
08:43 GMT

NEC Unveils SX9, The World's Fastest Vector Supercomputer

Supercomputers are among the most fascinating machines ever built, as they are capable of carrying out extremely complex computations and computing operations used in a wide array of scientific applications. And the latest such extreme machine comes from the NEC Corporation, which has just announced the development o...

26 October 2007
10:56 GMT

NEC's New LCDs Allow You to Switch the Viewing Angles

The viewing angle is one of the most important problems encountered in the case of just about any LCD display out there, whether we're talking about PC monitors, high definition televisions or notebook displays. However, things are about to change, since the people over at NEC have just announced the successful ...

25 October 2007
05:51 GMT

NEC Rolls Out Three MultiSync LCD Monitors with Multimedia Features

Since Christmas is approaching rapidly, an increasingly higher number of manufacturers announce certain products that will be out just in time for the shopping season that traditionally accompanies the respective holiday. And this is also (probably) one of the reasons why NEC, one of the world's most important m...

19 October 2007
10:16 GMT

Cheap Blu-ray Drive for Laptops

Sony and NEC formed sometime ago a joint venture company named Optiarc that is aimed at designing and manufacturing optical drives and this new company just announced the launch of a Blu-ray drive that is aimed at the mobile computing systems. The manufacturing company claims that this new optical drive unit will all...

11 October 2007
02:51 GMT

NEC Presents a 24-inch LCD Monitor

NEC Display Solutions of America announced the launch of a new desktop computer monitor from the MultiSync range of products that will soon be available on the general consumer market under the LCD2470WVX designation. This new NEC display system comes in a widescreen format and it is specifically designed for enterpr...

27 September 2007
10:02 GMT

NEC Launches Versa P9110 Notebook

NEC announced the launch of its latest mobile computing device, a notebook called VERSA P9110, which is coming with a 17 inch screen and lots of computing power that makes it the ideal candidate for all your multimedia needs as well as graphics intensive applications. Thanks to its state of the art hardware platform,...

15 September 2007
04:22 GMT

NEC AccuSync Displays for Gamers

The United States division of the NEC company has just announced the launch of two lines of widescreen LCD monitors aimed at gamers and multimedia customers. The new monitors are from the AccuSync GX and CX series and they come to improve the line of display related NEC products that includes LCD desktop and commerci...

11 September 2007
10:33 GMT

NEC Pimps-Out Your Home Theater System

Although not as famous as some other players on the rather large plasma display panels' market, the people over at NEC Display Solutions have launched quite a few interesting products over time, including plasma displays, LCD desktop and commercial large-screen LCDs, as well as several projectors. However, the l...

6 September 2007
07:31 GMT

NEC Watercools a Multimedia PC

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

Cool Your Hard Drive

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

32nm Chips Alliances

The current technological process of building computer and general use chips is centered on the 45 or the larger 60 nanometer scale. This may soon change as a number for alliances and partnerships were agreed upon by most of the big players on the computer hardware market. One such agreement is between Toshiba, Fujit...

26 July 2007
03:57 GMT

New Concept Phones from NEC

Mobile phones are extremely fun, especially when it comes to playing with their design and dreaming about placing incredibly evolved performances in slim and stylish cases. People at NEC have allowed their imagination to go wild and have managed to come up with some new interesting concept.Some of NEC's ideas ar...

21 July 2007
03:21 GMT

NEC and Stratus to Ship Fault-Tolerant Servers

The NEC and Stratus companies joined together in a partnership to design and build a fault tolerant server line that was supposed to start shipping in late June, but because of some technical problems, the launch was postponed until mid July. As of this week, customers will find the fault tolerant storage servers cen...

18 July 2007
10:02 GMT

Believe It or Not, Hello Kitty's Now a Laptop

The Japanese seem to have quite an obsession with the "Hello Kitty" character. The pink pseudo-feline is just about everywhere these days, from everyday items to various pieces of electronic equipment. And after getting its own phone a while back, the character has now become the centerpiece of a hot new luxury lapto...

7 June 2007
01:09 GMT

NEC Provides Mobile WiMAX in Taiwan

Taiwan will benefit from the partnership between NEC Corporation and Tatung Company in full-scale mobile WiMAX. This project is part of a larger one, called M-Taiwan. This is implemented at a wider scale and is meant to encourage the development of a technologically superior society. M-Taiwan encourages the large aud...

12 May 2007
05:32 GMT

IBM, Oracle, NEC to Promote Linux in Japan

The major IT companies seemed to react to the call made by the Communications Ministry of Japan to the government to use Linux operating systems and now they plan to set up a consortium that will sell servers and systems running the Linux operating system in Japan. The start will be given by Oracle Japan which inten...

4 May 2007
07:13 GMT

NEC Introduces New 3.5-Inch Screen with Better Visibility

While some phone manufacturers are only concerned with releasing mobile phones that will sell massively, others like NEC aim to improve different aspects of today's handsets. Just a few days ago, NEC has announced that it has developed a new type of bioplastic that is meant to make portable devices more environm...

11 April 2007
09:36 GMT

NEC Develops New Type of Bioplastic for Mobiles

Nec has announced that it has developed a new type of bioplastic, composed out of plant-based material and carbon fiber, that will realize a higher heat conductivity than stainless steel. The new material is expected to make electronic products more environmentally sound as well as solve all the regular heat release ...

10 April 2007
03:39 GMT

NEC Robot to Bring About The End of All Bloggers?

Even if up until now a world where humans had been driven extinct by a new race of machines was to be found only in Sci-Fi flicks or novels, it would seem that this horrific image might, at some point, turn into a harsh reality. And the first people to experience this tragedy might actually be those people who feed u...

6 March 2007
02:38 GMT

NEC's Mobile Client Extends Unified Communications to Mobile Devices

NEC Unified Solutions, recently announced the release of the UNIVERGE Mobile Client, an enhanced applications that extends desktop telephony and messaging functionality to mobile devices and incorporates wireless LAN and cellular into a customized, user-friendly mobile format. As an addition to NEC's Assured Mob...

5 March 2007
10:07 GMT

NEC Presents The N902iL

Japanese mobile phone manufacturer NEC has recently presented the N902iL, a dual-network mobile phone that can easily switch between the FOMA network and wireless LAN. As we have grown to expect, it comes in a clamshell form factor with the simple and clean cut design you always get to see in Asian mobiles. The hands...

2 March 2007
03:55 GMT




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