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Next iPhone will charge via micro-USB
Apple signs up to phone charger "harmonization" 29 June 2009 14:45 GMT
Apple has signed up to an EU-wide "harmonization" of phone chargers, which Pocket-lint first brought you news of back in September 2007.

The iPhone-maker has joined Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, RIM, Samsung and Texas Instruments in signing...
Odeon to offer 3D screens in 75 cinemas
NEC deal announced 11 February 2009 11:03 GMT
Odeon, apparently Europe's largest cinema chain and the biggest outside the States, has become the latest to sign up to install 3D technology at its cinemas.

NEC Display Solutions has announced that its digital projectors are to be rolled out by Odeon in time...
Cineworld to add more 3D screens
144 planned for the UK 29 January 2009 11:53 GMT
Cineworld is to offer 144 cinema screens capable of showing 3D movies in the UK, the chain has announced.

Thanks to agreements with NEC, for the digital projectors, and RealD, for the 3D bits and bobs, the multi-million pound update is planned for completion...
Sanyo, NEC, Google, Zavvi to cut jobs
2850 positions gone 15 January 2009 13:14 GMT
Further to the news that Motorola has announced it is to cut 4000 more jobs, more companies related to the technology industry have revealed they are to lose staff.

Google is planning to lay off 100 staff from its recruitment division, and in addition is closing...
USB 3.0 specificaton completed
SuperSpeed USB will be ten times faster 18 November 2008 14:29 GMT
The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has announced the completion of the USB 3.0 specification.

This spec is described as "the technical map" for device manufacturers to deliver SuperSpeed USB technology to the market.

SuperSpeed USB is said to bring significant...
NEC goes compact with Seguente Express5800 PC
Only 195 x 181 x 93mm 5 November 2008 14:23 GMT
The Seguente Express5800 is a dinky desktop PC that packs in a Celeron 550 chip with 512MB of RAM, 160GB of HDD and Vista Business.

Or you could go for a Core 2 Duo T9300 chipset with 1GB or RAM and 160 GB of HDD, Vista Business and a DVD Multi.

And...
NEC launches MultiSync 24WMGX3 LCD display
High-end monitor 17 September 2008 13:33 GMT
NEC Display Solutions has launched MultiSync 24WMGX3 LCD display.

A third-gen model in the GX Series, the widescreen LCD offers a 24-inch wide display complete with a picture-in-picture display mode.

The NEC MultiSync 24WMGX3 offers connectivity...
NEC special edition "Sky Crawlers" LaVie lappie
Available in black or white 12 August 2008 14:11 GMT
The Sky Crawlers LaVie G Notebook from NEC is now available in Japan.

The logo is based on a new, and very popular, animation series by Mamoru Oshii.

We have no news on whether or not the new lappies will make it to the West.
NEC to become "The LG Arena"
£28 million sponsorship for "lifestyle" drive 4 July 2008 11:55 GMT
LG has announced a £28m sponsorship deal with Birmingham’s NEC Arena that will see the venue renamed as "The LG Arena".

The 8-year-long deal will see the venue redeveloped with new hospitality suites, bars, restaurants and improved backstage areas.
NEC introduces projector duo - the NP905 and NP01W
Full-featured, network-compatible models 19 June 2008 10:38 GMT
NEC has announced two new video projectors, the NP905 and NP01W.

At 3000 lumens and 2000 lumens, respectively, the NP905 and NP901W projectors include Windows Network Projector functionality within Windows Vista, which means users can share information from...
NEC shows heart-shaped LCD display
New tech means new shapes possible 19 May 2008 17:05 GMT
NEC has announced the successful development of a manufacturing technology that enables more flexible design of TFT LCD panels which basically means that such shapes as this heart-shaped wonder/monstrosity (depending on your P.O.V) are now possible.

The prototype...
WirelessHD 1.0 spec announced
As backed by Intel, Panasonic, NEC, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba 3 January 2008 12:54 GMT
WirelessHD has announced it has completed the development of the first wireless specification for high-definition baseband video transmission and will present the format in early 2008.

WirelessHD or "WiHD" is a wireless high definition digital interface standard...
NEC reveals SX-9 supercomputer
Capable of 839 trillion calculations per second 26 October 2007 12:57 GMT
The NEC Corp in Japan has announced the launch of what it says is the world's most powerful supercomputer available to buy, designed for advanced use in the science fields.

NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachi in Japan and IBM, Intel and Cray in the United States all build...
Wireless USB to see 1.1 specification
Will be finalised in 2008 1 October 2007 10:12 GMT
The Wireless USB Promoter Group – including such companies as HP, Intel, LSI Corporation, Microsoft, NEC, NXP Semiconductors, and Samsung – have announced that they are developing the Wireless USB 1.1 Specification.

Obviously building on the Wireless USB 1.0...
USB 3.0 to launch next year
Backwards compatible, before you start spluttering... 19 September 2007 12:56 GMT
Intel has announced that the new USB 3 standard will be released in the first half of 2008.

The revelation came from the chip-making giant at its Developer Forum, where they also announced the formation of the USB 3 Promoter Group. The new Group will count...
NEC launches LaVie laptops with "Face Pass"
Biometric face recognition as password 4 September 2007 8:37 GMT
NEC has launched new laptop ranges in Japan - the LaVie C and LaVie L series. The most notable feature of the new ranges is the inclusion of "Face Pass" security features.

Rather than go down the fingerprint scanning route, NEC is ensuring your laptop is secure...
NEC: We're launching two Network Speax Fax Machines
World: Are you from the past? 4 July 2007 16:41 GMT
NEC in Japan has announced two new models of their "Network Speax" home fax machine lineup.

Before you hard refresh, thinking you've browsed back in time, they do feature more up-to-date technology than traditional fascimile offerings.

The Network...
NEC ships tech to enable 8-megapixel camera phones
New image processing super-chip 26 June 2007 17:20 GMT
Tech-on is reporting that NEC Electronics has started to ship samples of its CE131 LSI circuit.

Why should you care? Because this little bit of tech could make 8-megapixel cameraphones a mainstream reality.

The CE131 an image processing LSI circuit...
NEC pops the clutch on the Yo-yo phone
Another bonkers concept mobile 7 June 2007 18:20 GMT
Introducing the Yo-yo phone, it's a bonkers concept phone created by US designer Shaik Ridzwan for NEC.

Attention-to-detail-wise we like the fact that the headphones wrap around the rotund handset in a yo-yo stylee, apart from that we're not particularly impressed....
NEC 24-inch PC screen
Monitors get bigger with NECs push of 24-inches 13 April 2007 13:33 GMT
As more and more of us spend more time in front of our PC, the need for bigger better quality screens is becoming apparent.

On the back of this, NEC has announced two new 24 inch screens for PC use coming from its MultiSync series.

The first, LCD2490WUXi...
NEC unveils XR series in the Plasmasync range of large monitors
Designed for the discerning, high-end consumer 29 November 2006 13:08 GMT
NEC has unveiled three new high-end consumer plasma screens, dubbed the XR range in its Plasmasync series.

At 42, 50, and 60-inches, the plasmas include the AMX Cafe Duet, which is a programming language that enables the plasma to communicate with a range of...
NEC announces multi-format chip for hybrid Blu-ray and HD-DVD player
Ready to ship
11 October 2006 11:37 GMT
NEC has announced that it’s created a chip that is compatible with both Blu-ray and HD-DVD.

The chip could be used in multi-format players, which have so far been avoided by manufacturers, apart from NME, which announced yesterday that it was launching a multi-format...
NEC's test of HSDPA runs successfully
Real-time implementation shows that HSDPA acheive high-speeds in a busy Node B 6 June 2006 14:40 GMT
The first live implementation of High Speed Downlink Data Packet Access (HSDPA) has been successfully run in a busy Node B in central Reading.

NEC and its 3G partner, Siemens Communication, ran the test for two months, and have seen speeds of up to 1.4 million...
3GSM 2006: NEC develops HSDPA prototype
Fast speed downloading on the way - now all we need is a network 6 February 2006 17:14 GMT
NEC has developed a prototype HSDPA mobile phone handset, which it is to demo at the mobile phone expo 3GSM next week in Barcelona.

The jointly developed phone with NTT DoCoMo, with use HSDPA services to offer download speeds of up to 3.6Mbps on the move, a rate...
NEC sees big plasma picture
NEC launches three new Plasma screens 26 January 2006 0:00 GMT
NEC has launched a range of HD-ready plasma screens with sizes ranging from 42 inches to an impressive 61 inches.

The range boasts three models a 42 inch (42XR4), 50 inch (50XR4) and 61 inch (61XR4) screens and all feature a 4000:1 contrast ratio as well as a...