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1. New Panasonic compact camera coming next month

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Panasonic's Lumix DMC-GF1 has become the fourth for the Micro Four Thirds system, joining earlier offerings like the Olympus E-P1. The GF1 offers the ability to swap lenses, giving the camera the versatility ...

2. Sony, Panasonic get into 3D content

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Japanese giants Sony and Panasonic are to separately set up dedicated units to create 3D movies.Japanese giants Sony and Panasonic are to separately set up units to create 3D movies. According to nikkei.net, ...

3. Prices fall as Samsung leads the pack on LCD TVs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ...  100% -25% -6% The top vendor in Q1 2009 was Samsung, followed by LGE, Sony, Sharp, and Panasonic. Sharp and Panasonic market shares fell by 12 percent and 22 percent, year on year.  ...

4. 40-inch OEL screens on way

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sumitomo and Panasonic are to join forces to make a 40-inch OEL (organic electroluminescent) panel by 2010. Sumitomo and Panasonic are to join forces to make a 40-inch OEL (organic electroluminescent) ...

5. Plasma on the wane as demand weakens

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 09 Quarterly Growth   Yearly growth  1  Panasonic  50.3%  39.1%  -44%  -15%  2  Samsung SDI  26%  31.1%  -14% ...

6. Panasonic upgrades select Toughbook rugged computers

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

     Today, Panasonic unveiled upgrades for two of its Toughbook mobile computers. The updates include the Toughbook 30 clamshell rugged laptop and Toughbook 19 rugged convertible tablet. Secaucus (NJ) ...

7. Blu-ray on the cheap: Memorex has a $269 player

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... of $286 in U.S. retail, according to pricegrabber.com. Panasonic’s DMP-BD30K sells for an average of $299, Sony’s BDP-S300 for $281,  Sharp’s BD-HP20U for $282 and Sylvania’s NB-501SL9 for $280, according ...

8. Panasonic unveils Atom-based Toughbook UMPC

   (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

   Panasonic today announced its latest device in the Toughbook series. The CF-1 comes in a UMPC form factor and promises to remain operable even in extreme environments. The device comes with an Intel ...

9. Panasonic’s template for creating the immortal Steve Jobs

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

     Analyst Opinion - I’m out in Japan this week visiting Panasonic and seeing an incredible set of products, many of which will probably never come to the U.S. At the same time I am watching a health ...

10. Product news roundup Tuesday, March 25

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... a new Toughbook and Xerox tells you if your office is as green as you believe it is. Panasonic Toughbook 19: A new rugged convertible Tablet PC expands Panasonics notebook family and joins the flagship ...

11. VIDEO – HD camcorder shootout: Can you tell the difference? Part II

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... We've owned the Panasonic DVX-100B for several years and it has definitely proven its worth in the hundreds of videos we've shot at TG Daily and at our previous jobs at Tom's Hardware Guide.   But ...

12. Update: The Black Friday Shopping List

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Polaroid 5.1 MP $49.99 Circuit City Digital Camera Sony 7.2 MP $99.99* Circuit City Digital Camera Panasonic 7.2 MP, 3x optical ...

13. Panasonic says its 1080p plasma displays will last at least 42 years

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    How long long do you plan on keeping your next TV? Panasonic says that its 1080p plasma displays are good for a viewing time for about 42 years - that is, of course, if the rest has not fallen apart by ...

14. Pioneer to begin offering 1080p "super black" HDTV sets

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... Electronics Show, Panasonic and Hitachi both had big displays of 1080p sets.  Both companies support plasma and LCD.  Pioneer, on the other hand, is 100% committed to plasma.  Pioneer's ...

15. Blu-ray, HD DVD no shows at pro A/V event

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... and not intended for professional use. However, Panasonic had Blu-ray Disc computer drives and burners on display.  It just seems odd for there not to have even been a clear mention of these hi-def ...

16. Panasonic unveils new line of plasma HDTVs

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Still resting on its laurels with the 103-inch display it debuted at last year's CES, Panasonic has introduced a new line of plasma HDTV sets. Anaheim (CA) - Still resting on its laurels with the ...

17. Another company withdrawing from PDP TV market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Japan-based Funai Electric recently said it is exiting the PDP (plasma display panel) TV market due to sharply-falling ASP (average selling price) and rising competition from vendors such as Panasonic, ...

18. NEC and Panasonic topped LCD and PDP public display markets in 2006

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    NEC and Panasonic (brand name of Matsushita Electric Industrial) were the top makers for LCD and PDP (plasma display panel) public display markets, respectively, in the fourth quarter of 2006 and the full ...

19. Panasonic chooses plasma over LCD

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... of both types of device. Panasonic is endorsing Plasma TVs as the display of the future. Read the complete story here. (TechSpot)  ...

20. Panasonic and Vizio offer $1000 42" PDP TVs

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

      Both Panasonic and Vizio have cut prices of their 42" PDP (plasma display panel) TVs to $1000 in the North American market, according to industry sources. Both Panasonic and Vizio have cut prices ...

21. Palm launches Treo 680 smartphone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... bump Palm back into the list of the five largest smartphone manufacturers. Palm was a part of the list until 2004, but was replaced by firms such as Panasonic and Sharp. Nokia currently leads the segment ...

22. Airlines to build iPod connectivity into jets

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... The first systems are planned to be available in mid 2007. Apple said that is also working with Panasonic Avionics Corporation to bring iPod connectivity to more airlines in the future.  ...

23. Panasonic eliminates lead in plasma TVs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Today, Panasonic announced that for all of the new Plasma Display Panels (PDPs) released in 2006, none of them contained lead oxide, claiming it has become the world's first company to achieve such a ...

24. Panasonic intros new Toughbook notebooks

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Panasonic today announced new additions to its Toughbook series of notebook computers, the company's line of durable, rugged laptops. Soon to be available, the CF-19 tablet PC and CF-30 clamshell notebook ...

25. Global PDP TV shipments rose 30% in Q2

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... shipments, up from 4% in the first quarter, according to Displaysearch. Panasonic was the top PDP TV brand for at least eighth consecutive quarters. More here at DigiTimes.  ...

26. Samsung preps 70" high-end LCD TV panel for 2007

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... Panasonic's that will be offered in very limited numbers this holiday season. The TV TH-103PZ600U will cost $69,995 and 95 cents, but come with a three-year in-home limited warranty, which - according ...

27. Panasonic to offer $70,000 plasma TV for Christmas

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... are looking for something different this year, ditch that Porsche and consider the world's largest plasma HDTV. Panasonic is delivering on its promise that it would be offering a 103" plasma TV, which ...

28. Panasonic announces $13,000 Blu-ray home theater

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Slowly but surely, your option for a high-definition home theater experience will grow. Following Samsung, which just launched a Blu-ray player and other firms such as Sony, Panasonic will introduce a ...

29. iSuppli's LCD sales data points to the final swan song for CRTs

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... versus Sony's 12.25%. Philips, LG, and Matsushita (Panasonic) round out the top six. If CRTs are on their way out, then don't tell that to China's TTE Corp. The joint venture between the Chinese TCL and ...

30. Plasma TV shipments climb 87% in Q1

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... TV market with a 35% share, followed by China with 9% and Japan with 6%. Panasonic was the most successful plasma TV maker in Q1, accounting for 21.6% of all units shipped. LG ended the quarter in second ...

31. Panasonic wants 40% of global PDP TV market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      Positive about market growth in the US and Europe this year, Panasonic (the brand name of Matsushita Electric Industrial) aims to grab 40% of the global PDP (plasma display panel) TV market in 2006, ...

32. Samsung delays US Blu-ray players until June 25

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... after Sony, with a Blu-ray player available on the "street," with Pioneer's models expected in July, and Panasonic's recently slated for September.  ...

33. First Toshiba HD DVD players for sale in Japan

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... learned, Toshiba and other manufacturers, including Sony and Panasonic, are implementing AACS through an interim agreement. That agreement omits the specifications for mandatory managed copy (MMC), the ...

34. Panasonic slates ~$1500 Blu-ray player for September

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Confirming suspicions that Panasonic would not have Blu-ray players available prior to summer, the company announced today that it plans to ship its DMP-BD10 player in September, promising to keep its ...

35. HomePlug Powerline Alliance ramps up certification, interoperability efforts

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... in Asia. This could indicate an effort to reach out to Panasonic, which displayed a "190 Mbps" powerline adapter based on its own proprietary technology at this January's Consumer Electronics Show.  ...

36. CES 2006: Highlights of Friday's coverage from TG Daily

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... SD cards with capacity display Memory specialist A-Data today showed us its BCD-SD card, which has a little LCD that shows its own remaining capacity. Panasonic's display wall blurs boundaries between ...

37. CES 2006: Panasonic's display wall blurs boundaries between show and content

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

      Photo from CES Las Vegas (NV) - Panasonic picked a very demonstrative way of showing off its latest plasma displays. The firm tiled as many as 40 of its brand new 1080p monsters together in order ...

38. Panasonic opens fourth PDP plant

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Panasonic (brand of Matsushita Electric Industrial) today held the opening ceremony of the Amagasaki Plant of Matsushita Plasma Display Panel Company (MPDP) in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan.  ...

39. Panasonic leads US plasma TV retail shelf share in June

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Current Analysis, a US-based market research firm, reported that Panasonic was the leader of the US PDP (plasma display panel) TV market in June, in terms of retail shelf share. Current Analysis, ...

40. Matsushita to set up PDP production line in Taiwan

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Japan-based panel maker Matsushita has decided to build a PDP (plasma display panel) TV production line in Taiwan, according to sources at Panasonic Taiwan, as quoted in the Chinese-Language Economic ...

41. Hitachi and Matsushita jointly develop Plasma TVs

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

      Hitachi and Matsushita, best known for its Panasonic brand, will work together in developing, manufacturing and marketing their upcoming plasma TVs. Hitachi and Matsushita, best known for its ...

42. Matsushita Posts Profit for Q3

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The manufacturer of Panasonic electronics audio and video equipment, Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, reported a third quarter profit of 20.9 billion yen ($176 million) over the same period ...

43. TiVo contenders or pretenders?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... television programs onto a hard drive, rather than to VHS tapes. Two additional large companies, RCA and Panasonic, are reportedly entering the ring with hard drive television recording devices that are ...

44. Look, Ma! No Cords!

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Panasonic has announced its new Mobile Data Wireless Display (MDWD), which is a wireless, thin, flat touch cordless screen with no connecting cable between the screen and the computer, which works ...

45. Panasonic's Tiny Digital Audio Player

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... keep getting smaller and smaller, but one of the things the tiny beasts have been missing is a removable means of swapping music in and out of them. Panasonic's new model SV-SD80 e-wear SD audio player ...

46. Roadmaps Galore

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... a year ago. RDRAM-based boxes are now available from Sony, Panasonic, Compaq, Dell, Gateway, HP and IBM using RDRAM devices from Samsung, Toshiba and Elpida. Bear in mind that Rambus' list of adopters ...

47. Video Editing for Panasonic's 4.7GB DVD-RAM/R Drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Panasonic and Spruce Technologies have joined forces to announce that the complete family of Spruce video editing and authoring solutions now support the DVD-R General technology of Panasonic's ...

48. Panasonic puts 32MB on 2HD floppies

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Matsushita Kotobuki Electronics Industries (Panasonic) will begin selling disk drives this month in Japan that increase standard 1.44MB floppy disk capacity by more than 20 times to 32MB. Sony ...