Stories about: Matsushita Electric

Motorola is betting big on Linux for its mobile phones, planning to install the OS on 60 percent of its handsets within two years.

Greenpeace has published its latest "green ranking" of the world's biggest electronics companies and the results might surprise you.

A hacker claims to have discovered a cryptographic key that can be used to circumvent copy restrictions on HD DVD and Blu-ray movies.

IBM was awarded a record number of U.S. patents in 2006, a year that saw the most patents awarded ever, according to a study.

The recent release of software that can be used to decode encrypted HD DVD and Blu-ray movies is the first step toward making the encryption standard used by these next-generation video players obsolete, Princeton University researchers said Monday.

Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) claims it has developed a lithium-ion battery that won't overheat even if a short circuit occurs.

The TransFlash memory card format developed by SanDisk is close to being adopted as a member of the SD (Secure Digital) family of cards, the SD Card Association said Monday.

Patent powerhouse IBM last week unlocked access to 500 of its software patents for the open source community, generating mixed reactions from industry watchers.

The ongoing march towards high-definition video discs saw several new prototype players revealed last week at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

For the 12th straight year, IBM has topped the list of companies receiving U.S. patents, according to an annual report published Tuesday by a unit of the Dutch information services company WoltersKluwer.

The DVD Forum has approved the physical disc specifications for the rewritable version of HD-DVDs (High Definition/High Density-DVDs), taking the format an important step nearer to mass production.