There are already two intitiatives underway to develop standards designed to protect music copyright - the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) and the 4C Entity, which comprises IBM, Intel, Matsushita Electric and Toshiba Corp.
In contrast the consumer division, once Matsushita's powerhouse, only just struggled into profit in the second half. Japan's leading consumer goods company, hit by price-cutting for televisions and audio kit, is now reliant on its industrial...
OK, so Buzz Lightyear would have demanded a catchier catchphrase, but is it an accurate assessment of how far we've come with this technology? Nigel Towell, spokesman for Intel, noted a server implementation optical network using Gigabit Ethernet...
The subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial has announced its first six-month losses and the closure of a factory in Thatcham, Berkshire. Matsushita Communications is to close its second mobile phone factory in the UK and move production to...
The audio-visual ads end with what's called a sonic mark. But optical networking is a shadow of its former self. But there is one certainty - buying the right to use a Beatles song costs considerably more than turning to a nursery rhyme, which in...
Rivals such as Samsung, Panasonic owner Matsushita Electric and Sharp will keep the division on its toes but executives said the group will be profitable by rethinking its manufacturing sites, increasing the number of Sony-made components and...