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Sharp Releases Notebook PC with Optical Sensor LCD Pad

Sharp Releases Notebook PC with Optical Sensor LCD Pad

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sharp Corporation will release into the Japanese market a new notebook PC employing an optical sensor LCD for the touchpad. Its new touch-sensing recognition method allows handwritten input and intuitive direct-touch ...


Japanese electronics giant Sharp Corp. announced an annual net loss of 125.82 billion yen (1.3 billion dollars)

Japan's Sharp reports 1.3 bln dollar annual loss

Technology / Business

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japanese electronics giant Sharp Corp. announced an annual net loss of 1.3 billion dollars, its first ever, due to a slump in sales, but it forecast a return to profit this year.


Sharp Develops Solar Cell with World’s Highest Conversion Efficiency of 35.8%

Sharp Develops Solar Cell with World's Highest Conversion Efficiency of 35.8%

Technology / Energy

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 12

Sharp Corporation has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency (for non-concentrator solar cells) of 35.8% using a triple-junction compound solar cell.


Staying sharp: New study uncovers how people maintain cognitive function in old age

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Not everyone declines in cognitive function with age. Elderly people who exercise at least once a week, have at least a high school education and a ninth grade literacy level, are not smokers and are more socially active ...


Sharp's New Semiconductor Laser for Triple- and Quadruple- Layer Blu-ray Discs

Sharp's New Semiconductor Laser for Triple- and Quadruple- Layer Blu-ray Discs

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sharp Corporation has announced the development of a new 500 mW semiconductor laser for triple- and quadruple- layer Blu-ray discs.


Sharp Develops Five-Primary-Color LCD That Faithfully Reproduces Real Surface Colors

Electronics / Hardware

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Sharp Corporation has developed a five-primary-color display that faithfully reproduces the real surface colors that humans are capable of perceiving. A prototype of this display will be exhibited at the international symposium ...


Sharp Introduces New Solar Module for Mobile Devices

Sharp Introduces New Solar Module for Mobile Devices

Technology / Energy

created May 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sharp Corporation has developed and will introduce into the global market the new LR0GC02 Solar Module for Mobile Devices that features a thickness of 0.8 mm, the industry's thinnest level.


EU antitrust regulators charge LCD panel makers

Technology / Business

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- European Union antitrust regulators have charged Royal Philips Electronics NV and LG Display with fixing the price of liquid crystal display monitors, Philips said Monday.


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Panasonic announces Q1 net loss of 560 mln dlrs

Technology / Business

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japanese high-tech giant Panasonic Corp. announced Monday a big first-quarter loss, blaming weak sales of televisions, digital cameras and other electronic goods during the recession.


A picture taken in March 2009 in Paris shows the screen of a computer showing a web site of downloading contents

File sharing drops in Sweden after govt crackdown

Technology / Internet

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (7) | comments 7

More than 40 percent of Swedes engage in illegal file sharing, but recording industry officials have noted a sharp drop since a government crackdown earlier this year, they said Monday.


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Japan's Pioneer expects sixth year in red

Technology / Business

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japan's Pioneer Corp. warned it would spend a sixth straight year in the red as it pulls the plug on its loss-making television business and slashes thousands of jobs.


You're never too old to learn

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Dr. Lixia Yang (above) and her co-author, Ralf Krampe of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany, found that seniors were able to retain 50 per cent of concepts they learned almost a year before.


Solar cell shipments in Japan hit record high in April-June

Technology / Energy

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Demand for solar cells has been growing rapidly in Japan with a record generating capacity of 83,260 kilowatts shipped to the domestic market between April and June, up 82.5 percent from the same quarter last year, a private-sector ...


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Direct evidence of role of sleep in memory formation is uncovered

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

A Rutgers University, Newark and Collége de France, Paris research team has pinpointed for the first time the mechanism that takes place during sleep that causes learning and memory formation to occur.


Danish nanowires have great potential

Danish nanowires have great potential

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology research - nanowires. The discovery has great potential for the development of nanoelectronics and highly ...