Mergers often end up with some corners being cut (cost savings in corporate parlance), resulting in a leaner and often meaner entity. Of course, there will be collateral damage along the way, but then again that is to be expected. The latest news that is going around would be three Japanese giants, Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi working together to merge their liquid-crystal display (LCD) operations by taking advantage of the $2.6 billion government-backed funds in order to hold their ground against fierce competition from rivals who hail from South Korea and Taiwan.
This merger would mean the final entity ends up as the world’s largest manufacturer of small panels that will see action in a plethora of devices, including smartphones and tablets, helping them surpass global leaders Sharp Corp. of Japan and Samsung Electronics of South Korea.
In addition, this move intends to help the firms place more focus and emphasis on their main operations. It seems that the 90% government-owned fund might just come under fire as public money is being used to prop up a volatile business. Not too sure what the Japanese taxpayers have to say about the situation though – what do you think?
Everyone who likes working with digital photos, altering photographs and collecting all of his/her “photo masterpieces” probably will like a new gadget Picture Porter 35. This is a capacious device that allows you to store digital images.
Its internal memory is 160 GB, LCD – 3.5 inches.
Of course, the device has a fast USB-connector that allows you to use it as an external hard drive. You can directly connect any device with a USB-port to the Picture Porter 35.
There is also a card reader. And it can be used not only as an album for your photos, but also as media – it «reads» MP3, WMA, AAC, and MPEG-1, MPEG-4 and Motion JPEG.
The software allows creating your slide show and see IPTC metadata for the corresponding images.
The price of this gadget is still unknown.
Company Digital Foci is the manufacturer of Picture Porter 35. The new photo album will be presented at the Consumer Electronics, CES 2009.
We are used to the fact that our battery chargers for rechargeable batteries are only for charging. However, recently a new gadget-charging has been released, which is not only for charging the battery, but can also perform other functions.
This charger has an LCD display and it is known as La Crosse.
Apart from the fact that this device can charge any NiCd and NiMH rechargeable batteries of AA and AAA standards, at the same time it can charge batteries of different sizes; this gadget can perform functions on their renovation, testing, or low.
It is not explained how the batteries are updated, but this gadget can restore the old rechargeable batteries to the «optimal» condition.
The display of this device is necessary to display the amount of batteries, as well as the current status of charging. This detector does not allow overheating of the battery. The cost of this gadget is 39.99 dollars.
