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Tokyo, Nov 20, 2009 - (JCN Newswire) - Panasonic Corporation, the Official Worldwide Olympic Partner in the Audio and Visual Equipment category for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, announced it will bring its Full HD 3D Plasma Home Theater System* to the City of Vancouver's live site to the utmost excitement of spectacular images with the residents and visitors from all over the world. This is part of the company's Games-related marketing programs to be carried out under its Olympic slogan, "Sharing the Passion." Panasonic will set up a 700 m2 corporate pavilion called "Panasonic FULL HD 3D THEATER" at the David Lam Park live site throughout the Games period from February 12 to 28, 2010 under the cooperation with the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Oly... (more)

DOCOMO Develops Mobile Phone Prototype Using Surplus Wood

Tokyo, Sept 24, 2009 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO announced today it has developed the mobile phone prototype made with the surplus wood of trees culled during thinning operations to maintain healthy forests. The prototype was created in collaboration with Sharp Corporation, Olympus Corporation and "more trees," a reforestation project founded by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and others. Th... (more)

Fujitsu Submits Cloud API Specification to DMTF and Joins Leadership Board of Open Cloud Standards Incubator

Tokyo, Nov 19, 2009 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that it has submitted its cloud API specification to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)(1) and joined the leadership board of the DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator(2). Fujitsu will actively participate in further standardization work in DMTF and implement this specification on... (more)

Sharp Develops Solar Cell with World's Highest Conversion Efficiency of 35.8%; Achieved with Triple-Junction Compound Solar Cell

Osaka, Oct 22, 2009 - (JCN Newswire) - Sharp Corporation has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency(1) of 35.8%(2) using a triple-junction compound solar cell. Unlike silicon-based solar cells, the most common type of solar cell in use today, the compound solar cell utilizes photo-absorption layers made from compounds consisting of two or more elements such as indi... (more)

Fujitsu Announces Winners of Mobile Phone Design Award 2009

Tokyo, Oct 6, 2009 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Design Limited today announced the winners of the Fujitsu Mobile Phone Design Award 2009. The design contest was announced in May 2009 to gather innovative ideas from the public as a way to enhance the designs of state-of-the-art mobile phones offered by Fujitsu. Roughly 2,000 submissions were received throughout June and Ju... (more)