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Hitachi unveiled a pint sized roller-skating robot Friday that can negotiate uneven surfaces, respond to voice commands and could work as a tour guide or security guard. The Japanese electronics giant said the EMIEW2 has complex spring-loaded shock absorbers in its legs that allow it to move across minor bumps and wires on the floor without tripping.  "It can control its posture the way humans do when we stabilize ourselves after jumping on inline skates," Yuji Hosoda, chief...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of the world's leading supplier of programmable platforms, Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), and Hitachi Information & Communication Engineering, Ltd., today announced a new LogicBench® series. LogicBench is proven system-level design verification platform. The new series uses Xilinx® Virtex®-6 LX760, the fastest and highest performance FPGA, and other Virtex-6 FPGA sub-families. Hitachi Information &...

CHELMSFORD, Mass. and TOKYO, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Airvana, Inc. (Nasdaq: AIRV), today announced that it has been selected to provide KDDI with its 3G CDMA femtocells and Femtocell Service Manager, as part of a comprehensive solution being delivered by Hitachi. Femtocells are home-based cellular access points that use a subscriber's existing broadband connection to provide enhanced voice coverage and data performance for mobile phones indoors. KDDI, Japan's second largest...

SEATTLE, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon® Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN) today announced the release of the Isilon IQ 72000X and 72NL scale-out NAS products, bringing to market a 10 Petabyte (PB) single file system and single volume to deliver maximum value and efficiency for primary, nearline archive and disk-to-disk backup environments. Leveraging Hitachi's enterprise-class Ultrastar A7K2000 two Terabyte (2TB) Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) drives, the IQ 72000X and...

Japan tech firms Casio, NEC and Hitachi on Monday announced a new mobile phone merger intended to help the three companies gain a larger market share.At the start of the deal, NEC will control 66 percent of the three-way business plan, with Casio owning 17.34 percent and Hitachi with 16.66 percent, according to AFP.The three companies are expected to complete the merger in April 2010.By June 2010, NEC will hold 70.74 percent of the business, with Casio holding 20 percent and Hitachi with 9.26...

HAVANT, England, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Xyratex Ltd. (Nasdaq: XRTX), a leading provider of enterprise-class data storage subsystems and storage process technology, today announced support for Hitachi GST's enterprise-class 7,200 RPM 2TB offering, the Ultrastar A7K2000 hard disk drive. Hitachi's Ultrastar A7K2000 2TB hard drives have been fully integrated into Xyratex's family of storage systems, making it the industry's first, fully integrated external storage subsystem to...

Key speakers from Salesforce.com and Hitachi WASHINGTON, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- XBRL US, the nonprofit consortium for XML business reporting, announced that detailed case studies and advanced topics in XML and XBRL development would be presented at its upcoming Pacific Rim Technology Workshop to be held at Hitachi Data Systems Headquarters in Santa Clara, California on July 28-30, 2009. "Product managers and XML developers stand to gain significantly from this workshop where they'll...

New Clients and Stereo/3D Patents Advance GestureTek's 3D Depth Market Success SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- GestureTek Inc., the inventor, pioneer and world leader in video gesture control technology for 2D and 3D cameras, and the key patent holder in video gesture control interfaces, today announced that its powerful 3D depth tracking technology will be used for an exciting gesture-based interactive digital signage display for telecom giant Sprint. GestureTek also announced...

World longest record time up to 8x for HD video recording TORONTO, May 21 /PRNewswire/ - ViXS Systems Inc., a leading developer of video processing semiconductor solutions, announced today that the XCode(R) 3290, the world's most advanced Video Processing System on a Chip (SoC) has been selected by Hitachi to enable their latest generation of HD Flat Panel TVs featuring a built-in Hard Disk Drive (HDD) for Personal Video Recording (PVR). This new line of HD Flat Panel TV Recorder products...

A Hitachi Displays Ltd. executive was indicted Tuesday on U.S. charges he took part in a global conspiracy to fix prices for computer screen components. A grand jury in San Francisco charged Sakae Someya with scheming with unnamed co-conspirators to artificially inflate prices of Thin Film Transistor-Liquid Crystal Display panels Hitachi sold to Dell Inc. Someya, described as a high-level Hitachi executive, faces up to 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine if convicted. The U.S. Justice...