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Sets New Record with Concentrator Triple-Junction Compound Solar Cell Osaka, June 14, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - Sharp Corporation has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency(2) of 44.4%(1), using a concentrator triple-junction compound solar cell. These solar cells are used in a lens-based concentrator system that focuses sunlight on the cells to generate electricity.This latest Sharp breakthrough came about through...
Tokyo, June 11, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - Connell Brothers, the largest marketer and distributor of specialty chemicals and industrial ingredients in Asia-Pacific, announced today that it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Struktol Company of America, a leading global supplier of polymer additives, to market and distribute plastic additives which will be made available in the Japanese market. "We're thrilled to begin our partnership with Struktol,"...
Osaka, June 7, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - Since 2008, the Sharp Group in China has been providing environmental education for elementary school children, in cooperation with the China National Committee For The Wellbeing Of The Youth, Child Development Center*. In May 2013, the cumulative total of children who have participated in the program passed the 10,000 milestone.The Sharp Group gives environmental education classes to elementary school children in various...
Osaka, May 23, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - Sharp's SH-02E smartphone with IGZO(1) LCD panel, sold by NTT Docomo in Japan, has won the Gold Award(2) in the Display of the Year category, part of the 2013 Display Industry Awards(3) sponsored by the SID (Society for Information Display). The Moth Eye(R)(4) technology used in Sharp's AQUOS XL9 lineup was also honored, winning the Silver Award in the Display Component of the Year category.With over 6,000 members, SID is...
Tokyo, May 22, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced that it has wholly acquired MCV Guam Holding Corp. (MCV), the largest cable television and Internet service provider in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, on May 21. The purchase from MCV Acquisition, LLC, the holding company of MCV, worth approximately 129.8 million U.S. dollars or about 12.7 billion Japanese yennotice1, was made by a wholly owned holding company...
Tokyo, May 13, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO, INC., a personalized mobile solutions provider for smarter living, announced today an agreement on a business and capital alliance with Pioneer Corporation, a leading manufacturer of car and home electronics, to integrate Pioneer's in-car navigation telematics technologies and related peripheral development capabilities with DOCOMO's mobile cloud expertise to make a full-scale entry into the field of intelligent...
Former Sumitomo Chemicals and BASF executive to oversee entire operations in Japan for Asia's largest specialty chemicals and ingredients distributor San Francisco, CA, Apr 17, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - Connell Brothers, a division of Wilbur-Ellis Company, and the largest marketer and distributor of specialty chemicals and industrial ingredients in Asia-Pacific, has appointed Mr. Iguchi Shinichi, former head of marketing and business...
Growing the Lineup of Optical Disk Archive Solutions Tokyo, Apr 8, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - Sony announces its strategic partnership with Dalet Digital Media Systems (based in France) as part of the ongoing mission to develop extensible high-capacity archiving solutions, named Optical Disc Archive for the video and broadcasting industries. Optical Disc Archive offers file-based solutions by storing data in a compact cartridge with 12...
Enables Up to 50% Reduction in Service Response Time Tokyo, Apr 8, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan's leading mobile operator and provider of integrated services centered on mobility, announced today that it has developed a cloud server management technology that shortens the service response time of cloud services by up to 50%. The source code that enables this technology to be used with a variety of cloud services was...
Tokyo, Apr 3, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - Olympus Corporation ("Olympus") and Sony Corporation ("Sony') today announced that the two parties recently received all necessary regulatory approvals and now expect to establish the medical business venture company (the "medical business venture") on April 16, 2013 in accordance with the business alliance agreement executed on September 28, 2012.Olympus and Sony continue to work together with the goal of creating...
