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Tokyo, Feb 20, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corp. announced today the development of smartphone software that automatically recommends the best path for a user's incoming calls based on the software's estimate of a smartphone's movement. This solution is scheduled to be commercially available by June 2012.This new solution collects and analyzes data from a user's smartphone, which enables the software to estimate, for example, if the user is moving within a train,...

Tokyo, Dec 21, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corp. (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced today its participation in the "2012 International CES" (CES), the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow, from January 10-13, 2012 in Las Vegas.CES is sponsored by America's Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and draws global attention each year for the new commercial products and prototypes that are introduced by companies spanning every business field, including network...

ISLANDIA, N.Y., Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that NEC Corp. is licensing CA Configuration Automation r12.5 to enhance its systems management product suite, known as WebSAM in Japan and MasterScope outside of Japan. The addition of CA Configuration Automation to NEC's product suite will help customers to expedite their move to a virtualized, dynamic cloud computing infrastructure. NEC selected CA Configuration Automation based on its ability help...

Government and corporate officials said Friday that Japan is developing a low-cost surveillance satellite to aid disaster relief and other purposes as it looks to start expanding its reach into the emerging markets. Trade ministry official Shuichi Kato said that Japan's trade ministry is collaborating with NEC Corp. and other companies to develop a small satellite by 2012 that is just a fifth the cost of conventional monitoring satellites. NEC will contribute technology it developed for the...

BERLIN, Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Less than two weeks after announcing major updates to Windows Azure at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft Corp. again demonstrated the breadth of its vision for cloud computing today when it unveiled Hyper-V Cloud, a set of programs and offerings that makes it easier for businesses to build their own private cloud infrastructures using the Windows Server platform. Dell Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., HP, IBM Corp. and NEC Corp....

Japanese automaker Nissan has displayed a two-seater electric vehicle that resembles a go-cart and is evidence of the company's ambitions to be the leader in zero-emission cars. Nissan Motor Co. is planning to produce 250,000 electric vehicles a year, starting with the Leaf electric car that will go on sale in the U.S. in December. Renault SA of France, Nissan's partner, is planning to also produce 250,000 electric vehicles a year. Nissan said it and Japanese electronics maker NEC Corp. will...

A Japanese company will help Taiwan build the island's first undersea earthquake monitoring station, the Central News Agency (CNA) said on Sunday. NEC Corp of Japan won the contract to build the station off Taiwan's northeast coast, which can cut the time of reporting an earthquake by 10 seconds, CNA quoted Shin Tzay-chyn, director of the Central Weather Bureau, as saying.Kuo Kai-wen, the head of Taiwan's Seismology Center, told AFP, "The few seconds extra will give people precious time...

In the shadow of the global economic downturn, NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology announced plans for a merger to create Japan's largest semiconductor maker, the AFP reported.The proposed merger will integrate the operations of both companies by April 2010 and both plan to sign a merger agreement in July.This would make the new company the world's number three chipmaker behind Intel Corp. of the United States and Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea.The companies released a joint...

Japanese microchip firms Renesas Technology Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp. are reportedly discussing the possibility of a merger in the midst of a global recession, according to Japanese media.The Nikkei economic daily and other Japanese media outlets quoted anonymous sources that claim the two companies are close to finalizing the merger by the end of April, thus creating the third largest chipmaker in the world as soon as April 2010.The Nikkei reported that both firms have agreed to enter...

Japan's NEC Corp. announced on Friday it plans to cut 20,000 jobs of its 150,000-employee workforce. NEC reported a fourth quarter net loss of 130 billion yen ($1.46 billion) from 5.2 billion during the same quarter in 2007. "It is regrettable that we have to announce such a big downgrade," said Kaoru Yano, president of NEC. "We must cut waste."The Tokyo-based company said job cuts, which will take place by March 2010, would save 80 billion yen ($890 million) over the next two years. NEC's...