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StarHub to Acquire '.starhub' New Top-Level Domain

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:20:00 GMT

StarHub selects ARI Registry Services and Melbourne IT DBS to help secure '.starhub' in its latest branding strategy

StarHub, a fully integrated info-communications company in Singapore, today announced it will apply for its own branded slice of Internet real estate as part of the revolutionary new Top-Level Domain program, which is set to change the way Internet users navigate the web.

StarHub has partnered with technical registry provider ARI Registry Services and digital brand management services provider Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services (DBS) to help it apply for and operate its '.brand' domain name.

In applying for '.starhub', StarHub joins other leading brands such as Canon, Deloitte and Hitachi in announcing plans to participate in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN's) new Top-Level Domain program, which opened for applications last month.

StarHub aims to create a branded, authoritative corner of the Internet devoted completely to its business interests under the '.starhub' Top-Level Domain. In future, consumers may see new website addresses such as 'mobile.starhub', 'tv.starhub' and 'broadband.starhub' introduced to the brand's marketing and advertising activity.

Mr Oliver Chong, StarHub's Assistant Vice President of Brand and Marketing Communications, explained the '.starhub' Top-Level Domain will position the brand as a leader in the region.

"Our '.starhub' new Top-Level Domain will cement the company's position as Singapore's most innovative info-communications company. We pride ourselves on being at the forefront of innovation and through this initiative StarHub is one of first companies in the region to publicly commit to the next generation of online navigation," Mr Chong said.

"We believe the '.starhub' Top-Level Domain will deliver clear marketing and advertising benefits to StarHub, such as improved online brand recall and a more intuitive consumer experience with easy to remember domain names such as 'mobile.starhub'. We also anticipate potential Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) benefits by operating a more targeted and relevant naming system that is clearly matched with our website content," he said.

"Ultimately, we believe '.starhub' will deliver increased consumer trust and loyalty in our digital brand and enable StarHub to future-proof its online presence."

Mr Adrian Kinderis, CEO of ARI Registry Services — the company chosen by StarHub to provide technical expertise and infrastructure for the initiative — said it was a bold step forward for the company and reinforces its position as a leader in online innovation.

"StarHub is an industry leader and operating a new Top-Level Domain will reinforce its position at the forefront of innovation within the online space. As a proven global registry solution provider, we are extremely excited to be chosen to help support the '.starhub' Top-Level Domain," Mr Kinderis said. "A simple, memorable and branded Internet domain name like '.starhub' will allow consumers to bypass search engines and go directly to the content they are looking for. I anticipate that this announcement by StarHub will open the floodgates for Asian brands to get on board with this exciting initiative and it will be a major boost to the local digital economy."

Mr Theo Hnarakis, CEO & Managing Director of Melbourne IT — the company chosen by StarHub to provide domain strategy and application consulting services — said the decision to apply for '.starhub' would deliver long-term benefits for the StarHub brand.

"The way consumers connect with brands online has changed dramatically in the past few years with e- Commerce booming, mobile Web browsing rising fast and social media usage expanding — all of which has provided brands with opportunities and headaches in equal measure. Vital to the future of nearly every modern company is the ability for customers to easily engage with the business online. Savvy brands like StarHub understand that fact and realise the cornerstone to their future online strategy lies in a '.brand'," Mr Hnarakis said.

The application window for new Top-Level Domains opened on 12 January and will close on 12 April 2012.

Sharp to cut LCD production in Osaka plant by half

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:48:00 GMT

Remember that brand-spanking new production facility in Sakai City , Osaka that Sharp just christened a few years back? Japan's Nikkei business daily reports that Sharp will be cutting output at that factory by a whopping half for a month or maybe longer -- its second major reduction in a year. The Sakai factory typically makes 1.3 million 40-inch panels per month but was running at 80-90 percent capacity after being idled in April. Sharp continues to be impacted by the same cutthroat competition in the LCD market that has affected Japanese rivals like Hitachi and Sony as the high yen continues to push up pricing for domestically produced goods while dragging down overseas revenues. Sharp, which recently announced its 2012 lineup , is now thinking about reconfiguring the plant to make panels with higher resolutions and other features during the slowdown.

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GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Continues Preparations for Finland ESBWR Bid

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:25:16 GMT

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy continues to expand its presence in the Finland. Today the company announced it has signed a new project development memorandum of understanding with Finnish software and systems engineering firm Space Systems Finland Ltd.

CVE-2012-0919

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Hitachi IT Operations Director 02-50-01 through 02-50-07, 03-00 through 03-00-04, and possibly other versions before 03-00-06, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

CVE-2012-0917

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer 02-01, 02-51 through 02-51-01, and 02-53 through 02-53-02 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

CVE-2012-0918

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Unspecified vulnerability in Hitachi COBOL2002 Net Developer, Net Server Suite, and Net Client Suite 01-00, 01-01 through 01-01-/D, 01-02 through 01-02-/F, 01-03 through 01-03-/F, 02-00 through 02-00-/D, 02-01 through 02-01-/C, and possibly other versions before 02-01-/D allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown attack vectors.

Hitachi, Mitsubishi cease local TV, DVD and Blu-ray ops

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:20:00 GMT

Hitachi and Mitsubishi have separately made decisions to cease aspects of their Japanese manufacturing operations. Following reports to the effect, Hitachi has announced that it will cease production of plasma and LCD TVs in Japan sold under its Wooo brand by this September. Mitsubishi has also made the decision to stop its Japanese DVD and Blu-ray optical disc manufacturing operations....

Hitachi to halt domestic production of Wooo LCD and plasma TVs, Mitsubishi to axe optical discs?

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:20:00 GMT

Hitachi's line of domestically produced Wooo TVs is coming to an end, now that the manufacturer has confirmed plans to close a major plant in central Japan. In an announcement issued today, Hitachi said it will shutter its factory in Gifu, where some 100,000 LCD and plasma TVs are produced each month. Citing industry-wide price competition as the deciding factor, the company went on to clarify that the facility will shut down by September of this year, and that it will instead be used to manufacture projectors and chips. Hitachi will, however, continue to offer non-Wooo TVs manufactured by non-Japanese contractors. Japan's Asahi Shimbun , meanwhile, is reporting that Mitsubishi has decided to terminate domestic production of DVDs and Blu-Rays, due to declining sales of each. From now on, optical disc manufacturing will instead be outsourced to partner companies in India and Taiwan. For more details, check out the post-break press release.

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Hitachi And Mitsubishi Stop Domestic Production Of TVs, Optical Discs

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:10:52 GMT

Two big Japanese electronics companies, namely Hitachi and Mitsubishi , are to stop producing parts of their product portfolio domestically: Hitachi announced [JP] it will end production of plasma and LCD TVs in Japan, marketed under the Wooo brand, by September this year. The company owns a plant in Gifu prefecture in central Japan that churns out about 100,000 TVs per month (pictured: a Hitachi Wooo plasma from 2009). Citing price competition in the TV business as the main reason for the move, Hitachi said the plant will be used to produce projectors and chips instead.

Hitachi to end TV manufacturing

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:35:15 GMT

Japanese electronics firm Hitachi has said it will no longer make televisions from the end of September. The tech giant will end production in Japan, having already outsourced overseas TV ...

Hitachi to end TV manufacturing

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:30:32 GMT

Japanese electronics giant Hitachi is to stop making televisions from the end of September, but will continue to sell the Wooo brand.

High-tech companies take on urban design with smart cities

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:10:01 GMT

Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and other major Japanese electronics makers are increasingly turning their sights toward "smart city" projects designed to create eco-friendly, energy-efficient communities.

Samsung plans massive $41.4 billion in capital investment

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:00:00 GMT

Koreaís Samsung Group, which is comprised of 80 companies including Samsung Electronics, plans to expend a massive $41.4 billion in capital investment for 2012, according to Reuters. This includes a planned $1 billion expansion of its Austin chip fabrication plant, but is also expected that a significant chunk of the new round of capital investment will be in logic chips and the next-generation of OLED flat-screen displays. By comparison, the combined capital investment of Japanese tech heavyweights Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi is expected to total just $16.6 billion....

Yoshida's data storage trends likely to be seen in Malaysia: Hitachi

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:54:36 GMT

KUALA LUMPUR: Three of the Top 10 Trends predicted by Hu Yoshida, Hitachi Data System's vice president and chief technology officer, are likely to occur in Malaysia's data storage industry this year.

Hitachi unveils two new HDDs for G-Technology drives, gives Mac users new external storage options

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:07:00 GMT

Hitachi just released a couple of PC-centric storage solutions a few weeks ago, and now G-Technology, the company's Mac-centric brand, is getting new HDDs destined for its external dives. First up is the Travelstar 5K1000, a 2.5-inch, 5,400rpm hard drive with 6Gb/s SATA interface with up to 1TB of capacity. It's available in the G-DRIVE mobile, which offers connectivity via USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 for between $150 and $200, depending upon size. Next is the 3.5-inch 4TB Deskstar 7K4000, a 7,200rpm HDD found in the company's G-DRIVE and G-RAID offerings. It offers 3Gb/s eSATA, Firewire 800, and USB 2.0 connections, and will set you back $900 for a dual HDD 8TB G-RAID drive, or between $200 and $450 for the single disk G-DRIVE option when they start shipping in Q1 of this year.

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China wants Western Digital to address monopoly concerns

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:12:00 GMT

Western Digital's planned acquisition of Hitachi's hard drive business may have hit a snag: China's anti-monopoly regulators want the company to address...

Hitachi unveils a slew of hard drives for Macs

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:20:00 GMT

Hitachi has introduced a slew of new hard drive solutions for Macs ahead of CES 2012. Among the options for Mac users include new internal hard drives as well as desktop and mobile hard drive solutions. The new drives range variously in capacity from 750GB through to 8TB....

China wants Western Digital to address monopoly concerns

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:12:26 GMT

Western Digital's planned acquisition of Hitachi's hard drive business may have hit a snag: China's anti-monopoly regulators want the company to address concerns about the buyout.

NY's Attorney General Settles LCD Price-Fix Case

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:16:29 GMT

Seven companies based in Asia will pay $553 million to settle claims by officials in eight states that they conspired to inflate prices for liquid crystal display screens used in televisions and computer monitors, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Tuesday.

The agreement provides $501 million for partial refunds for consumers in 24 states and the District of Columbia who purchased products with the companies' LCD panels from 1999 through 2006.

In a group of lawsuits that eventually were consolidated into one federal case in the Northern District of California, officials in the eight states alleged that the Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese companies conspired along with certain affiliates of each corporation to fix prices on their thin-film transistor LCD panels.

The settlement by Chi Mei Innolux Corp., Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd., Epson Imaging Devices Corp., HannStar Display Corp., Hitachi Displays Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sharp Corp. and their U.S. affiliates addresses antitrust claims brought by attorneys general in Arkansas, California, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New York, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

The companies denied responsibility and said in the pact that they settled to avoid the expense of protracted litigation. They did not immediately reply to requests for comment Tuesday. But Schneiderman declared victory.

"This price-fixing scheme manipulated the playing field for businesses that abide by the rules and left consumers to pay artificially higher costs for televisions, computers and other electronics," Schneiderman said.

The state of New York could get more than $11 million, while consumers are eligible for partial refunds on millions of panels sold in New York, he said.

In addition to the eight states that filed claims, the agreement covers consumers in Arizona, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee and Vermont, according to New York's...

BANGKOK: Two Japanese firms to invest in flood-hit Thailand

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:29:44 GMT

Mitsubishi Electric and Hitachi Plant Technologies this week announced their decision to pour investment into Thailand , despite reportedly eroding confidence among foreign investors in the aftermath of floods.

Samsung, Others Busted: LCD Price-Fix

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:21:39 GMT

Seven Asia-based tech companies including Samsung, Hitachi, and Sharp have agreed to pay out $553 million as part of an agreement to settle claims that they conspired over eight years to fix prices for liquid crystal display screens, the New York attorney general announced Tuesday.

China Says Western Digital Buying Hitachi Unit Hurts Competition

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:32:36 GMT

China said Western Digital Corp. must address concerns that its proposed acquisition of Hitachi Ltd.’s storage business will hurt competition before regulators approve the purchase.

Samsung, Sharp, Hitachi and others settle LCD panel price fixing consumer class action for $539 million

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:34:00 GMT

'Tis the season for settling antitrust lawsuits, folks. Earlier this month, Sharp, Samsung, Hitachi and other LCD panel producers settled out their price fixing lawsuit with direct purchasers (read: TV and computer monitor manufacturers) for $388 million. So the story goes, the companies colluded to assure higher prices on LCDs sold between 1999 and 2006. Now, those same seven companies have settled up with indirect LCD purchasers -- aka the folks buying TVs and PCs -- to the tune of $539 million. Samsung, Sharp and Chimei are dishing out the lion's share of settlement dollars at $240 million, $115 million and $110 million, respectively, with the other companies kicking in between $2.8 and $39 million for their (allegedly) anti-competitive ways. Of course, the settlement isn't final until it receives the court's blessing, but you can see what the judge will likely be rubber-stamping at the source below.

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Hitachi Transport To Launch Logistics Business In Vietnam

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:15:40 GMT

Hitachi Transport System Ltd. will enter the logistics business in Vietnam in response to rising consumer spending accompanying that country's economic growth.

Hitachi Plant Technologies to Establish Local Subsidiaries in Southeast Asia and India

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:58:36 GMT

Stepping up the pace of its global expansion, Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd. is in the process of establishing local subsidiaries in Southeast Asia and India.

Hitachi Construction Says China First-Half Sales to Disappoint

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:49:35 GMT

Dec. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Japan’s second-largest heavy-equipment maker, said Chinese demand for excavators will decline in the first half of next year as ...

Portable Backup Drives Certified to Hold 12TB

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:09:01 GMT

Highly Reliable Systems of Reno, NV announced that their RAIDFrame DAS backup system will support Hitachi and Seagate 4TB hard drives when they ship .

Portable Backup Drives Certified to Hold 12TB

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:27:49 GMT

Highly Reliable Systems of Reno, NV announced that their RAIDFrame DAS backup system will support Hitachi and Seagate 4TB hard drives when they ship .

Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for December 16th –December 19th, 2011

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:19:00 GMT

(This post is by Christine McCann)

Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

State of Nuclear Politics in Japan

In spite of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s announcement that the nuclear crisis is under control and TEPCO has achieved so-called “cold shutdown conditions” at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, some experts are skeptical that Noda’s statement was simply a symbolic political milestone designed to allay fears about the nation’s safety, but not grounded in reality. Even some members of the Prime Minister’s own Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) have called the declaration a “fiction,” and Japanese distrust of the government and Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) is growing. Critics expressed concern this week about the unknown status of melted fuel, continuing leaks of radioactive water, and worker safety. Fukushima governor Yuhei Sato said, “The accident has not been brought under control.”

A government panel studying Japan’s energy policy has endorsed new estimates of nuclear power costs, which reveal that they may be 50% greater than previously determined in 2004. The new figures reflect the possibility of a Fukushima-like accident, which has been assessed at a minimum of six trillion yen ($77 billion), and raise the cost of each kilowatt-hour. Experts expect that the new estimates will affect the revised energy policy, due out this summer.

A government working group studying the effects of low-level radiation is proposing a maximum exposure limit of 10 millisieverts of radiation per year, and that the government meet that goal within two years or less. Eventually, they hope to lower the limit to one millisievert per year, which is the annual standard advised by the International Commission on Radiological Protection. Some experts have raised concerns about the effects on children and pregnant women.

Reactor 2 at Kansai Electric’s Ohi nuclear plant has gone offline for regular inspections. Currently, seven reactors in Japan remain in operation. However, later this month, the utility expects to stop Reactor 4 at its Genkai plant, at which point 90% of the nation’s reactors will be out of service.

Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) is advising nuclear power providers to establish revised plans for preparing for tsunamis, in spite of the fact that the government has no standards by which to evaluate such plans. The Commission plans to consult with evaluation experts in order to establish some. Currently, each nuclear power plant makes its own risk assessment of tsunami risk.

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) said that some textbooks dealing with nuclear power will be revised, after numerous complaints were received about how the subject was handled, including a lack of information about the dangers of radiation and nuclear accidents, as well as the inherent safety of nuclear power. One revision added the phrase, “The ‘safety myth’ about nuclear power has been turned upside down.”

The Nishinippon Shimbun, a regional newspaper in Fukuoka Prefecture, has cancelled its plans to publish a book critical of pluthermal nuclear power at Kyushu’s Genkai plant, according to Yu Tanaka, the book’s author. Kyushu Electric is the second largest shareholder of the newspaper. Initially, the newspaper asked Tanaka to remove 12 pages, including a section questioning the usefulness of the plan. Eventually, publishing plans were cancelled entirely. Another publisher has since printed the book in its entirety.

Kyushu Electric announced that last week’s leak of 1.8 tons of radioactive water at its Genkai plant was caused by a broken pump shaft in its cooling system. The utility has been criticized for initially failing to disclose the leak to local authorities.

TEPCO

Tomohiko Suzuki, a reporter working undercover at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, has charged that conditions at the plant are far worse than TEPCO is admitting, and “absolutely no progress is being made.” Suzuki worked undercover for over a month between July and August, during which time he witnessed shoddy workmanship, repeated failure to protect workers’ health, and a culture of secrecy and lack of communication between Toshiba and Hitachi, the companies who designed the reactors and have now been brought in to decommission them. As an example of TEPCO’s lack of regard for its workers, Suzuki described a radiation detector designed to protect workers from exposure but which no longer works, because the line to the radiation alarm has been cut.

State of the Reactors

TEPCO has discovered yet another leak of 230 tons of radioactive water, in a 54-meter tunnel beneath a building storing highly radioactive water. The company believes that the water, which was three meters (10 ft.) deep in some places, leaked from the storage facility and mixed with ground water that seeped into the tunnel. The announcement came only two days after Prime Minister Noda declared that the plant was stable, leading critics to question TEPCO’s ability to safely maintain the plant, and specifically, how such a large leak went undetected.

A government panel investigating the causes of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant said that workers disabled a cooling system at Reactor 3 without the knowledge of Masao Yoshida, then-chief of the plant, breaking the chain of command. A hydrogen explosion occurred the next day.

The same panel found that senior officials were unaware that a core cooling system at Reactor 1 was disabled after the tsunami caused power loss, and as a result, failed to respond. The reactor later melted down. TEPCO has insisted that its workers made no errors.

Nuclear crisis minister Goshi Hosono said Japan will use more robot technology in the next stage of decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi plant. So far, 162 workers have been exceeded the maximum limit of 100 millisieverts cumulative exposure for nuclear workers. Robots have proved useful since they can enter areas of the compound where radiation levels are too high for humans.

Contamination (Includes Human Exposure)

A report compiled by Asahi, using data released by TEPCO, shows that at least 462 trillion becquerels of radioactive strontium have leaked into the Pacific Ocean since March. Strontium, which is expensive and difficult to detect, accumulates in bones and causes leukemia and bone cancer. Experts have expressed concern about what will happen if strontium enters the food chain. Satoshi Katayama, a professor at Tohoku University, noted, “Strontium easily accumulates in [sea] creatures, even if its concentration level is low.”

Japan will reclassify no-entry zones, reflecting annual radiation exposure levels, around the Fukushima Daiichi plant as early as April 1, according to government officials. “Preparatory Zones,” where radiation exposure measures less than 20 millisieverts per year, are areas to which residents can prepare to return; “Restricted Residential Zones,” where exposure measures more than 20 and less than 50 millisieverts per year, are areas where people are not expected to be able to return for several years; and “Difficult-to-Return Zones,” are locations where exposure measures more than 50 millisieverts per year and probably will not be habitable for several decades.

Scientists at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) have conducted a study showing that radioactive cesium did not contaminate forest soil in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, but rather, only contaminated leaves and tree trunks. Researchers believe that cold temperatures turned radioactive rain into snow and ice, which prevented it from seeping into the soil. Experts hope that this will reduce the amount of contaminated soil that needs to be stored and disposed of.

Decontamination/Waste Disposal

Yukiya Amano, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), met with Nuclear Crisis Minister Goshi Hosono this week, to offer help with decontamination efforts near the Fukushima Daiichi plant. In addition, Amano said that IAEA experts will assist with removing melted fuel.

Japan plans to build an interim storage site in Futaba County, Fukushima Prefecture, for radioactive soil and ash. The facility will be built in an area where radiation levels are so high that they prevent residents from returning for five years or more, and the government will buy or lease the land from residents.

Norio Kanno, the Mayor of Fukushima Prefecture’s Iitate Village, said that the village has put together a reconstruction plan and hopes that some residents will begin to repopulate the area within two years, with all residents returning within five. Iitate is located approximately 40 km from the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Officials aim to initially reduce radiation levels to five millisieverts per year, and eventually bring them to one millisievert per year. The plan includes decontaminating residential land and farms, creating an inspection entity to ensure food safety, and introducing renewable energy. Kanno has been critical of the government announcement that the nuclear crisis is now under control, saying, “It’s out of the question to call it under control. They know nothing about the reality here.”

HP Expands Its HANA Alliance with SAP

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:45:00 GMT

HP is expanding its Big Data analytics appliance alliance with SAP, moving SAP’s HANA in-memory database widgetry to its BladeSystem. Used to query multiple types of SAP and non-SAP data sources in near-real-time or batch, HANA hasn’t been on blades before – unless you count Hitachi’s. HP is king of the blades but more importantly 47% of SAP’s applications run on HP hardware and this stuff is going to be targeted at SAP’s installed base. The new scale-out addition to the HP AppSystem for SAP HANA portfolio includes the HP X9300 IBRIX Network Storage System – expected in time to be the dominant storage type for HANA – with the HP P6500 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA), part of HP’s Converged Infrastructure. IBM prefers local storage, plus replication for HANA.

HP Expands Its HANA Alliance with SAP

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:45:00 GMT

Hitachi Receives Order for Passive RFID Equipment Tracking Solution from SCDF

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:40:16 GMT

Hitachi Asia Ltd . today announced that it has received an order to supply the Singapore Civil Defence Force with a Passive Radio Frequency Identification Equipment Tracking Solution.

Hitachi Receives Order for Passive RFID Equipment Tracking Solution...

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:20:44 GMT

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Hitachi GST unveils laptop hard drive

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:49:26 GMT

Hitachi today announced its fastest 10,000rpm laptop hard drive, which it said has 18% faster sequential and 17% random performance than its predecessor and it comes with up to 900GB capacity.

Hitachi ships two new 4TB hard drives

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:25:07 GMT

For many, the hard drive is the hub of a digital life. It's a workhorse in your Mac or PC. It's a place where you edit video, store digital memories, watch home videos and movies, and save your most important files. It houses your operating system, programs and games, and can even help you protect all of your digital content. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced the industry's highest capacity 4TB storage solutions the Deskstar 5K4000 Internal Hard Drive Kit and the Touro Desk External Hard Drive to help store and protect your growing digital life.

Hitachi ships two new 4TB hard drives

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:25:07 GMT

Hitachi outs a pair of 4TB HDDs for your storing pleasure

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:11:00 GMT

We here at Engadget believe that, while keeping data in the cloud is certainly convenient, one can never have too much local storage space. Hitachi shares our enthusiasm for commodious HDDs , and has rolled out a pair of 4TB drives to keep all your movies, music, and photos close to home. For those wanting to up the ante in their desktop machine, the Deskstar 5K4000 should do the trick with a SATA 6Gb/s connection and 32MB buffer. Its stablemate, the Touro Desk External Drive, brings the same HDD in an onyx enclosure and connects to your computer via USB 3.0 -- plus you get 3GB of cloud storage free from Hitachi. (Who says you can't eat your cake and have it too?) The 5K4000 is available now for a penny under $400, while the Touro will cost $420 once it hits the market in January.

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Hitachi GST begins shipments of 4TB hard drive

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:32:00 GMT

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies said Monday it began shipments of its first 4TB, 3.5-inch hard drive, targeted at the PC market.

Hitachi GST Starts Shipping 4-TB Hard Drives

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:50:00 GMT

Hitachi GST unveiled 4-TB internal and external hard drives, with initial shipments of the retail models starting now and general availability to all channels planned for early next year.

Hitachi makes 4TB Deskstar 5K4000 drive official

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:50:00 GMT

Hitachi confirmed its 4TB drive plans. The Deskstar 5K4000 is billed as the first 4TB internal desktop drive available and provides a third more space than the previous best. To get to the new capacity, Hitachi is spinning the drive at a slower 5,400RPM but saves about 28 percent in idle power and should be tangibly quieter than a 7,200RPM disk....

Hitachi slips out 4TB internal drive in Japan

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:50:00 GMT

Hitachi has reportedly begun shipping a 4TB internal hard-drive, which has been spotted in the company's home country of Japan. The offering appears to be the first 3.5-inch internal drive to arrive on the market with a 4TB storage capacity, though competitors managed to release 4TB single-disk external drives earlier in the year....

Microsoft, Hitachi announce joint software development venture in Fargo

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:35:47 GMT

FARGO, N.D. - A worldwide consulting and technology services company that plans to join forces with Microsoft Corp. says it was attracted to Fargo partly by the way residents reacted to a ...

Microsoft, Hitachi announce joint venture

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:03 GMT

Microsoft Corp. is joining forces with Hitachi Consulting to help develop new software for Microsoft's business group in Fargo.

Microsoft, Hitachi announce joint venture in Fargo

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:23:38 GMT

FARGO, N.D. — Microsoft Corp. is joining forces with Hitachi Consulting to help develop new software for Microsoft's business group in Fargo. The agreement announced Monday would ...

Microsoft, Hitachi announce joint venture in Fargo

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:09:13 GMT

Microsoft Corp. is joining forces with Hitachi Consulting to help develop new software for Microsoft's business group in Fargo.

Western Digital Restarts Thailand Hard Drive Production Earlier Than Expected

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:56:00 GMT

Western Digital said it has restarted hard drive operations in flood-ravished Thailand, and that it expects is acquisition of Hitachi GST to close by March.

GE and Hitachi plan new reactor to burn UK plutonium stockpile

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:47:55 GMT

General Electric set out proposals on Wednesday to build a new nuclear reactor at Sellafield that would convert the UK's stockpile of radioactive plutonium into electricity.The multibillion ...

Sellafield waste reactor proposal

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:12:18 GMT

The energy company GE Hitachi is proposing to build a reactor at Sellafield in Cumbria to convert the UK's waste plutonium stockpile.

iPhone 5 to sport 4-inch display

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:01:34 GMT

Macotakara is reporting. Citing an unnamed source, the site says that Hitachi and Sony have already started shipping 4-inch LCD panels to Apple for use in "new iOS devices." The two ...

Apple suppliers begin shipping 4-inch displays for next-gen iPhone, says source

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:02:33 GMT

Hitachi Displays, Ltd. and Sony Mobile Display have started to ship 4-inch LCDs for the new iOS device...