Japanese electronics giant Panasonic has agreed to buy Sanyo Electric, the Nikkei business daily reported Monday.Panasonic and Sanyo will hold board meetings by the end of this week to approve the deal and a formal announcement could come as early as Friday, according to the report, which did not cite sources for the information.The resulting company will be Japan's largest electronics maker, the Nikkei said.The deal may come as a relief to Sanyo, which has ...

Microsoft ESP extends simulation innovation to government, enabling immersive, game-like training solutions on a public-sector budget.NASHVILLE — Oct. 29, 2008 — As with many industries today, governments are increasingly affected by the rising cost of goods, unprecedented environmental issues and increasing demand for services amid economic turbulence. That puts pressure on tight budgets and increases scrutiny of how that money is spent. According to Bruce Harris, Technical Evangelist in Microsoft’s Institute for Advanced Technology in ...

Reports have Motorola announcing as soon as Thursday a big push to build new Android phones, but the more important move would be a potential plan by the handset maker to reduce the number of mobile operating systems it uses, analysts said. On Wednesday, a Wall Street Journal report suggested that during Motorola's Thursday morning third quarter earnings call, the handset maker might unveil plans to focus development on Android and reduce the number of ...

Shrugging off its ongoing legal dispute with Apple, unauthorized Mac clone maker Psystar this week trounced Apple, introducing OS X-compatible PCs with Blu-ray drives and the Nvidia 9800GT graphics card. Apple offers neither peripheral on a Mac.Psystar notes that Mac OS X Blu-ray support is limited to read/write data capabilities only and there is no Blu-ray software capable of playing back Blu-ray video on the Mac.Psystar president Rudy Pedraza said: ""Blu-ray has already won the ...

Microsoft on Monday offered a software development kit for its tabletop computer to about 1,000 people at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, opening the door to a variety of new applications for the table.Most people I talked to at two Seattle hotels that have Surface computers would probably agree that's a good thing.The first one I stopped in, Hotel 1000, had a sleepy lobby, where just one person sat quietly reading a book ...

SanDisk has stepped up its efforts to convince corporates that USB sticks are a secure medium, adding built-in antivirus capability to its latest Cruzer drive.Any files copied or saved to the latest Cruzer Enterprise will automatically be scanned by a McAfee heuristics and antivirus engine that loads every time the drive is used. If it detects infected files being copied from a PC, all further transfers will be disallowed form that machine, stopping their spread.The ...

Illustration: Harry CampbellMicrosoft fixed a critical bug in its Windows operating system Thursday, saying that it is being exploited by online criminals and that it could eventually be used in a widespread "worm" attack.Microsoft took the unusual step of issuing an emergency patch for the flaw, several weeks ahead of its regularly scheduled November security updates, saying that it is being exploited in "limited targeted attacks.""It is possible that this vulnerability could be used in ...