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...panels are manufactured in clean-room factories that require massive investment. Ten new plants costing around $20 billion will start up between now and the end of 2005, increasing the industry's production capacity by 70% next year. Even more are on the drawing board. In August, Japan's Hitachi, Matsushita and Toshiba announced a $1 billion joint venture to produce LCD panels starting...
Both companies claim they have attracted a critical mass of supporters. Sony has enlisted Hitachi, Samsung, Sharp, LG and Dell, among others. Toshiba trumpets the fact that Microsoft has pledged that its next Windows operating system will be compatible with...
...your hand. Scientists noticed that vein patterns in the fingers and palm stay in the same place from birth, and the arrangement of veins in each person is unique. By shining a light at the hand or finger and then capturing an infrared digital image, devices developed by Fujitsu, Hitachi and other Japanese firms can ID people in an instant. The first systems will soon appear in Japanese banks to verify the identity of people withdrawing money at ATMs and teller windows. --By Wilson Rothman...
...before electronics makers started putting DVD burners right into their camcorders. After all, why hook your camera to the TV when you can just pop out the disc and toss it in the player? (The 8-cm discs can also be played on most PCs with DVD-ROM drives.) Hitachi was the first to launch DVD camcorders, back in 2000, but they were bulky and expensive. The new, slimmed-down versions are cheaper and easier to use. Hitachi's DZ-MV350A ($900, left) and Sony's DCR-DVD100 Handycam ($900, right) are the newest in a field that includes...
...Palmisano has spent $3.5 billion for the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which gave IBM the people and contacts to turbocharge its services business, and has paid $2 billion for Rational Software, which provided new software-development tools. He agreed to sell IBM's money-losing hard-drive business to Hitachi. And he's still working his magic on clients: J.P. Morgan Chase just agreed to pay IBM $5 billion over seven years to take over much of the financial giant's elaborate IT operations...