ELECTRONICS

Nokia today began a weeklong display of its latest imaging achievements at Photokina 2006. The event is to highlight “the benefits that mobility brings to imaging” a statement said. The exhibition contains all the latest Nokia Nseries multimedia computers.

Lenovo Group Ltd.(0992.HK), the world's third-largest personal computer maker, said on Monday it is looking into a fire incident on a Lenovo laptop PC equipped with a Sony Corp. (6758.T) battery.

Leading mobile phone manufacturers, Nokia and Motorola, would soon establish plants for the manufacturing and assembling of mobile phone handsets and other accessories in Nigeria.The plants were to be established under a special partnership arrangement between the Nigerian government and the foreign investors.

Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's third largest personal computer maker, said on Monday it is looking into a fire incident on a Lenovo laptop PC equipped with a Sony Corp. battery.

Japanese electronics maker Sony (6758.T) said on Saturday it is investigating a fire incident on a Lenovo (0992.HK) laptop PC

Sony Corp. said Friday it will slash the price of its much-anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console in Japan by 20 percent, a decision deemed ridiculous by a Japanese financial expert.

Apple heralded its official entry into the PC/TV convergence space with the announcement of the company's future iTV product in San Francisco last week, however it may face stiff competition from software giant, Microsoft Corp.

High-level executives from Japan's Sharp Corp. traveled to South Korea last week to visit LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd., as Philips seeks a buyer for its 32.9 percent stake in the Korean LCD firm, Taiwan media reported on Friday.

Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said on Wednesday it would start selling two new Blu-ray DVD recorders in Japan on November 15, heating up a format battle for next generation optical disc technology.

Nokia has today unveiled its latest product, the Nokia 6288. The Nokia 6288 is a slide phone that includes high quality video playing capabilities along with its other features.

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson entered into the online music store market on Tuesday by introducing M-BUZZ, a service aimed at promoting new and up-and-coming artists.

Warner Brothers music is attempting to create a disc capable of storing standard compact-disc formats, as well as emerging DVD formats, according to a patent researchers filed.

A patent application has been filed for a disc that would play two competing high-definition DVD formats which, if successful, could help appease a battle that has divided Hollywood and confounded consumers.

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said on Tuesday that it would launch a new service on its phones that would allow full music downloading, initially focusing on new and up-and-coming artists.

India's leading consumer goods manufacturer, Videocon, is within an arm's length to acquiring South Korea's third largest electronics company, Daewoo Electronics, but certain riders attached by the ailing company relating to its takeover may persuade the Indian company to give it a second thought.

According to the latest research, Apple Computer's ubiquitous portable-media device, the iPod, garnered healthy market-share in August, though growth was slightly slower than June's.

Toshiba Corp. said on Tuesday it would replace about 340,000 laptop computer batteries worldwide, the third recall of faulty batteries made by Sony Corp. in less than 40 days.

Sony and digital music database provider Gracenote said on Monday customers should update software to prevent hackers from breaking into their personal computers.

Several rivals of Apple Computer Inc. plan digital music devices to work closely with their own online music services, just as Apple's iPods and iTunes do

A consortium of India's leading electronics and energy major, Videocon Industries Limited and US fund Ripplewood Holdings has emerged as the preferred bidder to buy South Korean appliances maker Daewoo Electronics.

Cyber scams are increasingly being committed by organized crime syndicates out to profit from sophisticated ruses rather than hackers keen to make an online name for themselves, according to a top U.S. official.