Panasonic in pictures

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  IN PICTURES: A tour of Panasonic's Kounosuke Matsushita Historical Museum
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  IN PICTURES: Panasonic gets Toughbook with Ben Hur

• Panasonic announces 20X-zoom pocket camera, full-featured rugged camera

  By Tim Moynihan | 31 January, 2012 21:50

  Panasonic's latest camera models are extreme in a couple of ways: extreme in terms of optical-zoom range, and extreme in the "chugging a carafe of Mountain Dew while pogo-sticking down Mount Everest" sense. The company announced four new Lumix point-and-shoots that will be available in the first quarter of the year, headlined by the 20X-optical-zoom Lumix ZS20 and the rugged but robust Lumix TS4.

• Panasonic offers wireless broadband service to connect its products

  By Jay Alabaster | 27 January, 2012 11:53

  Panasonic launched a wireless broadband service in Japan this week that is intended to encourage customers to use its coming wave of Internet-ready appliances and services.

• Panasonic partners with Australian Open, and enters Seven newsroom

  By Nermin Bajric | 16 January, 2012 11:46

  Panasonic partners with Australian Open, and enters Seven newsroom

• Hopefully these robotic farmers will harvest more than our organs

  By Joshua Schnell | 09 January, 2012 09:43

  The Japanese government is planning to develop a farm where all labor is carried out by robots, according to AFP. The initiative, dubbed the Dream Project, will use robotic tractors to plant and harvest the crops, and other robots for tasks such as packaging the produce for shipping.

• Samsung, NTT DoCoMo and others to set up LTE chip joint venture

  By Jay Alabaster | 27 December, 2011 18:43

  NTT DoCoMo said Tuesday it will form a joint venture with Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC and two other Japanese companies to design and sell chips for high-speed mobile networks based on the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard.

• Panasonic, Sony, Samsung, others launch HD content security initiative

  By Lucas Mearian | 20 December, 2011 06:04

  Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, and SanDisk Monday announced plans to jointly develop better security for memory cards, embedded memory and other flash storage devices.

• Panasonic Australia strengthens Toughbook team

  By Hafizah Osman | 13 December, 2011 19:30

  Andrew Smith joins as Product Marketing Manager - Toughbook

• Panasonic to venture abroad in smartphones, plans Europe launch in March

  By Jay Alabaster | 09 December, 2011 18:16

  Panasonic said Friday it would venture abroad to sell smartphones, beginning with Europe in March and then expanding to the U.S., China, and rest of Asia.

• INSIDE STORY: Steering towards new business strategies

  By Julia Talevski | 27 July, 2011 14:19

  Distributor IPL Communications held a thought leadership event earlier this year specifically targeting 170 dealers that were a mix between telco and system integrators. This was underscored by the need to change. Julia Talevski sat down with IPL general manager, Paul Scanlan, and managing director, Stead Denton.

• HDTVs at CES: Small steps in the big picture

  By Patrick Miller | 11 January, 2011 06:28

  Whether they were big or small, LED or plasma, all the HDTVs on the CES 2011 show floor had one thing in common--they took the best that came out of last year, and added several slight, but significant, improvements.

• Hands-on with Sony's NEX-VG10 interchangeable-lens camcorder

  By Tim Moynihan | 15 July, 2010 01:07

  In the past few years, video-capable DSLRs and compact interchangeable-lens cameras have gained momentum in the world of filmmaking: they have big sensors, shallow depth-of-field capabilities, versatile interchangeable lenses, and affordable prices when compared to professional-level camcorders.