This unique CDMA phone combines a rugged body and push-to-talk with a full QWERTY keyboard and media features. Other key features include 3-megapixel camera, memory card slot, and stereo Bluetooth. Read Original Post Here

Last year, NEC, Casio Computer and Hitachi unveiled plans to merge their handset making units into a new company called NEC CASIO Mobile Communications. The joint venture was set to launch in April 2010, but that date will be missed as competition authorities required additional documentation. The review process will not be completed within March

Last September, NEC, Casio Computer and Hitachi announced an agreement to merge their respective mobile phone businesses and began preparations for the launch of a new joint venture in April 2010. Click here for more.

Airvana says that it has been selected to provide its 3G CDMA femtocells and Femtocell Service Manager to Japan's KDDI, as part of a package being delivered by Hitachi. In 2008, Airvana and Hitachi announced a femtocell partnership for the Japanese market. Click here for more.

Nasuni, a Massachusetts start-up that’s about to trot out a gateway to cloud storage, has gotten $8 million in Series A funding from North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. Nasuni founders CEO Andres Rodriguez, an ex-CTO of the New York Times, and Robert Mason pioneered a cloud storage architecture at Archivas, which Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) acquired in 2007 for $120 million. rea...

Nokia has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco against 11 different manufacturers of LCD displays including Samsung, LG, Sharp, Philips, Hitachi, and Toshiba. The company alleges that the manufacturers colluded to fix LCD prices and kept them artificially higher than the market would otherwise have determined during the period of January 1, 1996 through December 11, 2006. AT&T filed a similar ...

If you remember, we informed you a while ago that three of the most important 8 Japanese phone makers, NEC, Casio and Hitachi, were about to merge. The agreement took place and itll be finalized in April 2010, the resulting company being named NEC Casio Mobile. The new handset maker will include NEC, with 71% stakes,

As MobileCrunch reported back in August, three of Japan's eight top cell phone makers, namely NEC, Casio and Hitachi are going to merge their cell phone businesses next year. Under the agreement, NEC plans to integrate its handset division into a tie-up that already existed between Hitachi and Casio starting April 2010 (the begin of the new fiscal year under the Japanese business calendar). I...

Nortel concludes $10-million sale of its next-generation packet core network components business to Hitachi.

In case you havent heard the news from all the other technology blogs out there, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is suing AU Optronics, Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Samsung, Sharp, LG, Tatung, Seiko Epson, Samsung SDI, Hitachi, Toshiba (OTCPK: TOSBF) and Philips, for allegedly fixing the prices of LCD screens between January 1, 1996 to December 11, 2006.