Tomoyo Nonaka is female. I wouldn't really bother to point this out in fear of all the hate mail Joel will receive, but it's Japan. Women's rights still have a very, very long way to go over there (particularly in the corporate world), and this a step in the right direction. Tomoyo Nonaka's experience is plentiful, from being a newscaster to CEO of Asahi Beer.

Sa nyo decides on new president and CEO from outside company, Tomoyo Nonaka [DC Watch]

Sweet New Sanyo 3G Phones

Sweet New Sanyo 3G Phone

Sanyo to make DVD recorders

Sanyo VPC-C3 Digital Media Camera

If you're wondering how Sanyo can cram an 8-megapixel sensor into this new VPC-C4 camera, I can tell you: cheating. It's really just a 4-megapixel unit which can use interpolation to upscale the resolution of the shots. That's a not a bad thing, really, but it will provide results far different than those from a true 8-megapixel camera.

The VPC-C4 shares the form factor and much of the feature set of its predecessor, the Fisher FVD-C1 and other Xacti models, although it is improved in almost every way. It still uses just an SD card for storage, for better and for worse.

SANYO VPC-C4 DIGITAL MEDIA CAMERA [LivingRoom]

3G Patent License Agreement for Sanyo

KDDI Launches 3G Sanyo Phone

Sanyo Creates Smallest FM Tuner Yet

Sanyo has developed a tiny FM tuner chip that is roughly half the size of current tuners on the market; they're calling it the "Easy Radio IC." It requires no other parts to operate and even has an upcoming version that can tune in AM as well (that's coming in September). At just 5mm wide, there's not any reason that any portable music player should be without FM radio, unless the manufacturer is just too stubborn to put it in.

Re ad - Article (Japanese) [Impress Watch]

Buy our products, Sanyo tells employees

Sanyo lanza los cedés de maíz

Sanyo S750 3G Phone Review

New Sanyo V801SA 3G Slider Phone

Sanyo S750 - Orange 3G Handset

IBM, Sanyo Unveil Fuel Cell for ThinkPad

IBM Japan And Sanyo, Team Fuel Cell

< img src="http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/PRES050411d.jpg" alt="PRES050411d.jpg image" width="200" height="147" class="border right"/>IBM Japan and Sanyo are teaming up to bring a real fuel cell system to notebook PCs in the near future. Sanyo has already developed a hybrid battery system with both standard lithium ion battery and fuel cell which can be used on existing ThinkPad models. Said system uses a 130cc cartridge, leading to about 8 hours of battery life. The best part, though, is hot-swapping fuel cell cartridges for uninterrupted mobile computing. The worst part? It weighs 2.2kg (nearly 5 pounds).

P ress Release [Sanyo]
Press Release [IBM Japan]

Sanyo Family Battery Charger Kit with
FlexBats

Double A rechargeable batteries are by far the most commonly used, but there are definitely times when C-cell and D-cell batteries would be handy to have around. Rather than provide rechargeable cells in a variety of sizes, Sanyo's Family Battery Charger Kit comes with four AA batteries and a set a 'FlexBat' adapters, hollow plastic cylinders that act as spacers to allow you to use the rechargeable AAs inside C- or D-cell-sized spaces. Of course, the AA cells won't run as long as the larger cells would, but in a pinch it's a handy way to always have the size of battery you need available.

Read - Catalog Page [BoysStuffUK via RedFerret]

IBM, Sanyo Test Fuel Cells With
ThinkPads

IBM, Sanyo announce fuel cell prototype

Sanyo, IBM develop ThinkPad fuel cell

Vodafone Announces New V801SA by Sanyo
3G Handset

Sanyo unveils new sound-traveling
handset

Sprint PCS Vision Picture Phone PM-8200
by Sanyo

SANYO and Sharp Join DVD6C in Licensing
DVD Patents

Home Theatre Projectors, Dell, InFocus
and Sanyo

IBM y Sanyo se unen para crear células
de combustible

Sanyo Says to Boost Optical Pickup
Output Capacity

IBM and Sanyo bring fuel cell tech to
the Thinkpad

Sanyo, IBM Develop Fuel-Cell System for
ThinkPads

Sanyo unveils sound-conducting cell
handset

Sanyo sub-sonic mobile phone to ship by
month's end

IBM, Sanyo to develop fuel-cell system
for ThinkPad notebooks (AFP)

Sanyo Says to Boost Optical Pickup
Output Capacity (Reuters)

Japan's Sanyo to boost optical pickup
output capacity (AFP)

Sanyo A5505SA 3G handset features
Spatializer ((environ)) Technology

IBM And Sanyo Demonstrate Fuel Cell
Prototype For ThinkPad Notebooks

Sprint PCS Vision Picture Phone Sanyo
PM-8200 Review

PC Magazine reviews the Sprint PCS Vision Picture Phone PM-8200 by Sanyo (whew!), and minor update to the PM-8200 that adds a VGA-quality camera and Ready Link, Sprint's Push-to-Talk feature. Of course, to use Ready Link, both parties will have to have a Sanyo phone, so that may or may not be that hot of a selling point for you yet. The camera sucks, too, but what did you expect out of a VGA-quality clunker these days? Sanyo phones are solid, but the PM-8200 is probably a little too pedestrian for most, unless you just have a need or opportunity to use the Push to Talk.
Read [PCMag]

302 Redirect Hack Fastly Becoming Most
Infamous SE Listings Hack Ever

Hack the Digital Camera

Hack . . . hack back . . . repeat

Concord Camera chooses Thomas PR as AOR

Concord DV2020 Five-in-One 2-Megapixel
Camera

Another convergence device from Concord called the DV2020, this one revolving around a 2-megapixel camera that also records digital video or can serve as a webcam, as well as work as a voice recorder and MP3 player. It has 16MB of internal storage, which isn't going to get you very far as a video camera, but accepts SD cards for additional storage. It's not really going to provide high-quality anything, but for $230 or so it might be a nice thing to throw in a bag and have with you just in case.
Read [LivingRoom]

Concord ships 4 Megapixel digital camera

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Hack yourself

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Just Hack

Reminds me of the time the Malaysian government sent a software team to Canada to do technology transfer for a flight simulator system. After spending 2 years in Canada, they returned, and i asked one of the team members how the Canadian coders designed this powerful and complex system. I was expecting some detailed software methodology involving multiple phases. He told me, "they just hire a bunch of talented programmers, teach them the physics, and tell them to hack!"

Hack Your Car

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A third css hack

Just Hack It Again

I posted this comment a few weeks ago, but i never clarified what i thought of this quotation - until now...

Let's say you learnt a subject really well, and were asked to teach others. You enjoy teaching and others admire your teaching style. Then one day, you throw away all your notes and teach off-the-cuff, from memory. You have to really know your stuff before you'd dare do that.

We'll that's what I think George Carrette meant by "Just Hack". If you don't know your stuff inside-out, upside-down and every-which-way, "Just Hack" is probably not for you.

How to hack your new PSP

PS2 Eye Toy Hack

New Mac-Hack Whack

Hack your Metabolism

"Maybe it will make us all grow third arms and go blind in 20 years," quips Doctorow. "It's sort of hard to tell. It represents a kind of hacker's approach, grounded as it is in jack-legged engineering rather than science."

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iTMS hack on the way

Hack To School

School of hack

A PSP hack attack

Where librarians go to hack

There is a subculture of librarians that could make a significant impact on the profession. They are women and men, youthful and experienced alike, who all share one thing: a passion for solving problems by creating software. They are hacker librarians.

Hacker librarians are not afraid to configure and install software. They do not shrink from writing a program in whatever flavor of 'P' language they favor, from Perl to Python, with the hardiest even tackling Java and C++. Beyond enjoying the hunt for the right solution, they like to create solutions with colleagues and appreciate those who can provide knowledge about user needs and experiences.

The underscore hack

Via Web-Graphics, Petr Pisar's Underscore Hack provides a new way of targetting CSS rules specifically at Internet Explorer on Windows. As with all such hacks, the pros and cons of using this approach need to be closely examined before deploying it. The hack takes advantage of the fact that adding an underscore to the start of a property name causes that declaration to be ignored by every browser except IE for Windows. However, the hack takes the dangerous step of using one bug to solve another. Peter-Paul Koch explained why this is a risky thing to do in a recent column for Digital Web magazine:

A certain browser has a certain CSS bug. Good to know. This same browser has another bug, usually in its parsing of CSS selectors or comments. This, too, is important information. However, a CSS hacker proceeds to use the second bug to "solve" the first one.

Solving one bug by another is not my idea of keeping Web development simple, but the matter goes beyond bad coding style. These hacks are inherently unsafe.

In an ideal world the next release of the browser would solve both bugs. In an uncaring world the next release of the browser would solve neither. In the uncertain world we live in the next release could solve one bug but not the other!

Therefore you could end up with a hack that applies an extra rule you no longer need, or with a necessary extra rule that isn't applied any more.

In my opinion, hacks like this are safe for use on sites that are being actively maintained. If you use them in a "fire and forget" project you could well find it breaking in new browsers in a few years time, when the site is no longer being maintained but remains online and broken for all to see. If on the other hand you use it for a living, breathing site such as a constantly changing commercial project or a personal weblog errors that crop up in future browsers can be taken on as and when they appear.

When all is said and done, a large proportion of hacks in use today exist to combat the infamous box model problem - and the best advice for coping with that can be found on Dave Shea's CSS Crib Sheet: Try to avoid applying padding/borders and a fixed width to an element. Do that, and box model hacks just stop being necessary.

Hack Simulation

Two New Sanyo Cameras: Xacti DSC-S3, DSC-S4