January
22


Sanyo announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement with Kyocera Corporation (Kyocera) to transfer its mobile phone business, following the announcement on October 11, 2007 of a basic agreement to begin transfer negotiations. In order to meet the best interests of the business and its stakeholders, Sanyo has explored all options regarding the further expansion and development of the business, and has concluded that a transfer of the business to Kyocera would be the ideal solution for both business value and ease-of-succession.The agreement announced today also outlines that the current 2,000 employees in Sanyo’s mobile phone business (excluding contract workers and temp agency staff) will be allowed to remain and work for Kyocera following the transfer.

Regarding the branding on the handsets, Kyocera will continue to use the Sanyo brand on handsets both domestically and overseas. It will also continue its own brand, and the phone business will be developed using both the Kyocera and Sanyo brands.

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December
3


Adlink Technology announced the PCIe-RTV24, a high speed video capture card supporting four channels of NTSC/PAL, EIA/CCIR input. Based on the PCI Express bus, the PCIe-RTV24 offers the higher bandwidth required by machine vision, security, and video surveillance applications, such as position location, biometric face recognition, and vehicle license plate identification. The Adlink PCIe-RTV24 provides four digitized vision stream for real-time image acquisition with frame rates up to 30 fps, per channel. The PCIe-RTV24 also provides a watchdog function and offers four digital input/output signals which can be used for strobe light control, trigger acquisition, and alarm signals.

The Adlink PCIe-RTV24 supports Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux. The software support of RTV series are Microsoft DirectX, Video for Linux and VIs for NI Lab view.

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