Toshiba's ten major operational groups were pruned to just four: power and industrial systems, information equipment and consumer electronics, communication systems and electronic components and materials.

CNN: ASIANOW - Asiaweek

The main contributors to the drop in output were electronic parts and devices, information and communication electronics equipment and chemicals, said the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

BBC: Japan's industrial output slips as demand remains subdued

Readers currently in Gifu, Japan for the General Conference of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers can test the solution for themselves beginning tomorrow.

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Hon Hai describes itself as the biggest manufacturing services provider to the computer, communication and consumer electronics industries.

BBC: Foxconn factory

That magical, mysterious, Jobsian vision helped to craft a new world defined by personal electronics, changing everything from communication to navigation, entertainment and education.

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