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| IBM cut staff at Burlington |
6/26/2008 |
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Of the 180 people impacted by the Tuesday layoff, 110 were regular employees and 70 were long-term supplemental employees, which IBM Spokesman Jeff Couture explained are contract, flexible work employees.
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| Motorola icon not enough for survival |
6/26/2008 |
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The stock price is headed down again, buffeted by negative investor sentiments and a rash of downgrades by disillusioned financial analysts who argue Motorola is losing further market share as growth in the mobile handset industry drops.
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| Symbian Foundation bad for Google and MS |
6/26/2008 |
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They will impact Android on volume and Microsoft on value. Symbian will match Android on zero-dollar pricing, and this diminishes one of its major competitive advantages. For Microsoft, the pressure will surely mount to cut the price of its license fees to handset vendors
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| Analyst tags Qimonda as "underperform" |
6/25/2008 |
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If Qimonda is forced to sell its stake in Inotera and is unable to replace it with a complementary low-cost capacity, it would end up being operated as a marginalized player in the industry.
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| Applied Material defends itself on solar infringement |
6/25/2008 |
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Applied Materials Inc said late Monday that it believes its SunFab thin film solar tandem junction technology does not infringe European Patent No. EP 0 871 979 issued to the University of Neuchatel (the "Neuchatel patent"), which is at issue in the Sunfilm lawsuit.
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| New Flash RAM to replace DRAM in servers |
6/25/2008 |
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The ideal solution for this data, was not DRAM, but a non-volatile memory that could provide read-access parity with DRAM, update in a reasonable time, but have a fraction of the power consumption.
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| Smart utility meters to have multiple functions |
6/24/2008 |
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Some 50 million old meters in the United States are likely to be replaced by advanced meters by 2010 at a cost of about $18 billion, according to a recent analysis by Deutsche Bank. Worldwide, only 6% of electricity, 8% of gas, and 4% of water meters are even automated,
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| iSupply see explosive growth on solar semicoductors |
6/24/2008 |
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By 2010, iSuppli predicts that there will be as many as 400 global production lines that can produce at least 1 Megawatt (MW) of PV cells per year, which would be a four-fold increase from the approximate 90 to 100 production lines running in 2007.
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| MMI predicts IP network devices growth in homes |
6/24/2008 |
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The number of IP-enabled consumer devices in the home should grow from a current base of 64 million to 215 million in 2012, Multimedia Intelligence Inc. predicts in a new report and white paper.
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| Nokia acquires Symbian as a base for united OS |
6/24/2008 |
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Nokia will, together with Sony Ericsson, Motorola, NTT DOCOMO, AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone establish the Symbian Foundation to provide a royalty-free open platform uniting the Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S).
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| Computers in use exceeds 1 billion |
6/23/2008 |
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The number of personal computers in use around the world has surpassed 1 billion, with strong growth in emerging markets set to double the number of PCs by early 2014, research firm Gartner said on Monday.
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| Microsoft adds second Taiwan R&D Center |
6/20/2008 |
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Microsoft inaugurated its Microsoft Innovation Center in Taiwan, with R&D focusing on next-generation web applications and software engineering, according to Microsoft Taiwan.
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| Atmel offers Controller with FPGA interface |
6/19/2008 |
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Atmel announced the CAP7E, the industry's first MCU with a direct FPGA interface featuring a six-layer advanced high-speed bus , peripheral DMA controller and 160 Kbytes of on-chip SRAM.
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| Mozilla released FireFox 3 |
6/18/2008 |
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Mozilla on Tuesday released an improved version of its Firefox web browser that has gained popularity as an alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer
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| SanDisk and Toshiba offers 3D Memory chips |
6/18/2008 |
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SanDisk and Toshiba plan to collaborate on the development of certain types of rewriteable 3D memory, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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