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| Philips launch fasters DVD writer |
12/4/2002 |
Philips Electronics has announced a highly integrated chipset, optical pickup unit (OPU), firmware and reference design for what are claimed to be the industry's highest-speed DVD recorders.
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| Sun hits revenue target, may miss profit margins |
11/27/2002 |
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Sun Microsystems said Tuesday that its revenue for the current quarter, ending Dec. 31, are on target with analysts' estimates of $2.92 billion, an increase of 6.2 percent. But warned that profit margins are pressured by the competitive pricing environment.
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| Camera cell phone getting popular in Japan |
11/27/2002 |
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Japan's largest mobile phone service provider, NTT Docomo, said subscribers using its camera phones for the i-shot service have reached three million, about 7% of its total 42 million subscribers.
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| Novellus sees higher profit, lower revenue |
11/27/2002 |
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Novellus Systems said bookings had improved with rising earnings due to cost cutting but reiterated the possibility of lower revenue in the current quarter.
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| Macronix and Mitsubishi co-develop flash memory |
11/27/2002 |
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Macronix International has signed an agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Co. to co-operate on the development of so-called DINOR style flash memory on 0.15-micron process technology, the company said in a statement.
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| IBM, Chartered teams up on technology |
11/27/2002 |
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Attempting to cut the manufacturing cost, IBM and Chartered Semiconductor have signed a deal to jointly develop chipmaking technology and share factory capacity.
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| Cell phone collects data from vending machine |
11/26/2002 |
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Xecom Inc. introduced a wireless transceiver and access point for remote data acquisition last week. The system uses the 900-MHz ISM band to accumulate data on vending machines and transfer that data through phone lines.
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| Tech Data warns on coming quarter sales |
11/26/2002 |
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Tech Data posted a third-quarter net profit on declining revenue and said fourth-quarter sales will miss targets. The second largest computer distributor reported net income of $32.8 million, or 57 cents a share, for its fourth quarter that ended Oct. 31.
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| Sony Ericsson cell phone sales plummeting |
11/26/2002 |
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Sony Ericsson, a joint venture between Swedish mobile equipment maker Ericsson and Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony sold only 5 million cell phones worldwide in the third quarter compare to the more than 8.5 million sold by Ericsson and Sony before the merger, in the same quarter a year ago, reported by a market researcher.
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| PCs prices down for this holiday seasons |
11/25/2002 |
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Prices on major brand name desktop systems with adequate specifications with a 1.8- or 2-gigahertz processor, at least 128 megabytes of RAM, Windows XP, and a 40-gigabyte hard drive, are priced around or under the $500 mark.
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| Dell ships its blade server line |
11/25/2002 |
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Dell on Monday unveiled its first "blade" server in a move to capture more market share in the already crowded market.
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