SandForce has announced a new family of solid-state disk (SSD) processors that the company claims will allow lower-cost, commodity NAND flash memory to be used in data center operations. The disks will also be faster and more reliable for use in mobile applications, the company said.

According to a variety of sources, the talks are preliminary and wide-ranging, focused on what kind of commercial relationship Yahoo and Microsoft could have in the future.

Pioneer and Sharp have announced that they signed a partnership agreement on the establishment of a joint venture in the optical disk business area.

Barnes & Noble, the US's No. 1 bookstore chain, is working with a device maker and Sprint on an Amazon Kindle-like e-book device, according to one wireless industry insider. The news comes a week after the CTIA wireless show, where sources say there was heavy speculation surrounding Barnes & Noble's plan to give e-books another try.

Apple is acknowledging the appearance of hairline cracks along the bottom enclosure of white MacBooks and will repair the defects regardless of warranty.

Nokia Siemens Networks, seeking a bigger foothold in the US market, has offered to buy large pieces of Nortel Networks, including much of its profitable carrier networks unit and a research unit developing a next-generation wireless technology, according to people familiar with the matter.