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Wall Street Journal
Bit-tech has learned from several anonymous tipsters that AMD has culled a large portion of its workforce at its UK headquarters in Frimley. Details are light at the moment, but it is said that the sales team has remained relatively unaffected while engineering, marketing and administration have been hit pretty hard.
Bit-Tech.net
Canon says it will delay the construction and start-up of a US$196 million digital camera plant in Japan due to slow demand, becoming the latest company to modify investment plans amid the global downturn.
Reuters
The US International Trade Commission agreed to investigate Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics based on a complaint filed by Eastman Kodak. Kodak submitted its complaint in November, charging LG and Samsung with violating patents in their camera phones and other mobile products. The relevant patents cover technology related to image capture, compression and data storage, and a method for previewing certain images.
PC World
France's competition authority Wednesday temporarily barred an exclusive distribution deal between the country's dominant telecommunications group France Telecom and Apple over the blockbuster iPhone mobile phone.
DowJones (via CNNMoney.com)
Apple's shares fell almost 4% on Wednesday on concerns about the health of its chief executive and whether the company had any new products planned after it said Steve Jobs would not deliver the keynote speech at its upcoming technology show.
Reuters
Computer World Australia
Qualcomm's four-year, $350 million effort to design a chip that goes into small notebooks and handhelds will come to fruition next year when device makers deliver products based on the Snapdragon processor.
CNET
It's unclear whether Intel executives intend to follow Mr. Grove's advice. Mr. Otellini declined to comment, but a spokesman said that Intel already has investments in battery-related companies through its Intel Capital unit. "We consider battery technology important and we look at a lot of things. But whether we will do anything more, we can't say at this time," the spokesman said.
Wall Street Journal
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PC Magazine
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Business Week
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Bizjournals.com
No. 4 Pc maker Lenovo has confirmed speculation that it is talks towards a possible investment or acquisition. Lenovo did not reveal details of any third party, but media reports in Brazil have identified the country's largest PC maker Positivo Informatica as a potential target.
Reuters
IBM, Dell and Intel stand out among technology and consumer-products companies for their policies directed at averting climate change, according to a study released on Thursday.
Reuters
Citing the "deepening global recession" and the stronger dollar, Kodak said on Wednesday its 2008 revenue growth, digital revenue growth, earnings from continuing operations, and cash generation would all fall short of its forecast.
Reuters
Wall Street Journal
WinHEC is the only Microsoft conference that is exclusively focused on designing PCs, servers, and devices that run and interface with Windows. This year, the inclusion of Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded Devices into the conference agenda shows a further determination of Microsoft to extend the application of the much familiar operator interface and design logic to mobile commerce and smart home environment.
Company release
Samsung Electronics, the world's largest maker of memory chips and LCD panels and TVs, says the global recession is wiping out profits at those businesses in the fourth quarter.
Bloomberg
Research shows that this trend towards power-hungry applications is only set to continue. According to Strategy Analytics, voice call, MP3, FM radio and other handset activities are forecast to remain relatively constant through 2015. However, the use of multimedia functions will increase.
Components in Electronics
There are phones with cameras, and then there are cameras with phones, and a new badboy reportedly making its way to T-Mobile seems to be the latter.
CNET
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