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Fourteen of the world's largest mobile phone and chip makers, including Sony Ericsson, Vodafone and ARM, joined the Open Handset Alliance on Tuesday to support the Android mobile device platform developed by Google Inc.
Reuters
Yahoo will tell 1,500 employees on Wednesday they are losing their jobs, after announcing in October that layoffs would occur by year's end, a person familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
Reuters
When the new Macbooks came out a few weeks ago, Nvidia stated that the chips they provided to Apple did not contain the so-called bad bumps material believed to have caused higher-than-expected defect rates in certain notebooks, namely from HP and Dell, under certain usage models. But an investigation lead by The Inquirer seems to show this not to be the case.
The Inquirer
The Economic Times
Your Communication News
Walmart is officially tight-lipped about the buzz that its shelves could be hosting a US$99 4MB iPhone by the end of the month. But mobile device experts have plenty to say, and it's all good.
Internet News
AMD and Abu Dhabi-based ATIC and Mubadala have renegotiated some of the financial details of their deal,inked in October, to transfer ownership of AMD's foundry business and assets, to more closely reflect the current market value of the sale.
The Inquirer
Texas Instruments (TI) has lowered its expected ranges for fourth-quarter revenue and earnings per share (EPS). The company now expects its revenue will range from U$$2.3-2.5 billion, compared with the prior range of US$2.83-3.07 billion; and EPS will be US$0.10–0.16, compared with the prior range of US$0.30–0.36.
Company release
Due to the current global economic environment, customers across each of Broadcom's targeted end markets have requested adjustments in their deliveries for the fourth quarter, resulting in significant pushouts and cancellations since the company originally provided guidance for the quarter in October 2008.
Company release
China Knowledge Online
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Apple has noted that they have reached the 300 million download milestone for the App Store, almost five months after the store went live.
afterdawn.com
Intel researchers have made the next advance in the field of Silicon Photonics by achieving world-record performance using a silicon-based Avalanche Photodetector (APD) that could lower costs and improve performance as compared to commercially available optical devices. The research results were published today in Nature Photonics.
Company release
After a dismal start to the holiday shopping season, Web surfers have picked up their spending since Thanksgiving, ComScore reports.
LA Times
Ars Technica
The Inquirer
Shares of OmniVision Technologies tumbled Wednesday after the maker of camera image-sensing chips projected a third-quarter loss, disappointing most analysts who expected a profit.
CNNMoney
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Wall Street Journal
Cisco Systems doesn't have any layoffs planned at this point, according to chairman and chief executive John Chambers. The networking titan has previously said it would halt hiring new workers as it looks to shave its operating expenses.
DowJones (via CNNMoney.com)
Top US phone company AT&T says it will eliminate 12,000 jobs, or about 4% of its workforce, in a fresh wave of cuts to cope with an economic downturn that has exacerbated a decline in traditional phone sales.
Reuters
Goldman Sachs Group said Thursday it rejected a new offer from Panasonic for its near-30% stake in Sanyo Electric, as the first major attempt at consolidation in Japan's crowded consumer electronics sector turns increasingly sour.
DowJones (via CNNMoney.com)
Amazon.com has launched on the Apple App Store an iPhone application that makes it possible to take a picture of a product and then send it to the online retailer, which will try to match it with products in its inventory.
Information Week
Adobe, one of the largest US software companies, on Wednesday provided the latest indication of how the economic crisis is rolling through the technology industry as it slashed its revenue projections and announced that it had already “taken steps” to cut its workforce by 8%, or 600 people.
The Financial Times
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