Siemens AG has told Fujitsu it wants to pull out of their Fujitsu Siemens Computers joint venture, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. A spokesman for Fujitsu, however, told Reuters the article was "baseless". The Japanese computer firm has been in talks with Siemens over the renewal of their contract for Fujitsu Siemens Computers, but "no solid decisions have been made", Masahiro Yamane, a spokesman for Fujitsu told Reuters.

India's Tata Communications, formerly known as VSNL is planning to expand its WiMAX coverage from the current 60 towns to 115 during this financial year and is considering taking its broadband WiMAX services to four or five cities. "The government has announced that it will auction spectrum. Once the spectrum is allotted, we plan to take the broadband-WiMAX services to four-five cities," Tata Communications CEO, N Srinath said over the weekend.

Comments continued to be filed with the Federal Communications Commission over whether some top cable operators and Google should be able to team up with Sprint Nextel and Clearwire to provide a new WiMax-delivered broadband service. Free-market think tank The Free State Foundation weighed in Monday, saying that it will boost competition and adding that it should "eliminate" – or at least reduce –the calls for imposing network neutrality on broadband providers.

Quarterly sales grew to US$69.74 million from US$57.55 million in the comparable period a year ago. The company expects third-quarter revenue in the range of US$73 million to US$77 million. The company posted loss from continuing operations of US$812 thousand or US$0.01 per share, compared to loss from continuing operations of US$482 thousand or US$0.01 per share in the prior-year quarter.

If you live in the US, you can be reasonably hopeful about both of those things. If you live in the UK, you may not get either in the near future. According to the WiMax Forum, "currently there are more than 305 deployments of WiMax services in 118 countries worldwide". Some are being rolled out in the UK - one is in Milton Keynes - but most mobile users will probably have to wait until Ofcom auctions its "4G" spectrum and the winner(s) get round to installing transmitters and developing service platforms.

"We are seeing ... that the slowdown in the U.S. hasn't spilled everywhere else. The world's economy is not as robust as it could be, but it's not a disaster."

As part of its move to Intel chips in early 2006, Apple abandoned its practice of using custom motherboard chipsets. Instead, it began to rely on slightly tweaked versions of industry-standard chipsets offered by Intel. However, with Apple striving to maintain Mac sales growth of more than two times the industry average, it's again looking to differentiate the architecture of its PCs through alternative technology.