Kudelski Group, a provider of CS solutons an related DTV technologies, announced today that it closed its previously announced stock purchase transaction with Liberty Media and has acquired voting control of OpenTV Corp.

But mobile phone workers, who for two consecutive years enjoyed lavish bonuses equivalent to half their annual pay, will see their bonuses drop to around 40 percent of their salary due to a fall in revenues and profits from the previous year.

Sharp on Monday denied a media report that the Japanese electronics maker plans to build a $1 billion flat-panel display factory in China with the local government and TCL Corp.

As part of the transition to a DTV broadcast system in the US, the FCC has mandated phased-in rules to ensure that the V-chip can respond to any rating system changes in all digital television receiver products by March 1, 2007.