Neither Microsoft nor Apple can compete at the new price points being plumbed by companies looking to cut costs.

"...Experts say the Hynix's fund demand, coupled with creditors' plan to dispose of their 36% stake in the company, is also casting a shadow over the company's short-term future..."

SiRF Technology announced it will rapidly implement key end-to-end location-awareness features needed to enable mobile devices powered by the Android platform.

Qualcomm announced that it has acquired San Diego-based SoftMax, a provider of noise reduction solutions for mobile devices.

"...Green demands for more solar power, which relies on silicon for the manfacture of photovoltaic cells, have pushed up the price for the element by 40% this year to $1,600 per tonne...."

Taiwan scientists and engineers have invented a nonvolatile organic memory device. The device uses gold nanoparticles mixed with a polymer that is wedged between two aluminum electrodes.