The Chinese PC maker still wants to acquire the Netherlands company, but the hoped-for deal "is not a single-point strategy," says a Lenovo exec.

New Delhi-based optical storage media manufacturer Moser Baer (India) has chosen Chennai to set up a Rs 2,000 crore solar photovoltaic fabrication facility. The company is also working on thin-film technology to make solar cells. It had announced an investment of US$250 million over the next three years to set up the largest thin-film solar fabrication (fab) facility in the world.

The AMD-led group is aimed at keeping attention on the considerable gains in productivity yet to be realized in 300 mm fabs, even as other groups seek to gain support for the transition to the 450 mm wafer size. The day-long Austin meeting will include particpants from six integrated device manufacturers –AMD, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Qimonda, Renesas Technologies and Spansion – and 16 semiconductor equipment vendors, said Gerald Goff, senior member of AMD's technical staff.

Carolina Milanesi, a Gartner Inc. analyst who was at the London presentation, said she wondered if it matters much in the long run whether Apple stays a step ahead of hackers, as Jobs said it must do. "At the moment, as a consumer, you need to be very careful about unlocking the iPhone, and know how you want to use it," she said. "If you unlock it, you are not going to have a flat rate, and you will not have access to the 7,500 hot spots."

"...Conditions are not as good as had been expected...In the short run, we are in a difficult situation..."

Google is launching AdSense for Mobile, which will allow marketers to place contextual ads on sites viewed via mobile devices.

Market-leading phone maker Nokia on September 17 moved to bolster its mobile advertising front by agreeing to acquire Enpocket for an undisclosed sum.

Yahoo has launched a new website similar to social networking sites MySpace and Facebook.

A spokesperson for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project told the AP on Friday that the price of the XO laptop has risen to US$188 per unit and that the project faces product delays.

SunPower, which makes solar cells, panels and systems, said Monday it will receive up to US$24.7 million over three years from the Energy Department to help improve the design of integrated solar-electric systems. The company expects to receive $8.5 million in funding through August 2008.

Wipha's eye was 160 kilometers east of the northeastern coastal city of Ilan at 10 a.m. local time, Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said in a statement on its Web site. The storm was moving northwest at 20 kilometers per hour, the bureau's advisory said. The eye is expected to skirt north Taiwan and make landfall in China tomorrow after 8 a.m. tomorrow, the bureau said. Heavy rain and strong winds are expected with winds as high as 240 kilometers per hour (150 miles per hour).

The new chip can process the equivalent of seven or eight months' worth of newspaper text per second. The company said the next-generation product is set to become a category leader next year. So far Samsung has been making 2Gb DDR2 chips using 80nm process technology, which is about 40% less efficient than the finer 60nm process technology.

Atmel announced today what it claims is the industry's first 128K-bit Serial EEPROM device in an 8-pin XDFN package with overall z-height of 0.40mm. Building upon Atmel's serial EEPROM DFN (Dual Footprint Non-leaded) portfolio, the XDFN package will accommodate the industry movement toward applications with the most stringent space constraints.

The new Sprint Airave is a femtocell or compact wireless base station that boosts cellular signals indoors to provide enhanced coverage up to 5,000 square feet. The device, which can handle up to three calls at one time, is available for purchase in Sprint stores in Denver and Indianapolis. It will be available throughout Sprint's network sometime in 2008.

Japanese electronics firm Toshiba said it had been subpoenaed by the US Department of Justice about its flash memory business in the key US market. That comes after Toshiba's partner, SanDisk Corp said on Friday it and its CEO had received grand jury subpoenas indicating a government probe into possible price-fixing in the NAND flash memory industry.

There is good reason for those involved in the mobile TV industry to hype it so much. For mobile telecoms firms it is an attractive application that may go some way to recovering the billions invested in 3G networks.

Freescale Semiconductor has licensed for use with its cellphone chips the 2D and 3D graphics technology of the ATI division of Advanced Micro Devices. Freescale will incorporate AMD's OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenVG 1.0 graphics core technologies in its i.MX applications processors.

Making "it," i.e, broadband connectivity, happen in India is Intel's big goal. The company has bet its future growth on WiMAX, a technology that is often referred to as "Wi-Fi on steroids":

In affirming nearly US$1 billion in fines against the software giant, a European court may have just made life a lot more difficult for U.S. technology companies, writes Fortune's Jon Fortt.

China is adopting its own version of the HD DVD standard - China High Definition DVD, or CH DVD.