Sharp President & COO Mikio Katayama introduced Sharp's next-generation LCD TV and outlined the company's business strategy, including plans to build a new manufacturing complex in Japan.

Palm has put an end to the much-maligned Foleo, a "smartphone companion," that resembles a standard laptop and includes a Linux-based operating system, a 416MHz Intel/Marvell processor, and also has a dedicated graphics processor.

Foreign brands continue to dominate the Chinese mobile phone market with a market share of more than 70% in the first half of 2007, according to the latest report by CCID Consulting.

China's Shenzhen Airlines has fitted its planes with communications technology that will allow passengers to use their mobile phones to make voice calls and send email and SMS messages during flights.

"... Owing to increased foundry orders, growing mass production of 70nm, and new capacity from Rexchip, PSC is optimistic about operations going forward..."

"...Tightening credit means that the kind of large deals the industry has seen lately will be more difficult. Flexible financing is particularly important to semiconductor industry deals because of the industry's volatility...Another risk is that the chip sector was seeing increased interest from private equity just as valuations in many subsectors reached multiyear highs..."

A German traffic management and analysis firm says that that P2P applications account from anywhere between 50-90% of all Internet traffic.

At Computex 2007, Asus wowed us with their new Xonar range of audio products, aiming to take a chunk of Creative's market share in the high end PC audio category. Now we've got our hands on the Asus Xonar D2, and we're putting it to the test. Does the newcomer Xonar D2 have what it takes to challenge the X-Fi?

Who here hasn't wanted a water cooled CPU, but was too worried about leaks or pump failures ruining their systems? Well, I know that back in the day I wanted such a setup, but cost and lack of experience held me back. Fast forward to today, and we now have a simple, self-contained, compact, water-cooled cooler from Kingwin that attaches directly to the processor. The KWI Gladiator Hybrid Liquid Cooler uses air and water to cool a set of heatpipes that attach to a copper plate. Once again, this is done in a small, all-in-one, compact package.

Oracle has agreed to acquire Netsure Telecom, a provider of network intelligence and network data integrity software.

"...Some board members of HHNEC also prefer merging with SMIC rather than an originally planned Hong Kong listing... SMIC takes the merger as its attempt to bring in private equity investors stalled over SMIC board members' differing opinions earlier this year..."

A US judge dismissed some claims brought by unsecured creditors of Iridium against Motorola, saying the market had not been misled about valuation of the failed satellite phone venture.

We look at what could finally be the sound card to knock Creative off its high horse - the Asus Xonar D2 fully tested!

The burgeoning home and small business NAS appliance market is now so lucrative that many manufacturers that have traditionally avoided this area now can't resist its allure. We saw the mighty Hewlett Packard sneak in recently with its MediaVault mv2020 and now notebook supremo Acer steps up with the Altos easyStore.

"...IBM develops a technique for reading and writing digital ones and zeroes onto a handful of atoms, or even individual atoms...and also ability to use a single molecule as a switch, replicating the behavior of today's transistor...these are are the latest indication that computing technology is beginning to emerge that could replace today's microelectronics materials in the next decade..."