No product details, but official announcement coming soon.

In the wake of last week's ruling that Novell, and not SCO, controls the copyrights covering UNIX, Novell is reassuring Unix users that it has no plans to follow in SCO's footsteps. Given that the company is no longer in the business of selling UNIX, it has no reason to pursue any copyright claims.

Apple told resellers of the demise of AppleWorks last week, announcing that the software had reached "End of Life" status.

China Mobile posted a better-than-expected 28% jump in quarterly earnings as more users switched to mobile phones, despite sacrificing margins to woo poorer rural customers.

Laird Technologies recently announced that it signed a distribution and lamination agreement with ITEQ Corporation.

According to a division of Home Media Magazine, Blu-ray high-definition movie discs outsold films on the rival HD-DVD format by 2-to-1 in the United States in the first half of 2007. 1.6 million Blu-ray discs were sold from January 1 to July 1, 2007, while 795,000 HD DVD discs were sold in that period.

A court order forcing Qualcomm to pay royalties for use of the technology would be inadequate because the companies are competing for the same customers...(However) Broadcom's licensing agreement with Verizon Wireless, which allows the carrier to sell phones with the infringing Qualcomm chips, shows there is a commercial solution to the patent dispute, Chesler said. "If the Verizon license is a real agreement that allows Verizon to have our chips, there can't be an irreparable injury," he said.

Such details as the investment scale, construction commencement date and construction completion date of the Guangzhou factory have not been disclosed.

...In the first half of this year, Sohu.com reports the sales volume of illegal mobile phones reached 23.34 million in China, accounting for more than 25% of the country's total mobile phone sales.

Handsets with product names associated with popular LCD TV brands are catching on among Japanese consumers eager to watch "one-seg" mobile digital terrestrial broadcasts. Among these handsets are Sharp's Aquos series models and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB's Bravia series. Aquos and Bravia are LCD TV brands of Sharp and Sony, respectively. At present, three models are available, and their cumulative sales have far surpassed one million units..

One of the first government contracts for the nearly US$1 billion Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Coupon Program has been awarded - in a surprise move - to IBM. In conjunction with three of its business partners, the company will receive US$119.96 million between now and September 2009 to help educate consumers about the upcoming availability of two US$40 coupons per household, good toward the purchase of DTV converter boxes for existing analog VHF/UHF television sets.

Seeking to expand its product portfolio, Texas Instruments (TI) has acquired Integrated Circuit Designs (ICD), a developer of radio-frequency chips. This acquisition is the latest move by TI to strengthen its low-power RF portfolio. It follows the acquisition of Chipcon, a provider of short-range, low-power RF transceivers for ZigBee-based, wireless systems.

Two patent applications from Samsung describe a cell phone whose primary purpose is mobile gaming, with the actual telephony side of things playing second fiddle.

We find ourselves half way through the month of August and a new ATI Catalyst release from the folks over at AMD. We should really see a big focus for improvements over the next few months thanks to the large Radeon lineup now available on the market and the need to gain momentum in the market. No doubt, performance sells! There are big promises this month so let's see what they are before we move forward.

Computers have moving parts such as fans on their CPUs, power supplies, video cards and in some cases, on the case itself. Each fan is important for the smooth operation of the computer because they keep the system cool. Cleaning a computer is something that should be done every 6 months to a year. In this article we'll show you how.

Qualcomm announced that more than 300 million mobile handsets worldwide have now been shipped with the company's gpsOne solution.