"...After IPOs in New York or Hong Kong, none of the Chinese foundries trades above its strike price...Chinese foundries have been unprofitable despite a bucketful of incentives and tax breaks offered..."

"...discussion on domestic labor issues in general, employment insecurity and the company's social responsibility instead of the original proposed discussion regarding Samsung's management style..."

"...What makes the 2006 PV industry growth even more amazing is that it had practically nothing to do with the industry leader Sharp but lot of other hungry companies...."

You can tell a lot about a device from the state it arrives in after its been pawed over by heaven knows how many sweaty-palmed handset hacks. It's clear LG's KE850, co-designed by Italian fashion house Prada, has not had an elegant time of it.

Buying DirectX 9 compliant hardware at the dawn of DirectX 10, doesn't make much sense at the first glance. But as new hardware appears, the older generations of graphical cards rapidly become cheaper.

EVGA's nForce 680i LT SLI "Designed by NVIDIA" motherboard uses the latest NVIDIA chipset supporting Intel's Core 2 processor line. It is being targeted as a budget solution with teeth, and that is exactly what it seems to be.

Sony is the latest manufacturer hoping to win us over to the ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) way of doing things with its UX1XN. Of course this is not the first time that Sony has tackled the ultra-mobile market place but this is the first UMPC from Sony - or any other manufacturer for that matter - that we've seen running Vista (Business Edition).

"... successful suitor likely to have to spend up to $500m for an expected 20% stake...a commentar said SMIC needs funds for capital expenditure and private equity firms can bring expertise and networks to the table too..."

"SMIC share price surged more than 11% on Monday on news that it had hired investment banks to find a strategic investor..."

The South Korean government has already blocked access to all local pornographic web sites along with over 200 overseas sites, and is looking to put another 180 onto the blacklist by May.

XFX has recently launched a couple of factory overclocked Geforce 8-serices cards. But is it actually worth spending more on the factory overclocked edition or is it a waste of money?

Is it really possible to play the latest PC games on a notebook? Stuart Andrews finds out for sure.

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