As solar panel prices continue to tumble, China-based solar companies are struggling with heavy debt loads, fueling expectations that many will be forced to seek new infusions of funds through takeovers or mergers.

The Japanese electronics maker said in a statement that it's not introducing tablets based on Windows RT due to delayed components "that would make a timely launch impossible." Instead, Toshiba will focus on bringing Windows 8 devices, which run on chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), to market.

On Tuesday, the group - Linden Advisors, LIM Advisors, Owl Creek Asset Management and Taconic Capital Advisors - reiterated its opposition to Micron Technology?嚙編 US$2.5 billion offer for Elpida.

Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) said it will soon be ready to license the company's new BlackBerry 10 operating system to other manufacturers, even as it races to release its own devices with the software by early next year.

Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp. 2498.TW +5.83%is beefing up its engineering team in China and expanding sales channels to grab a piece of the Chinese market, as the company continues to struggle in the U.S. and Europe amid tough competition from Apple Inc. AAPL +1.32%and Samsung Electronics Co.

Microsoft has named the first wave of manufacturers signed up to produce tablets for Windows RT, its first operating system designed for processor based on designs by the British company ARM, which dominates mobile computing.

On Monday, Samsung said in a post to Twitter that buyers can pick up the Galaxy Note 10.1 at its store in the Westfield Centre in East London from Thursday.

Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster and Barclay's Ben Reitzes -- filed notes Wednesday about Apple's (AAPL) much-rumored TV product. No, not the $99 Apple TV set-top box the company actually sells, but the full-fledged Apple television set that Munster has been talking up since at least August 2009.

Qualcomm is providing chips for new devices from Dell and Samsung Electronics that run Microsoft's Windows RT operating system, people familiar with the matter said.

The Kindle Fire has been a big success stateside, though it sadly hasn't yet made it to the UK. However, there is plenty of speculation and rumour about what the Kindle Fire 2 could bring to the party - and whether it will be available in the UK as well as the US. With Google's Nexus 7 now launching, the new Amazon tablet needs to push things on a step.

The Ontario Minister of Energy has issued a directive to the Ontario Power Authority to finalize the details for the rules and contracts for the FiT 2.0 and microFiT 2.0 programs.

Micron Technology CEO Mark Durcan said he expects the market for chips that store files in mobile devices to improve in the first half of 2013 as manufacturers rein in supply increases.

Globalfoundries and ARM have announced a multi-year agreement to jointly deliver optimized system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for ARM processor designs on Globalfoundries' 20nm and FinFET process technologies.

Elpida Memory bondholders plan to tell a Tokyo court today that Micron Technology's takeover offer for the bankrupt Japanese memory-chip maker is too low, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Applied Materials has has signed an enhanced two-year contract with Globalfoundries to service all Applied Materials equipment at its Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany.

Shares of AMD were buoyed nearly ten percent by rumors that Snapdragon master Qualcomm may be interested in acquiring the fabless chip company.

E Ink and LCD technologies has signed a definitive agreement to buy shares of SiPix Technology and its wholly owned subsidiary SiPix Imaging, the maker of electronic paper displays. Established in 1999, SiPix, based in California and Taiwan, makes micro?？up technology based electrophoretic displays.

E Ink Holdings Inc (?？云蝘？?) said yesterday it expected revenue to expand further in the second half of this year from the first half.

Sampo Corporation, Sanyo Electronic (Taiwan) Co., Ltd, and E-Life Mall Corporation, distributors of home appliances in Taiwan, saw booming revenues in July, attributing the feat to hot sales of energy-saving air conditioners and liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs.

To meet upcoming strong demand from ultrabook PCs for touch panels, Wintek Corp., a major display panel manufacturer in Taiwan, recently announced a capacity-expansion project for this year.

According to WitsView, the panel research division of TrendForce, large-sized panel shipments in 2Q12 amounted to 188 million units with QoQ and YoY increase of 10.2% and 4.5% respectively.

TPK Holding Co. (3673), a maker of touch- screen panels, surged to the highest level in more than five months in Taipei trading after second-quarter profit beat analysts' estimates.

Samsung quickly moved to dismiss the idea that it might purchase Research In Motion or license the smartphone maker's new BlackBerry platform.