Focusing on Bada may not be the answer, though. It seems as if the trend in the industry is to move from in-house proprietary platforms to more open models - look at Nokia's switch to the Windows Phone platform. With the struggles Nokia had in making Symbian a global success, I can't see how Samsung could do any better.

The East Kilbride Campus, which ceased production in 2009, was acquired by Clowes Developments (Scotland), an Edinburgh-based real estate developer. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

A Wall Street analyst has predicted that Intel may acquire Micron Technology as the move would diversify its product offerings.

New data on the US economy, including a huge drop in a regional manufacturing survey, has heightened market fears of a new recession.

JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. has signed an agreement to supply approximately 21MW of solar products to Huanghe Hydropower Development Co., Ltd. by September 2011.

The sharp downward pressure on prices of high-brightness LED chips should start to ease after manufacturers pushed out a number of planned installations of production equipment originally scheduled for 2011.

Acuity will add to its long list of lighting brands with the cash acquisition of Horizon Control, a company that has focused on PC-based lighting-control systems.

Shares of solar energy technology provider First Solar (FSLR) are down $5.55, or 5%,at $98.91 this morning after the company last night announced its former chief financial officer, Jens Meyerhoff, currently head of its division that sells projects to utilities, will leave the company at the end of September.

Schott Solar has received a PV module order to supply a pair of projects in Thailand with a cumulative capacity of 16.9MWp. The 9.7MW and 6.2MW sites, located north of Bangkok, are being built by Phoenix Solar Singapore and are scheduled to be completed and activated by the end of the year.

Michael Van Buskirk, former chief technology officer at Spansion and a longtime engineer at AMD, was named CTO of non-volatile memory chip startup Adesto Technologies Tuesday (Aug. 16).

Flying in the face of the shaky market conditions seen in the first half of 2011, Chinese photovoltaic product manufacturer JinkoSolar has bucked the trend to post positive second quarter 2011 results.

Silex Systems is to close the only Australian manufacturing facility of solar cells for PV panels, saying it can no longer compete with imported cells, and cannot afford the continued investment given the uncertainty of clean energy policy in NSW and the rest of Australia.