Bitmicro announced the coming a 2.5-inch, flash-based solid state SATA drive capable of storing up to 416GB of data and sustaining transfer rates of up to 100MB/sec.

Facebook and Microsoft announced that the two companies would expand their advertising partnership and that Microsoft will take a US$240 million equity stake in Facebook's next round of financing at a US$15 billion valuation.

"...OLPC was scheduled to go into production at a Chinese factory in October, but it is now slated to begin by November 12....We had some last-minute bugs and we've resolved them..."

Microsoft has officially announced and released its Xbox 360 Arcade game console system for around US$280.

Alcatel-Lucent and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said on Tuesday that they agreed to work together to distribute the popular smartphones in China.

i-mate announced the launch of its Ultimate range of Windows Mobile wireless devices in the Americas.

Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, and Hisense Communication announced a collaboration slated to bring to market in 2008 mobile phones with Qualcomm MEMS displays.

Sharp has successfully developed a 2.2-inch super-thin LCD for mobile devices with a thickness of only 0.68mm.