Future Lighting Solutions announced today the availability of the new Linear Optic 210 from Polymer Optics Limited designed specifically for linear arrays of LUXEON Rebel LEDs.

On Thursday, the nation's largest phone company filed a petition with the FCC, asking it to deny approval of the merger between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire. In its filing, AT&T argues that the proposed merger, "openly state[s] that they (Sprint Nextel and Clearwire) intend to compete with other national wireless providers--including AT&T--yet they fail to make the required showings necessary for the commission's review."

Infineon Technologies is examining the options of either selling all or part of its 77% stake in Qimonda, Infineon chief executive Peter Bauer said. In an interview with Sueddeutsche Zeitung's weekend edition, Bauer said: 'We are speaking currently with financial investors and interested companies from the branch regarding a sale.'

You won't be able to buy a Gateway PC direct from Gateway anymore. The PC brand, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Acer, is shifting its distribution model to focus exclusively on retailers, e-tailers and channel partners, according to Acer.

A typhoon packing wind gusts of up to 191 kph and forecast to dump up to a metre of rain in places was on course to hit Taiwan on Monday morning, prompting cancellation of work and market closures.

Applied Materials (AMAT) has seen recent slippage of project schedules in its solar business “nearly across the board,” according to Citigroup analyst Timothy Arcuri. Applied has built a new business around supplying tools used to manufacture thin-film solar cells, and expectations for the business are running high. Maybe too high, in Arcuri’s view.

...WHDI, however, is camped out in a chunk of unlicensed 5GHz spectrum just like 802.11n Wi-Fi, meaning it must be able to tolerate the reasonable levels of interference only from other devices that use the same frequencies, and can broadcast at higher power levels than UWB – enough for a range of "over 100 feet." WirelessHD, a third major spec also funded by Samsung and Sony, plus Panasonic, Toshiba, LG and NEC, uses the 60GHz band, and apparently has problems unless the transmitter and receiver are within line-of-sight.