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"Windows remains committed to the ARM platform," a Microsoft spokesman told CNET. "We are looking forward to new ARM-based Windows devices that will launch later this year."
CNET
China's economy could be stabilising, the latest set of economic figures from the country has suggested.
BBC News
Toshiba's new chief executive said he won't pull the plug on the company's unprofitable television and personal-computer operations, shunning the "easy option" of exiting cutthroat competition for a chance to reclaim its former prominence in the businesses.
Wall Street Journal
A Taiwan government venture capital fund will sell more than 170 million shares in TSMC in 2014 to help fund Taiwan's budget, a source with direct knowledge of the sale said on Thursday.
Reuters
Desktops, notebooks, tablets: Just five years ago, those three words defined three distinct classes of products. But now consumers are being asked to choose among all-in-ones, two-in-ones, convertibles, mini-tablets, ultraportables, and phablets. With Intel's new "Bay Trail" Atom chip, due this fall, you can expect the market to diversify even more.
PC World
When Amazon unveiled the unique display panel of its Paperwhite Kindle e-reader, it revealed two impressive facts: The first is that Amazon's internal hardware engineering team is more sophisticated than Amazon's line of decent but not so revolutionary tablets and e-readers would suggest.
Quartz
The Tokyo-based company will build a 1-megawatt station in Fukushima prefecture and a 4-megawatt plant in Akita, both in northern Japan, it said in a statement today. No financial terms were disclosed.
Bloomberg
A new type of solar cell, made from a material that is dramatically cheaper to obtain and use than silicon, could generate as much power as today's commodity solar cells.
MIT Technology Review
NerdWallet have compiled the top 5 states in the US for residential solar energy, according to four specific criteria. Top of the pile was California, thanks to a sunny location, the pioneering of solar leasing, and great cash-back incentives. Filling out the top 5 were Hawaii, Arizona, Maryland, and Delaware.
Cleantechnica
The European Union decided against imposing preliminary anti-subsidy tariffs on Chinese solar panels, opting to wait another four months to assess whether the levies are warranted in the biggest EU trade fight of its kind.
Bloomberg
Ben Kunz wanted to do "the green thing" and save on his electric bill without paying a lot of money up front. So instead of buying a solar system for his house in Cheshire, Connecticut, he leased one.
Huffington Post
High-level executives of ChiMei Lighting Technology Corp. (憟?????) are reported to have quit en masse, leaving behind US$1.87 million in debt and worrying employees and a banking syndicate about what will come next.
China Post (USE The China Post)
A group of banks yesterday said LED chip manufacturer Chi Mei Lighting Technology Corp (憟?????) must repay up to NT$6 billion (US$200 million) in loans, but the company's major shareholders have responded that they do not have any obligation to cover the troubled firm's debts.
Taipei Times
Nokia has completed the acquisition of Siemens' stake in Nokia Siemens Networks. The transaction was originally announced on July 1, 2013.
Company release
Patent documents filed by Samsung have revealed details - for the first time - about what the South Korean tech behemoth's R&D department have been working on over the last few months: a smartwatch.
The Register
Silicon wafer maker SunEdison Inc said it expects a recovery in solar power installations during the current quarter to reverse a slump in sales that contributed to a bigger-than-expected loss in the three months ended June.
Reuters
The company says it will start mass-producing its eighth-generation glass-cutting technology the second half of 2014.
CNET
Siemens AG (SIE), Europe's biggest engineering company, expects Japan to almost double its capacity of renewable energy by 2030, while continuing with nuclear power generation even after the Fukushima disaster.
Bloomberg
Japan's Renesas Electronics said Friday it will close a plant that makes system LSI chips for Nintendo's game consoles and other consumer electronics after failing to find a buyer for the facility in Tsuruoka in northern Japan.
Reuters
Ericsson and STMicroelectronics today announced the closing of the transaction for the split up of ST-Ericsson.
Company release
Despite rapid growth in the solar industry over the past several years, there is one sobering statistic for the Valley of the Sun.
azcentral.com
A surge in commercial and residential construction projects across the Gulf will provide the solar energy sector with huge opportunities for growth and innovation, according to industry experts.
AME Info
Approaching the latter part of 2013, continued investment in flat panel LCD technology has produced a crop of LED TVs which sacrifice little in terms of performance to their Plasma counterparts.
HDTV Org
New York Times
Microsoft is discounting its Surface Pro tablet this weekend, following heavy reductions to its Surface RT costs recently.
The Verge
Tom's Hardware Guide
Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry recently showcased a smartwatch that can be connected wirelessly to an iPhone, which the company hopes will be part of its next driver of revenue growth.
Taiwan Trade
Sony has reported a jump in profits for the April-to-June quarter, boosted by a weak yen and surge in smartphone sales.
BBC News
Samsung is set to lift the lid on the device alongside the Galaxy Note 3 at IFA at the start of September.
CNET UK
ROC President Ma Ying-jeou said July 2 that the government is looking at all options to achieve an optimal resource mix in reconciling energy policy with the challenges of climate change, expressing hopes for Taiwan and the US to deepen cooperation in the development of renewable energy.
Taiwan Today
Right now, almost all the major TV manufacturers, and most of the minor ones, are shipping or preparing to ship, Ultra HD televisions. These have 4 times the resolution of your current television. The hope is this next-gen tech will inject some profits back into a stagnated industry.
Forbes
Washington Post
New York Times
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