French telecom vendor Alcatel-Lucent will cut about 1,000 jobs in India as part of its global restructuring effort to cope with dwindling demand for network equipment among telcos in the country.

The takeover of the number three mobile carrier in the US will make Softbank one of the world's three biggest mobile phone operators, with 96 million users.

The report continues, quoting an anonymous Samsung official speaking about the A6 chip. "Apple did all the design and we are just producing the chips on a foundry basis." That's a change from the past, when Apple worked with Samsung on chip development and/or design.

Amazon.Com is in advanced talks to buy the supplier of processors for its Kindle tablet computer, Israeli financial newspaper Calcalist reported on Monday, a step toward vertical integration that could portend a push into smartphones.

Taiwan's AU Optronics(AUO) is well-positioned to challenge leading display suppliers of tablet computers, given its improved relationship with brand customers, US research firm NPD DisplaySearch said recently in a report.

Reports are claiming that Apple is set to launch its iPad mini on Tuesday 23 October, days before Microsoft's launch of Windows 8 and its Surface tablet.

Kindle Paperwhite does not have audio or Text-to-Speech. This makes the device smaller and lighter than it would otherwise be.

How's this for honesty? Amazon took it upon itself to post a note today on its site listing the limitations of its newest e-reader, the Kindle Paperwhite.

Solyndra, the bankrupt solar- panel maker that received a US$535 million US government loan guarantee, accused Suntech Power Holdings and other China-based panel makers of driving it out of business by running an illegal cartel.

The US Court of Appeals has overturned a ban on sales of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus phone, in a blow to Apple in the ongoing battle between the two rivals.

Amazon has confirmed it will not make a profit from sales of its latest Kindle tablet and e-reader devices.

Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd interim CFO has resigned from her post. Anlin Ting-Mason will stay on as CFO of Suntech America, however.

Consolidated revenues for the company are estimated at 52 trillion Korean won while operating profits were at 8.1 trillion won.

The US on Wednesday slapped steep final duties on billions of dollars of solar energy products from China, but turned down a request from lawmakers and US manufacturers to expand the scope of its order.

China demanded Thursday that Washington repeal steep tariffs on solar panels that China-based producers fear will shut their equipment out of the American market.

LG Australia is set to reveal later today a brand new 84-inch 4K TV that sets a new benchmark for TV viewing in Australia, with insiders tipping a "significantly" cheaper purchase price than the originally tipped US$20,000.

Flexible displays are not a new idea - they have been cited, times and again, in different design concepts. However, so far, we haven't seen a commercially available product which features a flexible display. Futaba may be planning to change this by showing off a watch with a flexible OLED screen.

On Saturday, there was an explosion and fire at Nippon Shokubai's [of Japan] superabsorbent polymer manufacturing facility, resulting in an outage that has taken down about 10% of the world's acrylic acid and 18% of the world's superabsorbent polymer capacity.

Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan's largest plastics manufacturer and the sore supplier of acrylic acid (AA), superabsorbent polymers (SAP) and acrylic ester (AE), is expected to benefit from tight supply of diaper materials following the shutdown of Japan's Nippon Shokubai's Himeji plant that was hit by fire and explosion earlier.

When 3M started frankensteining its pico projectors into smartphones a few years ago as a proof of concept, it was novel, but really had no practical use in the real world. (Even for the enterprise world and its infinite powerpoint presentations). But seeing a projector built into Smart Devices' SmartQ U7 Android tablet has me full of ideas on how to use it.

The Indian tablet market sales (unit shipments) touch 0.55 million units in second quarter of 2012 recording a quarter-on-quarter increase of 59% and year-on-year increase of 673%, according to a survey conducted by CyberMedia Research.

About 18 months ago, I was one of the first to write about what I thought Amazon's business model would be for its tablet that launched last fall. I had heard from my sources in Taiwan that Amazon was looking at selling the tablet at cost or even below cost and then make up the profit through products and services offered to customers.