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X-FAB Silicon Foundries and Senodia Technologies (Shanghai) announced they have concluded development and are ramping production of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscopes for high-volume consumer applications.
Company release
Microsoft Research is unveiling technology that turns any surface into a touch screen at a user interface symposium this week in Santa Barbara, Calif.
CNET
These brands have been equipping Schools and Educational Institutions with innovative, reliable and value worthy ICT products to up competency levels of Indian students, towards synchronizing their skills and capabilities with their international counterparts.
India Infoline
Yandex is taking its services to new screens by inking a deal with Samsung to preload access to Yandex on its line of connected TVs as well as its bada-powered feature phones distributed in Russia and other CIS states.
Business Insider
Despite the near-term weakness, the company's long-term outlook looks bright with strong demand from emerging economies like India and China where replacement rate for tablets and notebooks is still high.
Forbes
Visa has improved credit cards with a built-in keypad and LCD screen for two-factor authentication.
eWeek
Apple said it has sold over four million of its new iPhone 4S, just three days after its launch on October 14.
Company release
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Shares of both LED lighting company Cree and LED equipment maker Veeco Instruments are trading lower on growing concerns about pricing and over-capacity in the LED lighting sector. Both companies were the subject of bearish commentary from the Street this morning.
Forbes
Business Daily Africa
Renewable Energy World
While Amazon prepares to ship out the Kindle Fire, it has quietly released a significant software update to the Kindle Keyboard, which expands cloud storage support for personal documents.
PC Magazine
Viking Technology has launched the ArxCis-NVTM DRAM memory module, which the company said can automatically detect I/O interrupts and back up data to NAND flash prior to an outage.
Computerworld
Reports that Apple would ditch Samsung and look instead to TSMC for the Apple A6 processor expected to feature in the next-gen iPad 3 and iPhone 5 are premature, a Samsung exec has insisted, claiming that the two companies will continue to collaborate on chipset design and manufacture.
SlashGear
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has emerged from among more than 600 competitors across the world, winning two first prizes with Spray IT and i2R e-Paper for the environment category and materials and basic science and technology category.
Industrial Technology Research Institute
Infineon Technologies said it expects increasing caution in its industrial and multi-market sectors as well as in its chip card and security end markets to result in a mid-to-high single digit revenue decline in the next quarter.
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Pico projectors may be ten a penny, but this one has something separating it from the pack. It runs Android -- yes, Android -- which is pretty awesome for a projector.
CNET UK
NEC India is targeting growth of 40 percent in the projector market in the current fiscal.
CRN
Digital display vendor MultiTouch this week introduced the MultiTaction Cell 55, which the company says is the largest multi-user touchscreen in world.
CRN
Telly buyers are keener on Smart TV tech than they are on 3D, but both features are going to be taken up more enthusiastically than televisions in general over the next three years.
Reg Hardware
Philips Electronics said it was considering its options should the sale of its TV business collapse as it reported plummeting third-quarter profits and little hope of a material improvement in the near term.
Reuters
"Michael Woodford has largely diverted from the rest of the management team in regard to the management direction and method and it is now causing problems for decision-making by the management team," the company said in a statement.
BBC News
Finacial Times
TI's authorized semiconductor distributors include Arrow, Avnet, WPG, WT Microelectronics, and so on.
Company release
The Japanese semiconductor industry, which has been in decline for more than 20 years, needs to select key technology areas and refocus to rise again, Junshi Yamaguchi, former chairman of Renesas Electronics, told the International Electronics Forum being organized here.
EE Times
SMSC has announced that Samsung Electronics has licensed its patented Inter-Chip Connectivity (ICC) technology.
Company release
Sony Ericsson broke even in its third quarter and announced it will solely focus on smartphones from next year.
BBC News
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