Scientists in the US claim to have extended the operating life of plastic solar cells from mere hours to eight months.

About 20% of the 48,000 apps in the Android marketplace allow a third-party application access to sensitive or private information, according to a report released on Tuesday.

LG is in the process of implementing detailed strategies for smartphones in its key overseas markets and will soon launch what company officials say are "killer products".

STMicroelectronics said it plans to hire more workers to expand one of its two plants in China, defying higher operating costs as the government orders companies to increase employee pay.

The solution features Altera's low-cost Cyclone III or Cyclone IV FPGAs, and IP from Eyelytics and Apical supporting AltaSens' 1080p60 A3372E3-4T and Aptina's 720p60 MT9M033 HD wide dynamic range (WDR) CMOS image sensors.

Spansion stayed in Chapter 11 four plus months longer and lost more market share than planned. On the positive side, business is up for Spansion and its rivals.

Toyota Motor halted production at a car plant in Guangzhou, China, after one of its suppliers was shut down by a strike.

But analysts said China would still limit the appreciation so as not to damage its export-led economy.

MagnaChip Semiconductor, which filed for bankruptcy protection in June 2009, has priced an initial public offering (IPO) of stock to raise about US$130 million. This is about half the amount it had originally said it planned to raise.

There's plenty of sun to go around. Our local star is continuously transmitting 180 quadrillion watts of energy to the Earth, 14,000 times our requirements for generating power. So the question isn't where to get our energy, but how to capture it.

An investment unit of electric utility PG&E Corp. will invest $100 million in rooftop solar systems for 3,500 new homes nationwide, the company said Monday.

Samsung intends to raise its market share for smartphones to more than 10% in the fourth quarter from its current level of less than 5%.

Adobe on Tuesday will launch the long-awaited Flash Player 10.1 to mobile phone makers and Android's latest operating system will lead the charge.

Barnes & Noble, the national bookseller, announced Monday that it was dropping the price of its six-month-old Nook e-reader to US$199 from US$259 and introducing a new version of the device, which connects to the Internet only over Wi-Fi networks, for US$149.

Spansion has received authorization to list its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The company anticipates that trading will begin on or about June 23, 2010.

The company said it will incur restructuring charges of about US$5 million in its fiscal second quarter, and the staff reduction was one of several cost-cutting actions.

STMicroelectronics is to provide the University with digital multimedia and advanced analog chips, expert support and advanced design tools, and jointly cooperate on applications engineering projects assigned by ST to the University. ST will also donate one million yuan (US$147,100) to the Graduate School each year for five years.

Following its recent move to TSMC's high-performance, low-power (HPL) process technology at 28nm, Xilinx is aggressively broadening the reach of programmable logic into the traditional ASSP and ASIC markets with three new FPGA families on its roadmap, the low-cost low-power Artix-7, the Kintex-7, and the high-end Virtex-7 due to be sampling in the first quarter of2011.

Infineon is well equipped financially for future acquisitions, but has no concrete plans for takeovers at the moment, a German newspaper quoted its chief financial officer as saying.

Qualcomm has entered into a collaborative agreement with the global consortium of chipmakers. As the first fabless chip company to join Sematech, Qualcomm plans to participate in a high-level engagement to assess the feasibility of technologies that are designed to extend Moore's Law.

Just once, it would be nice if a president would level with Americans on energy. Barack Obama isn't that president.

Chinese authorities announced plans on June 19 to make the exchange rate more flexible, while ruling out a large, one-off move in the exchange rate.