The company said it will begin selling 37-inch LCD TV sets in Japan, its first LCD TV above 32-inches.

The contract is projected to amount to tens of millions of dollars annually.

T-Mobile today announced availability of the Samsung Blast, a curious slider phone decked out in glossy black with red accents.

Microsoft's newest OS, Vista, has been relegated to waterboy status at the 2008 Olympic Games, while wireless networking won't even play a supporting role in Beijing.

Gamers are either unaware or apathetic to the non-gameplay features of next-gen consoles, a study shows.

Large Internet search companies are aggressively competing with each other to offer better privacy protection to users, but federal legislation is still needed to protect consumers, a leading advocacy group found in a report released today.

"...Qimonda said EEMS would dedicate a manufacturing site under construction in Suzhou, China, to making chips for Qimonda under a five-year renewable contract..."

"...Quoting SanDisk CEO Eli Harari, WSJ writes that the companies plan to invest jointly in the construction of a 300mm wafer fab for NAND flash products..."

"...the two companies also are negotiating a plan relating to transferring a part of Nokia's IC operations to STMicroelectronics...will enable STMicroelectronics to design and manufacture 3G chipsets based on Nokia's modem technologies..."

Patent allegations made by rival Sharp may sting, but the Korean giant can take solace from the prospect of an upswing in the LCD and memory chip industries.

Researchers have developed a LCD display that moves its liquid crystals for the best image quality.

Microsoft still isn't commenting on when a beta of Service Pack 1 for Vista will be officially released, but the company has posted two updates that are expected to be part of that final package: the "performance and reliability" update and the "compatibility and reliability" update. These are official releases.

Apple unveiled a line of slimmer and more powerful desktop computers on Tuesday to sustain momentum in its core business at a time when its new phone has grabbed the media spotlight.

Google announced today that the company is officially joining the Open Invention Network (OIN) by becoming a licensee. OIN licensees agree not to assert their patents against the Linux software ecosystem and in exchange gain royalty-free access to the OIN's collection of over 100 patents on critical technologies.

Mobile telephone carriers must allow customers' competitors to connect to their networks, and they must make roaming available to competitors for a "reasonable" cost, the US Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday.

Lenovo is in talks to buy European PC maker Packard Bell BV from principal owner John Hui, the companies said on Tuesday.

Lenovo,the world's third-largest maker of personal computers, is battling with its Taiwan rival Acer to buy European PC maker Packard Bell BV, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Tuesday.

"...foundry customers about a possible shortfall of capacity at the major foundries by the end of 2007 and into 2008...Big 4 foundries are forecast to register 42% more wafer shipments in 4Q07 as compared to 1Q07..."

If AMD decides to keep part of its microprocessor product line in SOI and part in bulk, it would increase its own design complexity and could limit its ability to use microprocessor cores with the graphic processors it acquired as part of the ATI decision. Two separate processor design groups — one in SOI and another in bulk — would hurt AMD's design flexibility and cost structure, one source said, asking to remain unidentified.

In recent months, both have detailed plans to build energy-efficient microprocessors specially designed for portable electronic devices. The catch is that a mass-market for these devices is still largely nonexistent. But with the frenzy over Apple's iPhone, the chipmakers are keen to secure a central role in a class of product that some believe could soon rival the PC.