Ubuntu CTO Matt Zimmerman has announced plans for a mobile edition of the increasingly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. The Ubuntu development community will be collaborating with Intel to make Ubuntu a viable platform for net-enabled mobile and embedded hardware devices.

Social-networking site MySpace, owned by News Corp., has agreed to acquire Photobucket, the Web's number one photo-sharing service, according to a source close to the deal.

Carl Icahn has lost his bid to win a board seat at Motorola, according to a preliminary count of votes Monday evening.

Acer does not plan to launch an ultra-low cost PC nor offer versions of the Classmate PC being promoted for developing countries.

Surging demand for LCD TVs and mobile phones has prompted TDK to make a massive investment in a new production center. TDK will invest 50 billion yen in a new ceramic capacitor plant, the business daily Nikkei reported Sunday.

Palm recently announced the availability of the Palm Treo 750 smartphone on the StarHub and SingTel networks in Singapore and the Globe network in the Philippines.

HP says it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Germany-based Pelikan Hardcopy Deutschland GmbH related to print cartridge and ink formulation.

"...iSuppli's Kim said that he believed DRAM price would hit the US$15 level...analyst warning that Hynix, newly reborn into the DRAM first tier, would defend its new-found market share at just about any price..."

"... As DRAM pricing will shortly begin to bottom, customers demand has been improving..."

The UMPC, at least in the shape we saw these little computers over the past year, will join the Tablet PC in a niche, far away from the eyes of the mass market. The UMPC will disappear from our radar as quickly as it surfaced.