http://marketpublishers.com/lists/news_22.html Technologies & Electronics news en-us 2008-10-01 03:22:23 GMT 2008-10-01 03:22:23 GMT http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3551/news.html Shares of Microsoft Corp. advanced Monday after the company unveiled a $40 billion buyback, but lost many of their earlier gains as the rest of the tech sector retreated with the broader market. Microsoft was up more than 2% earlier in the... 23.09.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3537/news.html Nvidia, a leading maker of graphics chips, added to its recent woes by announcing Thursday afternoon that it will lay off about 6.5 percent of the company’s workforce, or close to 360 people. The layoffs will hit all of Nvidia’s global... 19.09.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3517/news.html SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday said it would cut 24,600 jobs and take a fourth-quarter charge of almost $2 billion as part of its recent acquisition of IT services giant Electronic Data Systems. In a written... 16.09.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3505/news.html Fujitsu Ltd., Japan's fourth-largest chipmaker, said it may focus on semiconductor design to reduce spending on machinery as falling demand may force the company to miss its full-year business targets. "The investment needed for... 12.09.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3491/news.html Bosses at iPod maker Apple have struck a preliminary deal to settle legal action brought by shareholders over the company's stock option scheme. Shareholders alleged that bosses, including chief executive Steve Jobs, had damaged the... 11.09.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3473/news.html Microsoft has made its virtualisation hypervisor Hyper-V available as a free product. The software, which will be downloadable from Microsoft's website will be available within 30 days. In a flurry of announcements, cheekily timed just... 08.09.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3461/news.html Sony is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide because of wiring faults that could cause overheating. The recall concerns 19 Vaio models in the TZ series manufactured between May 2007 and July 2008 - but does not include... 05.09.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3454/news.html Google Inc. (GOOG) is launching a service that will allow its business software subscribers to view and share video clips in the same way that consumers use the company's popular YouTube site. The Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet company... 02.09.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3439/news.html Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday reported fiscal third-quarter profit rose 11% from a year ago as sales reached $28 billion and the technology giant recorded growth in all of its main business areas. H-P said it earned $2 billion, or 80 cents... 20.08.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3435/news.html Apple has admitted that a battery fault had led to a small number of its first generation iPod Nanos overheating. But it said that the problem was "rare", occurring in 0.001% of devices sold between 2005 and 2006 adding there had been... 20.08.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3391/news.html The Swedish store is following in the footsteps of similar deals forged by Asda, Tesco and Carphone Warehouse by offering a phone package to members of its loyalty programme. All 9,500 Ikea staff members in Britain will be given a handset... 04.08.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3370/news.html Quarterly profits at Japanese electronics giant Sony have almost halved, hurt by a loss at its mobile phone venture with Sweden's Ericsson. The PlayStation maker said that net profit totalled 35bn yen ($326m, £163m) in the April to... 29.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3330/news.html Google's profits rose by less than expected between April and June, raising concerns of a slowdown in the online advertising market. The internet giant posted a 35% rise in second quarter net profit to $1.25bn (£626m) - slightly... 18.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3323/news.html SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- As Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) pursuit of Internet portal Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) drags on, Wall Street analysts are increasingly speculating the software giant may be focusing on a Plan B: Tying up with internet service... 17.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3321/news.html Merrill Lynch & Co Inc (MER.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) has agreed to sell its 20 percent stake in Bloomberg LP back to the news and financial data company for about $4.5 billion, a source familiar with the situation said on... 17.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3314/news.html Viacom has "backed off" from demands to divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched a video on YouTube, the website has claimed. Google had been ordered to provide personal details of millions of YouTube users to help... 16.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3310/news.html Apple Inc. may have sold as many as 425,000 of its new iPhones in the first three days after the handset made its debut, in line with projections even after a technical breakdown seemed poised to stall sales, reported The Bloomberg. Apple... 14.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3293/news.html LG Display Co., the world's second- largest maker of liquid-crystal displays, forecast third-quarter profitability will fall more than analysts estimated on declining panel prices, reported The Bloomberg. Earnings before interest, taxes,... 09.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3286/news.html MTN Group Ltd., Africa's biggest mobile-phone company, said it will issue a statement this morning on its talks with Reliance Communications Ltd, reported The Bloomberg. MTN said May 26 it entered into exclusive negotiations for 45 days... 08.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3252/news.html Samsung SDI Co., the world's largest maker of organic displays, plans to invest 551.8 billion won ($529 million) to increase production of the screens, reported The Bloomberg. The investments will be completed by June 2009, Suwon, South... 30.06.2008