A low-cost smart phone from Microsoft code-named Peabody is nearing completion and will run on the recently released Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, an executive from the software giant said Tuesday.
As the battle raged between the two main kinds of flash memory, NAND and NOR, Intel said it has already sent samples of its latest NOR flash chip to mobile phone makers.
Making good on a pledge to increase its stake in China's Internet e-commerce sector, online auctioneer eBay said Thursday it had teamed up with Global Sources to develop an Internet service that could make it even easier to find low-priced Chinese goods.
Gartner raised its forecast for global semiconductor industry revenue growth for several reasons, including signs of stronger than expected sales of personal computers and mobile phones, a researcher at the company said Monday.
Taiwan Mobile, one of Taiwan's biggest mobile phone service providers, launched a trial of its 3G (third generation) network last week using a Linux operating system as its backbone, an executive at the company said Friday.
IBM, one of the world's largest technology companies, said Wednesday it plans to reduce its work force by up to 13,000 employees, mainly in Europe, as part of a global restructuring aimed at shifting resources to higher-growth markets.
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), the world's second biggest contract chipmaker, has reported that its first quarter earnings fell due to wider industry troubles, but said the second quarter should mark a bottom for the company.