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Globalfoundries Lands First Major Customer: STMicro

AMD spinoff Global Foundries has landed its first major customer that's not AMD: Switzerland's STMicroelectronics.

Logitech Rolls Out Small Army of New Webcams

Logitech wants to make its presence felt in the Webcam market...and unveiled seven new models today, including a 2-megapixel, 720p model with Carl Zeiss optics.

LG Packs Vudu Streaming Movie Service into NetCast Televisions

LG Electronics plans to roll Vudu's high-definition streaming movie service into its NetCast line of LCD and plasma televisions beginning in August.

T-Mobile Gets in Touch with the HTC TouchPro2

T-Mobile has announced it will be the first U.S. carrier to offer the HTC TouchPro2 Windows Mobile smartphone - starting August 12, 2009.

Kodak Introduces New Easyshare Cameras, HD Camcorder

Kodak has expanded its digital photography offerings with two new Easyshare digital cameras and a new Zi8 high-definition pocket camcorder.

Pioneer Debuts Light and Slim Portable DVD Writer

Does your ultraportable or netbook need a portable CD/DVD player? Pioneer's DVR-XD09 runs off the USB bus and is barely larger than a jewel case.

AMD Cranks Up Workstation Graphics with ATI FirePRo V8750

Feel a need for 2 GB of video RAM? The ATI FirePro V8750 has that, two DisplayPort outputs, 115 GB/s memory bandwidth, and over 800 shader engines. And it's not cheap.

Foxconn to Pay Suicide Compensation

Chinese electronics manufacturer Foxconn has agreed to pay compensation to a family of a worker who apparently committed suicide following the loss of an iPhone prototype.

Sonos Controller 200 Offers Touchscreen Interface

Taking a cue from the company's iPhone application, the new Sonos Controller 200 sports a 3.5-inch color touchscreen for managing its multi-room media system.

Time Warner Buys Out Google’s AOL Stake For $238 Mln

Back IN 2005, Google put an even billion dollars into AOL as a partnership; now that Time Warner is spinning off AOL, it bought out Googles share for just $238 million.

Sprint Buys Virgin Mobile USA In $438 Mln Deal

Mobile carrier Sprint is buying up pre-paid MVNO Virgin Mobile USA in a deal worth over $480 million, boosting its footprint in the growing pre-paid business.

Small and Slim Averatec N3400 Stays Ahead of Netbooks

Averatec's new N3400 notebook sports a 13.4-inch display 3 GB of RAM, a 2.16 GHz processor, and 250 GB of storage...and it's still under four pounds.

Panasonic Brings New Lumix Cameras into Focus

Panasonic has introduced three new consumer digital cameras: the full-sized superzoom Lumix FZ35 and the compact point-and-shoot Lumix FP8 and Lumix ZR1.

Russian Business Sees Skype as National Security Threat

Russia's foremost business lobby has decried services like Skype and ICQ as foreign entities infiltrating Russian communications...and, hence, a threat to national security.

Western Digital Puts a Terabyte in Your Pocket

Western Digital's tiny My Passport Essential SE portable USB hard drives just got two new numbers attached to its name: 750 GB and 1 TB.

BlackBerry Curve 8520 Coming Mac-Ready to T-Mobile

T-Mobile will be launching the BlackBerry Curve 8520 on August 5th...and it'll be the first BlackBerry to launch with out-of-the-box Mac support.

Got Truckloads of Blu-ray Discs? Sony Has MegaChangers

Sony has introduced new new Blu-ray MegaChangers, that can store and provide access to up to 400 CDs, DVDs...and Blu-ray discs.

NPD: Apple Dominates Market for Computers Over $1,000

Market share where it counts? A new report from NPD found that Apple accounted for 91 percent of the market for computers over $1,000 in June.

Palm webOS 1.1 Brings Back That Syncing Feeling

Game on: Palm's webOS 1.1 update restores iTunes syncing for Palm Pre owners.

Microsoft Reports Worst Fiscal Quarter in History

Microsoft's fourth quarter numbers have earnings down 29 percent and the company missing analyst expectations by $1 billion...but Redmond is still earning money.

South Korea Hands Qualcomm $208 Mln in Antitrust Fines

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission says Qualcomm abused its position in the CDMA chipset market and has imposed a $208 million fine...Qualcomm, of course, denies any wrongdoing.

US Airways Adding In-Flight Wi-Fi

US Airways has become the latest carrier to line up GoGo Inflight Internet access...and says passengers will be able to check Wi-Fi availability when buying tickets.

Amazon Buying Online Shoe Seller Zappos for Over $850 Mln

Amazon.com is buying flippant online shoe seller Zappos.com for $807 in a mostly-stock deal.

Microsoft Officially Steps Off Its Soapbox

Remember back in 2006 when Microsoft was going to take on Google with its own user-generated video site Soapbox? We don't either...so Microsoft is shutting it down.

Intel Appeals EU Antitrust Ruling

In an unsurprising move, chipmaker Intel is appealing the EU's recent $1.45 billion antitrust fine, claiming it did nothing wrong putting the squeeze on AMD.

Missing Prototype iPhone Leads to Chinese Worker’s Death

A 25-year-old employee at China's Foxconn - the company that builds iPhones - has apparently committed suicide over a missing prototype, amid allegations of beatings and mistreatment.

Fujifilm’s Six New Cams Include Long-Zoom Point-and-Shoot

Fujifilm has introduced six new digital cameras, including the F70EXR, its first compact camera with a 10x wide angle optical zoom.

What Economic Slump? Apple Posts $1.2 Billion Profit

Apple's third quarter numbers are in, and they're big: $1.23 billion in profit and revenues up almost 12 percent from last year. But iPod sales? Down.

Microsoft Sinks Its Teeth into The Linux Kernel

In an unexpected move, Microsoft has submitted three device drivers for inclusion in the Linux Kernel...to let any version of Linux run on top of Windows Server 2008.

Clearwire Officially Fires Up WiMax in Vegas

Clearwire has turned flipped the switch on WiMax mobile broadband in Las Vegas, promises WiMax/3G modem and nationwide service in August.

New Toshiba Photo Frames Also Tap News Feeds, Facebook

Toshiba has partnered with FrameChannel to pack news, info, traffic, and weather into its new Wi-Fi Digital Media Frames...and did we mention Facebook?

Zoom Q3 Video Recorder Gets Its Stereo On

Zoom is looking to one-up its H4n handheld recorder with the Q3 Handy Video Recorder, which captures VGA video and high-quality stereo sound.

Study: Using the Web from a Phone Neither Easy Nor Pleasant

A new study from the Nielsen Norman Group finds folks trying to complete Web site tasks are far less likely to succeed using a phone than they are on a regular PC.

Music Video Site Muzu Strikes Deal with Merlin

Irish music video site Muzu has struck a deal with independent music label Merlin, putting it ahead of heavyweights like YouTube and MySpace Music.

Toshiba Finally Launching Blu-ray Players?

After licking its wounds following the failure of its HD-DVD format, reports have Toshiba getting ready to embrace its former enemy and offer its own Blu-ray players.

Crucial Pushes 2.5-inch SSD to 256 GB

Lexar Media has announced its new series of Crucial M225 2.5-inch solid-state drives, sporting capacities up to 256 GB and read speeds of 250 MB per second.

Nokia Brings 8 Megapixel N86 Smartphone to U.S.

Nokia is bringing its 8 megapixel, aperture-adjusting N86 smartphone to the United States...but with no carrier partner, the price is a little daunting.

Gateway LT2000 Netbook Sports 10.1-Inch Screen

Gateway's new LT2000 netbooks sports Wi-Fi, an integrated Webcam, a 10-inch screen...and it weighs just 2.6 pounds and is just an inch thick.