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Motorola and Verizon on Friday launched the long-awaited Droid, the first device using version 2.0 of Google's Android operating system, but the device won't be an iPhone killer to Apple, analyst said.
Apple garnered record share of the smartphone market through the third quarter, hitting 17 percent, but was overtaken by Blackberry maker Research in Motion, IDC said in its latest report.
Wireless LAN vendor Aruba Networks Inc said it will pay Motorola Inc $19.8 million to settle certain long-drawn patent disputes that were a drag on Aruba's earnings.
U.S. network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc faces a touch choice as the Monday deadline approaches for its $3 billion tender offer for Norwegian video conferencing company Tandberg ASA.
Wireless LAN vendor Aruba Networks Inc said it will pay Motorola Inc $19.8 million to settle two-year-long patent disputes.
For his role in turning Apple into a groundbreaking technology leader and the most valuable company in Silicon Valley, Fortune Magazine has named Steve Jobs its "CEO of the Decade."
NEC Corp, Japan's biggest PC maker, plans to raise 133.9 billion yen ($1.5 billion) via a share issue to help restore its battered capital base as it scrambles to cut costs in search of growth.
Lenovo, the world's No.4 PC brand, reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit that more than doubled on an improving global PC market outlook, its first profit after three straight quarters of losses.
NEC Corp, Japan's largest PC maker, plans to raise up to 150 billion yen ($1.7 billion) in a share offering to shore up its capital and invest in growth businesses, four sources familiar with the matter said.
Microsoft Corp is viewed as the most likely buyer or partner for IAC/InterActiveCorp's Ask.com if CEO Barry Diller decides to throw in the towel on the struggling search engine.
China Unicom said on Monday it will limit the sales for the long-awaited iPhone on October 30, the first day the eagerly sought Apple handset is due to go on sale nationwide in China.
The United States will need its entrepreneurial spirit to compete with deep-pocketed China in the race to develop green energy technologies, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on Monday.
Nintendo Co plans to launch a new version of its DSi hand-held videogame player with a larger screen in Japan as early this year, the Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday.
Video software maker On2 Technologies Inc said on Monday it settled legal challenges by shareholders who had sought to block its $106.5 million acquisition by Google Inc.
Brokerages raised their price targets on Microsoft after the software giant's quarterly results smashed Wall Street expectations on Friday.
Apple on Monday reported better-than-expected profits and sales which smashed Wall Street's forecasts, lifted by record quarter sales of iPhones and Macs.
AT&T may lose its exclusive deal with Apple for iPhone, which lifted its third-quarter profit with 3.2 million activations over the period, AT&T Mobility CEO intimated on Thursday during a conference call with analysts.
Netbook PC pioneer Asustek aims for its notebook PC shipments to grow faster than the overall industry in 2010, its CEO Jerry Shen said on Friday, with tech demand returning as the global economy recovers.
Oracle should remove the key stumbling block to approval of its Sun acquisition by giving Sun's database MySQL to an independent, non-profit foundation, a free software group said on Friday.
Shares of Microsoft Corp rose 7.9 percent to $28.68 in premarket trading on Friday, after the company reported its first-quarter results.
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