ELECTRONICS

Sharp and Japanese telecom company AU (KDDI) is expected to released the unnamed new solar and waterproof phone on June.

Texas Instruments posted a surprise quarterly profit on better-than-expected revenue as demand for its chips improved in Asia, and it gave a rosier-than-expected outlook for the current quarter.

The world's top cellphone maker Nokia has sold its enterprise mobile TV unit to India's Wipro, a spokesman for Nokia said on Monday.

Shares of Toshiba Corp tumbled 6 percent on Monday after media reports that it would raise $5 billion in capital to shore up a balance sheet battered by steep losses in the chip market.

Samsung Mobile Display, a mobile display venture of Samsung Electronics, said on Sunday the global smartphone market was expected to grow to 500 million units in 2012 from 170 million in 2009.

Japan's Toshiba Corp plans to raise about 500 billion yen ($5 billion) in capital as early as June to prop up its finances, battered by loss-making chip operations and tax credit costs, a newspaper said.

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said on Friday it plans to cut one in five jobs this year in its battle to return to profit as a sluggish market brought a hefty first-quarter loss, as expected.

Sony Ericsson will take some time developing a phone using Google's Android operating system, its chief executive said on Friday, but declined to say when such a handset would be available.

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said on Friday it would slash another 2,000 jobs this year to fight a slumping handset market as it posted a big first-quarter loss in line with expectations.

The struggling cellphone market has not yet touched bottom, the chief financial officer of top mobile phone maker Nokia was quoted as saying on Friday.

Nippon Steel Corp and other steelmakers have agreed with Toyota Motor Corp to cut steel prices by more than 10 percent this business year, a newspaper said, a smaller-than-expected price cut.

There were more electronic security breaches last year than in the previous four years put together and the financial sector suffered the biggest rise in attacks from hackers looking for big stashes of consumer data, according to a report from Verizon Communications.

There were more electronic security breaches last year than in the previous four years put together and the financial sector suffered the biggest rise in attacks from hackers looking for big stashes of consumer data, according to a report from Verizon Communications.

The world's top cell phone maker Nokia calmed jittery investors on Thursday when it said it saw signs of stabilizing demand in the tumbling handset market.

Nokia Siemens Networks said on Thursday the global telecoms equipment market would shrink faster than it expected, as it reported a fall to first-quarter loss.

The Verizon Hub, a new kind of home phone with some Web add-ons like weather and traffic reports, will soon come with an applications market, following a trend among cellphone makers such as Apple to open up to third-party apps.

The world's top cell phone maker Nokia calmed jittery investors on Thursday by reaffirming its forecast for the handset market and saying visibility was improving, sending its shares higher.

South Korea's LG Display Co Ltd posted a second straight quarter of losses due to weak LCD prices, but forecast a pick-up in prices and shipments as the industry recovers from a steep downturn.

South Korea's LG Display Co Ltd posted on Thursday a steeper-than-expected quarterly operating loss due to weak LCD panel prices, but forecast improvements in prices and shipments as the sector slowly recovers.

Global shipments of personal computers slid 7.1 percent in the first quarter, industry tracker IDC said on Wednesday, although falling prices and the increasing popularity of netbooks helped keep sales from slipping even further.

AT&T is in negotiations with Apple to extend its exclusive deal to carry the iPhone in the U.S. from 2010 until 2011, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.