ELECTRONICS

Sandisk Corp. is expected to announce product enhancements and price cuts on Monday aimed at attracting interest in its digital music player, which competes with Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod, the Wall Street Journal said in a report that quoted Sandisk's CEO.

Palm Inc., handheld computer and phone maker, will unveil a new version of its Treo smart-phone next month, striving to revive sales amid tough competition.

A British city known for its concrete cows is set to become one of the most technologically advanced in Britain after it said it would to be the first UK town to boast a high-speed WiMax wireless broadband network.

Apple Computer said on Thursday it has found no evidence of forced labor at a Chinese factory where its iPods are assembled, however added that its partner did violate some of Apple's code conduct.

Apple Computer Inc. said on Friday that its main supplier of iPod music players let employees in a China plant work longer hours than allowed by Apple's code of conduct, and that it had taken steps to address the issue.

A judge has ordered EchoStar to disable the digital video recorders used by several million subscribers to its Dish satellite TV service because they infringe on patents held by TiVo.

Dell announced on Thursday that its second quarter earnings had dropped 51 percent from the previous quarter, blaming the figure on slower sales growth.

EMI Group, the world's third-largest music company said on Thursday it has signed a deal to provide preloaded music videos for Microsoft's soon-to-launch Zune player.

British newspapers are now giving away free as many DVDs as are being purchased in stores, revealing a stealth contributing factor to the decline of Hollywood's cash cow format.

Dell, the world's largest PC maker, has issued a recall of a laptop computer batteries manufactured by Sony after the batteries sparked fires.

Consumer safety officials said on Tuesday they are reviewing all Sony-made lithium-ion batteries in laptop computers for fire hazards after Dell Inc. announced the largest electronics recall in the United States.

Dell Inc. said on Monday it will recall 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because they could overheat and catch fire, in the biggest recall in its 22-year history.

Norway's Trolltech AS has demonstrated the first fully reprogrammable mobile handset to help phone designers innovate as fast as their counterparts in the personal computer industry have done.

Nokia announced a $60 million acquisition last week of music streamer Loudeye Corp., a move potentially pitting the world's largest cell-phone maker against the current king of portable music, Apple Corp.

It was only a matter of time: China is catching Blackberry fever. And like most other things in that burgeoning economy, it's likely to be at cut-rate prices.

Apple Corp. said on Monday that its third quarter earnings to the SEC would be delayed due to a stock option “irregularities” found at the company.

SanDisk Corp., the worlds largest flash memory supplier, has been sued by two parties with regards to its proposed acquisition of M-Systems Ltd., the firm said on Thursday.

The battle between two hyped formats for high-definition DVD will confuse shoppers and turn many of them off the whole technology, a London-based research firm predicted on Friday.

Intel Corp., the worlds largest processor and graphics supplier, announced today that it will unveil the inner workings of its software to the open-source community, aiming to promote development.

Motorola, the top cell-phone provider in the United States, saw its market share increase in the second quarter, with growth nearly three times its larger rival, Nokia.

On Monday, Microsoft Corp. offered the first glimpse of an external Hi-Definition DVD (HD-DVD) player to be released for its Xbox 360 gaming console.