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Ixys makes bid to acquire Zilog Ixys Corp., a power semiconductor company, has made an unsolicited proposal to acquire all the outstanding shares of Zilog Corp. for $4.50 in cash and stock.
Technology Week in Review: HP sees the light HP Labs' photonic interconnect strategy head our Technology Week in Review.
Opinion: Lessons of the China quake The first lesson of the Sichuan earthquake is: Send a donation.
Qualcomm tops TI in wireless IC rankings Qualcomm Inc. surpassed Texas Instruments Inc. as the world's leading supplier of semiconductors for wireless applications in 2007, according to the new rankings from iSuppli Corp.
Firm lists 'most influential' technology vendors Market consultancy firm Aberdeen Group has listed its top 100 most influential technology vendors for 2008.
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Opinion: Is Intel a monopolist? In a private setting Intel employees will claim the company is not a monopolist, yet can offer no proofs of this claim.
NEC develops Adobe Flash Lite IP NEC System Technology rolled out what it claims is the world's first intellectual property (IP) designed to play back content encoded in Adobe Flash Lite. It enables users of mobile phones and other portable devices to view multimedia applications created in Flash, which previously had been possible only on personal computers.
Schott spins out thin-film solar unit Germany's Schott Solar GmbH, a manufacturer of solar components, is spinning out its thin-film module business.
IBM claims major boost in solar cell efficiency IBM has managed to squeeze 230W of power on to a centimeter square of solar panel using concentrator photovoltaics. The energy was then converted to 70W of usable electric power, the best power efficiency yet achieved, the company claims.
Ascent Solar prices IPO Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. said that the pricing of its public offering of 3,800,000 shares of its common stock is $14.00 per share.
UniPixel to show 'TMOS' prototypes at SID Display startup UniPixel will demonstrate its color display technology, time-multiplexed optical shutter, at next week's Society for Information Display conference.
Strong growth for thick-SOI substrates by 2012, says Yole French research and strategy consulting company Yole Dveloppement (Lyon, France) provides an analysis on thick silicon on insulator (SOI) substrates as this market is expected to move from $72 million in 2007 to $115 million in 2012.
Qualcomm signals win in UK L-Band auction Qualcomm Inc. has beaten several other bidders for 40 MHz (1452-1492 MHz) of L-Band radio spectrum in UK comms regulator Ofcom's latest auction of frequencies, and will most likely use the frequencies for a mobile TV service with partners.
TSMC in talks to enter the safety-critical automotive market Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., the world's largest foundry, is in European talks to enter the safety-critical automotive silicon market. Infineon Technologies AG, which claims to be number two in automotive silicon, is one way TSMC could make its move.
HP and Foxconn break ground for Russia PC factory Hewlett Packard and Foxconn broke ground in St. Petersburg, Russia for the construction of a 32,000-square-meter manufacturing facility intended for the production of HP PCs in Russia.
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Ziebart preparing for the jump? Apparently, in the power struggle at Infineon a decision is imminent. Media reports here already speculate CEO Wolfgang Ziebart is determined to quit the company as early as end of May. Nothing has been decided, Infineon officials insist.
ChipVision raises $4.5 million in Round B EDA tools specialist ChipVision Design Systems (Oldenburg, Germany) has raised $4.5 million in a Series B round led by Target Partners and BayTech Venture Capital, both of Munich, Germany.
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White LED transmits data at 100 Mbit/s Researchers at Siemens Corporate Research have succeeded to transmit data at a bandwidth of 100 Mbit/s using visible light. The technology could be used to supplement current WLAN approaches.
White LED transmits data at 100 Mbit/s Researchers at Siemens Corporate Research have succeeded to transmit data at a bandwidth of 100 Mbit/s using visible light. The technology could be used to supplement current WLAN approaches.
Pflops here; now what? A handful of engineers at a lab in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., have assembled what they expect will become--at least for a while--the world's most powerful computer.
AuthenTec, Atrua trade lawsuits The lawsuits have suddenly touched the emerging fingerprint sensor market.
MIT team claims new fuel cell material MIT researchers said they have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent. Their goal: portable electronics.
Ovum sees cable modems outpacing DSL Ovum, the market-research arm of Datamonitor Group, has reported a continued decline in DSL port shipments in the first quarter of calendar 2008, compared with continued growth of Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) ports.
Multi-Service Forum announces global sites for interoperability test The MultiService Forum, a 20-year-old coalition seeking to harmonize standards from groups such as ITU, ETSI and IETF, announced the location of global testbeds for its 2008 Global MSF Interoperability program in October.
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Fujitsu claims legal victory over Nanya Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. said that Taiwan's Nanya Technology Corp. has withdrawn its appeal in a Tokyo District Court.

Sensors - Sensor News
Nano-Proprietary and NanoReady Announce Strategic Alliance The initial focus of the partnership will be volume production of copper nanoparticles for inks used in electronics, solar cell, and printed circuit board applications.
Onset Offers Renewable Energy System Monitoring The Web-based solution provides real-time remote access to performance data from green roofs, solar-power systems, wind turbines, and other similar types of systems.
Belimo and Tridium to Develop Next-Generation VAV Controller The system will combine temperature control, wired and wireless communications options, and a software platform for developing, deploying, integrating, and managing pervasive device applications at the lowest level.
Five Star Introduces New Conductive Polymer Thick Films The ElectroSperse P-series silver-based conductor pastes allow lower-cost printing of electrodes and interconnects for displays and touch screens.
Datastick Ships First VSA-1225 Vibration Spectrum Analyzers The Windows Mobile/Pocket PC handheld instrument breaks down the barriers that prevent more facilities from using predictive maintenance to increase productivity.
DOE Awards Grant to Applied Nanotech The government will fund efforts to develop an improved sensor for monitoring CO2 in geologic subsurface structures to ensure safe retention.
RMS and Splinternet Form Alliance The two companies will collaborate on the development of defensive systems that integrate video technology and radiological-detection devices to thwart dirty bomb attacks.
Major Oil Company Expands Trial Use of ESI’s FloPoint The instrument will be used to understand the presence and content of water to optimize oil production in installations operating in Alberta Canada.
Role of Sensors in Automotive Applications to Grow The Frost & Sullivan report "Advances in Sensors for Automotive Applications" predicts an expanding market, driven by growing regulatory demands and decreasing costs.
Thin-Film Batteries Move Toward Commercialization The Frost & Sullivan report "Advances in Thin-Film Batteries" has also identified growing interest in replacing conventional batteries with thin-film batteries in applications such as RFID tags, sensors, smart cards, and labels, as well as portable devices.
Avago Introduces Ultra-Small RF Amplifier Measuring 1 mm by 0.5 mm by 0.25 mm, the VMMK-2x03 takes up 5% of the volume and uses only 10% of the board area of a standard SOT-343 package.
DOE Awards Grant to Applied Nanotech The government will fund efforts to develop nanoparticle inks and processes used to print photovoltaic cells for use in solar cell applications.
GE Fanuc Awarded $1 Million Contract by Macawber Beekay The technology company will provide controller and HMI systems to the material-handling facilities in India to address the region's need for pollution control and energy conservation.
Transnet Freight Rail Deploys Situation Management System The South African passenger and freight company purchased the multi-million-dollar Orsus Situator installation to enhance its safety, security, and emergency-response infrastructure.
Saint Barnabas Medical Center Converts to Masimo SET Technology The hospitalwide conversion achieves technology and sensor standardization, creates process efficiencies, and reduces costs.
Firms Announce Breakthrough in the Manufacture of CdTe on Silicon Sunovia and EPIR have discovered a method to rapidly produce the material, which will greatly reduce the cost of high-efficiency solar cells and night-vision detectors and cameras.
Wireless Sensor Networks—Solutions and Market Opportunities The Research and Markets study reports on current trends and the future prospects of the technology that promises to revolutionize the way we live, work, and interact with the physical environment.
FLIR Introduces Low-Cost Thermal-Imaging Camera The system is targeted at emerging thermography markets.
Arch Rock and Cisco Chair New Internet Engineering Task Force The group has been chartered to bring interoperable IP routing to low-power wireless networks used to connect large numbers of sensors and other embedded assets.
RF Digital Announces Wi-Fi Module with Years of Battery Life The low power consumption of the RFD21715 is based on GainSpan's GS1010 SoC. The module also offers AES encryption, TCP/IP (IPv4), UDP, DHCP, and SNMP, which provides for remote device configuration and management.
Second-Generation Vision-Based Driver-Assistance Systems Debut STMicroelectronics and Mobileye deliver system-on-chip implementations that take the active safety concept to a new level by increasing processing power six fold.
Augusta Systems Releases EdgeFrontier 4.0 The middleware enables the creation and management of intelligent enterprise networks, featuring data from sensors and other edge assets. The enhancements in the software's latest version include additional data-integration options and more robust event-processing capabilities.
New Cell-Based Sensors Sniff Out Danger Researchers from the University of Maryland's Clark School of Engineering are collaborating on the development of sensors-on-a-chip technology that incorporates the sensory capabilities of biological cells. The new sensing devices are to be used to detect a wide variety of harmful substances, from explosive materials to biological pathogens.
AuthenTec Wins Summary Judgment in Atmel Patent Dispute The court ruled that AuthenTec's technology does not infringe on Amtel's intellectual property rights.
Ball Aerospace Wins NASA Earth-Sensing Contracts The company will help develop Earth science instrument subsystem technologies and demonstrate that flash arrays can be used to profile vegetation canopies from space.
ICx Awarded $4.8 Million Armed Forces Contract Under the agreement, the company will provide the Robotics Systems Joint Program Office with Fido XT handheld explosives sensors, as well as training in advanced trace-detection techniques.
Eaton To Benefit from DOD Purchase of V-22 Osprey As a key supplier to the alliance producing the aircraft, the company will receive an estimated $320 million in revenue over the life of the total procurement program.
Micronas Offers Hall-Effect Sensors with PWM and SENT Interfaces The digital connectivity enables reliable data transfer in harsh automotive environments.
Freescale Named No. 1 Chipmaker of Automotive Industry A Strategy Analytics report finds the global automotive semiconductor market grew by 9.2% in 2007, to $19.3 billion, and Freescale commands 10.3% of that growing market.
ADI Introduces High-Bandwidth Mems-Based Vibration Sensor The ADXL001 provides reliable, continuous system-performance monitoring without interrupting normal operation of the equipment and meets the cost criteria of industrial applications.
World’s Smallest Java-Based Computers to Debut at JavaOne Sentilla's Perk Kit pervasive computing kit allows developers to create Java applications for tiny wireless computers used for low-power, large-scale wireless networks.
ICON Releases Global Research Needs Assessment The report details the findings of two international workshops, involving a diverse group of stakeholders, to define research needs for predicting nanotechnology's risks.
Streetlight Grid Turned into Back-Haul Network The ZigBee-enabled BrownBetty system uses a mesh network with nodes placed on existing streetlight infrastructure to create a backhaul communication network.
MTS Signs Agreement to Acquire SANS Group Acquisition of the material testing company accelerates MTS' expansion in China.
"Smart" Greenhouse Research Partnership Unveiled Kent State University, Cleveland Botanical Garden, partner to investigate the use of liquid crystal technology for more efficient greenhouses.
USGS Collects Data to Aid Afghanistan Reconstruction Scientists from the USGS conducted an airborne survey of the country to provide natural resource and hazard identification.
Analysis of World Industrial Robotics Markets Market research from Reportlinker.com surveys the world market for industrial robotics.
SUSS MicroTec Signs License with Philips Research Company to commercially develop a new nano imprinting technology: substrate conformal imprint lithography (SCIL).
First Universal, Affordable Smart Label Chip IDS-SL13A RFID chip from IDS Microchip lowers price barrier by up to a factor of 10; opens multiple new markets for automatic data-logging/tracking systems.
ICx Technologies Awarded $4.9 Million R&D Contract Company will finish prototype development for system to rapidly detect and identify bioterrorism threats under the Department of Homeland Security's "Detect to Protect" Project.
Augusta Systems Technologies Power Smart Grid Project Allegheny Power uses new, intelligent communications and control network to enable the next generation of electric utility systems.
Avnet Memec, austriamicrosystems Ink Distribution Pact Under the agreement, Avnet Memec will provide distribution of austriamicrosystems' products in North America.
Fiennes to Carry Personal Locator Beacon to Everest Sir Ranulph Fiennes will carry one of Digital Angel's McMurdo Personal Locator Beacons on his climb of Mt. Everest.
Frost Reviews European Research into Pervasive Computing Frost & Sullivan analyzes the projects funded through the EU's Research policy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing; field to have widespread impact on multiple areas.
VDC Reviews Industrial Wireless Monitoring Market The company's market research finds that the industrial wireless monitoring and control market is shifting to the use of standard networks; predicts that standards-based wireless products will make up 56.5% of the market by 2012.
Intelligent Parking Lot System Introduced Radiocrafts and Innovative Technologies announce their ZigBee-based wireless system for parking lots; system alerts drivers to closest empty parking spots.
NASA Ames Partners with m2mi for Small Satellites Large numbers of the very small satellites (nanosats) will be placed into low Earth orbit to provide a new telecommunications and networking system.
I.D. Systems Acquires PowerKey Launches PowerKeyPLUS entry-level product line for wireless industrial vehicle management.
Honeywell System Selected for Kuwaiti Aromatics Plant Innovative UniSim operator training solution selected to improve operations for Kuwait Paraxylene Production Company.
Tactex Sensors in TRIL Research Project Large-scale floor sensor systems will be used for independent living research.
RFM Reallocates Resources to Further Initiatives Company announces restructuring/consolidation; plans continued investment in delivering M2M.
Foundry Networks Joins the Interop Vendor Alliance Collaboration promotes stronger relationship with Microsoft and Alliance members to simplify interoperability and enhance ROI with customers implementing Microsoft and Foundry systems.
ST to Highlight Sensor, Wireless Convergence STMicroelectronics' booth demonstrations and conference presentation at M2M Forum 2008 will emphasize enablers for the Internet of Things.
Luna Awarded Shape Sensing in Underwater Arrays Luna Works with Office of Naval Research in "DADS" sensor array enhancement.
GreenPeak Powers Wireless Greenhouse of the Future Kronos selects GreenPeak's low-power mesh technology for mobile harvesting carts.
Fortress to Aid Development of Ad Hoc Wireless Network Company to Partner With Naval Sea Systems Command on $1.4 Million Grant Program to develop a prototype mobile ad hoc wireless network.
Analog Devices Expands Energy Metering Portfolio ADE51xx and ADE55xx system-on-chip energy metering solutions increase RAM and program memory to serve more demanding global metering communications protocols.
Itron and Silver Spring Networks Announce Partnership Technology integration extends OpenWay AMI platform to support IP-based Smart Grid networking.
Omnitrol, Croop-LaFrance Partner for Tracking The two companies have announced a partnership to provide RFID-based tracking solutions for aerospace and defense industries.
Joint Research Announced for Alcatel-Lucent, ETRI Alcatel-Lucent has signed a MOU to establish research activities with the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute.
ThingMagic and InnerWireless Announce Strategic Partnership The alliance will develop active/passive RFID systems that leverage standards-based technologies for unified asset visibility and document management.
Savi Launches SmartChain 5.0 The platform's services-oriented architecture helps unify software systems in a common environment to enhance supply chain management.
Omnitrol Adds IBM RFID Software to Work-In-Process Appliance The solution integrates data from sensors, RFID readers, mobile handheld devices, and other shop floor equipment to improve monitoring of the supply chain, inventory, manufacturing, shipping, and delivery of products.
Rajant Announces New High-Performance Mesh System The portable BreadCrumb LX delivers high bandwidth and resiliency for critical applications through a dual-radio architecture that uses both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz unlicensed frequency bands.
ISSYS Awarded Microtube and Microfluidic-Device Patent The utility patent describes a new method of forming micromachined tubes to produce Coriolis mass flowmeters, density and chemical concentration sensors, drug infusion systems, and fuel-cell concentration sensors.
Sybase iAnywhere Updates RFID and Sensor Computing Middleware RFID Anywhere 3.5 includes updated developer tool support, connectors for more devices, and enhanced mobility features.
GE Fanuc Announces QuickPanel View Integrated Communications Enhancements allow greater connectivity with a broader array of devices, bridging the gap between the enterprise and the plant floor.
NACEL Deploys Advanced Wind-Assessment Systems Starting with its Blue Creek and Channing Flats Power Projects, the company is deploying wind-energy measurement and assessment systems to bring 80 MW of new wind power online by 2010.
Ford Looks to Nanotechnology The automaker plans to leverage commercial applications of the technology in the areas of specialty metals, plastic composites, thermal materials, coatings, and sensors to improve the performance and fuel economy of its vehicles.
Conductive Silver Inks Market to Reach $2.4 Billion by 2015 NanoMarkets' report quantifies the opportunities for silver inks in both traditional applications and in RFID, photovoltaics, displays, sensors, and lighting.
GE Security Announces Interoperability Initiative The effort will focus on the development of an open security communications protocol and the promotion of technology integration.
Cognex Expands Manufacturing and Distribution Center The facility in Cork, Ireland, will be the center for shipping products to customers in Europe, Asia, and Japan, and help the company to be more responsive to its international customers, distributors, and partners.
TI Introduces 2.4 GHz ZigBee Wireless Network Processor The device simplifies ZigBee design and reduces time to market by separating the application code from the networking component of the systems.
LIOS to Provide Temperature Sensing for Oil and Gas Exploration A major operator in the Far East awarded a five-year contract to the German high-tech firm for its optical fiber-based systems for use in downhole monitoring deployments at onshore oil and gas wells.
Opto Circuits Completes Acquisition of Criticare Systems The Indian manufacturer and developer of medical devices will incorporate Criticare as a wholly owned subsidiary.
MEMS—A Rising Tide of New and Innovative Applications ABI Research's report "MEMS Accelerometers" examines the technology and provides an in-depth market forecast that tracks both positive and negative forces.
GE Fanuc Closes Loop Between Production and Maintenance Systems The Proficy Maintenance Gateway improves asset reliability by reducing failure rates and increasing production uptime.
Airbus Selects IBM and OATSystems for Manufacturing Initiative The two companies will provide software for an RFID project that will streamline Airbus' supply chain and manufacturing operations and reduce its production and maintenance costs.
Datacon Joins EMC3D Consortium The manufacturer of die-bonding and -sorting equipment will contribute to the development of cost-effective 3D Thru-Silicon-Via interconnects for chip stacking and advanced MEMS/sensors packaging.
FLIR Acquires Ifara Tecnologias The transaction adds Ifara's middleware sensor platform, known as Nexus, to FLIR's portfolio. The turnkey solution offers connectivity and integrated control of a variety of sensors.
Ball Aerospace Satellite Begins Eleventh Year on Orbit The GFO spacecraft's mission data has greatly enhanced knowledge of ocean circulation, wave height, and sea and glacier ice.
Axcess Introduces Smart Wireless Sticker The Dot-based wireless device provides automatic item identification, location, data logging, and condition sensing for items up to a 1000 ft. away.
Sensors Conference Explores Cutting-Edge Trends and Technologies James McLurkin, MIT roboticist, inventor, and researcher, will present the keynote address, titled "Engineering Creativity: Exercises for the Right Brain."
Powering Wireless Sensor Systems Research and Markets reports on energy harvesting, micro batteries, and power management integrated circuits.
Crossbow Ships New Wireless Crop-Monitoring System The ēKo Pro Series features simple deployment and real-time monitoring. Nontechnical users can easily set up or add new sensors and nodes and access live data from any remote location.
PHH Arval Launches Telematics-Powered Service in Canada The PHH Onboard offering helps fleets increase the number of productive stops, reduce idle time, dispatch the nearest resource, eliminate speed violations, and improve safety and the fleet's risk profile.
Avago Offers Ultra-Small FETs for Wireless Applications The field effect transistors leverage innovative chip-scale packaging to reduce the size of the device, delivering high-frequency operation and superior thermal dissipation.
Sunovia and EPIR Announce IR Sensor and Solar Cell Breakthroughs The technology and manufacturing developments result in cost reductions that further enable the use of IR sensors in large commercial markets and provide a new paradigm for multi-junction solar cells.
IBM’s New Software Expands Benefits Derived from Sensor Events WebSphere Premises Server 6.1 allows businesses to manage multiple sensor technologies on a single platform, supports real-time location-tracking services, and allows companies to establish business rules that act upon sensor information.
GE Fanuc Launches Proficy HMI/SCADA CIMPLICITY 7.5 The client/server-based visualization and control solution provides a reliable data foundation for manufacturing and process environments.
GE Releases Next Generation RH and Temperature Sensor The ChipCap provides a simpler, lower cost integrated relative humidity and temperature solution for HVAC, automotive, medical and appliance industries.
Worldwide Ultra Low Power Market Research ULP Market is projected to reach over 200 million units by 2010 according to the report 'Energy Harvesting, Micro Batteries and Power Management ICs.'
Winland Announces Wireless Environmental Monitor The EnviroAlert EA800 lets you monitor up to 8 distinct sensors (4 wireless and 4 hardwired) and includes data logging.
$3.1 Million SatCom Order for Comtech Telecommunications The U.S. Army's satellite communication equipment order will use Comtech Telecommunications' enhancement proxies to improve TCP transmissions over satellite links.
InHand Develops Atom-based Small Embedded System The new Intel Atom processor-based platform opens up the world of possibilities for handheld battery operable devices built with InHand systems.
Sensor Platforms Extends Reach of Location-Aware Devices New company is set to enable the next wave of location-aware, motion-sensing personal electronic devices.
BAE Systems to Implement Micromem’s Patented Technology Company will integrate Micromem's nanosensor technology into its military platforms and products to enhance magnetometers and over-the-horizon threat detection systems.
InterSense Motion Tracking Used in Cyberpsychology Lab Université du Québec en Outaouais has installed InterSense's IS-900 wireless motion tracking system into its Psyche six-sided immersive display used for virtual reality based therapeutic research.
Cisco Integrates Augusta Systems Technologies Augusta Systems technologies intelligently integrate sensor and system data into the Cisco Open Platform for Safety and Security; Cisco platform improves communication and collaboration for government agencies to protect assets, employees, and citizens.
Tendril Completes $12 Million in Series B Funding Investment should secure the company's leadership position in the energy management market.

NYT > Technology
High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers Engineering skill made Japan an economic superpower, but its young people are now choosing other careers.
What's Online: Frustrating the Pirates Some argue that beating media piracy hinges on media companies offering more convenience and quality.
Yahoo?s Chairman Disputes Icahn?s Accusations Yahoo?s chairman rejected accusations from the billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn that the company?s board had acted irrationally in rejecting a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft.
CBS in Deal to Buy CNet to Increase Online Ads At $1.8 billion, Thursday?s deal for CNet by CBS is the biggest by far in its recent Internet expansion, making the network a bigger player in online media.
Microsoft Joins Effort for Laptops for Children After years of conflict, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child have reached an agreement that will put Windows on the organization?s computers.
Advertising: Yahoo and WPP in Partnership The deal between Yahoo and WPP Group, the advertising holding company, will give WPP?s clients a broader swath of Web sites where they can aim their messages.
Bits: TV at 140 Miles Per Hour Broadcasters are working on mobile television technology, which will allow you next year to watch digital TV on the move.
Woman Indicted in MySpace Suicide Case A Missouri woman is accused of using a phony online identity to taunt a girl, who then committed suicide.
Study Shows Comcast and Cox Slow P2P Traffic The cable broadband providers are slowing BitTorrent traffic at all times of the day, not just during peak traffic, according to a new study by a German computer research group.
Bits: Spammers Create a Tricky Situation for Stickam Stickam, a live Webcam chat site, says hackers broke into a message board system and made off with users? e-mail addresses. Now those addresses are in the hands of spammers.
Vodafone Acquires Social-Networking Platform Company Vodafone is acquiring ZYB, a Danish company that has developed a social networking tool for backing-up and sharing contact and calendar information online.
Video Game Sales Jump 47 Percent in April Americans spent $1.23 billion on video games, hardware and accessories last month, even as the price of more essential items like food and gasoline soared.
Bits: Dreaming of an iPhone Keyboard as Good as a BlackBerry?s This summer, both Apple and Research in Motion are expected to introduce new 3G smart phones which, while stylistically different, will compete ear-to-ear.
France?s Orange Signs New iPhone Deal With Apple The wireless operator Orange said it has signed a deal with Apple to sell its iPhone in the Middle East, Africa and several European countries.
Fitness for Every Body: O.K., Avatar, Work With Me Can Wii Fit, born of a best-selling gaming console, revolutionize exercise? Five testers weigh in.
Telecom Deal by Germans in Greece Greek officials said that they had sold a 3 percent stake in the country?s public telecommunications operator to Deutsche Telekom, the largest telephone company in Europe.
Bits: CNet?s Allure for CBS: Both Are Laggards CNet is big, but growth is slow and profit margins are low. That?s just like CBS, which agreed to buy CNet for $1.8 billion on Thursday.
Broadcom Co-Founders Charged in Stock Options Probe Federal officials charged Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli with falsifying the company?s reported income by illegally backdating stock options for five years.
Larry Levine, an Inventor of ?Wall of Sound,? Is Dead at 80 Mr. Levine helped create Phil Spector?s groundbreaking ?wall of sound? technique on hit records by the Crystals, the Ronettes and the Righteous Brothers.
Harvey Schein, Promoter of Betamax at Sony, Dies at 80 Mr. Schein led the Sony Corporation of America in the 1970s and doubled its size in spite of championing the failed Betamax video recording system.
Bits: Ask.com Buys Owner of Dictionary.com Ask.com is not giving up on its quest to compete with the big search engines.
Intel to Develop e-Commerce PC With China?s Alibaba Chinese E-commerce company Alibaba.com and Intel plan to jointly develop a computer designed to get small- and medium-sized Chinese businesses online.

Embedded
Time partitioning drives faster software integration for telematics and infotainment: Part 1 - Time problem, constraints, and a simulation model Allocating a set portion of CPU time to each software subsystem prevents any one monopolizing CPU cycles needed by the others, for a stable runtime environment that development teams can build and verify individually.
IC Audio Power Amplifiers and Zobel Networks: One Size Does Not Fit All Here's how to properly select an impedance modifying circuit (Zobel network) for your IC audio power amplifier design.
Error-Resilient Coding for Audio Communication - Part 2: Lapped transform codecs Part 2 of an excerpt from "Multimedia Over IP and Wireless Networks" examines loss concealment techniques for overlapped transform based codecs.
How to raise the RTL abstraction level and design conciseness with SystemVerilog - Part 2 Using advanced HDLs like SystemVerilog, current hardware modeling styles can be enhanced both in terms of abstraction levels and overall efficiency.
A six step process for migrating embedded C into a C++ object-oriented framework Using a standard timer, Dirk Braun describes a six step process to migrate embedded C code into a C++ object-oriented framework and create classes that represent a type of on-chip hardware peripheral.
Characterizing Nanometer CMOS PLLs, Sigma-Delta ADCs and AGCs The verification of analog/RF blocks presents challenges when using a digital fastSPICE simulator. The use of an analog fastSPICE simulator mitigates them.
Only secure hardware can safeguard standards Who would have imagined that a 13-year-old kid could compromise an industry standard overnight?
Under the Hood: Mature devices get Rolly rocking The Sony Rolly, shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, is a "dancing" MP3 player: When songs are loaded or streamed via Bluetooth, the Rolly can roll around and flap its speaker coverings in time with the music. The speaker flaps can also muffle the sound and give it a bit more flare when noise is channeled through one side or the other.

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