TORONTO (Reuters) – BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is seeking to cash in as companies switch to rival smartphones with a new tool that offers some of its important security features for sexier devices like the iPhone. Original post by samzenpus
AT&T may propose to divest as much as 40% of T-Mobile USA’s assets in an effort to win approval from the Department of Justice in an upcoming lawsuit against the government agency. The DOJ sued to block the merger on August 31st, when it said “AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low-priced rival would remove a [...]
Research In Motion is reportedly offering its 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook to employees for as little as $99 through an employee-only website. The company is also selling its 32GB model for $149 and the 64GB model for $199, The Verge said Monday, noting that employees can order up to eight units each. PlayBook fans can still pick [...]
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – The chances of an AT&T-T-Mobile merger grow dimmer by the day, but there may yet be hope on the horizon for the telecommunications giants — next year’s election. Original post by samzenpus
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Thomas H. Lee Partners is interested in buying the U.S. operations of Yahoo Inc, breaking away from other bidders that are for now eyeing either a minority stake or teaming up with the Internet giant’s partners in Asia, sources familiar with the matter said. Original post by samzenpus
(Reuters) – Facebook, the world’s largest Internet social network, is preparing for a initial public stock offering next year, according to a source familiar with the matter. Original post by samzenpus
TOKYO (Reuters) – Olympus Corp will set up internal teams to examine possible governance reforms and changes to its operational structure as it moves to recover from an accounting scandal, according to an internal memo to employees from President Shuichi Takayama obtained by Reuters on Tuesday. Original post by samzenpus
HTC’s German subsidiaries may soon be barred from selling smartphones in the country following HTC’s recent decision to forgo an appeal to a patent lawsuit won by IPCom in 2009. The ban could spell trouble for HTC smartphone sales during the holiday season. “We will likely use the right awarded by the courts, likely resulting in [...]
With “Quasimono”, SCHOTT Solar has now developed a new technique for manufacturing full-square high-performance wafers that contain a high monocrystalline share that is significantly more cost-effective than the standard processes used in the past. The company has succeeded in using a modified conventional VGF process that is generally used to manufacture polycrystalline wafers to produce [...]
SCHOTT Solar AG and its project partners have already reached an important milestone in the research project Las VeGaS after only six months. A solar cell metalized with copper achieved an efficiency of 18.0 percent. A multicrystalline wafer from SCHOTT Solar AG that features standard screen-printed backside metallization serves as the basis. The goal of [...]
