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HELSINKI (Reuters) – Research firm Gartner said it cut its forecast for cellphone market growth in 2008 to 10-11 percent as a global economic slowdown started to crimp demand in the second quarter. At end-May Gartner forecast 10-15 percent more phones would be sold this year. “In the last month however, the economic environment started […]

Animated-movie studio DreamWorks Animation SKG has chosen chipmaker Intel Corp over previous supplier Advanced Micro Devices to supply chips and other technology for its big computer-animation operations, The Wall Street Journal said. The deal is expected to replace the studio’s computing hardware, including 1,500 Hewlett-Packard Co server systems and 1,000 workstations that use AMD microprocessors, […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp was criticized on Tuesday for being slow to resolve problems in the technical documentation it was required to provide to rival software makers as part of its 2001 antitrust settlement. The problems were a major part of discussions at a hearing held to review Microsoft’s compliance with the pact that […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s CEO said the company will not seek to make a spate of other Internet acquisitions in the wake of its failed bid for Yahoo Inc, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Speculation has emerged that Microsoft could try to buy Facebook, in which it already owns a small stake, […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)-Yahoo Inc and Google Inc are close to reaching a search advertising deal, and talks between Yahoo and Microsoft Corp about a similar deal have fallen through, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Talks between Microsoft and Yahoo concluded after Yahoo decided to pursue a deal with Google, one of the […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters)-A California jury ruled in favor of Sprint Nextel Corp on Thursday in a class-action lawsuit challenging fees the company charges customers who cancel their service prematurely. The jury sitting in the Superior Court of California in Alameda country rejected allegations by plaintiffs in the case that the company had improperly imposed the fees […]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore Telecommunications said on Tuesday it will offer Apple’s latest iPhone that runs on third-generation mobile technology in Singapore later this year. SingTel did not provide a date for the release or pricing for the new iPhone. StarHub, the city-state’s second-largest telecoms firm, said SingTel’s iPhone deal would not be exclusive. “We […]

FRANKFURT, June 2 (Reuters) – Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker, sees new markets for its Atom microprocessors worth a total of $40 billion in two or three years’ time, its chief executive told the Financial Times. Intel is rolling out five new Atom microprocessors and a collection of chips designed for portable gadgets that access […]

CARLSBAD, California (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc seem to hang out in all the same places but somehow keep missing each other. That’s turned speculation over what it will take to get the two of them together into something of a CEO parlor game. Media magnate Rupert Murdoch said this week he is […]

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Using only its brainpower, a monkey can direct a robotic arm to pluck a marshmallow from a skewer and stuff it into its mouth, researchers said on Wednesday. “They are using a motorized prosthetic arm to reach out, grab and bring the food back to their face,” said Andrew […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission strongly denied on Wednesday that it had reached any provisional decision in its antitrust investigation of the world’s biggest chipmaker Intel Corp. “There is no provisional or internal decision on this case. The investigation is very much active and ongoing,” EU competition spokesman Jonathan Todd told a regular briefing. […]

HSINCHU, Taiwan (Reuters) – Top contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd said on Tuesday it may raise prices for its higher-end chips as rising costs threaten to squeeze profits. Semiconductor makers face higher costs to build state-of-the-art chip plants for most cutting-edge chips, and are also feeling the pain of rising inflation. As […]