Taiwan fines Apple $666K over iPhone pricing

From CNET News.com: Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission has fined Apple 20 million New Taiwan dollars -- about $666,000 -- after determining the company has been illegally interfering with iPhone pricing in the country, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

The commission found that Apple was...

Co-founder officially drops bid for BlackBerry

From CNET News.com: Mike Lazaridis, a BlackBerry co-founder and former co-CEO, has officially ditched his plans to acquire the company through a joint bid with a fellow co-founder.

In dissolving the plan, Lazaridis' stake in the sagging company is now 4.99 percent.

Lazaridis made his decision...

Mediatek Going 64-Bit, LTE in 2014

From EETimes: Mediatek jumped to third place among mobile SoC vendors in the third quarter, and it has vowed to ship chips with 64-bit cores and LTE in 2014 as it makes a bid for markets beyond its stronghold in Asia.

Qualcomm rose to second place (behind Apple) in SoCs for tablets in the quarter...

Seagate to Acquire Xyratex, a HDD Test Equipment Maker

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology, one of the world’s largest storage solutions providers, on Monday announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which the company acquires Xyratex, a leading data storage technology company that develops test systems for hard disk drives...

Intel Seeks Big Slice of Microservers

From EETimes: Chipmaker Intel is looking to become the market leader in the burgeoning microserver segment that has become very prominent thanks to cloud computing and Internet services. However, as the company pushes its Xeon and Atom based offerings, analysts see chinks in its armor that a handful...

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