From CNET News.com: The company, which blamed the loss on sliding demand for its products and a stronger yen, said it will detail plans to restructure late Thursday, according to a Reuters report. The warning follows reports Wednesday that Sony plans to close two television factories...

From DailyTech: The Cavite facility in the Philippines is actually two buildings next to each other, known as CV1 and CV2. CV1 had the capability to handle wafer sizes in 200 and 300mm in its 268,000 square foot clean room, while CV2 could only handle 200mm in its smaller 149,000 sq...

From DailyTech: The latest firmware update for the PlayStation 3 version 2.60 is now live. The update primarily focuses on improving the PlayStation 3’s media capabilities. The update provides the user with a variety of new tools for sorting through and displaying your digital photo...

From DailyTech: When Apple updates its products or even sets a date for a press conference, the tech world and fans of Apple hardware around the world listen up. For a long time if you wanted an aluminum notebook from Apple, you had to pony up for the larger MacBook Pro.

That...

From InfoWorld: Seagate will issue fixes soon for faulty firmware that is causing several models of the company's hard drives to freeze, it said Wednesday.

The models due for a fix are the Barracuda 7200.11, DiamondMax 22 and the SV35, said company spokesman Ian D. O'Leary.

On...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has delayed Windows Vista SP2 (Service Pack 2) by at least a month, and will now ship it to manufacturing sometime in May or June, according to a Web site that has accurately predicted Windows release dates in the past.

TechARP.com, a Malaysian Web site...

From PC World: Sony will disclose on Thursday how a restructuring plan announced in December will hit its domestic operations in Japan, the Nikkei business daily reported Thursday morning.

Howard Stringer, CEO of the consumer electronics maker, will announce plans to close one of...

From CNET News.com: Yahoo has signed a deal with start-up Abaca to help curtail spam on Yahoo Mail and has begun using Return Path technology to let companies know when and why their legitimate e-mail is being blocked.

Mark Risher, Yahoo's "anti-spam czar," described the move on the...

From CNET News.com: Intel said on Wednesday it will close chip plants to align its manufacturing capacity to current market conditions. Between 5,000 and 6,000 employees will be affected.

The world's largest chipmaker will halt production at five "older" factories.

The company...

From CNET News.com: Apple reported first-quarter earnings significantly higher than analysts had expected coming off a disappointing holiday season for most tech companies, but provided its usual conservative guidance.

For the three-month period ended December 27, Apple recorded $10...