ELECTRONICS

Rodman and Renshaw initiated coverage of Ballantyne Strong, a maker of theatre and lighting systems, with a 'market outperform' rating, saying the shift of motion picture industry to digital bodes well for the company.

The company talks about its multimode technology, while showing faith in Clearwire.

Gleacher downgraded Research In Motion to 'neutral' from 'buy,' saying it expects the company to lose share in the high-growth smart phone market as Apple and Android expand carriers and product breadth.

Sony Corporation of America's CFO Robert Wiesenthal said the company will bridge the gap between the media and Hollywood, as a content creator and an electronics manufacturer.

A report from iSuppli says revenues for consumer electronics companies have increased 6.2 percent from last year.

Apple enlisted famed British Architect Norman Foster, the man behind buildings like 'The Gherkin' in London and the 'Hearst Tower' in New York, to design a new home for Apple in the recently purchased land from HP.

Increased broadband access worldwide has meant a rise in demand for online media services and this could have implications for a society that is living within environmental limits. The researchers found the current energy demand for bandwidth to be four watt-hours per MB.

Jefferies & Co. said in its Wireless and Handsets weekly that tablet and smartphone sell-through has been strong at the start of the holiday shopping season.

As the holiday shopping season is underway, Best Buy Mobile, the mobile specialty retail unit of Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE:BBY), will be offering a minimum of four free smartphones every day through December.

Motorola Mobility plans to launch a video streaming device next year to enable streaming of digital content to smartphones and tablets in their homes.

The Federal Communications Commission has committed to the concept of net neutrality, but the spat between Level 3 and Comcast highlights some difficult enforcement issues.

IBM unveiled a technology that uses pulses of light instead of electrical signals to transfer data between chips, advancing its plans to create a supercomputer capable of one million trillion calculations per second.

The wireless network provider says the new network will be 10 times faster than 3G.

Decades ago, the United States had a huge competitive edge over the rest of the world. However, that advantage is slipping away and so are American jobs.

Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier, is set to unveil details about its plan to launch its LTE 4G wireless networks in the United States.

A group called “Manhattan Declaration” has written a letter to Steve Jobs to restore the “anti-gay” apps from the Apple store, the Manhattan Declaration blog said.

Motorola, Inc. (MOT) said it has reduced the time frame for its plan to separate handset and cable set-top box businesses Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. from the company to January next year.

ON Semiconductor is boosting its purchase price of Sanyo Semiconductor, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Mecox Lane, Seagate Technology, ASML Holding, Aixtron, Qiagen, Altera, Vodafone Group, Avanir Pharmaceuticals, and Dell.

Level 3 and Comcast are in a dispute over the transmission of video on the Internet, and the outcome could have large implications for companies that transmit video over broadband networks.

A British communications company is set to launch a satellite today that will provide broadband communications to rural residents and businesses in Europe.