ELECTRONICS

Sony Ericsson announced new phones in its popular Walkman branded line, with three optimized for use in China and South East Asian markets, and one for use in the Americas.

The products including a 17-inch widescreen HD-DVD notebook PC, a HD-DVD Media Center TV PC with and an HD-DVD external drive for PCs.

Yesterday, Microsoft announced pricing and release dates for its anticipated Zune portable media player. Once thought to be the greatest threat to Apple's dominant iPod lines, some experts now contend that the device will do more damage to Microsoft partners instead.

Toshiba Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. joined a growing list of computer makers recalling Sony Corp. batteries in the latest blow to consumer confidence in Sony's reputation as a manufacturer. Toshiba announced a recall of 830,000 laptop batteries prone to short-circuiting and even catching fire.

Advances in the Indian automotive sector, especially in engine technologies, are key drivers to the Indian automotive electronics market, potentially pushing growth over 21 percent in the next five years a new report indicates.

Dell announced on Friday that an additional 200 thousand batteries need to be recalled, expanding the initial recall the firm placed in August.

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Sony Ericsson is partnering with watch maker Fossil Inc to create a new line of watches that have the ability to synchronize with cell phones via Bluetooth wireless technology.

IBM Corp. and Lenovo Inc. are recalling over half a million battery packs for its ThinkPad notebook computers equipped with rechargeable lithium-ion batteries manufactured by Sony Corp.

Electronics maker Sanyo Electronic Co. will consolidate its production of household appliances into its commercial appliance production and dismantle its household appliance division, the maker said on Thursday.

Research in Motion's popular Blackberry mobile device has been the undisputed market leader since its start, however the company now faces challenges as rivals offer similar devices, a new report indicates.

Semiconductor firm Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced on Thursday that they are teaming up with a China's second largest PC provider, providing processors to the company's whole line of offerings.

Vodafone Group Plc launched its first own-branded 3G handsets on Thursday, as the mobile phone giant tries to expand in the market for higher-paying third-generation services by luring more pre-pay users.

On Wednesday, Microsoft unveiled the pricing of its anticipated external Hi-Definition DVD (HD-DVD) player to be released for its Xbox 360 gaming console.

The market for mobile security products to protect user's hand-held devices and identity will expand to almost a $5 billion by 2011, new research indicates.

Verizon Communications Inc. said on Wednesday it expects its upgraded fiber network project, FiOS to be in more than 50 percent of all households in the US by 2010 that are within the company's service area.

Nokia today announced that it had extended its WCDMA 3G network frame agreement with Taiwan Mobile (TWM), “to cover the Nokia High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) solution and the new Nokia Flexi WCDMA Base Station,”

Nokia today announced the launch of a new range of music phones at Nokia Theatre in Times Square, New York.

In recent quarters, the semiconductor firm, Intel Corp, has put increased efforts in to processor efficiency, an area many believe rival AMD has taken the lead. However at this year's Intel Developers Conference, the firm is realigning its focus on performance once again.

Advanced Micro Devices, maker of computer processors and graphics chips, announced on Wednesday the opening of a new design center in Fort Collins, Colorado, tailored to build next generation processors.

A federal judge has dismissed a large portion of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp., saying that U.S. law does not cover many of AMD's claims.