Power Electronics Technology announced the release of a new compilation DVD containing the complete, 30-year archive library of Power Electronics Technology and all previous titles for the magazine. The DVD includes 24,000 pages of magazine content, published between 1975 and 2005. Users can search more than 2,000 specially indexed articles by subject, issue date, keyword and article title.

It seems that Linksys owned the trademarked the name "iPhone" since 2000 when they purchased InfoGear Technology who in turn trademarket the name in 1996. Linksys is now manufacturing a phone under that name. This leads to a few issues between Cisco and Apple. Now Apple has only another week to respond to the Cisco trademark infringement lawsuit. This suit threatens to keep Apple Inc. from using the name "iPhone" for their new cell phone-music player.

Motorola and Texas Instruments have decided to expand their relationship to include 3G, WiMAX and OMAP technologies in the design and development of new, experience-optimised mobile devices. As part of the expansion, Motorola is developing 3G handsets based on a TI customised 3G solution that will include processors from TI's OMAP 3 architecture, as well as 3G and 3.5G building blocks from both Motorola and TI. New handsets using this solution are expected to be available to consumers as early as 2008, the company added.

Analog Devices Inc. and Legend Silicon Corp. have set up a joint design laboratory to develop reference designs for China's emerging mobile TV market. The design lab, which is located in Shanghai, adjacent to the Fudan University campus, will provide complete front-end solutions, from the antenna through the tuner to the demodulator to the MPEG2 TS interface, to allow Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) to quickly equip their mobile terminal products—including portable media players, PDAs, laptop PCs, automotive displays and smart phones—to receive terrestrial digital TV broadcasts.

Newly private Freescale Semiconductor grew its sales 9% in the fourth quarter, despite tough business conditions in many of its key markets. Freescale reported earnings before taxes, depreciation and amortization in the fourth quarter of $401 million vs. $362 million in the year-ago period.