A U.S. District Court has ordered Intel to produce documents and other evidence related to its business conduct outside of the U.S., according to a statement issued Thursday (Dec. 28) by Advanced Micro Devices. Intel downplayed the ruling Thursday, telling EE Times that it was narrowly focused on whether or not a Sept. 26 ruling by the court dismissing foreign commerce claims brought by AMD. The spokesman said the ruling did not speak to the merits or admissibility of the evidence.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T) will cut back on future chip spending and may not produce advanced chips used in its PlayStation 3 (PS3) in-house, a senior executive said on Tuesday, in a move aimed at driving the semiconductor unit's nascent earnings recovery.

Micro-series USB technology will replace Mini-series USB in OTG products BEAVERTON, Ore --The USB Implementers Forum, Inc. (USB-IF) today announced the completion of the Micro-USB specification, a new connector technology that will replace many of the Mini-series plugs and receptacles currently used in portable products. This USB-IF connector specification was developed to support the growing miniaturization trend for portable devices, as well as the continued adoption of USB in mobile phones.

Offshoring jobs is an old story in the manufacturing sector. Now, service jobs once considered safe are being shipped overseas. Lawyers, accountants, journalists, engineers, take heed.

Scientists have created a tiny cable -- much thinner than a human hair -- through which they can transmit visible light, potentially paving the way for improvements in solar energy, computing and medicine. The achievement, described in research published on Monday in the journal Applied Physics Letters, involves a re-imagining of the coaxial cable -- that commonplace conduit of cable television, telephone and Internet service -- on a minuscule scale.

Biometric fingerprint sensor solutions company AuthenTec will exhibit the latest sensors and biometrically enabled devices designed for consumer use at CES 2007.

Bob Pease cracks me up. He's just got a unique way of looking at things.

Lock down your data without paying a performance penalty with Seagate s Momentus 5400 FDE.2 2.5-in. secure hard-disk drive with DriveTrust. It incorporates full-disk, 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) hardware-based encryption in addition to a number of new features.

According to Vnunet, Toshiba has developed a printer (B-SX8R) that can erase and reprint — up to 500 times — on a single sheet of paper. Toshiba’s process uses a special pigment in the paper that reacts to heat. If heated above 180 degrees centigrade the pigment turns black, creating an image on the sheet. However, if the surface is heated to between 130 and 170 degrees the pigment reverts to white, allowing the image to be ‘erased’

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