According to Berg Insight, until 2011, the mobile broadband market is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 22.9 percent to reach € 3.0 billion. HSPA and legacy standards are expected to remain the dominant network access technology throughout the entire period with a market share well above 90 percent.

Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, code-named “Barcelona,” are planned for shipment in both standard and low power versions at launch later this summer.

Logitech and Carl Zeiss announced an exclusive collaboration to deliver image quality for video calling and sharing.

Western Digital and Komag have entered into a definitive agreement for WD to acquire Komag for $32.25 in cash per share for a value of approximately $1 billion.

Greenpeace released ‘Guide to Greener Electronics: Fourth Edition’. The guide ranks the 14 top manufacturers of personal computers and mobile phones according to their policies on toxic chemicals and recycling.

AMD announced the arrival of the ATI Radeon HD 2600 and ATI Radeon HD 2400 series, the mid-range and entry-level graphics processors in the ATI Radeon HD 2000 series.

SanDisk has begun sampling 6- and 8GB microSD High Capacity (microSDHC) flash memory cards to major phone manufacturers and mobile network operators for testing and evaluation. The company also announced the availability of the 4GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) card.

The 29th edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers shows a lot of shuffling among the top-ranked systems and the largest turnover among list entries in the history of the TOP500 project.

Huawei has been awarded a High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) network expansion contract by Vodafone that will serve all the seven major cities in Spain, including Barcelona and Madrid. The nationwide HSPA network expansion covers 2.5 million subscribers.

Samsung announced the industry’s first 65nm multi-standard channel decoder (S3C4F31) and multi-band radio frequency tuner (S5M8602) chipset which supports multi digital mobile TV standards including DVB-H/T, DAB-IP, ISDB-T, and terrestrial DMB for the multiple standards in the different countries around the world.

IBM announced Blue Gene/P, the second generation of the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

Research teams at Rice University’s Computer and Information Technology Institute (CITI) have developed computational techniques using a Cray supercomputer. The techniques will eventually assist medical workers in diagnosing and treating some of the most devastating diseases from cerebral aneurysms to bacterial/viral infections and cancer.

TomTom and Vodafone UK will jointly develop a new traffic information system that will deliver superior travel time information.

Texas Instruments will leverage its expertise in ZigBee technology, low-power RF and mobile connectivity to develop products and solutions for Ultra Low Power (ULP) Bluetooth wireless technology (previously known as Wibree).

IBM announced a research initiative into equipping cars with technologies that can help reduce traffic congestion and prevent accidents.

Sci Fi Channel is using the viral power of blogging to promote its fall lineup of programming.

Apple has significantly increased its orders for touch screens for its keenly awaited iPhone at German supplier Balda, German daily Handelsblatt reported on Tuesday.

Dell introduced new notebook computers on Tuesday available in eight different colors with advanced features as it tries to grab a bigger slice of the consumer PC market.

Time Warner Inc. plans to launch a test of its overhauled news portal on Tuesday, drawing influences from the uncluttered design of popular Internet blogs.

Google asked a federal judge on Monday to extend the consent decree that settled the landmark antitrust case against Microsoft in order to address competition concerns involving the Windows Vista operating system.

Not since Alexander Graham Bell has so much attention been lavished on a phone.

It takes a person about 10 minutes to read a 2,500-word, front-page feature story in the Wall Street Journal. Computer programs increasingly being used by investors to parse news stories can process one in about three one-hundredths of a second.

Web radio broadcasters across the United States were preparing for a ‘Day of Silence’ on June 26 to protest the U.S. government’s plans to boost royalty payments to artists and record companies by more than 300 percent, when their music is played online.

The mobile phone industry called on Monday for regulators to open up the airwaves to make high-speed third-generation (3G) services available to about 300 million more people.

Nintendo briefly zipped past Sony in market capitalization on Monday to become one of Japan’s 10 most valuable companies as it elbows the PlayStation maker out of its decade-long dominance of the game industry.