Hitachi, Canon and Matsushita reached a basic agreement on a comprehensive alliance aimed at reinforcing and growing the liquid crystal display panel businesses and technologies.

Panasonic has started shipping samples of the world’s thinnest (9.5 mm (H) x 128 mm (W) x 127 mm (D)) internal Blu-ray Disc drives to personal computer manufacturers.

Babilon-T, the largest telecommunication operator in Tajikistan, has selected Huawei to deploy the Central Asia’s first WiMAX commercial network.

NEC has signed a framework contract with Netia, a Polish telecom carrier, for the supply of point-to-point wireless access systems, PASOLINK NEO. The new systems will be supplied to the 3G mobile operator P4, a mobile operation arm of Netia.

Dell and Tesco announced the availability of Dell notebook and desktop computers in Tesco, an international retailer with operations in Europe and Asia.

Honeywell has completed the acquisition of Hand Held Products for approximately $390 million.

Sharp and Toshiba have agreed to collaborate closely in LCDs, a move that is expected to enhance the companies’ corporate value, profitability and global competitiveness.

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) announced new software updates for PLAYSTATION 3 and PSP(PlayStation Portable) systems.

iRobot announced it has been awarded the xBot contract, a $286 million Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), on behalf of the Robotic Systems Joint Project Office at Redstone Arsenal, Ala.

Canon today announced the achievement of a new camera-manufacturing milestone as combined production of the company’s EOS-series film and digital single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras passed the 30-million mark.

New “smart” email search software from IBM can figure out what you are trying to find, even when you aren’t so sure yourself. Its semantic search capabilities allow you to search on concepts and ideas rather than set-in-stone keywords.

The Google can finally rest assured that it’s acquisition of DoubleClick is finally complete and legal.

Nokia Siemens Networks has completed the world’s first multi-user field trial in an urban environment using the new Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology that offers mobile data rates up to 173 Megabits per second.

ICO Global Communications and Alcatel-Lucent will demonstrate North America’s first video broadcast based on the DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite services to Handhelds) mobile broadcasting standard at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next month in Las Vegas, Nevada.

SGI will equip the North German Group for High- and Highest-Performance Computers (HLRN) with a new SGI Altix supercomputer complex 60 times more powerful than HLRN’s current HPC resource.

Verizon Wireless and Palm announced the immediate availability of the Palm Treo 755p smartphone in exclusive deep blue-green.

Viacom and Microsoft announced a broad-based, strategic alliance under which major divisions of both companies will collaborate on advertising, content distribution, event promotions and games over the next several years.

AOL has launched a syndicated online political widget – called “Hot Seat” – on AOL News.

Opera Software, announced that Opera Mini 4, the browser for all mobile phones, won the category for Productive Mobility in the 2007 Sony Ericsson Content Awards.

BenQ today announces the launch of a new class of laptops—the Joybook Q41 featuring dual screen.

Dr. Andrei Broder was named Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Dr. Ron Brachman and Dr. Raghu Ramakrishnan were named Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). These prestigious honors recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology.
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AOL Europe launches AOL Belgium, a dedicated, bilingual online destination that combines safety features with interactive services such as free email, instant messaging as well as localised news in both French and Dutch.

Intel Corporation has released a software initiator package to drive the development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solutions for the Linux operating system.

According to IT security and control firm Sophos, the British government has again lost personal information, this time belonging to millions of UK drivers.

IBM and Toshiba announced that they have entered into a joint development agreement on 32nm bulk complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process technology.