Sun announced the latest version of the Solaris 10 Operating System - Solaris 10 10/08. The new version builds on the core strengths of the Solaris 10 OS to help customers maximize asset usage and systems performance, manage datacenter complexity, preserve business continuity and reduce costs.

Verizon Business will provide a broad range of data and advanced voice services to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) through two agreements worth as much as $1.12 billion. The services will be provided under the federal Networx contracting program.

Fujitsu Microelectronics announced two new LSIs to expand its line-up of H.264 CODEC LSIs, that encode and decode Full HD (1,920 dots x 1,080 lines) video in the H.264 format.

Intel announced agreements with government and industry in Taiwan intended to extend Taiwan’s position as a leading center for developing and deploying the world’s next generation of connected devices and related technologies.

LG Display will showcase a wide range of technology and products at FPD (Flat Panel Display) International 2008 to be held at the Pacifico Yokohama (Exhibition Hall) in Japan from October 29 to 31.

Toshiba announced the launch of a new line-up of 43nm single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory products available in densities ranging from 512Mb to 64Gb and in a total of 16 versions.

Resembling a memory stick with an integrated display, a prototype USB device developed at IBM’s Zurich Research Lab brings a new level of security to online banking for consumers. Pilot devices are ready and available to banks for trials.

Fujitsu and Sun expanded their SPARC Enterprise server family by adding the entry-level SPARC Enterprise M3000 server, powered by a single quad-core SPARC64 VII processor and the Solaris 10 OS.

SeismicCity announced that it is using NVIDIA Tesla S1070 1U systems for Reverse Time Migration (RTM) – one of the most advanced seismic imaging techniques ever used by the oil and gas industry.

Broadcom announced that it has completed the acquisition of AMD’s digital TV (DTV) business.

NEC LCD Technologies announced the successful development of multiple sizes (A3 and A4 equivalent) of electronic paper (e-paper) modules using the microcapsule electrophoresis system.

NTT DOCOMO selected Fujitsu to provide Nokia Siemens Networks’ core technology for its Super 3G / Long Term Evolution core network.

AT&T announced the completion of its transition of Internet Protocol (IP) traffic to a next-generation, consolidated IP/MPLS backbone network, which delivers an expansion in capacity to meet the growing demand for IP connectivity from consumers and businesses.

IBM and Intel will extend their collaboration in the blade server market to drive adoption of an open industry specification for blade switches.

Kodak announced the introduction of a highly efficient OLED material that will enable low-power, full-color displays with outstanding lifetimes. The new material, trademarked KODAK OLED Material EK-GD403, utilizes green dopant technology to deliver a new level of OLED display performance and reliability

STMicroelectronics announced an agreement with NAVTEQ to collaborate on the development of a novel solution that combines a digital road map with positioning data to enable advanced driver assistance applications, such as curve over-speed warning or adaptive headlight control.

Texas Instruments announced that its Bluetooth and wireless LAN (WLAN) technology software drivers are available for use in the Open Handset Alliance’s Android platform.

NVIDIA Introduces the GeForce 9400 and 9300 motherboard GPUs for desktop PCs on the Intel platform.

BMW Group Research and Technology and NXP Semiconductors have unveiled a prototype of the world’s first multifunctional car key.

Dubai Municipality, the government body responsible for city services and the maintenance of facilities in the city of Dubai, has deployed a Nortel data center solution for supporting e-Government services in the municipality.

China Mobile, the largest mobile phone operator in China, announced it added 7.246 million customers in September 2008.

Ericsson will collaborate with Intel to bring HSPA mobile data solutions to Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). Ericsson is thereby extending its 3G mobile broadband technology from notebooks to a range of pocketable devices with various purposes.

Sharp has developed the VA3C5CZ933, a mobile TV tuner module that supports CMMB (China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting, one of the mobile digital broadcasting standard developed in China) and features the industry’s smallest package size (9.0 x 9.0 x 1.7 mm).

VirtualLogix announced that its virtualization software product, VirtualLogix VLX, is the first to support Symbian OS, the open operating system for advanced data-enabled mobile phones.

Huawei announced the successful development of its 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) prototype, following the company’ s launch of a 100G wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) prototype in July this year.