Philips will unveil its latest advance in heart disease detection, the PageWriter TC50 cardiograph, which uses gender-differentiated criteria to assist in the diagnosis of heart disease in women, where symptoms may be different from men. The PageWriter TC50 will have its global launch at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2009, at Barcelona, Spain.

IBM scientists have been able to image the “anatomy” - or chemical structure - inside a molecule with unprecedented resolution, using a complex technique known as noncontact atomic force microscopy. The results push the exploration of using molecules and atoms at the smallest scale and could greatly impact the field of nanotechnology, which seeks to understand and control some of the smallest objects known to mankind.

Nokia marked the next phase in the evolution of Maemo software with the new Nokia N900. Taking its cues from the world of desktop computing, the open source, Linux-based Maemo software delivers a PC-like experience on a handset-sized device.

Freescale introduces the MSC8154 processor – a four-core version of Freescale’s high-performance MSC8156 digital signal processor (DSP), designed to add a variety of price, power and throughput options to Freescale’s portfolio of DSPs based on StarCore technology.

Fujitsu Microelectronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company agreed to collaborate on 28-nanometer (nm) process technology targeted for foundry production of Fujitsu Microelectronics’ 28nm logic ICs and to jointly develop an enhanced 28nm process technology by utilizing TSMC’s technology platform.

Nokia introduced Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service offering consumers with mobile device access to basic financial services. For many consumers, this will be the first time they have had any access to such financial services.

NXP Semiconductors launched its latest smart card interface – the TDA8034 – a NDS and EMV 4.2 compliant, cost-optimized solution for the pay-TV market.

Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Harman International, Intel, Samsung Electronics and Xilinx announced the launch of AVnu Alliance. The Alliance is an industry forum dedicated to enhancing professional-quality audio/video by promoting emerging IEEE 802.1 Audio/Video Bridging (AVB) networking standards for a broad range of markets including automotive, consumer electronics, and professional A/V. In addition to the Founders, Avid Technology, Marvell and Meyer Sound Laboratories have joined the AVnu Alliance as the first Promoters.

LG Electronics and Nortel have demonstrated the world’s first 3GPP standards compliant active handover of a data transmission between a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network and a CDMA network.

Yahoo! entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Maktoob.com, the leading online community in the Arab world, with more than 16.5 million unique users.

AT&T is making global Wi-Fi access more convenient for business travelers or remote workers via the addition of nearly 25,000 new Wi-Fi hotspots in countries across Europe and in China. The new locations bring the total of worldwide hotspots available to AT&T users to 125,000, representing a nearly 30 percent expansion of its global Wi-Fi footprint since the beginning of the year.

NEC Electronics announced the availability of a new image-processing solution, the EMMA3SL/P system-on-chip (SoC) based on NEC Electronics’ enhanced multimedia architecture (EMMA) platform.

After more than 25 years as a pioneer and leader in the mobile industry, Nokia will bring its mobility heritage and knowledge to the PC world with the new, Windows based, Nokia Booklet 3G.

Microsoft announced Microsoft OneApp, a new software application that enables feature phones — commonly found in emerging markets — to access mobile apps such as Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger, and other apps and games.

Building on more than 60 years of work with the U.S. military and federal government, HP announced it has been selected by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide new HP Workstation and desktop PCs as part of its enterprise IT purchase program.

Alcatel-Lucent reached a critical milestone in the development of its Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband solution. Following certification from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Alcatel-Lucent is shipping its 700 MHz LTE base stations to service providers in the United States. With this achievement Alcatel-Lucent becomes the first vendor to have FCC-certified LTE base stations available, a key requirement for sales in the U.S. market.

DivX and NEC Electronics announced a multi-year licensing agreement covering the integration of DivX Plus HD technology into NEC Electronics’ ‘Enhanced Multi-Media Architecture’ (EMMA).

Red Hat announced the launch of its enhanced Partner Program, redesigned to give Red Hat’s business partners additional economic, sales, marketing and technical benefits through the introduction of a new partner level and solution specializations.

SanDisk announced that its SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise secure USB flash drives are enhanced to meet the unique requirements of government employees. The Cruzer Enterprise design was independently tested and certified under Military Standard 810-F environmental standards in addition to being suitable for use by the visually-impaired under Section 508 requirements.

Fujitsu and Asianux, a Linux vendor, will jointly deliver advanced Linux server products.

Scientists at IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology announced a scientific advancement that could be a major breakthrough in enabling the semiconductor industry to pack more power and speed into tiny computer chips, while making them more energy efficient and less expensive to manufacture.

Vodafone selected EMC as a preferred partner for storage and storage-related products in its European markets.

NVIDIA announced that Microsoft’s new Zune HD portable media player is powered by the NVIDIA Tegra processor.

Intergraph offers a public safety computer-aided dispatch solution that supports Google Maps API Premier, the enterprise version of the Google Maps API. The ability to view Google Maps provides communications and field personnel with advanced situational awareness and promotes effective and efficient response to mitigate incident impact and save lives.

Huawei has been selected by Grameenphone (GP), a subsidiary of Telenor, to deploy Bangladesh’ s first solar-powered base transceiver stations (BTS).