Microsoft may end up paying $400 million on marketing alone to launch Windows Phone 7 for the holidays, an analyst has said.

Nokia's bonds are currently rated A with a negative outlook at Standard & Poor's and A2 with a stable outlook at Moody's Investors Service, the sixth investment-grade level at the ratings companies. It is ranked A- with a stable outlook at Fitch Ratings.

Suntech Power China's largest maker of solar panels, said on Thursday that it has signed a deal to develop solar plants in South Africa with up to 100 megawatts in capacity.

Sounds like a marketing ploy by the designer of the app, but pretty cool nonetheless.

Intuit and Mophie (maker of the JuicePack battery for iPhone) will introduce the Complete Credit Card Solution, which fits over the iPhone 3G and 3GS like the JuicePack and has a credit-card reader that uses Intuit's 18-month-old GoPayment mobile payment software. It will be available as an iPhone accessory in Apple Stores.

Yes, the App World 2.0 app store could be technically better than the competition with know-how from Cellmania, but that doesn't always translate to beating the competition.

The next big play in broadband is delivering carrier services to multiple consumer devices in the home over a variety of wired and wireless networks. So chipmakers need to be able to provide a portfolio of Wi-Fi, powerline and coax solutions for STBs, gateways and other devices.

OCZ Technology is discontinuing the production of some lower-margin DRAM products as part of a shift to focus on higher-margin specialty and high-performance memory products.

The report comes out after a similar study has been commissioned by Samsung Electronics, which itself has faced complaints that unusual clusters of cancers have occurred at its semiconductor factory in Gi-Heung, south of Seoul.

China-based Hanvon has selected Freescale Semiconductor's i.MX51 applications processor for its next-generation e-reader products.

Renesas Electronics has agreed to sell some of its semiconductor-related patents to US-based Acacia Research, according to the company.

Net revenues were $370.8 million, an increase of 10.1% sequentially and 147.2% year-over-year.

the proximity sensor is actually a more serious problem for the iPhone 4 than the antenna issue, and many iPhone 4 users have been anxiously waiting for that update.

Hans Mosesmann, an analyst at Raymond James Associates Inc., talks about the outlook for Nvidia Corp.

Huawei hasn't announced when the phone will start shipping or what it will cost, only saying that the price "will be very attractive."

This reviewer has quite a low opinion on Dell's latest Android phone. "The Aero, you see, runs on Android 1.5 -- an early version of Google's mobile operating system that's 16 months out of date and a lifetime behind in functionality and performance. For a brand new phone to be shipping with a year-old version of Android is simply embarrassing, both to Dell and to the image of the Android brand."