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ON Semiconductor has acquired Catalyst Semiconductor in a stock-for-stock merger.

Canada-based phone companies Telus and BCE will jointly build a next-generation wireless network as they fight for market share with rival Rogers Communications.

Ericsson has unveiled a wind-powered base station produced in collaboration with Vertical Wind AB and Uppsala University in Sweden.

Citrix systems has formed an alliance with Indian data communication services provider Tulip Telecom to provide development and implementation of applications for enterprise communications.

Dissatisfied with the Web development tools already available, researchers at the newly formed Developer Tools Lab at Mozilla Labs intend to find better options.Announced Monday, the lab will be led by Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, who founded the Ajaxian Web site, which is focused on AJAX issues. The lab will center on research and development of developer tools for the "open" Web, according to the Mozilla Labs Web site."We've been talking to Mozilla for a while and thinking about how the Web has been lacking in tool support and how life has been too hard for developers," said Almaer, who until recently had worked at Google as a Web advocate. "We had a couple of ideas."He acknowledged there are tools already on the market for Web development but said these have not changed drastically for a quite a while. Developers now build AJAX applications in a different fashion and are building complex systems on the Web. No tools really help developers with this, he said.The labs' efforts will

Christie has unveiled its Brilliant3D technology that enables 3D content to be projected in full 2K resolution for digital cinema projectors utilising 1.2” DMD chips from Texas Instruments.

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A U.S. startup has emerged from stealth mode Tuesday and is set to introduce Windows data migration software aimed at mid-size businesses, a sector it feels desperately needs affordable data migration tools.According to a survey carried out by AutoVirt, businesses are vastly over-provisioning their NAS resources. This in turn leads to low utilization rates, with the survey finding that Windows servers had average utilization rates of 20 percent, while Windows storage had average utilization rates of 30 percent.AutoVirt says that this, coupled with the growth of unstructured data, and the fact that IT managers are frequently lumbered with manually doing data migration themselves, provides it with the chance to save mid-size businesses money by using its out-of-band file virtualization product, so IT managers can consolidate their storage resources, a message bound to appeal to any financial director in the current economic climate.AutoVirt calls its offering the "first fully automa

HARVEY Norman will take the unusual step of reporting weekly sales to provide an "indicator" of the state of Australia's economy.

AIRBUS has warned A330 operators to guard against potential computer problems after last week's roller-coaster ride by a Qantas jet.