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(Telecompaper) Toshiba has agreed to acquire Panasonic's 40 percent share in the their LCD joint venture, creating a new company called Toshiba Mobile Display. The joint venture develops, manufactures and sells LCDs and OLEDs, focusing on small and medium displays for products such as mobile phones, portable PCs and vehicles. The transaction is expected to close by the end of this month. Toshiba said the acquisition will help it accelerate restructuring at its LCD business, which is facing declining demand and continuous price erosion.

April 1 has come and gone in some parts of the world, and the Conficker worm is still here. While the day in security passed by relatively uneventfully, there are still people at risk. - The doomsday some were predicting the Conficker worm to bring had notmaterialized as of the evening of April 1. But that hardly means Conficker is abust.In short, theConficker worm did what was expected generate 50,000 domain names and begincontacting them. According to BKIS, the Bach Khoa...

Ponca City, We love you writes 'What did the Obamas give Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday when they arrived at Buckingham Palace? An Obama aide reported the queen was given an iPod loaded with video and photos of her 2007 trip to the United States, as well as songs and accessories. She also received a rare songbook signed by the composer Richard Rodgers. The gift issue had come up after Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the White House last month. Mr. Brown gave Mr. Obama a pen holder carved from the timber of an anti-slave ship, receiving in return a DVD box set of American movies, igniting a torrent of criticism in the British press. According to news reports, the queen gave the Obamas a silver-framed signed photograph — a gift she gives to all visiting dignitaries.' of this story at Slashdot.

April 1 has come and gone in some parts of the world - Conficker is still here. While the day passed by relatively uneventfully, there are still people at risk. - The doomsday some were predicting tied to the Conficker worm did not materialize as of this evening eastern standard time. But that hardly means Conficker is a bust.In short, the worm did what was expected ? generate 50,000 domain names and begin contacting them. According to Bkis, the Bach Khoa I...

Twitter, blogs and Facebook are becoming enterprise tools in their own right

Zer01 Communications has announced it will be displaying its Zer01 Mobile unlimited voice and data mobile plan at the CTIA Wireless 2009 convention in Las Vegas (booth #6363). The new internet pre-paid plan requires no contracts or commitments to sign up and is being offered to mobile users at $70 a month. According to CEO Ben Piilani, Zer01 Mobile uses Veritable Mobile Convergence (VMC) technolog...

Microsoft will restrict Windows 7 'upgrade rights' for Vista and XP users to 25 machines at any single street address, meaning that larger companies will have to go through volume licensing for their migration plans, according to a Web site chronicling the rollout of the forthcoming operating system..

Microsoft announced six new applications for government and education, Public Sector On-Demand Solutions, powered by microsoft Dynamics CRM. microsoft, like Google, Salesforce.com and other major IT entities, have been exploring ways to bring software-as-a-service (SaaS) to an ever-broader range of institutional and enterprise audiences. - Microsoft introduced six new applications for government and education, ranging frompublic-records tracking to student information systems, under the moniker PublicSector On-Demand Solutions. They will be powered by Microsoft Dynamics CRM. According to thecompany, the deployment of cloud...

(Telecompaper) Consumer electronics purchases will be hit severely, but mobile services should weather the economic slowdown better, according to a survey of 2,400 consumers across France, Germany and the UK conducted by Canalys in March. The survey gathered consumer opinion on a range of topics, including mobile applications and web browsing, netbooks, mobile broadband and demand for LBS, as well as the economic downturn and how it might affect mobile phone use and technology buying in the coming year. When asked what they would do if they had to reduce their expenditure, a significant 14 percent said the first thing they would do is delay buying consumer electronics products, which will also hurt some in the technology industry, while another 9 percent would cut back first on buying DVDs, CDs or on pay-TV services. Consumers are highly reluctant to include their mobile phone use in the list of things to cut back on to save money. While only 1 percent said they would stop using their

(Telecompaper) Spanish telecommunications revenues fell to EUR 10.69 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008, compared to EUR 10.98 billion in the year-earlier period, according to national regulator CMT. Retail services reached EUR 9.02 billion and wholesale services EUR 1.66 billion. Within the retail market, fixed telephony revenues fell to EUR 1.71 billion from EUR 1.77 billion over the same period, and mobile revenues went down to EUR 3.72 billion versus EUR 3.79 billion in 2007. Internet revenues rose to EUR 963 million from EUR 890 million, and TV revenues fell to EUR 1.42 billion from EUR 1.60 billion in the period. There were 20.20 million fixed telephony lines in service at end-December 2008, including 13.00 million residential lines and 7.19 million business lines. Telefonica Spain had a 79.7 percent share of fixed telephony customers in the fourth quarter, followed by Ono with 9.0 percent, Orange with 2.1 percent, Vodafone with 1.9 percent, Euskaltel with 1.7 percent, and Jaz