Nokia today announced its second year as a partner and supporter of the TED Conference fostering new projects on the rich common ground between TED’s mission of ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’ and Nokia’s goal of ‘Connecting People.’ In times that call for new ideas and the ability for people to help spread those ideas, Nokia will serve as TED’s Global Communications Partner to support two specific programs – the TED translation program …

Charter Communications today announced the launch of 60 Mbps Internet service, the fastest residential service available from any multiple system cable and telecom provider. The initial deployment of Charter High-Speed Internet Ultra60 is in the St. Louis metropolitan area, with additional markets to follow. Nationwide, the Company will soon boost Charter High- Speed® Internet Max from 16 Mbps to 20 Mbps.

“Not only are we delivering the fastest speed today, but …

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Net loss of $5.9 billion, or $2.46 per share, for the fourth quarter of 2008 amid a sharp global decline in vehicle demand; pre-tax loss of $3.7 billion from continuing operations, excluding special items. ++
Reduced Automotive costs by $1.4 billion in fourth quarter and $4.4 billion in 2008 versus year-ago levels. Achieved $5.1 billion in North America cost reductions at year-end 2008 …

Motorola, Inc. fourth-quarter results are scheduled to be issued at approximately 6:00 a.m. Central Time (USA) on Tuesday, 3 February. Motorola will host its quarterly conference call with financial analysts following the earnings release at 7:00 a.m. Central Time (USA) on 3 February. The conference call will be webcast live with audio and slides at www.motorola.com/investor.

A replay of the conference call will be available over the Internet at …

Sprint Nextel Corp. today announced that the company will take actions in the first quarter of 2009 to reduce internal and external labor costs by approximately $1.2 billion on an annualized basis. The actions include the elimination of approximately 8,000 positions within the …

FORTUNE announced Thursday that T-Mobile USA, Inc. has been ranked 96 on the 12th annual “100 Best Companies to Work For” list. The full list and related stories appear in the February 2 issue of FORTUNE, available on newsstands on Monday, January 26, and now at www.fortune.com.

According to FORTUNE, a driving factor for the companies on this year’s list is that they excel at creating jobs. Of the 100 companies …

Creative Technology Ltd today announced financial results
for the second quarter of its 2009 fiscal year, ended December 31, 2008. All financial results are stated in U.S. dollars.

Revenues for the second quarter were $155.7 million, compared to revenues of $262.5 million for the same quarter last year. Net loss for the second quarter was $32.4 million, with loss per share of $0.44. This compares to net income of $7.6 million with earnings …

Notice is given to the shareholders of Nokia Corporation (the “Company”) to the Annual General Meeting to be held on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. at Helsinki Fair Centre, Amfi Hall, Messuaukio 1, Helsinki, Finland. The reception of persons who have registered for the Meeting will commence at 2:00 p.m.
A. Matters on the agenda of the Annual General Meeting
At the Annual General Meeting, the following matters …

A host of state-of-the-art technologies from NVIDIA are featured in one of the most innovative performance PCs ever created: the HP Firebird with Voodoo DNA, debuting at CES.

Striking a critical balance between performance and energy efficiency, the HP Firebird offers stunning graphics and CUDA(TM) performance in a sleek new desktop design. The HP Firebird features dual NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) 9800S MXM 3.0 modules(1) which are one-fifth the size of typical graphics cards …

Motorola today announced that its set top producing subsidiary in China, Hangzhou Motorola Technologies Ltd (HMT), signed a strategic cooperative agreement for its integrated Digital TV (DTV) platform with one of China’s largest broadcasting operators. This marks a milestone for DTV migration in the Shaanxi province while solidifying Motorola’s leading position in the DTV market in China.

Under the terms of this agreement, HMT and the Shaanxi BC & TV Intermediary Co., …

Samsung today announces a raft of major deals in the hotel industry, marking the end of a highly successful 12 month launch period in which it has seized 20 per cent market share.

Samsung has partnered with Europe’s top hotel systems integrators, Acentic, Locatel and Quadriga, to provide a ‘one stop shop’ for entertainment and revenue generation via hotel TVs. Prestigious European hotel groups which have already installed Samsung include, De Vere, …

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Today announced that since 2004, more than 5,000 companies worldwide have replaced their HP, Sun, and EMC products with energy-efficient IBM Systems and Storage. Companies have invested in IBM’s System z, Power and System x servers as well as IBM Storage to tackle their most challenging business objectives and to help reduce sprawling data center costs for labor, energy and real estate.

“Our problems with our hardware vendors were …

-Tellabs data and voice services, signed two new agreements for wired and wireless network services from Verizon. The services will enable Tellabs to better connect with its extended network of customers, partners and employees.

Under the first agreement, Verizon Business designed and deployed a global networking solution incorporating Verizon Private IP, long-distance and Internet services that will link more than 3,500 Tellabs employees at 50 sites worldwide. Under the second agreement, …

AT&T managed to leak its plans for the winter season and it looks like no Bold is coming soon. RIM’s phone should finally hit the U.S. market later this year but we don’t have any official dates yet. Besides the BlackBerry which looks like it will never arrive, we have the following phones:

Pantech Matrix: $80 after MIR
Samsung Propel:$80 after MIR
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Strengthening its color lineup to support the growing color output needs of small office, workgroup and general office environments, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of digital office imaging systems and solutions, today unveiled the new sleek, compact, easy to use and feature-rich Color imageRUNNER C1022 Series.

The new Color imageRUNNER Series, which is built upon the Canon imageCHIP (Concurrent Hyper Intelligent Platform) Lite system architecture, combines the capabilities of single …

Apple shares took a 17% tumble today. Everybody else who’s anybody saw their shares dropping valuable points today. No matter what business we are talking about, its shares took a smaller or bigger plunge following the Nasdaq and Dow Jones.

The $700 billion emergency bailout failed to pass the House today creating one of the worst trading days in Wall Street ever since 9/11. The Dow Jones lost 800 points which is …

Panasonic today announced the world’s first Micro Four Thirds system camera, the LUMIX DMC-G1, the world’s smallest and lightest digital interchangeable lens camera, weighing in at approximately 385 grams (0.85 lbs). Based on the new Micro Four Thirds System standard, the LUMIX G1 eliminates the internal mirror structure that defines digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras, thus reducing the size and weight by nearly half.** With the mirror-less system, the G1’s …

Puts the PC back on the desktop, or the countertop, or the bookshelf, or the entertainment center
New Inspiron PCs include sub-$800 13-inch laptop

Dell’s smallest, most personalized and most environmentally responsible consumer PC, the Studio Hybrid, launches today. Available immediately at www.dell.com/hybrid, the PC’s new unique shape and size, personalized with six optional, external jewel-toned color or bamboo sleeves, unleashes stylistic expression, inspiration and fun and looks great in …

Dell announced the industry’s first convertible tablet with multi-touch capabilities on the award-winning Dell Latitude XT. Customers can download the easy-to-install multi-touch module at www.support.dell.com starting today.

The company is also expanding its solid state drive (SSD) leadership with availability of a 128 GB drive and said it will announce its next generation Latitude laptops in the coming weeks.

“We introduced the Latitude XT as a revolutionary product in the tablet space,” …

Yesterday launch of the iPhone 3G demonstrated that Apple didn’t anticipate how big this second coming would be and that if the first version became a sensational hit, this next version will be even bigger than Apple itself.

This is the first time in mobile history that an upgrade of any cell phone resulted in an instant megahit worldwide and even Nokia hasn’t enjoyed the same level of costumers commitment with …