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Microsoft and Yahoo re-enter talks

News The announcement comes just days after billionaire investor Carl Icahn launched a proxy fight to unseat Yahoo's current board at the Internet search pioneer's upcoming 3 July annual shareholders meeting.

Tags: proxy, deal, continue, advertising

19 May 2008, 10:21

News.blog: Chip makers address processor 'greening'

News Stanford's lab will cost $6m over three years and be led by electrical engineering professor Kunle Olukotun, a pioneer the idea of multicore microprocessors, according to the Times. Clock speed is no longer the most important measure on processors...

Tags: intel, lab, university, sun microsystems

30 April 2008, 9:10

News.blog: OLED panels promised for 2009

News For that price you could also get a 50-inch Pioneer Kuro, generally regarded as the best plasma TV on the market. Sony's teased us for a bit with its impossibly thin, 11-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV, and finally brought it to the US...

Tags: samsung, inch, market, lcd

23 April 2008, 9:12

Photos: Cardboard furniture keeps it green

News Star architect Frank Gehry is known as the design pioneer in this realm. What does cardboard furniture have to do with technology? As prices rise for oil and raw materials (even sawdust), fans of furniture made from cardboard call it more earth...

Tags: interest, designs, material, shapes

10 March 2008, 9:37

News.blog: Pioneer drops plasma production

News Pioneer plans to let someone else make its plasma TV panels, according to several reports. Panasonic is the biggest plasma TV vendor in the world, shipping nearly 40 per cent of all plasma displays, while Pioneer ranks fifth, shipping just over 6...

Tags: pioneer, cent, plasma, panels

6 March 2008, 9:12

Photos: Ceatec's consumer electronics

News Pioneer's image recognition navigation system. Panasonic has shown off similar wall TV concepts, so this shouldn't be too far away from being seen in living rooms. Ceatec runs this week in Chiba outside of Tokyo.

4 October 2007, 9:32

News.blog: YouTube launches online editing tool

News Photobucket, for instance, launched an Adobe-branded editor in February, and Yahoo acquired Jumpcut, a pioneer in Internet-based editing tools, last September. YouTube has begun offering a Web-based editing tool that is apparently provided by Adobe.

18 June 2007, 9:19

Pioneer unveils revamped plasma tech

News For Pioneer, black is the new black. And black was the focus of the event: after all, Pioneer claims that its new eighth-generation flat panels provide the most advanced levels of deep black of any television on the market.

10 May 2007, 10:44

Price cuts on the way for plasma?

News Even with the decline, Matsushita (Panasonic in the UK) and Pioneer saw panel shipments grow in the fourth quarter at the expense of other competitors. It looks as if plasma is losing ground in the high end of the TV market.

31 January 2007, 9:27

Swedes pioneer greener sat-nav

News An eco-friendly satellite-navigation system offering routes to save fuel and minimise greenhouse gas emissions is being developed by Swedish scientists. Their sat-nav system has reported an average fuel saving of more than eight per cent compared...

5 January 2007, 9:12

SanDisk brings flash hard drives to laptops

News SanDisk got the bulk of its expertise in these drives when it acquired Msystems, an Israeli outfit that was an early pioneer in USB flash keys. SanDisk wants to replace the hard drive in laptops with flash memory, a swap that it says will make thin...

4 January 2007, 9:13

'Skypecasts' will enable bloggers to chat

News Skype was the hot Internet company last year when it was purchased by online auction pioneer eBay in a deal valued at $2.6 billion at the time. Internet telephony provider Skype plans to offer bloggers and others the ability to hold audio chats in...

8 November 2006, 9:00

News.blog: Blu-ray and HD DVD united by 2008?

News LG and Pioneer have given up on the idea of releasing a dual-format player in the relatively near future. Chipmakers such as Broadcom, NEC and STMicroelectronics are preparing components that will allow consumer electronics manufacturers to release...

Tags: universal, companies, disc, electronics

7 November 2006, 11:38

Lost? Try asking your mobile phone

News Ellenby, who helped found laptop pioneer Grid Systems, came up with the idea with his sons, in part to compensate for his own weak sense of direction. When it comes to mobile phones, US consumers might as well be working with stone knives and...

1 November 2006, 9:12

IBM and Pioneer's hands-free GPS system

News IBM has licensed voice-recognition software to Pioneer Europe for use in hands-free GPS navigation systems that allow drivers to keep their hands on their steering wheels. Pioneer will be using the technology in its new AVIC-HD1BT console, which...

26 October 2006, 9:24