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In this week’s show Microsoft and Yahoo reach a search deal, Greenpeace visits HP’s headquarters, Nintendo and Sony sees slumps in game console sales, a new racer hits the pavement at LeMans, education goes high tech and Nissan debuts an electric car

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Week In Review – 7/31

Both video game giants post earnings reports

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Playstation 3 and Wii sales slow, impact earnings reports

Sony reported a net loss of 388 million US dollars for the period of April to June. Nintendo, whose Wii console has been the top seller of the three major manufacturers, reported a 443 million dollar profit.

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PS3, Wii sales down from last year

Exhibitors at this year’s Campus Technology Conference in Boston dropped the pencil and paper in favor of tablet PCs, netbooks and full fledged laptops for use in education.

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Computers rival pencil and paper at Campus Technology

Yodel Anecdotal » Blog Archive » What our Microsoft deal means to you

It’s inhumanly early in California, but it’s already a great day at Yahoo!. We’ve just signed a major search deal with Microsoft. Under the terms, Microsoft will become the search engine behind Yahoo! and we will become the worldwide exclusive relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.

While you’ll read a lot about why this is good for our business and for advertisers, I want to talk about what’s in it for you -– the Yahoo! fan.

Here’s the rundown:

* Better search: You’ll still find search boxes all across Yahoo!, but this deal will make the difference between a great Yahoo! search experience and an awesome one. Some of the biggest brains in the business work on Yahoo! Search, and they will continue to innovate to create a better search experience on Yahoo!. As a result of the deal, Microsoft, which has great technologists and deep pockets,will have the scale to bring users faster, more useful and more personally relevant search.
* Better everything else: With Microsoft powering Yahoo! Search, we’ll be able to focus on the things we do best -– being the center of people’s lives online with properties like our homepage, mail, finance, news, sports, entertainment, mobile, etc. Sure, we’re the world’s largest online media company and your loyalty has made that possible. But we’re not satisfied – we still want you to say “wow” a lot more often. And that’s what makes this deal especially exciting.
* Better competition: Competition equals innovation. But with one player dominating 70% of search, that field has been pretty lopsided. This transaction will create a healthy competitor that’ll keep everyone on their toes.

In short, everything’s just going to get a whole lot better for you.

And one final note — what this agreement does not cover is any of Yahoo!’s other properties or products. In those areas, Microsoft can expect a fierce competitor.

We’ve set up a special site, www.choicevalueinnovation.com, that answers your questions.

Carol Bartz
CEO

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AMD spinoff lands top chip company as customer | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News

Globalfoundries, the manufacturing concern spun off from Advanced Micro Devices, plans to announce Wednesday that it has signed up STMicroelectronics–its first true outside customer.
STMicroelectronics supplies the accelerometer for the iPhone 3GS

Globalfoundries was created last year in order to eliminate the crippling overhead that AMD was incurring to manufacture its processors. Globalfoundries now conducts business as a contract chip manufacturer, commonly referred to as a foundry.

AMD owns 34.2 percent of the company, while Advanced Technology Investment Co. owns the rest. ATIC is an investment company wholly owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, which is part of the United Arab Emirates.

Last week, Globalfoundries broke ground on a $4.2 billion facility in Malta, N.Y., that is expected to put it among the elite chipmakers of the world. Currently, Globalfoundries manufactures chips for AMD at facilities in Dresden, Germany.

STMicroelectronics will commission Globalfoundries to make low-power chips using a 40-nanometer process, which “is ideal for the next generation of wireless applications, handheld devices, and consumer electronics,” according to a statement. Production is slated for 2010.

Currently, the most advanced manufacturing processes in the chip industry are at the 34-nanometer level–which Intel uses to manufacture flash memory chips. More typically, chips are made on advanced processes ranging between 40 and 50 nanometers. Generally, the smaller the chip’s geometries, the faster and more power efficient it is.

Globalfoundries would not say what specific types of chips it will make for STMicroelectronics, whose product portfolio includes memory, microcontrollers, power management silicon, and MEMS or Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems.

One of the highest profile products STMicroelectronics supplies today is the accelerometer for the iPhone 3GS. Based on MEMS technology, the accelerometer allows the 3GS to determine device orientation or inclination.

STMicroelectronics was ranked among the top 5 chipmakers in the world based on revenue in 2008, according to market researcher iSuppli.
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AMD spinoff lands top chip company as customer

The on-campus calendar service DormNoise that pulls student calendars together and then syncs with any calendar application is displayed at the Campus Technology Conference in Boston.

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DormNoise syncs student calendars together

Microsoft and Yahoo struck a long-anticipated search deal Wednesday under which Microsoft’s Bing search engine will power Yahoo’s search site, and Yahoo will sell premium search advertising services for both companies.

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At Black Hat this week researchers will show a way to bypass kill-bits; Microsoft is releasing a patch for the bug on Tuesday

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Microsoft rushes to fix IE kill-bit bypass attack

This time we check out the Odaida Gundam opening ceremony and hear from Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, visit a new maid cafe in Akihabara, play Gatchapon and travel to the Tokyo Toy Show

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Akibatteru Episode #5

The environmental group accuses HP of backtracking on a promise to rid its PCs of toxic chemicals by 2009.

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Greenpeace protests at HP’s headquarters

European lawmakers reached agreement Monday on how to free up radio spectrum for new mobile Internet services while ensuring that regular mobile phone services are not compromised.

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Europe updates mobile Internet rules

The car is based on the same platform as Nissan’s production electric car that will go on sale next year. It has a top speed of 85mph and a range of over 100 miles.

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Taking Nissan’s electric test car for a drive

The car is based on the same platform as Nissan’s production electric car that will go on sale next year. It has a top speed of 85mph and a range of over 100 miles.

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Leak: Inside the Microsoft Store With Wall-Sized Screens and the Answers Bar

We’ve been wondering what the Microsoft’s retail shops are going to be like. Well, according to a Powerpoint presentation leaked to us, it’s going to make the Apple Store look downright boring. UPDATE: Microsoft comments.

The presentation is by Lippicott, a “design and brand strategy” consultant firm with extensive retail experience that it appears Microsoft has hired to help develop the store’s concept, principles, and design. It looks pretty legit to us–if it’s a fake, it’s fairly elaborate, with detailed graphics, research, plans and even rough store layouts.

Essentially, Microsoft is taking the best elements from the Apple Store, Sony Style and other “flagship” stores. The main focuses are going to be Windows 7, Xbox, PCTV (Windows Media Center) Surface and Windows Mobile, revolving around this concept customer they call “Emily,” who’s basically a younger version of your mom, since they make all the buying decisions.

Frank Shaw w/ Waggener Edstrom, left a comment below on behalf of Microsoft, implying that many of these concepts are merely that and not final plans:

As a part of our process in briefing creative agencies, we shared some early prototypes and concepts of our retail store plans. No final decisions have been made. As we previously announced, we are on track to open retail stores this Fall.

Here are the highlights of the slides:

• There’s going to be a Digital Media Wall–a massive screen–that wraps around the entire store, which you can see in some of the slides
• Lots of Surface demos
• Stage areas for Windows 7, Windows Media Center (PCTV), Windows Mobile and netbooks
• Their take on the Genius Bar is the Answers Bar (or Guru Bar, depending on which slide you look at, showing it’s slightly up in the air, though we prefer Answers Bar since its sounds like slightly less of a Genius Bar ripoff)
• They’re already planning out huge demos and events around Project Natal and their secret mobile project Pink
• A fancy Microsoft shopping bag
• You can pay to have your birthday party at the Microsoft Store