It appears the second time's the charm for AT&T, which won a $350 million data networking contract from the U.S. Department of Agriculture two years after having been awarded -- but later stripped -- of the same deal because of a protest from the losing bidders.
New contract rules at China Unicom meant to prevent Chinese iPhone 4 owners from reselling their phones have drawn the attention of the Chinese government, which has called on the network operator to respect consumers' rights.
United Microelectronics (UMC), the world's second-largest contract chip maker, saw revenue for 2010 increase 35.9 percent over 2009. Robust demand for a range of consumer electronics including smartphones drove the growth.
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Intel on Tuesday said the company would begin contract manufacturing of chips, a change from the company's policy of serving only itself through its factories.
Cisco Systems and distributor Westcon Group North America have agreed to pay the U.S. government US$48 million to settle charges that they misrepresented prices in contracts with the U.S. General Service Administration and other agencies.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) reached an out-of-court settlement valued at US$290.2 million with China's biggest chip maker after a court-room victory in a case concerning theft of trade secrets, patent infringement and breach of contract over a prior settlement between the two companies.
Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop computer maker, set record highs for shipments and revenue in the month of June, a sign demand for technology products hasn't stumbled despite fears of debt problems in some parts of Europe.
A group based in Hong Kong this week issued a report alleging continued Foxconn worker abuse, and questioned some of the promises made by the contract manufacturer to live up to its code of conduct.
Sony expanded a plan to outsource global LCD TV production on Wednesday, announcing a pact to have its popular LCD TVs for the European market made by the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer.
GlobalFoundries, the former chip manufacturing arm spun off from Advanced Micro Devices, has moved fast to put its financial house in order after acquiring Singapore contract chip maker Chartered Semiconductor.
Oracle has agreed to pay US$199.5 million plus interest for failing to meet its contractual obligations in a 1998 contract with the U.S. General Services Administration, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
Jackson Hu, the CEO of Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp., the world's second-largest contract chip maker, has been named chairman of the company, according to a statement released by UMC.
Huawei Technologies, the fast-growing Chinese vendor of communications network gear, reached global contract sales of over US$30 billion last year, the company said Tuesday, marking a rise of nearly 30 percent from the year before.
New South Wales has started work on an e-health system that will replace paper records systems in public hospitals. And the government of Rwanda has awarded a Swedish company a $5 million contract to build a national data center.
Telecommunication regulators in Singapore issued new guidelines governing contract terms and early termination fees for mobile and broadband services in a bid to make the city-state's telecommunications industry more competitive.
The Italian company criticized for supplying the brutal Syrian regime with telecommunications surveillance equipment has frozen participation in the project and is seeking a way to extricate itself from the contract, Area SpA CEO Andrea Formenti said Wednesday.
A new tender document for the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) aims to strengthen the transparency, independence and accountability of the next IANA contractor.
By February, Silicon Graphics Inc. was in deep trouble. It was shedding employees and continuing to lose money -- yet it announced that it had just signed a US$40 million deal with the U.S. Department of Defense.