Stories about: Flextronics

Microsoft is suing US-based cargo-delivery service DHL Express for allegedly losing 21,600 Xbox game consoles because of a train derailment in Texas, according to court documents.

Flextronics International plans to acquire rival Solectron to create an electronics manufacturing services powerhouse with more than US$30 billion in annual revenue, Flextronics announced Monday.

With speculation that Avaya is in play for an [[ArtId:2028075792|acquisition|new]], things will be different for VOIP users or the overall market, analysts and observers say, no matter what happens.

Cisco Systems Inc. will open a manufacturing facility in Chennai in south India that will initially make products for the domestic Indian market and also has announced it is setting up a globalization center in the country.

Flextronics International, one of the world's top contract electronics manufacturers, said Sunday it agreed to sell its software business to an affiliate of buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in a deal valued at US$900 million.

Microsoft will continue its efforts to stop software piracy by announcing an agreement with two Chinese computer makers to use only licensed versions of its Windows XP operating system.

Microsoft has reported the highest quarterly revenue in company history for its fiscal 2006 second quarter on the strength of its Windows OS and a series of highly anticipated product releases. Still, the company fell slightly shy of analysts' revenue expectations.

A low-cost smart phone from Microsoft code-named Peabody is nearing completion and will run on the recently released Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, an executive from the software giant said Tuesday.

Microsoft fleshed out its mobile software strategy on Monday, targeting original equipment manufacturers (OEM) with a mobile software platform, telecom operators with applications for managing the delivery of converged services, and, of course, consumers, with a glimpse of upcoming devices based on its Windows Mobile software.

With $12 million in funding and a consulting chief scientist from Los Alamos whose research field is efficient computing, high-performance networking and bioinformatics, two of Transmeta's co-founders have reinvented the technical workstation, coming up with a completely new kind of box that's actually a "Personal Cluster" or even a "Personal Supercomputer" - a widget that puts 12 nodes in the space of a classic desktop or 96 nodes in a knee-knocking deskside - both configurations playing to the emerging rage for commodity Linux clusters.

Nortel Networks will shift the last of its manufacturing operations to Flextronics when a deal announced Tuesday is completed next year.