Fine reduced after firms admitted liability The European Commission has fined nine semiconductor manufacturers more than €331m after it found the companies guilty of price fixing in the market for DRAM memory chips.

Nanowires generate electricity through motion Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology are harvesting energy through activities like walking or running that could power or recharge smartphones and portable music players in the future.

At a recent press conference in Germany HTC has officially announced a Q3 release of their latest handset called Wildfire.  This new HTC Unlocked (Wildfire) device  is set to be released in Europe and Asia later this year.  The new smartphone will come equipped with quadband GSM and 900/1200 MGz UMTS/HSDAP radios to the Android 2.1 operating system as well as a Qualcomm MSM 7225 processor running at 525MHz.  Other specs for this new handset include HTC’s Sense UI, 3.2 inch QVGA touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, 512 MB Flash and 384 MB of RAM, and microSD expansion.

Ofcom code initially applies to 7 largest ISPs ISPs with less than 400,000 subscribers will not have to issue warning letters to customers accused of illegally downloading, under proposals from Ofcom.

The HTC Unlocked ( EVO 4G) Phone has already turned up in Sprint’s inventory and been approved by the FCC now it looks like there is one more milestone to pass while on its path to store shelves.  The last stage the HTC EVO must clear before being released to the public is the Sprint employee training program.  While there is still no clear indication of when this new device will be released these training materials do reveal some new details about the HTC EVO. According to the announcement to Sprint employees regarding this straining it appears that anyone who purchases this new smartphone will also have to sign up for special “plans designed for the HTC EVO 4G.”  Details on these plans are not mentioned so we will have to wait a little longer to see what these entail.  Also, the training materials make mention of both Sprint Navigation and Google Navigation being present on the device.  The mobile hotspot feature will support both WEP and WPA encryption.  Plus the handset will include an FM radio. With not too much information surrounding the Unlocked HTC phone ( EVO 4G) available this training manual of sorts for Sprint employees helps shed some additional light on the upcoming phone.  We received further confirmation regarding several features that are expected to be included with the phone.  Also, we learned that a special pricing plan will be needed when purchasing this new phone.  Hopefully these plans will not be significantly higher than current Sprint phone plans.  However, with all of the features this phone expects to have plus the ultra fast 4G network it might be worth it to shell out a few extra bucks each month for that added speed when searching online or watching streaming video from you mobile phone

Microsoft finally gave a little bit back to their HTC Pure Unlocked phone Windows Mobile faithful today when they updated their Bing application to include free turn-by-turn navigation. When using Bing to find directions a new “navigate” button will allow users to navigate to their destination using voice prompts.  The navigation powered by Bing Maps uses Microsoft’s Tell me technology for the voice components.  This feature is said to be available for all Windows Mobile 6.x devices on Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T

Are you a fan of Ed Hardy designs? If the answer is yes than let me tell you that after giving us blackberry and iPhone cases, decal and laptop, hookahs and mice he is back with iPad cases. This iPad case arrives in a selection of 5 signature designs of Ed Hardy by Christian Audigier.