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Gokongwei owned Summit Media will close down three foreign title magazines – Marie Claire, T3, and Seventeen. Reason for the closure is the expensive franchise licenses.
Marie Claire is the publication that women turn to for information on fashion, style, beauty, women’s issues, careers and more. T3 (Tomorrow’s Technology, Today) is a UK-based [...]

Sony Corp. said that President Ryoji Chubachi will step down from his post in April while Howard Stringer will double as both president and chairman to speed up restructuring to cope with dwindling demand for TVs and other products amid the global economic crisis.
The company said it will “drastically” renew its electronics and gaming operations [...]

Nokia has revealed that they are looking at the possibility of launching Symbian powered laptops in the future.
Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in a statement: “We don’t have to look even for five years from now to see that what we know as a mobile phone and what we know as a PC are [...]

Intel has confirmed that it is also in legal proceedings against Psion to have its netbook trademark dissolved.
Intel’s petition is similar to Dell’s in that it asserts that the term ‘netbook’ has already entered the public consciousness as a generic term to describe the platform.

Microsoft developers are working on a new browser that they say could be far more secure than Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox or Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer. The prototype is known as Gazelle and it uses a “browser kernel” that helps enforce security rules in order to prevent.
Gazelle is different as no existing browsers, including [...]