Sony has announced the acquisition of 50% of the authorized capital of joint venture Sony Ericsson in the Swedish partner Ericsson for 1.05 billion euros. Rumors of talks between Sony and Ericsson in the transition of the joint venture in the sole ownership of the Japanese technology giant appeared at the beginning of this month.

Even then, experts have estimated that the cost of 50% Sony Ericsson may be from 1 billion to 1.25 billion euros.

In a joint press release stated that the acquisition of mobile business will allow Sony to quickly integrate into existing smart phones have an extensive list of Internet access to consumer electronic devices, including tablets, televisions and personal computers.

The company Advanced Micro Devices plans to begin mass production of accelerated processors (APU), code-named Trinity for desktop PCs in March 2012. Initially the company will focus on energy-efficient systems, and some in May will begin production of more powerful chips Fusion.

According to journalists at the hands of X-bit labs documents at the beginning or middle of March 2012 AMD is going to start mass production of APU Series A, with power up to 65W. Then in early May 2012 the company will print chips Trinity already having 100 watts TDP and therefore higher performance.

Despite all the ups and downs this year, HP is still the world leader in terms of supply of computers. However, the new CEO Meg Whitman (Meg Whitman) in a recent interview, said that Apple can get around the HP 2012 in the PC. Referring to the analytical prediction Canalys, which says what the next year, Apple will be the leading supplier of computers, if that number included in the tablet iPad, Mrs.

Whitman confirmed the possibility of such a scenario. But, she said, HP will try to regain the lost championship in 2013. «Apple has achieved incredible success. We need many things to review, and our products are back leading position “, – said Meg Whitman.

Earlier this week we published a list of 18 models of the Intel family of Ivy Bridge, which will be released next year. This line includes models Core i5 and i7 3000, aimed at different market niches. Recently, a network of commercial hit Intel plans for 2012, which confirmed a number of these processors.

Slides show that Ivy Bridge processors will be available starting in the second quarter of 2012, which corresponds to the earlier rumors of a delay launch until April-May. The first models will be the Core i3-32xx, i5-3450, i5-3550, i5-3570K, i7-3770 and i7-3770K. In the third quarter of 3470 processors i5-i5-3570 and will be replaced by 3450 and i5-i5-3550, and a faster chip Core i7-37x0K replace the model i7-3770K.

For the first time in history kompyuternogo production in China was presented superkompyutera, which works by using microprocessors domestic, China.

Finally fulfilled the desire of Chinese who long ago were talking about fundamentally important for the country’s establishment of full technological cycle kompyuternogo own production. To date, all major types of microprocessors on the market are created by designers of the United States of America and Western Europe – Asia produces only assembly.

Representatives of the American vendor of books and electronic chitalok «Barnes & Noble» saw in the requirements concerning fees for use of patents by corporations «Microsoft» desire to “stifle competition” and to monopolize the market.

With the accusations against the well-known company specialists «Barnes & Noble» appealed to the U.S. Department of Justice, insisting on a formal investigation on the matter. As written by representatives of the official circulation of the book «Barnes & Noble» General Counsel to the Department of Justice, Jen Killilmanu dealing with competition policy, says that the implementation of the requirements regarding the implementation of Microsoft’s patent royalties from each device to be created on the basis of them belonging to the operating system Android, leads to an increase in the cost of electronic devices of competitors of the company.

Prosecution department of the Japanese city of Tokyo announced the start of the judicial inquiry in relation to the former and current leadership of Olympus, which states that the major executives of the company can take to prison for up to 10 years.

According to Samuel Williamson, partner at Kirkland & Ellis, he was faced with the usual fraud, which was conducted in the accounting department. All these facts are double-entry bookkeeping may adversely affect the reputation of the company and followed the fall of irreversible loss of income from the Japanese market.