Taipei  - Taiwan plans to pick either US chipmaker Micron Technology Inc or Japan's Elpida Memory Inc to help upgrade its semiconductor industry, the Central News Agency (CNA) said Friday.

CNA quoted Economics Minister Yin Chi-ming as saying that Taiwan would unveil plans for the integration of its dynamic random access memory (DRAM) industry at the end of February and wants to pick a foreign chipmaker to merge with Taiwan semiconducter producers.

While Taiwan favours Micron and Elpida, a Micron-Elpida-Taiwan merger was unlikely because it would be time-consuming and too costly to merge the technologies of three countries, Yin told CNA.

Western Digital on Wednesday launched its latest network-attached storage (NAS) server that basically is the updated version of the My Book World Edition NAS server and which might be the first server that would be quite easy to use as compared to older NAS devices that use to complicate the matter by offering a lot more than just simple plug-and-play network storage, which use to confuse the beginner home users. 

The content by American web TV portal Hulu.com has been yanked its content off CBS-owned TV.com. This happened after the site’s recent re-launch as a potential rival for ad-driven streaming television.

Basically, Hulu is a JV between media giants NBC and News Corp and both are CBS competitors. However, Hulu signed on to TV.com early as a distribution partner. Since the TV.com concentrated on being a community site based on user-created content that just happened to present some syndicated content, the pact worked. 

On 3rd April, UK would see Nintendo launching its new DSi, two days before its release in the US - at a retail price of 149 GBP.

A source, on condition of anonymity, disclosed, "A third iteration of Nintendo's hugely successful handheld hardware, the DSi adds two cameras while slimming the proportions, and perhaps most significantly adds both an SD card slot and 256MB of memory, transforming the DS into a multimedia tool."

The world is aiming to go green and keeping this motto in mind, Sony has come out with its latest HDTV in its Bravia line dubbed as WE5, which the company claims would help the users to significantly save energy and thus reducing electricity bills.

How does WE5 do it? Well to understand this, it should be first noted that most TVs even when turned off, draw power. However the new WE5 is equipped with special switch, which can be activated reducing the power consumption of the set to zero watts when not in use.

Recently, BlackBerry came out with its latest the BlackBerry Curve 8900, which basically is the new version of the original T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve.

Reportedly, this set that is all about a keyboard, has a 3.2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi connectivity and all the e-mail features that make BlackBerry popular with businesspeople.