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Monthly Archives: April 2006

Infineon Technologies AG grabbed the No.2 spot in DRAM market

Congrats to Infineon Technologies AG. Just yesterday, Infineon Technologies launched a new chipset for digital cordless phones that will allow total system costs to be reduced.

The new chipset incorporates the Step8 DECT baseband controller, an eighth-generation device from the company that pioneered the digital cordless market segment in the early 1990s. The Step8 leverages Infineon’s expertise to provide new functionalities like polyphonic ringing, color-display support and a microcontroller optimized for maximum performance. The Step8 is used along with a radio frequency transceiver and power amplifier to provide a very price competitive solution with an extended feature set for digital cordless handsets.

Germany’s Infineon Technologies AG grabbed the No.2 spot in the global DRAM market in the first quarter as its key rivals focused on more profitable NAND flash memory, iSuppli Corp. said on Friday.

Global sales of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips rose 7 percent in the first quarter from the October-December period, beating its earlier estimate thanks to strong chip sales to the PC market, the U.S. research firm said.

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Microsoft Offers Lukewarm 4Q 2006 Forecast

Microsoft Corp. is tempering its income outlook as it boosts research and development spending, leaving some analysts grappling with whether that decision will translate to higher profits.

For the three months ended March 31, Microsoft earned $2.98 billion, or 29 cents per share, compared with $2.56 billion, or 23 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier.

The most recent results included a charge of 3 cents per share for legal expenses. However, the company said that, without rounding, it actually earned 28.6 cents per share and took a charge of 2.6 cents per share. That means it would have earned 31 cents per share.

Revenue for the three-month period was $10.9 billion, a 13 percent increase over sales of $9.62 billion a year earlier.

Analysts polled by Thomson Financial were expecting earnings of 33 cents per share, on revenue of $11.04 billion.

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Explorer Destroyer helps you make money with Firefox

ExplorerDestroyer.com is helping people make more money with the Google Firefox Affiliate Program by offering a script that detects users browser.

The campaign, called Explorer Destroyer, takes advantage of a new program by Google to pay users $1 for each referral to Firefox made through Google Toolbar, according to the group’s Web site (http://www.explorerdestroyer.com).

“You already want people to switch to Firefox. Now’s the time to get serious about it,” according to the site. “Google is paying $1 for each new Firefox user you refer. … Now you can advance your ideals, save people from popups and spyware hell, and make some serious money.”

According the Explorer Destroyer Web site, the group offers Web-site owners scripting technology that will detect if a visitor is running IE. If so, an alert will appear directing them to download Firefox either to view the site better or at all. Whenever a visitor to a Web site using the group’s technology switches to Firefox from IE, the owner of the Web site will get the referral fee if they have signed up for Google’s AdSense program.