Daily technology news - 06-Feb-2007

Technology ADRs weigh; China sell-off resumes (Market Watch)NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S.-listed shares of overseas companies were lower Monday, led by the technology sector, with Chinese ADRs falling anew on worry the government will intervene in some way to curb stock market speculation.

HP to acquire Bristol Technology (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) Hewlett-Packard plans to acquire business transactions monitoring software vendor Bristol technology.

H-P buying Bristol Technology (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) Technology titan Hewlett-Packard Co. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Conn.-based Bristol Technology Inc., a provider of software that monitors business transactions, officials report.

CEOs Discuss Consumer Electronics: Creative Technology, Dolby Labs, SanDisk, SigmaTel, Cirrus Logic (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) Quotes from CEOs and CFOs on recent earnings conference calls, discussing their companies and markets: Creative Technology Ltd. Craig McHugh - President of Creative Labs Sales for our personal digital entertainment, or PDE category, which includes our MP3 players and web cameras, contributed 68% of total sales in the period.

Sony Wins Bid for Ipix Camera Technology Patents (Washington Post)When President Bush gave his 2003 State of the Union address, Ipix captured the room with a panoramic image for online viewers. Movie star Will Smith relied on similar 360-degree photos to go house-hunting in Philadelphia from his California living room. EBay used Ipix technology to display items...

Ratcliffe touts clean coal technology (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) Southern Co. Chairman, President and CEO David Ratcliffe on Monday told attendees of an energy conference in Washington, D.C. that the power sector will need to develop and use a range of clean coal technology options for future energy needs.

RightNow Technologies Chairman and CEO to Keynote the Credit Suisse Disruptive Technology Conference on Thursday ... (SYS-CON Media)RightNow(R) Technologies today announced that Greg Gianforte, Chairman and CEO, will keynote the Credit Suisse Disruptive Technology Conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007, at 8:00 a.m. PT in San Francisco, CA.

Ex-NanoTech Resources COO lands technology development post at AMD (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) Doug Grose, the former chief operating officer of NanoTech Resources Inc., has been picked to lead Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s worldwide technology development and manufacturing operations.

UT wins ruling in battery technology suit (Austin American-Statesman)University says Japanese firm's theft cut into licensing revenue. After waiting 2 1/2 years, the University of Texas System won a key appellate ruling in a lawsuit alleging that Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Corp. stole advanced battery technology from the Austin campus.

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