How would you change Panasonic's Lumix DFC-GF2? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Merger opens door for CSR to add imaging and video to its Wi-Fi, bluetooth and GPS products
Cambridge-based computer chip maker CSR on Monday announced a $679m deal to buy Zoran, the US imaging technology group.
The all share merger, which will see CSR hold 65% of the combined company, opens the door for CSR to add imaging and video to its Wi-Fi, bluetooth and GPS products, such as location-aware digital cameras. The merged company's customers will include Sony and Samsung.
Joep van Beurden, the chief executive of CSR who will head up the combined group, said on Monday: "The combined entity is going to be in a position to be very relevant to camera manufacturers. The same is true for digital televisions, in cars, in gaming and in handsets.
"You will absolutely see combinations of imaging, video technology, and connectivity in one product," he said. "This is an exciting transaction on both a strategic and financial level."
Shares in CSR were down 8% at 399p at 1pm on Monday, as investors expected that Zoran investors may well sell shares in the combined group. Its stock has risen 34% in the past three months.
Zoran, which is listed on Nasdaq, had $260m of cash on its balance sheet. CSR said that it would return up to $240m to shareholders through a share buyback programme. Shareholders in Zoran will receive 1.85 CSR shares for each Zoran share, implying a 40% premium to Zoran's closing price on Friday.
CSR, whose competitors include Broadcom and Qualcomm, has lost ground on the booming demand for internet-enabled mobile phones. Announcing better than expected full-year results earlier this month, Van Beurden said the company aims to increase its share in the smartphone market by 2012.
The company, which also supples Wi-Fi chips to carmakers including Audi, Ford and Toyota, saw its full-year revenues rise 33% last year, with operating profit tripling to $79m.
Dr Levy Gerzberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Zoran, will join the CSR board as non-executive director along with another, yet to be named, Zoran executive.
The deal is expected to be finalised in the second quarter of this year, subject to shareholder and regulatory approval.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/21/csr-chip-maker-to-buy-zoran
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Search engine says it is an intermediary and cannot be held responsible for content on the internet
Google will this week challenge a Spanish demand to remove links to articles in newspapers, including El Pa�s, and official gazettes, that the subjects have complained breach their privacy.
The technology giant has been ordered to remove almost 100 online articles from its search listings by Spain's data protection authority, which Google warns would have a "profound, chilling effect" on freedom of expression.
Google will challenge the orders in a Madrid court on Wednesday, the outcome of which could set a controversial new precedent for internet publishing in Spain.
An injunction against search engines is the only way to block access to sensitive material published by these sites, the Spanish authority argues, as newspapers in the country can legally refuse to comply with more informal requests.
However, Google says it acts only as an intermediary, and therefore it cannot be held responsible for all content on the internet.
Peter Barron, Google's director of external relations for Europe, told the Guardian: "We are disappointed by the actions of the Spanish privacy regulator. Spanish and European law rightly hold the publisher of the material responsible for its content.
"Requiring intermediaries like search engines to censor material published by others would have a profound, chilling effect on free expression without protecting people's privacy."
Cases covering five disputed articles will reach the Madrid magistrates' court this week. Google will be ordered to remove the articles from its search results if its court challenge is unsuccessful. However, the articles would still be available on the newspaper websites should Google lose.
The demands follow a burgeoning public debate in Spain about "the right to be forgotten" ? or the right for people to delete their internet "data trails". Complaints from the public about their representation online have jumped 75% year on year, the country's privacy regulator said in June last year.
Padraig Reidy, news editor at Index on Censorship, said the ruling would have "massive ramifications" for freedom of expression. "What's worrying is why they should go to Google, rather than the people who are putting up this content ? some of which is legally bound.
"It encroaches on privacy law, and has massive ramifications on freedom of expression and how the internet works. If Spain is punishing search engines for indexing content how can there be freedom of expression? It looks like a plan by people who don't know how the internet works."
Spain's Agencia Espa�ola de Protecci�n de Datos ? the national data protection agency ? declined to comment.
? This article's headline and first paragraph were amended on 17 January 2011 to reflect the fact that the complaints against Google are about invasion of privacy, rather than libel, as previously stated
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/16/google-court-spain-privacy
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Zipcar adds the plug-in Prius PHEV to its fleet, probably not changing name to Zapcar originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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