More strikes for Fujitsu

Workers union Unite has announced further strikes across key Fujitsu sites over the next few weeks, as well as the introduction of a parliamentary lobby over jobs, pay and pensions, reports Computing.co.uk.

Employees at the IT services company will go on strike on 22, 27 and 29 January, and 1, 5 and 8 February. Northern Ireland will protest on 26 January.

Fujitsu employs about 11 500 staff in the UK.

Apple's top-of-the-line iMac is causing new problems for Cupertino - but this time it's not about cracked casings or flickering displays, says The Register.

Eyes at AppleInsider have pointed to a posting on Apple's online store that shipments of 27-inch iMacs - both the Core 2 Duo and Core i5 versions - are being delayed by three weeks.

This is just the latest problem for the king of the Apple all-in-one line-up. Shortly after the big boy began shipping after its October 2009 debut, buyers discovered problems - big ones, such as cracked casings or not being able to start up at all.

The journal Nano Letters has reported that ordinary cotton and polyester fabrics have been turned into batteries that retain their flexibility, writes the BBC.

The demonstration is a boost to the nascent field of "wearable electronics" in which devices are integrated into clothing and textiles.

The approach is based on dipping fabrics in an "ink" of tiny tubes of carbon, and was first demonstrated last year on plain copier paper.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) posted a fourth-quarter profit of $1.18 billion, its first profit in three years, largely due to a massive settlement with Intel, states CNet.

The $1.178 billion profit, or $1.52 per share, beat the analyst consensus estimate that had projected AMD to record a loss of 18c per share on revenue of $1.5 billion. In the same quarter last year, AMD lost $1.4 billion, or $2.36 per share.

The second largest global supplier of processors for PCs posted revenue of $1.646 billion, an increase of 42% compared to the same period a year ago.