Android flagship tablet Xoom (from Motorola Mobility) isn’t selling, according to Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdry. The analyst believes that Motorola Mobility (MMI) has sold between 25,000 and 120,000 units so far out of the 500,000-800,000 estimated to have been manufactured. Worse still for Android tablets as a whole, Mr. Chowdry said that Android 3.0 [...]
Toyota Motor Corp. is considering a global recall of eight models including its top-of-the-line LS460 sedan of the flagship Lexus series due to possible engine failure, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday. Up to about 270,000 cars worldwide, including roughly 90,000 units sold in Japan, could be subject to Toyota’s latest recall due to [...]
A US congressman has accused BP of playing down its concerns about the volume of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.Representative Ed Markey, the chairman of a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released an undated, internal BP document, which estimates a worst-case scenario oil flow of 100,000 barrels (15.9 million litres) [...]