Nortel is said to be in bankruptcy and this is an auction of its assets.  The bid by Google may grow larger because of this too.  If Google is successful in its bid to acquire Nortel, the purchase would be the third-largest purchase by Google.  Small only to its payments for YouTube and DoubleClick.

For more on this, visit The New York Times

Read more on this over at Business Insider.

The company’s factor in Miho which is 65 kilometers from central Tokyo was closed by the quake on March 11th.  This factor is responsible for about 10 percent of TI’s output by revenue in 2010.

Production of about 80 percent of the Miho factory’s work has been temporarily shifted to factories in Texas and Freising, Germany.

For more on this, check out the story over at PCWorld.

For more info check out CNBC.

AT&T sent a letter to tetherers requiring them to stop or be automatically charged a $20/ month DataPro plan on their bill.

Until now, people have assumed that AT&T either doesn’t care or cannot determine that the traffic comes from a connected device rather than the iPhone itself. Clearly, those assumptions are incorrect.

For more on this, check out MobileCrunch, osXDaily and TUAW.

The Loop:

“Demand for the next generation iPad 2 has been amazing,” Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller, told The Loop. “We are working hard to get iPad 2 into the hands of every customer who wants one as quickly as possible.”

While Apple would not say how many units sold over the weekend.  Some are saying there is not an iPad to be found in the country.

Reuters on the other hand is reporting Apple sold close to 1 million units of the iPad 2 during its debut weekend.

By comparison, the original version of the iPad, which launched in April of 2010, crossed the one-million mark 28 days after its launch.

Already more than 250 top sites from around the globe are taking advantage of the capabilities in Internet Explorer 9 to deliver differentiated experiences to their customers.

Top Sites and Designers Take Advantage of Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer 9 is designed to bring sites front and centre through Windows 7, enabling a more immersive, more beautiful Web experience. Features such as Pinned Sites and JumpList enable people to put their websites directly on the Windows 7 Taskbar, as though they were native applications, and then to quickly and easily perform tasks related to those websites, such as check their inbox, change music station, accept a friend invitation or see breaking news.

As we should all remember, the service was put on the blocks back in December.  Afterwards there was a lively bidding process and it appears the bidding is over.

No confirmation from Yahoo nor Delicious yet.

More on this at The Next Web.

The purchase of Next New is tied to a new business initiative of Google’s, YouTube Next.

Next New Networks was launched in 2006 by a group of former TV execs.  Since that time, Next New has moved into the video platform and ad network arena.  We will have to watch and see how Google uses its latest purchase.

For more on this, visit the official Google Blog.

The countdown site states that 12% of the world is using IE6.  And with IE 9 nearing completion, Microsoft stated it is time for the IE6 fans to say goodbye.  How the countdown will work is Microsoft plans to continue the countdown until such time as IE 6 usage falls below 1%.

Hears to hoping it hits 1% very, very fast.

In addition, Microsoft is hoping IE 9 will reverse Internet Explorer’s slipping market share.  In February 2009 IE’s various versions had a corner on 70% of the market.  Today, they represent about 56%.  Firefox and Chrome are cutting into this market share.

For more on this story, visit InformationWeek