Webwire: Sony predicts heavy losses; Apple acts on battery drain

Sony predicts a 90 billion yen (€837 million) loss for its current fiscal year, after an unexpected loss in the three months to end-September – the firm’s fiscal 2Q.
 
Apple is releasing a software update to address problems of rapid battery drain on some iPhone 4S devices.
 
UK operator EverythingEverywhere is culling a further 600 back office staff as new chief Olaf Swantee flexes his cost-cutting muscle. The firm laid off 1,200 back office workers in 2010.
 
Microsoft is considering making a Scots Gaelic version of its Office software suite, vice president for the firm’s information worker business value division Bob McDowell says.
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is set to be extradited to Sweden to face charges of sexual assault, after a UK court ruling.