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HP Labs unveil tiny wireless data chip

Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Co. have developed a wireless data chip that can store 100 pages of text or 15 seconds of video on a dot about half the size of a rice grain, with potentially dramatic applications in everything from health care to photography and marketing, HP said late on Sunday.

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Sony Ericsson's Profit Doubles

STOCKHOLM: Sony Ericsson launched the reporting season for leading mobile phone makers with a doubling of second-quarter earnings to a record high on Thursday and raised its forecast for total industry sales this year.


MySpace; More Popular Than Google and Yahoo

MySpace has knocked e-mail giant Yahoo out of the No. 1 ranking for most page views, as tabulated by top Internet tracker Hitwise.

MySpace, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., garnered 4.46 percent of all U.S.


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Global Warming could slash US wine industry- a study reveals

Global warming could have devastating effects for many premium vineyards in California and across the nation by the end of the century, according to a new computerized climate projection released Monday.

Matsushita plans to sell World's largest 103-inch Plasma TV

Panasonic parent Matsushita Electric Industrial Co plans to start selling the world's largest plasma television by early next year.


MRAM Chips Arrive in Market

AUSTIN, TEXAS: Freescale has announced that they've gone into volume production of a 4Mbit (256K x 16-bit) MRAM chip. The newly announced MR2A16A MRAM part had been in development for a decade and was sampled back in 2004. It has already attracted a number of buyers and is expected to start showing up in products soon.


Sony BMG Announces Formation of Commercial Music Group

Sony BMG Music Entertainment's Chief Operating Officer, Tim Bowen, has announced the creation of SONY BMG Music

Entertainment's Commercial Music Group; a new division dedicated to capitalizing on the company's strengths in catalog recordings and classical music, and to developing new opportunities in the areas of licensing, strategic marketing and television.