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iPhone spurs Sharp's LCD investment: report

Sharp Corp will spend about 100 billion yen ($1.2 billion) to build production lines for small and midsize LCDs, with Apple Inc slated to purchase bulk of the output for its iPhone, the Nikkei business daily said.
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Special Report: Seven Samuari of new Japan Inc

For decades, their ability to sell masses of cars and oodles of televisions was how corporate Japan, and its government at home, benchmarked its progress in conquering overseas markets.
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Special Report: Seven Samurai of new Japan Inc

For decades, their ability to sell masses of cars and oodles of televisions was how corporate Japan, and its government at home, benchmarked its progress in conquering overseas markets.
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Toshiba sees LCD profit on smartphone boom

Toshiba Corp may turn its first annual profit on liquid crystal display panels in four years as sales of smartphones and tablet computers boom, the company's CEO said in an interview on Thursday.
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Square Enix slashes outlook, delays game launch

Japanese video game maker Square Enix on Thursday slashed its full-year net profit forecast by more than 90 percent to far below the market consensus and said it will postpone the launch of two key game titles.
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Google Makes Voice Personal

The company introduces speech recognition to Android 2.2 phones, which can recognize the user's phone and understand their specific dialect.
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LightSquared Satellite Repaired

LightSquared, the combined satellite and terrestrial mobile broadband service provider, avoided an embarrassing - and potentially disastrous- mishap yesterday as its satellite deployed its antenna.
 A new disposable wireless diagnostic test platform for consumer cell phones can test for pregnancy, fertility, pathogens, AIDS, drugs, allergens and even certain types of cancers.

Cell Phones or diagnostic tools?

GENTAG, Inc. and its partners have come out with a new disposable wireless diagnostic test platform for consumer cell phones. The technology, based on immunoassays, can test for pregnancy, fertility, pathogens, AIDS, drugs, allergens and even certain types of cancers.
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Budget Hawks Oppose Nuclear Loan Guarantees

A combination of electricity demand and the need to reduce fossil fuel use should be fueling a renaissance of nuclear power. But that could be derailed by opposition from an unexpected quarter: fiscal conservatives.
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Google's Chrome PC may see muted demand in China

Google Inc's new Chrome PC may meet with chilly demand from China as tensions between Beijing and the search giant curb the latter's offerings and as netbook sales slowly fall off the cliff in the world's second largest PC market.
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WikiLeaks' Assange bail appeal to be heard Thursday

A British court will decide on Thursday whether to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, scourge of the U.S. establishment for his leaks of diplomatic cables, on 200,000 pound ($317,000) bail over accusations of sex crimes in Sweden.
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China's tech streets not lined with gold

For all the 65 million PCs that are expected to be sold in China this year, one question that many people have not yet answered is: how much money is actually made selling these computers?
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Nokia Siemens buy of Motorola network ops wins EU nod

Nokia Siemens Networks won EU regulatory approval on Wednesday to purchase Motorola's mobile telecom network equipment business for $1.2 billion, in a deal meant to boost its presence in Japan and North America.
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Assange's UK lawyer says half of bail cash raised

A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Wednesday his backers had raised around half of the 200,000 pounds ($317,400) cash he needs to secure bail after he was accused of sex crimes in Sweden.
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Acer sees big growth in China, tablet market

Acer, the world's No.2 PC vendor, expects its China operations to make up more than 20 percent of its total sales in five years, helped by new tablet PCs and an alliance with China's Founder Technology.
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Assange back in jail as Sweden appeals bail

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a target of U.S. ire for releasing secret cables, returned to a London jail on Tuesday pending an appeal over a decision to free him on 200,000 pound ($317,400) bail for alleged sex crimes.
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Drive By Download Hits MSN, DoubleClick

DoubleClick and Microsoft Networks were victims of a drive by download attack that infected thousands of people with malware that tries to get them to buy unnecessary software to fix their computers.
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Spectrum top priority for electronics trade group

Pushing for U.S. regulatory and congressional action to free up airwaves to handle the burgeoning use of wireless devices will be the top policy initiative of the consumer electronics industry in 2011, the head of a trade group said on Tuesday.
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Microsoft fixes bugs in Windows, Internet Explorer

Microsoft Corp issued one of its biggest-ever security fixes on Tuesday, including repairs to its ubiquitous Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser for flaws that could let hackers take control of a PC.
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Buyers shrug off 3D, Internet TVs

Fancy new features like 3D screens and Internet connectivity have failed to inspire U.S. television shoppers, dashing a hoped-for recovery in the global consumer electronics industry.

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