TECHNOLOGY

The battle for the digital books market intensified on Tuesday, as office supplies retailer Staples Inc said it would start selling Amazon.com Inc's Kindle, and bookseller Borders Group Inc said it was cutting its prices on some e-readers.

Former Hewlett-Packard Co Chief Executive Mark Hurd was not nominated for re-election as a director of News Corp , according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday.

Hitachi Ltd <6501.T> is planning an initial public offering of its hard-drive unit in the United States, possibly by year's end, sources familiar with the situation said.

Conservative news commentator Glenn Beck launched his own news website, The Blaze, on Tuesday, saying it was time to stop complaining about mainstream media and do something on his own.

Hitachi Ltd <6501.T> is planning an initial public offering of its hard-drive unit in the United States, possibly by year's end, sources familiar with the situation said.

Victims of Pakistan's floods on Tuesday queued at hospitals where scant resources were available to treat a rising number of patients.

Former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Mark Hurd has not been nominated for reelection

Mediacom Communications Corp said founder and chief executive withdrew his offer to take the cable television operator private after a special board committee rejected his sweetened bid.

The exceptionally dry early summer months in Britain have revealed the ghostly outlines of several hundred previously unknown ancient sites buried in fields across the English countryside.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has donated 10 million pounds ($15.5 million) to set up a new clinic to carry out research into multiple sclerosis , the disease which killed her mother.

Office supplies retailer Staples Inc will begin selling Amazon.com Inc's Kindle, the latest deal that will expand the availability of the e-reader at retail locations.

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said on Tuesday it would introduce its first smartphone for the Chinese market that runs on the network of China Mobile, the world's biggest mobile carrier.

U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp unveiled a deal on Monday to buy German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG's wireless unit for $1.4 billion (905 million pounds), as it claws its way into the booming smartphone market and cuts its reliance on personal computers.

Research In Motion will give India access to secure BlackBerry data beginning September 1, a government source said on Monday, leading New Delhi to put off a decision on whether to shut down the smartphone.

Hewlett-Packard Co has agreed to pay $55 million to settle kickback allegations related to federal government contracts, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion will give India access to secure data from Sept 1, a government source said on Monday as the country pushes RIM, Google and Skype to set up servers in India due to its security concerns.

U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp unveiled a deal on Monday to buy German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG's wireless unit for $1.4 billion (905 million pounds), as it claws its way into the booming smartphone market and cuts its reliance on personal computers.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion will give India access to secure data from Sept 1, a government source said on Monday, as the country looked to push RIM, Google and Skype to set up servers in India amid security concerns.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion will give India access to secure data from Sept 1, a government source said on Monday, as the country looked to push RIM, Google and Skype to set up servers in India amid security concerns.

A toilet that belonged to late Beatle John Lennon fetched 9,500 pounds at auction on Saturday, around 10 times its estimate, the sale organisers said.

U.S. chipmaker Intel is to buy German chipmaker Infineon's wireless unit for $1.4 billion (905.3 million pounds) as it seeks to claw its way into the booming smartphone market, reducing its reliance on personal computers.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion will give the Indian government access to encrypted data from September 1, while the Indian home ministry wants BlackBerry, Google and Skype to set up servers in India, a government source familiar with the matter said Monday.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion offered the Indian government a few solutions to access BlackBerry data, avoiding an immediate ban as the government studies those solutions, India's home ministry said on Monday.

Foxconn International <2038.HK>, the world's top contract cellphone maker, slipped deeper into the red in the first half of the year, hit by falling phone prices and higher depreciation costs as it moves production to inland China to escape high labour costs.

U.S. election-year politics are interfering with the plan to build an Islamic centre near the site of the September 11 attacks, the Muslim cleric leading the project said in comments published Monday.

Indian officials began a meeting on Monday to decide whether to ban some of Research In Motion's BlackBerry services, a day before the deadline runs out for the firm to give security agencies access to its secure data.

An Indonesian volcano, inactive for four centuries, erupted again on Monday, pitching ash two km into the air and sending nearby residents scurrying from their homes.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion will give the Indian government access to encrypted data from September 1, while the Indian home ministry wants BlackBerry, Google and Skype to set up servers in India, a government source familiar with the matter said Monday.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion will give the Indian government access to encrypted data from September 1, while the Indian home ministry wants BlackBerry, Google and Skype to set up servers in India, a government source familiar with the matter said Monday.