Samsung joins 4G tech race

Samsung joins 4G tech race
By Evan Ramstad
The Wall Street Journal Europe
31 Aug 2006

SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. plans to demonstrate today socalled fourth-generation wirelessphone technology capable of exchanging signals much faster than most fixed-line broadband services, such as digital subscriber line, or DSL, and... read more...

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Sony feels heat from $400m Dell recall

Sony feels heat from $400m Dell recall
TONY GLOVER
The Business
20 Aug 2006

SONY suffered a fresh setback last week as the world’s media showed photographs of flaming laptops to illustrate how a major Sony customer, giant US computer maker Dell, was forced to conduct one of the biggest product recalls in history. Nicknamed... read more...

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Philips will sell unit to VDL Groep

Philips will sell unit to VDL Groep
By Tjeerd Wiersma and Yun-Hee Kim
The Wall Street Journal Europe
17 Aug 2006

AMSTERDAM— Philips Electronics NV said it will sell its Enabling Technologies business, the latest move by the Dutch company to reinvent itself as a medical-technology and lifestyle company. Philips said it has signed a letter of intent for VDL... read more...

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‘Bidet toilets, they’re the future — I’ve sat on one’ Helen Pidd

‘Bidet toilets, they’re the future — I’ve sat on one’ Helen Pidd

The Guardian
16 Aug 2006

It was the best toilet experience of my life. I went for an innocent loo break between sushi courses and ended up road-testing the lavatorial equivalent of Nasa’s Discovery shuttle. In place of the toilet roll, there was a control panel. Instead of a... read more...

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Sony launches new e- book reader

Sony launches new e- book reader
BY WENCY LEUNG
Vancouver Sun
10 Aug 2006

Sony is making a push to transform bookworms into e- bookworms with the launch of a new digital book- reading device. The company is preparing to sell the Sony Portable Reader, a light- weight, paperback novelsized gadget, in stores this fall. The... read more...

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Toshiba, SanDisk to invest $5bn in newNANDplant

Toshiba, SanDisk to invest $5bn in newNANDplant

Bangkok Post
05 Aug 2006

Yokkaichi, Japan — Toshiba Corp and SanDisk Corp would invest a total of about 600 billion yen ($5.2 billion) to build a new flash memory plant in Japan to meet ballooning demand, Toshiba said yesterday. Ramping up capacity and driving down production... read more...

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