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  • Nissan brings fuel cells to the masses
    Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn might not be a big fan of hybrids, but Nissan is doing its bit for fuel cells vehicles. This week, the company announced…
  • A New Face in Tech Services
    The tech outsourcing business is going mainstream. Far from being a service that only big and mighty players like IBM and GE could master, its…
  • Chinese Net Censors Crackdown on Blogs
    China’s Net cops are at it again. A story here says Beijing has stepped up its campaign to censor information viewed as indecent or subversive on…
  • GE and Hitachi's are NRG's nuclear option
    Renewed interest in nuclear technology shows no signs of letting up. According to reports in today's Japanese press, NRG Energy is set to ink a…
  • Nortel-Huawei, RIP
    There was always something a bit puzzling about the partnership between Nortel and Huawei. The two longtime rivals last year agreed to team up in a…
  • BlackBerry in Japan
    At long last the BlackBerry is coming to Japan. Today, DoCoMo, Japan's biggest mobile phone carrier, announced it's done a deal with RIM to sell…
  • Temper tantrum
    Another ugly turn in the long saga of China’s home-grown wireless encryption standard. Two years ago, Intel and other companies complained about…
  • Sanyo and Nokia part ways on CDMA
    How will the CDMA standard fare after Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, and Japan's Sanyo Electric dissolved their joint venture to…
  • Risky move for Microsoft's Taiwan partner
    High Tech Computer, the Taiwanese ODM that has long been the world's leading developer of Windows smart phones, announced on Friday that it is…
  • Nintendo: No regrets about Wii
    Nintendo's chief exec, Satoru Iwata, is a confident man. Earlier this week, he went before the media to declare that the company's name for its…

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