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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. (6764.T: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it is set to book a loss of 2.04 billion yen ($17 million) in its earnings for the year that just ended to cover part of the cost to recall mobile phone batteries.

Exclusive Longtime mainframe hater Sun Microsystems has borrowed big iron rhetoric to pitch its upcoming line of midrange and high-end servers built with Fujitsu.

Dell has stopped selling its Axim line of handhelds and is not planning a new product in the category, the computer maker said on Monday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. said on Tuesday it planned to launch the world's first 42-inch plasma TVs with full high definition panels on April 27 in Japan.

Pulling Dell off the Nasdaq would be as criminal as prying a billionaire away from his brain glaze. But that's exactly what might happen if the computer maker fails to get its book in order.

Sun and Unisys both plan to file a new lawsuit against Hynix Semiconductor and six other DRAM manufacturers after a federal judge dropped a previous suit due to a lack of information from the server vendors.

The birthplace of Silicon Valley has been closed.

TOKYO (Reuters) - NEC Corp. (6701.T: Quote, Profile, Research) has developed a corn-based bioplastic that conducts heat faster than stainless steel, and it aims to mass-produce the material starting in April 2008 for use in mobile phones and other portable devices, the company said on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Flash memory maker Sandisk Corp. (SNDK.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday that Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) would provide music services for its Sansa Connect digital audio player.

Chinese manufacturer Lenovo has gone from being the least environmentally friendly technology company to top of the list of 14 in Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics.

MENLO PARK, Calif (Reuters) - Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley have been searching for the next big thing in high-tech for years, but now many have switched to greener pursuits -- finding technology to help cut global warming.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday that it has terminated a proceeding that considered the use of cellular phones on airplanes.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - FBI investigators have visited Second Life's Internet casinos at the invitation of the virtual world's creator Linden Lab, but the U.S. government has not decided on the legality of virtual gambling.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Major record companies are forcing Apple to curtail access to iTunes online stores across borders, leading to higher prices and less choice, the European Commission said on Tuesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - A British computer expert accused by Washington of the "biggest military hack of all time" lost an appeal on Tuesday against plans to extradite him to the United States to stand trial.

The French today claimed the world's fastest "train on rails" title by accelerating a modified TGV to a white-knuckle 574.8km/h (356mph), the BBC reports.