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Following Intel's recent unveiling of the Santa Rosa mobile platform, notebook vendors are busily rolling out their updated product lines. On Monday 14 May, it was Acer's turn, and as well as a refresh of the key internal components — processor, chipset and wireless module — the company presented a brand-new industrial design for its business-focused TravelMate range.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Farecast.com, a new travel Web site that claims it can forecast the rise or fall of air ticket prices, plans to help travelers solve the long standing riddle of how to catch fast-moving and often illogical fare deals.

With the tedious inevitability of an unloved season, Microsoft is threatening open source with the law. Linux is in violation of 235 of its patents, says the company. It won't say which. It won't say how. It won't say what it plans to do. It just wants us to know how it feels.

LONDON (Reuters) - Some Bancroft family members want to meet Rupert Murdcoh to discuss News Corp.'s (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research $5 billion offer for Dow Jones & Co. Inc. (DJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Monday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - E-commerce is moving "full steam ahead" and is years away from saturation, with double-digit growth expected for several years, according to an online retail industry report published on Sunday.

LONDON (Reuters) - A suitcase lies abandoned in a busy airport terminal. Was it planted by a bomber, or carelessly left for a couple of minutes while the owner went to buy coffee?

NEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O: Quote, Profile, Research posted a 34 percent rise in quarterly profit on Tuesday on strong network equipment sales, but the company's shares fell 5 percent in late trading as investors were unimpressed with the outlook for growth.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Top global personal computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HPQ.N: Quote, Profile, Research PC shipments in Asia are growing at about twice the market growth rate, or about 36 percent a year, a senior executive said on Wednesday.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Leading media executives took a combative tone against Internet companies on Tuesday, suggesting that Big Media increasingly considers new content distributors like Google Inc. to be more foe than friend.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations unveiled guidelines on Tuesday to tackle the rapidly growing bioenergy industry, which it warned could threaten the availability of adequate food supplies.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts' governor proposed on Tuesday to spend $1 billion on biotechnology over 10 years, aiming to fill a federal funding shortfall caused by the Bush administration's opposition to embryonic stem-cell research.

Innovative software is leading the high tech industry's recovery, according to Sand Hill Group, the San Francisco venture consultancy.

JavaOne Sun Microsystems has jumped inheadfirst into Web 2.0, urging developers to change the world with cell phones and online services powered by its Java software.

TOKYO, May 8 (Reuters) - Softbank Corp. (9984.T: Quote, Profile, Research said on Tuesday annual profit more than quadrupled thanks to its acquisition of Vodafone's (VOD.L: Quote, Profile, Research Japan unit and its efforts to shave costs and launch new price plans to lure subscribers. 

HONG KONG (Reuters) - U.S. computer firm IBM (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research on Tuesday was further shedding its stake in number-three global PC maker Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK: Quote, Profile, Research, selling up to $85 million worth of shares at a discount of 4-6.7 percent to the stock's Tuesday close, according to a term sheet.