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The brawl over 500 million phones

Mobile handset sales have reached a half a billion per year, and the industry players are vying for the biggest slice of the pie

As the final figures trickle in, 2003 is turning out to be a better than expected year for wireless telephone handset manufacturers. Consumers worldwide snapped up about half a billion new cell phones.

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Building a better DVD

New, “blue” laser technology is magnifying optical storage, and spurring competition. Possible: The Lord of the Rings trilogy on a single disc.

A refined laser technology is giving optical storage an edge in the data space race, and two products – each with big-brand supporters – are vying to dominate the market.

When 4.7 gigabyte DVD-ROM storage technology was released

 
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At Last…

Published on March 1, 2004 by in LGBT

(The following was written on request for the Spring Newsletter for the Billy DeFrank LGBT Center) By David Speakman Typical of our Silicon Valley life, my recent marriage can be traded to an email. February 11, a note in my inbox said that San Francisco would grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Three days later

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