The higher energy efficiencies and ability to create novel lighting products provided by OLED and carbon nanotubes in particular will push the entire printed and organic lighting market up to US$5.9 billion by 2014.

The Commission said on its Web site that DVB-H "appears to be the strongest contender for future mobile TV deployment in Europe" and is already the most popular standard in Europe. The Commission said it "will continue to monitor the situation in the E.U. and may come forward with proposals in 2008 including, if appropriate, making this open standard mandatory.”

The European Commission said on Wednesday it had closed its antitrust case against Vodafone in Britain and Germany, as well as O2 and T-Mobile in Germany related to wholesale roaming charges.

Sanyo Electric has restarted chip production at a factory that automatically stopped when a powerful earthquake hit on Monday. Operations at the plant, which makes semiconductor chips for various consumer electronics devices, resumed on Tuesday, Sanyo said.

The board of directors at troubled Motorola has begun exploring options for the succession of embattled Chief Executive Edward J. Zander.

n the wake of the demise of SunRocket, a well-financed VoIP startup, a number of VCs and analysts agree that standalone VoIP service may no longer be a viable business in the United States. Three-year-old SunRocket has terminated its operation but still has not officially informed its 200,000 subscribers. SunRocket's much larger rival, Vonage, has said it is near bankruptcy.

It will be sold unlocked from a specified carrier's service for US$299 to $349, although HP plans to work with carriers to bundle the phone with their services, an HP official said in February.

Motorola said on Tuesday it was reorganizing its operating units to include its network equipment business with its television set-top box division in its quarterly financial reporting.