Project will play a key role in the development of flexible displays.

"...A 32 GB solid state drive added $450 compared to the more standard 60 GB hard drive but neither performance nor battery life showed a major improvement..."

According to the BDA European Promotions Committee, if game consoles are included in shipment totals, Blu-ray Disc accounts for almost 95% of all next generation hardware sales in Europe this year. Earlier this week sales figures from the European HD DVD Promotion Group announced that Toshiba has taken a leading share of the European market for standalone high definition players, according to independent pan-European research by GfK.

Deutche Bank Securities analysts Bryan Modoff and Jonathan Goldberg tried the "how much worse could things get?" argument this morning as the firm upgraded Motorola to a buy, saying bad news is already priced into Motorola's (MOT) stock.

But for all the enthusiasm about harvesting sunlight, some of the most ardent experts and investors say that moving this energy source from niche to mainstream--last year it provided less than 0.01 percent of the country's electricity supply--is unlikely without significant technological breakthroughs.

Asked if Philips would cut its LG.Philips LCD stake to below 20% this year, its Chief Financial Officer Pierre-Jean Sivignon said: "It's our objective."