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Apple's iTunes Store started selling thousands of songs without copy protection Wednesday, marking the trendsetting company's latest coup and a model for what analysts say will likely become a pattern for online music sales.

JVC picks Sato as new president (May 31)

AMD appoints Frank Clegg, corporate chairman and director of navantis to board of directors

Vizio announces LCD HDTV launch with Wal-Mart (May 30)

Agilent signs agreement to acquire Adaptif Photonics, expanding optical test leadership in polarization (May 30)

Syntax-Brillian announces exercise in full of overallotment option and closing of common stock offering (May 30)

Growing number of Americans think that solar electricity should be offered on all new homes (May 30)

Suntech first-quarter profit rises (May 29)

Micron, Blackstone, China and the DRAM world (May 29)

AMD readies 50% Opteron price cuts (May 30)

Nvidia to host annual meeting of shareholders

Report: evidence suggests HP spied on Dell (May 29)

JVC sees year to March 2008 net profit 7.0 billion yen (May 30)

LG opens European LCD cluster in Poland (May 30)

LG.Philips LCD, LG Electronics, LG Innotek and LG Chem today held an opening ceremony for its European LCD cluster in Wroclaw, Poland, the company’s third LCD cluster worldwide.

Microsoft hopes 'Milan' table PC has magic touch (May 29)

European 1Q LCD TV market beats expectations (May 23)

LG to build AM OLED mobile phones (May 30)

LG and ARM develop new digital-to-analog converter technology for US 2009 TV switchover (May 29)

Italians overclock Pentium 4 to 8.18 GHz (May 29)

Sony to debut HD Radio products in July (May 28)

Gartner drops chip market forecast on foundry weakness (May 28)

April chip market up 10.9% annually, says analys (May 28)

Hynix-ST Semiconductor to invest extra US$1.5 bln in new plant (May 29)

Plasma TV plant could cut prices in Russia (May 29)

Sanyo launches new slim CRT TV technology in Australia (May 29)

Foxconn to build LCD monitor plant in Kutna Hora (May 29)