"...The first phase of the new plant is expected to begin operation in 2008 reaching 50MW of thin film solar cell production capacity in 2009...Thin-thin solar cells will use less than 2% of the silicon required to manufacture equivalent crystalline silicon PV products..."

"...A 55-gallon drum of old wafers might previously have gone to a local hobbyist for $100 or so...But as demand for processed, high-grade silicon substrates began to escalate in 2004, TI re-examined its policies and started selling its scrap wafers to makers of solar energy gear..."

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Yoo Eui-jin, vice president and chief of Samsung SDI’s OLED team, said “I hope Sony will really do it, but considering circumstances, I doubt they will be able to start selling it this year. Maybe it would be possible for them to make a hundred or a thousand units as artifacts, but no more than that.”

Electronic Arts is investing US$167 million into The9, a China-based game company. The9 will get exclusive regional rights to run the online soccer game EA SPORTS FIFA Online which currently has around 4.5 million players in Asia.

The Chinese government has backed away from a plan that would have required bloggers to register their real names and information. Chinese bloggers are now only "encouraged" to register their names with service providers.

Vodafone-only branded handsets to increase access to mobile technology for millions in emerging markets.

With AT&T being the exclusive US distributor of the iPhone, the wireless carrier may have found an easy way to handcuff rivals and steal customers.

Russia's Mobile Telesystems (MTS) and Nokia Siemens Networks recently announced their cooperation in building a turnkey 3G network in the Moscow region.