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Sun buys Encore: The computer company from Fort Lauderdale has been sold to the computer company from Silicon Valley for $185 million.

Sony and Toyota are considering getting into an LCD business together. LCDs are expected to be ubiquitous as soon as prices come down a bit.

NEC has signed a joint venture with a Chinese company to build a chip factory in Shanghai. Total cost of the joint venture? $1 billion, with a "B."

Motorola gets a $50 million cell phone contract to expand coverage in the Shandong province of China.

Hello, FBI? More than $1 million per week is stolen from Silicon Valley high-tech companies and company officials are asking the FBI to put more resources into stopping this crime wave.

Their stock in trade is trade and economics, but the 29 industrial countries in the OECD urged quick action against child porn on the Net.

Share a password? Some online publishers (for example ESPNet's SportsZone really, really don't like that and want you to stop.

Cash isn't dead yet: That's not exactly a news flash if you've ventured out into Real Life lately, but the new president and CEO of Mastercard International felt the need to reassure Reuters that the cash economy is still alive and kicking.

Laugh break: We don't know why Symantec has gotten itself involved with a Rainbow People protest in Eugene, Oregon, but here's one of the funniest (and only marginally tech-related) stories we've seen this week.

Did you see this coming: Individual Inc. has shut down Freeloader and laid off its staff in Washington D.C. and San Francisco. The off-line browser approach will be replaced by multi-casting via NewsPage. Too late for them, but Freeloader got good press today as a ground-breaking technology.

On the road again: Sprint will join the growing traffic in roaming Net access for travelers. It costs $2 to $6 per hour for most services.

The unaverted gaze: If you need to stare down a competitor or supplier but can't leave your physical office, you'd be wise to invest in desktop video. It's getting cheaper and more reliable.

Facing the music: America Online briefs its investors and analysts today about strategy and coming products. But you know, it may be tricky to sell users on the new content.

Where's Netcaster? That's the non-musical question being posed by Wired as the beta version of Communicator comes out this week. Netcaster, Netscape's push technology, is not yet ready for prime time, the company says.

The managed PC: Dell and AST want to help you manage networked PCs with separate products and services they announced yesterday.

Oops: Watch those banners, web publishers. The juxtaposition of editorial and advertising can be embarrassing, as the Los Angeles Times learned.

Everybody wants you to use your credit card to buy on the web. But what about using the web to buy your credit card? A filtering service that helps consumers find the best deal has opened.

Intel fires back at Digital
Hundt's role at FCC praised
Bill Gates in the Silicon Valley