Slate - The director of the prison says the convicts had attempted to conceal four plastic-wrapped cell phones, nine cell-phone chips, and one cell-phone charger. Hang on how much stuff can one person fit up there? Quite a bit. "Body-packing" drug runners
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Texas Instruments, maker of processors for more than half the world's mobile telephones, had $1.49 billion in chips, up 28 percent. Shipments of computer motherboards, a key indicator of personal computer demand, fell "off a cliff" in October, when
MSN MoneyCentral - BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thai shares fell 0.25 percent on Thursday on scattered profit-taking and falls in energy blue chips on lower oil prices. The Stock Exchange of Thailand's benchmark SET Index lost 1.84 points to close at 729.03, as trading
Forbes - HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) - Share prices closed at a new record as continued gains in blue chips HSBC, China Mobile and rotational buying of laggard stocks led the benchmark index past the 18,700 level, dealers said. China Mobile drew strong interest
Cadillac News - Some of the recipes people will be able to taste include Reeces style fudge made with carob chips rather than chocolate chips; apple or peach muffins made without sugar; a brown rice recipe made in a slow cooker and a stuffing mix made without
Dallas Observer - A homey neighborhood joint with a huge Tex-Mex and Taxco-Mex menu that's found quite a following, and with good reason. For starters--along with the usual chips and salsa--comes a steaming cup of delicious, beer-spiked bean soup. The Mex-Mex items
ZDNet - In the never-ending quest to make cell phones and MP3 players smaller, Samsung Electronics has come up with a package that can stack 16 memory chips into a space that used to accommodate just one. When stuffed with 8-gigabit flash memory chips, the
Associated Press - School shops and cafeterias in the country of 2.3 million will no longer be able to sell soft drinks, candy bars, potato chips and chewing gum. Items containing artificial flavorings and colorings will also be banned from sale in primary and
ABC News - Alas, this is not as far-fetched or as futuristic as it sounds. This Orwellian "Big Brother" Police State concept of surveillance chips being installed in human beings could soon cross over from the realm of science fiction into reality. The state
Herald Tribune - TOKYO, Oct. 31 Sony, the Japanese electronics giant, said on Tuesday that its electronics unit was under investigation by the United States Justice Department for possible antitrust violations, the latest problem for a company battered by battery
