Sharp Corp. demonstrated liquid crystal screens Friday for mobile devices that showed 3-D animation, touch-panel screens that switched from one 3-D photo to another and a display connected to a 3-D video camera.
Movies and TVs in 3-D are no longer surprising. Sony Corp. and Pansonic Corp. of Japan, as well as South Koreas Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics, already sell or are planning 3-D TVs.
The drawback until now has been the need for special glasses, which show different images to the right eye and the left eye. Sharps 3-D technology doesnt require them because the displays are designed to - - - - >

A House panel on Thursday planned to examine the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations oversight of the auto industry in the latest congressional hearing linked to Toyotas recall of more than 8 million vehicles worldwide. Safety groups have accused NHTSA of being too cozy with the Japanese automaker while lacking the resources to test for vehicle problems that could be electronic, not mechanical.
“NHTSA has been viewed by the motor vehicle industry for years as a lapdog, not a watchdog,” Joan Claybrook, a former NHTSA administrator under President Jimmy Carter, said in prepared testimony.
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The U.S. Internet operator will “respect the wishes of any Chinese author who hasnt authorized their books to be scanned,” it said in a Jan. 9 letter to the China Writers Association and posted on the groups Web site. It also included an apology for “inadequate communication” with Chinese authors. Google spokeswoman Jennie Johnson confirmed the contents of the letter sent by Erik Hartmann, chief of Google Books in Asia.
Google should submit proposals to compensate Chinese authors whose works it included without approval and immediately stop - - - - >

The worst recession since World War II and Italian acceptance of Internet buying — even for big-ticket items — is sparking greater use of Web shops in the luxury-goods industry. Designer Roberto Cavalli and shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo SpA have both opened e-stores in the past five weeks.
“I expect a significant boom in online luxury sales during the Christmas period,” said Alessandro Perego, a professor in charge of research on e-commerce at Milan Politecnicos School of Management. “In the past year the number of Web sites has - - - - >

For the first time in nearly two years, companies ponied up more money for a category called “equipment and software” in the third quarter of the year.
It isnt a huge growth rate - just 1.1 percent, according to the governments report last week on U.S. economic growth. Still, equipment and software are a broad and important category of items made by such companies as Deere & Co., EMC Corp. and General Electric Co. It includes computers, software, medical equipment, industrial engines, autos, planes, furniture and farm machinery.
Business spending is especially crucial now because consumers, who normally drive a recovery, arent - - - - >

Dassault Systemes rose as much as 7.6 percent in Paris, the biggest intraday gain in three months, after unveiling plans to buy the IBM business that sells and supports its Product Lifecycle Management software, including customer contracts. IBM, the worlds biggest computer-services company, and Dassault Systemes aim to complete the deal by the second quarter of next year, the companies said in a statement today.
“Its an excellent financial operation,” Aurel BGC in Paris wrote in a note to investors. “It unifies the channels of distribution for - - - - >

The Obama administration now wants to convey similarly clear and concise guidance about one of the biggest national security threats in your home and office - the computer.
Think before you click. Know whos on the other side of that instant message. What you say or do in cyberspace stays in cyberspace - for many to see, steal and use against you or your government.
The Internet, said former national intelligence director Michael McConnell, “is the soft underbelly” of the U.S. today. Speaking recently at a new cybersecurity exhibit at the International Spy Museum in Washington, McConnell said the Internet has “introduced - - - - >

Dealers now have until noon on Tuesday to submit the necessary paperwork, after the deadline was pushed back from 8 p.m. EDT Monday. All sales under the program were still scheduled to end Monday evening.
The change came after government computers set up to handle the filings buckled under a flood of dealers trying to send in their sales agreements at the last minute. Under the original plan, those deals that werent submitted on time wouldnt be repaid, leaving many dealers fearful that they would be left on the hook for clunker sales they made.
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The Seattle-based companys RealDVD software violates federal anti-piracy law and also goes against a contract RealNetworks signed to gain keys to unscramble DVDs, U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel said.
DVDs are embedded with anti-piracy technology that prevents copying, Patel noted.
“RealDVD products are designed primarily for circumvention of that technology,” she wrote. “This unauthorized access infringes the Studios rights because it entails accessing content without the authority of the copyright owner.”
Patels order bars the company from selling its software until the case is resolved, saying the movie industry is likely to prevail in its legal battle with RealNetworks.
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The 62-year-old engineer, who designed the Fiat diesel engine in the 1990s that became an industry standard and powers some of Europes most energy-efficient cars, has a new invention he says will cut fuel consumption by at least 10 percent. His work is at the heart of the Fiat technology that Chrysler said was worth $10 billion when they formed the alliance.
“We needed to do something radical with the gasoline engine,” Rinolfi said in an interview at Fiats research center in the northern city of Turin, - - - - >