Martyn Williams

A Swedish expert in the field of ergonomics has developed a new type of computer mouse that, he says, won't cause some types of repetitive strain injury (RSI).

Sony Corp. set out its plans for the coming financial year Thursday and stated an intention to move from being a consumer electronics maker to a "personal broadband network solutions company" in time for the coming of the broadband network era, which the company predicts will arrive by 2005.

NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Walt Disney International Japan Ltd. are planning to work together to develop mobile Internet content and services for markets outside of Japan, they said Thursday.

BT Wireless, the mobile communications arm of British Telecommunications PLC, announced Thursday it plans to work with Japan's Sharp Corp. to bring advanced cellular telephone terminals to the United Kingdom and BT's partner wireless networks around the world.

Flat screens were more in evidence than ever before at this year's CeBIT trade show, whether as display boards on exhibitors' stands, on the notebook computers of the hundreds of reporters who crowded the fair's press center every day, or the route-indicator screens on the trams that took people to the fairground.

In the latest consolidation move in the flat panel display sector, Japan's NEC Corp. and France's Thomson Multimedia SA have taken the first steps towards merging their plasma display businesses, the two companies said.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), IBM Corp. and Toshiba Corp. will begin development this month on a teraflop-class microprocessor that, the companies hope, will make possible within the next five years consumer electronics devices more powerful that IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer, the companies said Monday.

Google Inc. made its latest foray into the wireless Internet world with the launch of a site...