18 million handsets sold as customers demand new features.
Test market to approach US$150m in five years.
Growing car use fuels market for sat-nav and entertainment.
Market more than doubled in past year.
New operating system to bolster sales, say analysts.
Better, brighter screens and replacement light bulbs.
Plasma screens losing market share to technology rivals.
Digital content and cheaper chips driving market.
DRam and handset profits offset Flash and LCD slump.
Electronics giant sells televisions worth $54m per day.
But researchers warn of customer apathy and other risks.
Little room for growth in crowded field.
Mass production problems still need to be overcome.
Fast-booting PCs to take 40 per cent of the market by 2008.
Australian telecoms incumbent invests overseas as local sales slacken.
Search leader Baidu's revenue up 175 per cent with new services.
Module makers cut purchases after being caught out by slack demand.
Cheap and quirky Nintendo design holds off Sony challenge.
Capacity set to grow 35 to 50 per cent in next two years.
HP scanning technology used in device developed by Korean firm.
