NewsScan Daily, 8 February 2005 ("Above The Fold")

NewsScan Daily, 8 February 2005 ("Above The Fold")
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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        Flat-Panel Shakeup
        Ask Jeeves to Buy Bloglines
        Designing Green From the Ground Up
        Holographic Disks Will Store Hundreds of Movies
        Poland's Spies Exposed Online

FEATURES
        Flash Card
        Honorary Subscriber: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
        Mailbag: The World As We Find It

FLAT-PANEL SHAKEUP
      Fierce competition from Korean manufacturers is driving down prices 
of flat panel displays and eroding profits for many of the companies that 
make them. With LCD screen prices down as much as 40% in the last year, 
Fujitsu announced it's selling its LCD operation to Sharp for an 
undisclosed amount. The divestiture comes on the heels of an announcement 
last week that Fujitsu will sell back to Hitachi a large piece of the 50% 
stake it has in the companies' plasma display joint venture. "Fujitsu's 
been planning an exit strategy for flat panels for some time and it's 
finally come to fruition," says an analyst for UFJ Tsubasa Securities in