Roger Federer beat Frenchman Gael Monfils 6-3, 6-4 in an entertaining second-round match at the Miami Masters.
The eighth seeds beat Swiss Yves Allegro and Paul-Henri Mathieu of France 2-6, 6-0, 10-3 in the first round in Miami.
Serena Williams breezed past Romanian Edina Gallovits 6-1, 6-2 while Justine Henin beat Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-4, 6-2.
Holder Novak Djokovic lost 6-7, 6-3, 4-6 to South African qualifier Kevin Anderson in his opening match at the Sony Ericsson Open.
While Nokia remains the clear number one, the number two and three positions are seeing the real strategising.
Jeff Bezos of Amazon tops the list for the second consecutive year with networth of $147 billion.
Any female tennis player found guilty of match-fixing will be given a lifetime ban from the sport, the head of women's tennis Larry Scott said.
Global giants Nokia, Sony and Ericsson were among 11 multinational corporations, whose Indian operations were found guilty of violating foreign exchange regulation by an Appellete Tribunal.
ARM has revealed plans to put chips into more mobile devices that will let chipmakers like STMicroelectronics, FreeScale speed up the development of ARM-based chips for smartphones and PDAs
Serena Williams stayed on course for a fourth Sony Ericsson Open title with a ruthless 6-1 6-4 win over Czech Nicole Vaidisova in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.
Venus Williams recovered from a slow start to beat Ukraine's Yuliana Fedak 7-5, 6-2 in the first round in Miami.
As many as 15 multi-national firms like Nokia, Sony, Samsung and Ericsson have been found guilty of violating foreign exchange regulations and a penalty of over Rs 42 crore (Rs 420 million) has been imposed on them.
The Russian proved too good for defending champion Mara Santangelo in the final.
Almost 90 per cent of companies that started their captive operations (set up to provide internal services and in some cases sell them to clients) in India in the last 18 months are operating with less than 300 people each.
Shikha Uberoi has been given a wild card entry to the Bangalore Open.
The whole order had included both 2G, the currently used technology, and third generation lines (used for high-speed mobile Internet access).
The deal will be limited to 2G lines only.
While moving towards the new technology is compelling and inevitable, powering 5G would also mean massive initial investments for telcos, says Surajeet Das Gupta.
Roger Federer advanced to the fourth round of the Sony Ericsson Open when his opponent Robin Soderling retired from their third-round match.
American qualifier Bobby Reynolds became the latest player to frustrate former world number one Marat Safin with a 7-6, 4-6, 7-6 first-round win at the Sony Ericsson Open on Thursday. Mardy Fish, who stunned top-ranked Roger Federer in a straight-set victory in the Pacific Life Open last week, went down 6-3, 6-3 to Frenchman Arnaud Clement.
In a thrilling race with two safety car periods, reigning champion Hamilton went from pole position to the rear of the field before finishing second for Mercedes in a superb fightback. Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was third.
Fierce competition and a fall in hardware and component prices have resulted in handset prices dropping 10-50 per cent across brands over the last 12 months.
Leander Paes' impressive show at the ATP Masters has seen him rise four places to eighth in the latest doubles rankings.
The Serb beat Guiilermo Canas 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 in the final of the Miami Masters on Sunday.
Serena Williams fought off two match points on her way to an epic 0-6 7-5 6-3 comeback win over world number one Justine Henin to claim her fourth Sony Ericsson title on Saturday.
Argentine Guillermo Canas tamed big-hitting Croat Ivan Ljubicic 7-5 6-2 to reach the final of the Sony Ericsson Open on Friday, underlining his return to top form following a 15-months doping ban.
Henin and Williams have met eight times in their careers but Saturday's clash will be the first since the muscular American won a semi-final meeting with the Belgian at Wimbledon nearly four years ago.
Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick advanced into the last eight of the Miami Masters.
Serena Williams crushed top seed Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-1 to reach the last eight.
As Kim Clijsters's love affair with tennis comes to an end, fellow Belgian Justine Henin's has started to bloom again.
World number one Roger Federer moved closer to a Sony Ericsson hat-trick on Monday, easing into the fourth round of the Masters Series event with 7-5 6-3 win over Spain's Nicolas Almagro.
Belgians Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin pounded their way into the fourth round of the Sony Ericsson Open on Sunday but Martina Hingis fell to a Polish teenager
Top seed Maria Sharapova dodged the showers on her way to a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Taiwan's Chan Yung-Jan to set up a third round encounter against Venus Williams at the Sony Ericsson Open on Saturday.
A back injury forced Lleyton Hewitt to withdraw from the Miami Masters before his second-round match.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone for the $150 million Nokia mobile phone manufacturing facility at suburban Sriperumpudur on March 11.
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