Wired has news of the recently announced 2 for 1 stock split at Sony Electronics; and that eBooks are starting to become more popular especially with news of a new electronic publishing standard.

Socket and SanDisk have announced a new cooperative arrangement to bring to market Socketās new technology that can enable I/O connectivity plus removable memory onto plug-in cards for Windows CE devices.

Qualcomm has announced plans to sell their mobile phone manufacturing business to Japan's Kyocera to better focus on their "profitable" microprocessor chip businesses and technology licensing agreements.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com) eFax: 978-246-3067