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HAVING RECENTLY sold its assets in France, Italy and Spain for €20 million recently, Payzone, the troubled listed Dublin-based electronics payments group, looks set to go back to the well.
TECHNOLOGY GIANT HP is on track to reduce its energy consumption to 25 per cent below its 2005 levels by 2010.
NET RESULTS: PANIC, TURMOIL, and headlines across newspapers, blogs, discussion boards and news sites. The world waits to see how the US President-elect will resolve the difficult situation.
INBOX: ALTHOUGH THE iPod still reigns supreme, we carry much of our music around in mobile phones. But this is no new idea, and, if you're anything like me, you've been listening to MP3s on mobile handsets for a while. So on first look it's hard to see what Nokia can bring to the party with its new 5320 XpressMusic handset combined with the recently launched "Comes With Music" download service. But look under the hood and you can see a cunning new strategy emerging.
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL is passionate about the possibilities of robots. Although the robots themselves cannot be similarly enthusiastic - yet - the computer science professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believes that, before long, humans will be interacting with "social robots", robots that can read our emotions and express their own.
WIRED: Google faces a quandary in its first tentative forays into the world of video and audio search, writes
Danny O'Brien 
Plain-speaking president says market could stabilise in the last half of 2009Oversupply of properties is one of the big problems with the current market, IAVI president Edward Carey tells Rose Doyle
Sifting reality from mythFor many, Babylon represents excess, greed and sexual licence, but its rich culture gave us the first numbers, law-making and astronomy
If you can't sell, swap: how the rich do itA Dublin property developer has acquired the Canadian embassy residence on nine acres opposite Bono's house in Kiliney in exchange for a D6 home - and €3m
Donations to political parties not given to support democracyAt last, it's official: people give political donations not because of altruistic concerns for democracy but because they want an "in" with ministers - and Des Richardson has confirmed it
Asexual revolution breaks out in the labUCD researchers have discovered a deadly fungus that may help transplant and other patients who are at high risk from a common fungus, writes Claire O'Connell