Sania-Chuang in doubles quarters at Miami

March 28th, 2009 MIAMI - India's Leander Paes and Sania Mirza cleared the first round in the doubles and mixed doubles pre-quarters respectively with their partners in the $4,500,000 Sony Ericsson tennis event. Paes and Czech Republic's Lukas Dlouhy beat Chilean Fernando Gonzalez and Argentine Juan Monaco 6-2, 6-2 here Friday.

April 2nd, 2009 MIAMI - India's Sania Mirza and Chinese Taipei's (Taiwan) Chia-Jung Chuang shocked eighth-seeded Spaniards Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual to storm into the semi-finals of the $4,500,000 Sony Ericsson Open tennis tournament. The Indo-Taiwanese pair beat the Spaniards 6-3, 7-6(4) here Wednesday.

March 26th, 2009 MIAMI - India's Sania Mirza went down to France's Mathilde Johansson in an over two hour duel in the first round of the Sony Ericsson Open tennis here. Sania, who was given a wildcard, battled for two hour and 22 minutes before losing 6-1, 6-7 (2), 6-7 (8) Wednesday.

March 29th, 2009 MIAMI - India's Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles have been ousted from the $4,500,000 Sony Ericsson Open. The third-seeded Indo-Bahamian pair went down fighting to Frenchmen Julien Benneteau and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 5-7, 6-10 in the first round here Saturday.

April 1st, 2009 MIAMI - India's Leander Paes and Czech Lukas Dlouhy crashed out to Czech Frantisek Cermak and Michal Mertinak of Sovakia 3-6, 3-6, in the second round of the Sony Ericsson Open tennis doubles. The loss Tuesday was the second successive second-round exit for Paes and Dlouhy, seeded fourth here, having lost at the same stage at Indian Wells last week.

July 13th, 2009 Handful of hotels offering e-readers to guestsMIAMI — Never mind wi-fi or even iPod docking stations. The latest digital accessory to be offered by hotels is an e-reader.

September 9th, 2009 AT&T to double wireless data speeds in 6 citiesChicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami and Charlotte, N.C., will be the first cities to see the benefits of AT&T's plans to double the data download speeds on its wireless network. The six cities will be upgraded before the end of the year, the carrier said Wednesday.

September 23rd, 2009 Regulators OK accounting rules change, helps AppleSEATTLE — Regulators are changing accounting rules so technology companies can report sales for certain gadgets all at once. Apple Inc., for one, has had to spread iPhone revenue out over two years.

August 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The world's largest software maker Microsoft and the biggest mobile phone maker Nokia Wednesday announced a partnership that will enable Microsoft Office to run on Nokia phones. The deal could be expanded in future to other software products.

July 28th, 2009 Canon profits plunge 86 percent in 2QTOKYO — Canon Inc. said second quarter profit sank 86 percent as the global economic malaise weighed on sales of its copy machines, printers and digital cameras while a stronger yen took a bite out of overseas earnings.

April 23rd, 2009 NEW YORK - The economic slump seems to have no impact on Apple Inc. as Cupertino-based electronic and software giant posted a quarterly profit of $1.21 billion on revenue of $8.16 billion Wednesday.

June 19th, 2009 RIM 1Q profit tops view, shares wobble on outlookTORONTO — BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. on Thursday reported a better-than-expected 33 percent jump in first-quarter profit as the company continues to boost market share among non-corporate customers.

July 30th, 2009 Motorola posts unexpected 2Q profitNEW YORK — Helped by deep cost cuts, Motorola Inc. on Thursday posted an unexpected profit for the second quarter after several quarters of losses, and said it expected things to keep improving this year.