CHICAGO (Reuters) – Online retailer Amazon.com Inc resumed selling hardcover and paperback books from Macmillan Publishers late on Friday in a sign the two companies are getting closer to resolving a pricing dispute over Macmillan’s electronic books, which remain unavailable on Amazon.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – More than a century into its existence, Philips is once again betting heavily on semiconductors. This time the consumer electronics firm is looking to harness their potential as a source of light.

TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Intel Corp’s Israeli subsidiary said on Monday its exports surged 145 percent in 2009 to a record $3.4 billion and the company is hoping growth will continue with further expansion in the country.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China has closed what it claims to be the largest hacker training website in the country and arrested three of its members, domestic media reported on Monday.

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A consortium led by Walt Disney Co is in advanced talks to buy into China’s largest in-bus digital media and advertising company, a deal that could offer the U.S. entertainment giant a new platform to promote Mickey Mouse in China, three sources told Reuters.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc said on Monday that its Nook electronic reader would be available in most of its physical stores as of Wednesday, ahead of Valentine’s Day, ending weeks of delays.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – IBM is beginning a long-awaited upgrade to a range of servers and other hardware to make them more energy-efficient and competitive than rival products by Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems Inc.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s third-largest online game operator NetEase.com said it has suspended new user registration for World of Warcraft (WoW) in China and will reapply for a license to operate the expansion pack of Activision Blizzard’s hit game.

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LONDON (Reuters) – Vodafone Group Plc, the world’s largest mobile phone operator by revenue, has secured a four-year deal to provide Oracle Corp with voice, data and management services to employees in the EMEA region.

Scientists from Imperial College London in the UK and Harvard University in the US have discovered a key structure of the integrase enzyme found in HIV, and retroviruses opening the door to better treatment of HIV.

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UK children are logging on to a phonics scheme to learn African languages, from Afrikaans to isiZulu. The Thrass Phoneme Machine Version 6.1 includes the “interactive” Thrass Calendar Charts computer program, which teaches the basics of South African languages.
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South Africa’s rare and sought-after cycads are to be protected by a new DNA barcoding initiative that will help clamp down on illicit trade in the endangered plants.

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Renewable energy in South Africa is gathering momentum, with the announcement of a new 300MW wind farm near Caledon in the Western Cape province.

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Kieran Ekron, a computer programming student from Johannesburg University, has won the national leg of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup for an application that simulates crowd behaviour in football stadiums. Ekron will take on his peers for the world title in Poland in July 2010.

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Software giant Microsoft’s latest version of its Windows operating system, Windows 7, will be made available in 10 African languages, five of them official South African languages.

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