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SAN FRANCISCO - COMPUTER maker Dell on Wednesday expanded its US electronics recycling network to more states and began an online gadget trade-in program.

 
SanDisk to make 64GB cards

SAN FRANCISCO - SANDISK on Tuesday said it will begin mass producing flash memory cards with an unprecedented 64 gigabytes of storage capacity.

Northern California-based SanDisk developed the high-performance card in collaboration with Japanese electronics titan Toshiba using 43-nanometer process technology.

IBM deeper in computing cloud

SAN FRANCISCO - IBM on Tuesday went deeper into cloud computing, expanding offerings aimed at businesses interested in taking advantage of software managed online as services.

US-based IBM announced new products, partnerships and clients for a Blue Cloud Initiative it launched slightly more than a year ago.

Birth defects linked to obesity

WASHINGTON - OBESE pregnant women are slightly more at risk of having babies with birth defects, according to an analysis of several studies published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

While the absolute risk increase is likely to be small, congenital anomalies linked to maternal obesity include, 'a neural tube defect (nearly twice the odds), including spina bifida (more than twice the odds),' the authors of the analysis said.

   
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