Cameron Kerry, general counsel of the Department of Commerce, pointed out that 93 percent of the population in the U.S. now have cell phones, and that smartphones will eclipse early generation cell phones by 2011.

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AirClic's scanners are to debut in PDAs and cell phones early next year.

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Bayer and biotech Onyx Pharmaceuticals announced a devastatingly disappointing result for their cancer pill Nexavar: They stopped a study of the drug in non-small cell lung cancer early because there was no chance it would reach its main goal of proving Nexavar extends patients' lives in that disease.

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