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SHANGHAI -- Third quarter handset sales in China reached 20.97 million units, a record, according to a media report today.

The shipments were valued at 31.8 billion yuan (RMB8.2:US$1), according to a report from Chinese Sina.com, quoting sources at China-based CCID Consulting.

Handset shipments are forecast to top 88 million units this year, CCID predicted, up 20.5% over last year.

Nokia was the top vendor, with a 19.3% share, followed by Motorola (12%), Samsung Electronics (9.5%), Ningbo Bird (8%), and Lenovo (5.1%).

Foreign OEMs are pushing out domestic brands: Chinese phone makers reported a 41.3% share for the quarter, the lowest mark of the year, the report said.

JACKSON, MI -- Sparton Corp. on Wednesday was awarded a $3.6 million judgment by a jury that determined the EMS provider did not breach its duties in the manufacture of product for a pair of defendants.

The jury awarded Sparton damages in the amount of $3.6 million, $1.9 million of which was for raw materials. An appeal by the defendants, Util-LINK LLC and National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative, remains possible.

SANTA CLARA, CA -- SensArray Corp. has relocated from Fremont, CA, to a larger site in Santa Clara, the company said today.

The new headquarters, located at 5451 Patrick Henry Drive, is 70% larger than the previous site.

SensArray makes front- and back-end process optimization tools and measurement systems for collecting and analyzing data for semiconductor processing and flat panel fabrication.

CHENNAI, INDIA -- Avalon Technologies, an electronics manufacturing services provider and a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S.-based Sienna Corp., will break ground this week on a facility outside the Madras Export Processing Zone.

The company is also close to acquiring EMS businesses in India, Japan and the U.S., according to a news report.

SAN JOSE -- Sanmina-SCI has signed a manufacturing services agreement to build digital cinema products for QuVIS Inc.

Sanmina-SCI, a Top Tier EMS provider, will provide QuVIS with unlimited manufacturing capacity, QuVIS said. Under the agreement, product will begin shipping in the first quarter of 2006.

CANNES, FRANCE -- Outsourcing has become such an integral part of successful business practice that many organisations are embarking on outsourcing programmes almost without thinking. Research firm Gartner today warned against such compulsive outsourcing and advised organisations to begin a more disciplined approach to multisourcing in order to achieve business growth and agility.