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By Times Staff Writer
Published October 16, 2007

MAZDA'S CX-9 LEAVES ALL OTHER SUVS IN THE DUST

Motor Trend magazine has selected the 2008 Mazda CX-9 as its sport utility vehicle of the year. The award from a field of 11 finalists is to be featured in the magazine's Nov. 6 edition. "We wondered if it would be possible for Mazda to inject its sports car DNA into their first-ever three-row crossover - a crossover that happened to be one of the largest in the lineup," said editor-in-chief Angus Mac-Kenzie. The Mazda CX-9 has a base price of $35,250 and was listed at $41,540 as tested. It has a 3.7-liter, 273 horsepower V-6 engine and goes from zero to 60 mph in 7.8 seconds. It seats seven, and is rated at 15 miles per gallon in the city and 21 mpg highway.

Coke plans to add Eastern influence

Have a Coke and an herbal infusion? Coca-Cola Co. has announced the opening of a research center for health-and-wellness drinks at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing. The drinks will be made from traditional Chinese herbs and flowers such as chrysanthemum and myrobalan, a prunelike fruit rich in antioxidants. A pair of Taiwanese brands - Master Kong Co. and Uni-President Co. - now dominate the market for health beverages in China, but multinational consumer-products companies such as Coke are increasingly exploring Chinese traditional medicine to create modern products.

Xerox software to have sensitive side

Xerox Corp. said Monday it is designing software that automatically removes confidential information from documents. When users identify a phrase or other data to be removed, the software - called "Intelligent Redaction" - automatically redacts all references to it in a document. Information on a loan application, for example, could be redacted to bar access to information by some bank employees, while top managers would be able to get at by using a code. Xerox has not decided when the new technology will be available.

Storage solution on way, Hitachi says

Multimedia stockpilers need not worry about laptops, digital video recorders or portable music players hitting a storage capacity ceiling any time soon. Hitachi Ltd. says its researchers have successfully shrunken a key component in hard drives to a nanoscale, paving the way for quadrupling today's storage limits to 4 terabytes for desktop computers and 1 terabyte on laptops in 2011. A terabyte can hold the text of roughly 1-million books, 250 hours of high-definition video or a quarter-million songs.

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