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. >> reporter: ruey bin kao, chairman of motorola china electronics, says motorola will continue its investment in research to combat the company's declining sales. 3,000 engineers work at the company's research and development center in beijing, where phones are tested for sound quality and network reliability. kao says motorola's research will eventually pay off with more products like motorola's ming series. >> one of the innovations we have in china is the p.d.s. series, ming series, in china which is very popular here. and so far we have sold eight million of the phones. >> reporter: the launch of china's third generation mobile phone service may present more opportunities for the company. motorola recently secured a $310 million contract with china mobile which includes infrastructure for the transition from second to third generation networks. it's not only china's mobile carriers that motorola needs to win over. kao says the company is focused on connecting with mobile phone consumers as well. >> we're going to be more focused, understanding the needs of those customers and p

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(announcer) kao speeds to the source to shut down diarrhea and its discomfort. stop it fast with kaopectate. >>> welcome back to 9 news now. this is a live look at the u.s. senate hart building where the confirmation hearing for sonia sotomayor is scheduled to begin at the top of the hour. chairman of the judiciary committee patrick leahy will call the session in to order. as we said, in about 28 minutes and we will hear from justice sonia sotomayor in her opening statement. >>> right now we want to welcome daniel to our studio. he's an incredible artist known for being unique in the materials he uses and he has an incredible exit on display at the straitmore music center. thank you for being with us. and there are several elements to this exhibit that is at stratmore and one of the most prominent is a piece called rubble bullets. tell us about that and what inspired you. >> the rubber bullets, each of them. there are three pieces there on the lawn where they have every wednesday night they have a free outdoor summer concert series. >> we are looking at rubber b

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