1.   Although State Street is known as a technology heavyweight, it still offers no Web-based trading at its money management unit.

2.   Dell is among several technology heavyweights to throw his support behind the small but growing Linux platform at the conference.

3.   If the merger is approved, HP and Compaq will face the monumental challenge of integrating two technology heavyweights.

4.   Last week, Goldman Sachs lowered its expectations for such technology heavyweights as Microsoft, Sun, EMC and Siebel.

5.   Microsoft and Apple Computer, two other technology heavyweights, also reported results that were better than expected.

6.   Meanwhile, technology heavyweights such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard might question whether they should stay in such a commodity business at all.

7.   Sun is indeed a technology heavyweight.

8.   But a downturn in technology heavyweights later dragged the index into negative territory.

9.   But the index swung into negative territory after investors later sold technology heavyweights NEC, Toshiba, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sony and NTT DoCoMo to lock in profits.

10.   In Japan, investors took cues from their counterparts in New York, lifting the shares of banks and technology heavyweights Sony and NTT.