TechWeb - An increasing number of people worldwide are accessing email and other data services through their mobile phones, but many also worry about price.

TechWeb - The Glide suite, due later this month, runs on the vendor's own servers and is accessed through a browser. It includes applications for creating, sharing and selling photos, music, video, and documents, as well as doing content-management, calendaring, e-mail and conferencing. Can Transmedia beat Microsoft and Google?

TechWeb - Gadgets with limited capabilities could be sold commercially within a year.

TechWeb - While adoption is starting to surge in parts of Asia and Europe, U.S. consumers are far more reluctant to replace their iPods with digital music-ready cell phones.

AFP - US software kingpin Microsoft has forged a "strategic partnership" to digitise 25 million pages of content from the British Library in London, the Financial Times reported.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Diversified chipmaker Marvell Technology Inc. MRVL.O is making strides in the video gaming market and is looking at high definition television as a promising next move, its chief executive said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New, smaller television sets sold in the United States must be capable of receiving digital broadcasts by March 1, 2007, four months earlier than previously planned, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ruled on Thursday.

Reuters - Britain's Autonomy Corp Plc agreed on Friday to buy U.S. peer Verity Inc for $500 million in cash to gain a dominant position in the information handling software market and boost earnings.

Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc., the world's biggest video game publisher, on Thursday announced a partnership with Nettwerk Music Group to launch a digital music distribution label called EA Recordings.

USATODAY.com - Amazon is trying to do for books what Apple's iPod digital player did for portable music. The online retail giant on Thursday said it will offer online access to books for a fee to customers who buy hard copies of the same book. The service starts next year.

AP - A 20-year-old man was arrested Thursday on charges of infecting almost 400,000 computers operated by the U.S. military and others with viruses that helped launched electronic attacks and send spam e-mails.

AP - Libya has sent to prison for 18 months a blogger who criticized the government on the Internet, Human Rights Watch says in a report that inspired a series of Web tributes to the dissident Friday.

PC World - Change in ActiveX controls may conflict with some Web page functions.

USATODAY.com - In a first-of-its-kind warning to online stock traders, the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday alerted consumers who buy and sell stocks on the Internet to be wary of cyberthieves.

BusinessWeek Online - Telefonica's Oct. 31 bid for London-based cell-phone provider O2 PLC (ootff.pk.PK), if it goes through, will be one for the record books. The $31.4 billion price tag ranks the deal as the second-largest all-cash offer in telecom history, after Cingular Wireless LLC's purchase of AT&T Wireless. It also would be the largest British acquisition since 2000 and the second-largest proposed takeover this year in Europe after Gas Natural of Spain's (gasnf.pk.PK) $51.7 billion bid for electricity giant Endesa , according to market tracker Dealogic.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa will launch the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere next week and aims to put itself on the map as a destination for star-gazing tourists, the country's science minister said on Friday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For years, the movie industry has pondered that age-old question of which comes first, the chicken or the egg, when debating how to update old theaters with new digital projectors. Walt Disney Studios now thinks it has an answer: The chicken.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Nortel Networks Corp. NT.TO NT.N said on Thursday that a U.S. grand jury had subpoenaed additional documents in connection with an ongoing criminal investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 20-year-old man accused of using thousands of hijacked computers, or 'bot nets,' to damage systems and send massive amounts of spam across the Internet was arrested on Thursday in what authorities called the first such prosecution of its kind.

LISBON (Reuters) - The European Union's Court of First Instance hopes to rule on Microsoft's MSFT.O antitrust case by early spring, court President Bo Vesterdorf said on Friday.

AFP - Falling sales of conventional photo film and intense competition in the market for digital cameras saw Japan's Konica Minolta slump into the red at the interim stage, and to forecast a large full-year loss.

USATODAY.com - If someone were to tell you that the governments of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States had worked together to build a worldwide system for monitoring every bit of electronic communication on Earth, you'd say he was nuts. But it happens to be true.

AP - A man sued by the film industry after his teen grandson downloaded four movies on the family's computer has been offered a chance to settle the case by paying $4,000 in installments.

AP - The founder of eBay donated $100 million to Tufts University to use for making loans as little as $40 to people in developing countries who want to start businesses.

PC World - Criticism prompts release of a patch that identifies copy controls to security software.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - In Neal Stephenson's sci-fi novel 'The Diamond Age,' a young girl's companion is a book with amazing qualities -- it talks, and the words magically change with the story.

AP - Software giant Microsoft Corp. said Friday it has signed a deal to scan and put online 100,000 books from the British Library.

AP - The Revolutionary War started in Massachusetts, and now the state is firing some opening rounds in a revolt against Microsoft Corp. that seeks an open, proprietary-free format for storing electronic documents.

AP - Two weeks before William Freund donned a mask and cape and fatally shot two neighbors before killing himself, members of an online forum for people with a rare mental disorder read the 19-year-old's string of violent rantings.

NewsFactor - Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) (RIM) has unveiled its latest BlackBerry handheld, designed to operate on high-speed wireless networks. The new portable features Intel's latest mobile processor.

AP - Purveyors of porn and entrepreneurs who spied a niche when Apple Computer Inc. unveiled its video-playing iPod are proving that sex even sells in tiny packages — especially when it is portable.

NewsFactor - The Nero suite has always taken care of the multimedia enthusiast's needs, from burning media to editing audio to encoding video. Nero 7 Ultra Edition, the latest version of the decade-old, CD-burning application, follows this fine tradition.

NewsFactor - The Gateway (NYSE: GTW) E-4500D SB provides business users with a powerful computer in a small size at an attractive price.

NewsFactor - To the general public, it might have seemed like a harmless prank when an American teenager hacked his way into Paris Hilton's smartphone. After all, Hilton's loss was limited to the unauthorized release of a few candid photos and telephone numbers belonging to some of her celebrity friends, which the hacker promptly posted on the Internet.

NewsFactor - Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) has released a patch for a critical flaw in its Internetworking Operating System (IOS), which is used to run routers and switches. The discovery of the bug comes three months after a security expert's controversial disclosure, at the July 2005 Black Hat USA Conference, of a similar defect in the Cisco IOS that allowed him to gain control over a router.

NewsFactor - Computer Associates (NYSE: CA), widely known for its enterprise and business solutions, recently upgraded one of its few home and home-office products: eTrust Internet Security Suite.

Ziff Davis - An incorrect story about Novell killing off its Linux desktop lines had SuSE users in a tizzy, But Novell is doing nothing of the sort. The company is, however, switching to GNOME as its default interface on its server and Novell Linux Desktop lines.

InfoWorld - Further proof that packaged applications are under continual fire from SaaS (software as a service) developers will come next week, when Nsite unleashes a hosted service for quote and channel management.

PC World - An American business, victimized in an extortion attempt and denial of service attack, assists European authorities in zombie PC case.

AdWeek.com - Advertisers on the never-ending hunt for ways to engage are now counting on consumers to be the proactive ones, by 'pulling' marketing messages off the Internet and into their homes--specifically, onto their computer desktops. Companies from Purina to Best Buy are experimenting with new ad vehicles to offer rich brand experiences through desktop applications.

PC World - Researcher says Sony's copy protection software also appears to communicate with Sony servers.

PC World - New 20-inch all-in-one comes with camera and remote control, but no TV tuner.

Reuters - The popular iPod Nano and the just-released video iPod are expected to lead a surge of holiday sales for Apple Computer. Research firm Fulcrum Global Partners predicts Apple will sell 10 million iPods in the fourth quarter, a strong follow-up to the 7 million sold in the previous quarter. But not all of these sales will be to new iPod owners.

Reuters - Complaints continue to mount regarding a controversial CD copy-protection initiative by Sony BMG Music Entertainment.