SEOUL (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. has reached a $30 million settlement with South Korea's Daum 035720.KQ over an antitrust suit, but regulators will continue to review their case against the world's largest software maker.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Daewoo Electronics, a leading South Korean maker of white goods and televisions, has been put up for sale by its creditors in a deal worth up to $1 billion that could attract interest from Chinese rivals and private equity groups, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

TechWeb - Chipmaker says that, although officially-certified WiMAX products aren’t yet available, two dozen providers worldwide are already deploying WiMAX systems based on its chipsets.

PC World - You can't beat vendors' low-end PC prices, but building your own power desktop might save you some cash.

TechWeb - Three infections have so far been identified by antivirus companies. The software triggers the cloaking feature of Sony's antipiracy technology to remain undetected.

TechWeb - The majority of teens and young adults use instant messaging more than email, and an increasing number of people across age groups are sending IMs from their mobile phones, a survey from America Online Inc. found.

TechWeb - Email vulnerabilities represent the greatest source of risk for mobile devices, according to a recent survey by Good Technology.

Ziff Davis - The PC maker's CEO, Kevin Rollins, admits miscues lead to lower third-quarter revenue and profits, but he says the company has already begun moving to correct them.

Ziff Davis - Industry powerhouses combine to create a new company to collect patents for Linux.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Danger Inc., creator of the popular Sidekick mobile phone, hopes to make a profit by the end of 2006 and to sign up a second phone manufacturing partner by the end this year, its chief executive said on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's remembrance poppies have gone high-tech -- digital versions of the red paper flowers are now available for downloading to mobiles.

Reuters - Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton, whose Bentley was damaged in a videotaped crash that spawned an Internet sensation and a police investigation, was the "only victim" of the incident, her spokesman said on Thursday.

Reuters - Serena Software Inc. said on Friday it had agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Silver Lake Partners in a deal valued at about $1.2 billion.

BusinessWeek Online - Producer Judy Craymer started with the catalog of songs by Swedish pop group ABBA. Then she added a story about a young woman about to get married, her single mom, and the three men who could be her father. Then she set it on a Greek island. What she ended up with was Mamma Mia!, the musical that has become a cottage industry.

Reuters - U.S.-based technology group Intertrust said an agreement by British mobile carrier Vodafone this week to license its anti-piracy software would be a breakthrough deal to protect online music.

AFP - Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica reported that quarterly profits had surged by 53.3 percent and said that profits from mobile telephones were strong, its fixed-line business was also highly profitable.

PC World - Micro Electronics sells Linspire, widening exposure for alternative operating system.

AP - Serena Software Inc. said Friday it agreed to sell itself for $1.2 billion to investment firm Silver Lake Partners in a deal that would result in the software maker becoming a private company.

AFP - Dutch electronics giant Philips plans to launch a low-cost mobile phone in China priced at less than 20 dollars (17 euros) between now and 2008, the company said in a statement on Friday.

AFP - US software giant Microsoft said it has sealed a 30 million dollar deal with South Korean Internet portal Daum Communications to settle an anti-trust suit and put the two firms in a new partnership.

Reuters - Music publisher Sony BMG said on Friday it would stop making CDs that use a controversial technology to protect its music against illegal copying.

Reuters - U.S. retail sales of video games in October fell to $365 million, down 24 percent from a year earlier, when publishers released a slew of blockbuster titles, analysts said on Friday.

Macworld.com - EBay Inc. has rolled out RSS-based content syndication capabilities to all eBay Stores, letting buyers subscribe to feeds from specific stores and that way receive new information about items for sale, the San Jose, California, company announced this week.

AP - Stung by continuing criticism, the world's second-largest music label, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, promised Friday to temporarily suspend making music CDs with antipiracy technology that can leave computers vulnerable to hackers.

NewsFactor - The can of worms opened by Sony's surreptitious installation of copyright-protection technology on its music CDs keeps getting bigger. Security specialist Sophos reported Thursday that malware writers have wasted little time in creating a Trojan horse that exploits a vulnerability in the software to enable the hijacking of users' computers.

MacCentral - Two of this season’s hottest portable entertainment systems are Apple’s new video-capable iPod and Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP). While they’re fundamentally different — the iPod’s strength is in its music playing capability and the PSP is primarily a gaming system — both can play video. Let’s take a look at how they compare specifically as portable video players.

AP - The U.S. government has inserted itself in a high-stakes patent fight over the popular BlackBerry device, saying it wants to make sure federal workers won't be cut off from mobile access to their e-mail.

Reuters - Internet telephone services company Net2Phone Inc. on Friday said an independent committee of its board of directors would consider IDT Corp.'s $2 per share offer for the 60 percent of the company's shares it does not already own.

NewsFactor - WiMax wireless broadband technology is gaining momentum worldwide with the announcement by Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) that carriers across the globe are deploying, or will soon be rolling out, fixed WiMax networks using the company's technology.

NewsFactor - The Open Invention Network (OIN), a fledgling patent-holding company, made its debut Thursday with a mission to offer royalty-free patents to the open-source community.

AP - Serena Software Inc. said Friday it agreed to sell itself for $1.2 billion to investment firm Silver Lake Partners in a deal that would result in the software maker becoming a private company.

AP - A desktop computer stolen last month from one of the nation's three major credit bureaus contained Social Security numbers and other credit information for as many as 3,600 people, the company confirmed Friday.

MacCentral - Intuit Inc. has introduced QuickBooks for Mac 2006, a new version of their small business accounting and financial management software application for Mac OS X. QuickBooks 2006 costs US$199.95.

AP - The (Baltimore) Sun will offer buyouts to its staff with the goal of eliminating 75 jobs, or about 5 percent of its work force, the latest in a series of staff reductions at Maryland's largest newspaper, Sun publisher Denise Palmer announced Friday.

Investor's Business Daily - Seldom has Advanced Micro Devices enjoyed more momentum in its 30-plus years of battling much larger chip rival Intel.

BusinessWeek Online - Things are looking dicey for Research in Motion Ltd. , maker of the cultish BlackBerry e-mail device. On Nov. 9, U.S. District Court Judge James Spencer made it clear he was growing increasingly impatient with the protracted battle between RIM and tiny tech investor NTP Inc., which alleges that RIM's wireless e-mail technology infringes on several of its patents. He also said he was 'very unlikely' to accede to RIM's request that he postpone the case to give the U.S. Patent & Trademark office a chance to weigh in: 'I've spent enough of my life and time on NTP and RIM. ...