Reuters - Clear Channel Communications Inc. on Monday said 200 radio stations would, by the end of the month, be upgraded to air high definition digital broadcasts featuring CD-quality music as it aims to protect its market share from rival satellite radio services.

AP - TiVo Inc. is expanding its video recording service so users will be able to transfer recorded television shows onto Apple Computer Inc.'s iPods or Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable — the latest move aimed at putting TV in people's hands for viewing anywhere.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc. TIVO.O is expected to announce a plan to allow its users to download any television program stored on their recorders to video iPods.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's home-grown third-generation (3G) mobile telecoms standard is set to take root as more big industry names back it and as the prospect of soft loans and technical support attracts developing market interest.

FT.com - Reliance Infocomm, India's mobile phone operator, is under mounting pressure to carry out a planned pre-IPO private placement of shares by the end of the year to aid its expansion.

Reuters - Sony Corp. (6758.T), the maker of Playstation game consoles, may lose its iron grip on the market for game machines as rival Microsoft Corp. launches a new model just in time for the holiday season.

InfoWorld - Advanced Micro Devices has added a new quad-core server processor to its road map. The new processor design, similar to the core used by the company's Opteron and Athlon 64 processors, will debut in 2007.

USATODAY.com - After playing with Xbox for a few days, I'm ready to make a video game comeback. Xbox 360 is an immersive system whose dazzling cinematic graphics and Dolby Digital surround sound are especially addictive when connected to a high-definition TV.

AP - Movielink, a joint venture of five Hollywood studios to offer movies over the Internet, has signed a deal with Twentieth Century Fox, allowing it to offer movies from all major studios for the first time.

USATODAY.com - Executives who travel on corporate jets may soon be finding in-flight high-speed Internet a common feature. Only Annapolis, Md.-based Arinc is on the market now with a broadband service for corporate jets. But competition is set to intensify in 2006.

USATODAY.com - SBC, which closed its merger with AT&T on Friday, plans to sell Cingular Wireless under the fabled AT&T name, Ed Whitacre, the chairman and CEO of the combined company, has confirmed to USA TODAY. Cingular, the USA's No. 1 wireless company, is 60% owned by the new AT&T.

InfoWorld - What's the ugliest problem in IT? Many would say it's the contradictory or incomplete data strewn around the enterprise in various databases and formats. Reconciling and normalizing all that data is hard, tedious work.

Reuters - Digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc. on Monday said an enhancement to its current TiVoToGo feature would allow subscribers to transfer recorded television programming to Apple iPod or Playstation Portable devices.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Walt Disney Co. is venturing into more experimental territory with ABC's hit drama 'Lost,' sealing a deal with Verizon for a series of shortform 'Lost' episodes revolving around some of the other poor souls who happened to be on Oceanic Flight 815.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. 005930.KS said on Monday it would invest $614.2 million won in new memory chip lines to boost production of flash and DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips.

InfoWorld - Cisco Systems did a bit of catching up last week when it finally announced products to support centrally managed, large Wi-Fi and mesh networks for outdoor WLAN deployments.

MacCentral - Apple on Monday announced that it has reached long-term supply agreements with five major manufacturers of NAND flash memory. What’s more, two of those companies — Micron Technology Inc. and Intel Corp. — announced the formation of a new company to manufacture NAND flash memory. The memory chips are used in Apple’s iPod shuffle and iPod nano models.

Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. on Monday said it would prepay $1.25 billion to secure its supply of flash memory used in its market-dominating iPod music players amid an expected surge in demand for the chips.

USATODAY.com - After playing with Xbox for a few days, I'm ready to make a video game comeback. Xbox 360 is an immersive system whose dazzling cinematic graphics and Dolby Digital surround sound are especially addictive when connected to a high-definition TV.

Reuters - A court has sentenced two men to a total of 37 years in prison for their part in defrauding a Brazilian bank of $242 million, the biggest scam in Nigerian history, newspapers reported on Saturday.

Reuters - About 8.7 million Europeans will be watching television over the Internet by 2009, or 9.4 percent of a market currently dominated by cable and satellite operators, according to a forecast issued on Monday.

AP - Sprint Nextel Corp. said Monday it will acquire Alamosa Holdings Inc., its largest Sprint-branded wireless affiliate, for $3.4 billion.

AP - Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. agreed Monday to form a joint venture to produce flash memory for consumer electronics and said the new company has a $500 million contract to supply chips to iPod-maker Apple Computer Inc.

AFP - Semiconductor giants Intel Corp. and Micron Technology agreed to form IM Flash Technologies LLC, a joint venture to make flash memory chips for consumer electronics applications.

Reuters - TiVo Inc. on Monday said it will begin testing a feature in the coming weeks to let some subscribers transfer recorded television programming to Apple iPod digital music players or Sony's PlayStation portable devices, sending the company's shares up 4.5 percent.

Reuters - Clear Channel Communications Inc. on Monday said 200 radio stations would, by the end of the month, be upgraded to air high definition digital broadcasts featuring CD-quality music, as rival satellite radio services encroach on its market share.

Reuters - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a civil lawsuit on Monday against Sony BMG Music Entertainment for including "spyware" software on its media player designed to thwart music copying.

AFP - Despite a mind-boggling array of cutting-edge video games on offer, it seems the Japanese still can't get enough of low-tech pachinko pinball slot machines -- luckily for Sega Sammy Holdings.

Ziff Davis - Apple signs long-term deals with iPod flash memory providers Hynix, Intel, Micron, Samsung and Toshiba to keep its pipeline loaded until 2010. As part of the announcement, Apple said it will hand out $1.25 billion in advance payments for memory components over the next three months.

AP - U.S. Internet advertising revenues have exceeded $3 billion in a single quarter for the first time, the Interactive Advertising Bureau said Monday.

AFP - A US technology group has sold software to a major telecoms firm that will allow China to block popular free Internet telephone services such as Skype.

Reuters - Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. on Monday said they would form a venture to make flash memory for popular consumer electronics products such as digital cameras, mobile phones and the Apple iPod.

MacCentral - On Monday Digital Video Recorder (DVR) pioneer TiVo Inc. announced plans to support the video iPod and the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) in an upcoming software update to its TiVoToGo solution. MacCentral spoke with Jim Denney, TiVo’s vice president of product marketing, to find out more.

PC World - Sony aims new A-series models at the iPod priced lower than announced.

AP - Sprint Nextel Corp. said Monday it will acquire Alamosa Holdings Inc., its largest Sprint-branded wireless affiliate, for $3.4 billion.

AFP - Sony BMG was hit with lawsuits alleging that it deceived consumers by using copy protection programs on its music CDs that opened up personal computers to hackers and malicious software.

AP - Sony BMG Music Entertainment's troubles over anti-piracy technology on music CDs deepened Monday as Texas' attorney general and a California-based digital rights group said they were suing the music company under new state anti-spyware laws.

NewsFactor - Digital video recording pioneer TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) has tweaked its TiVoToGo service to let subscribers transfer recorded TV content to Apple iPod or Sony (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation Portable (PSP) devices.

PC World - TiVo subscribers will be able to use the TiVoToGo service to transfer TV to video players.

Reuters - The FBI on Monday said e-mails made to look like they come from the agency are warning computer users that the FBI is monitoring their Internet use.

NewsFactor - Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), in an effort to broaden the scope of its flagship enterprise operating system, is offering support for the open-source Postgres database.

AP - Anyone snagging one of Microsoft Corp.'s new Xbox 360s when it debuts Tuesday will likely see the new video game console as just that — a medium for spending hours playing the likes of "Halo 2" and "Project Gotham Racing 3." But executives at Microsoft see video games as just the beginning.

AP - AT&T Inc., the company created by SBC Communications Inc.'s just-completed purchase of its former corporate parent, plans to resurrect the AT&T Wireless brand for cell phone service provided by its Cingular Wireless partnership with BellSouth Corp.

AP - Shares of Wave Systems Corp. jumped Monday after Dell Inc. agreed to distribute Wave Systems' security software on its business computers equipped with trusted computing chips, or TPMs.

InfoWorld - Researchers at IBM are developing stream-based middleware intended to broaden query capabilities in distributed application environments.

AFP - South Korea's two semiconductor giants, Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor, have signed separate deals to supply 750 million dollars worth of NAND flash memory chips to Apple Computer.

Investor's Business Daily - Intel and Micron Technology, longtime partners in the realm of PC memory chips, are betting big on a different kind of storage: flash.

PC World - The two manufacturers form a new company to manufacture NAND flash memory chips.

AFP - More and more Americans are googling and yahooing their way through life, according to a new survey which shows a massive increase in the use of Internet search engines over two years.

AP - The migration of television to the Internet is getting another boost with a deal that gives Web video startup Brightcove Networks Inc. a foothold on AOL's Web portal.

Reuters - Brightcove, an Internet television startup that helps programmers syndicate shows across the Web and collect money from it, plans to announce on Tuesday it has attracted new high profile investors including AOL and IAC/InterActiveCorp, and a distribution pact with AOL.