NewsFactor - Nokia's (NYSE: NOK) first Linux-powered handheld product, the 770 Internet Tablet, is dedicated solely to Web browsing, media playing, and e-mail.

Reuters - The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) launched on Tuesday an updated version of its 9300 series enterprise smartphone, the 9300i, which supports wireless Internet access, the Finnish firm said.

Reuters - Top mobile phone chip maker Texas Instruments Inc. on Tuesday introduced a high-speed wireless chip for use by a wider set of mobile handset makers, especially in advanced Asian markets.

Reuters - TiVo will soon offer subscribers a way to customize some of the ads they receive -- and offer advertisers a way to make sure they're targeting consumers who want what they're pitching.

TechWeb - Early users of Microsoft's Xbox 360 are coming up with innovative ways to fix some of the reported glitches plaguing the new videogame console, one of which involves dangling the unit's power supply in midair with string.

TechWeb - TiVo said Monday that it will partner with big-name ad agencies and media buyers to create a TV advertising search service in yet another effort to reach consumers who use its digital video recorders to skip television ads.

TechWeb - Microsoft Corp. today announced its Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) version 3.5, a hosted service that enables service providers to deliver enterprise-class email services, mobile device data access, team Web sites, and online presence information to small and midsize businesses (SMBs).

TechWeb - Korean mobile phone vendor Pantech says its five megapixel cameraphone will be smaller than competing offerings.

TechWeb - The display is intended for use in notebook computers, cell phones, and could even be included in clothes for wearable advertising panels, Samsung suggests.

TechWeb - Couch potatoes love TiVo because it lets them watch what they want when they want. But TiVo may start watching its customers, according to a patent application filed earlier this month that suggests using radio-frequency identification chips to set preferences on the digital video recorder. The company apparently thinks that RFID chips are going to be inserted into customers' clothing, jewelry, key chains, and even 'inserted somewhere in the user's body,' the application reads, and could be used to tailor media content for each individual. Wonder what privacy advocates will say.

TechWeb - Check Point Software Technologies Monday is preparing to launch Internet security applications for small and midsize business with two multi-function security appliances and remote management capabilities.

USATODAY.com - What's black and white and cool all over? From March of the Penguins, out on DVD Tuesday, to Madagascar, also on DVD, these waddling Antarctica-dwellers have stolen movie fans' hearts. USA TODAY profiles the penguins' journey in pop culture this year:

USATODAY.com - Those who missed out on the early Xbox 360 mania may get a second chance this week to find the new game system in stores. Meanwhile, among those who managed to purchase the first systems, a small percentage already are shipping them back to Microsoft for repairs.

USATODAY.com - Sales and traffic indications were positive for Cyber Monday. Online traffic Monday afternoon tracked more than 30% higher than an average Monday. The peak came from 3:30 to 4 p.m. ET, when 1.8 million users per minute visited the sites it tracks.

MacCentral - After a host of test releases and one false start, a new version of the Firefox browser will be ready on Tuesday, according to a media alert issued by the Mozilla Foundation on Monday.

Macworld.com - Apple has released Broadband Tuner v1.0, a utility that tweaks the system parameters of Macs with very high speed Internet connections — 5 Mbps or faster.

PC World - Surveys show e-shoppers like the convenience, but are wary of online fraud.

BusinessWeek Online - James Altadonna Jr. won a heated election in 2001 to unseat the incumbent mayor in Massapequa Park, a comfy middle-class suburb on the south shore of New York's Long Island, and he has since been reelected twice. But he has never had his reputation attacked as fiercely as this year, when he got caught in the middle of a fight between two of the country's most powerful communications companies.

InfoWorld - Developers accustomed to the Eclipse open source tools platform will have access to AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript plus XML) functionality from Genuitec.

PC World - Experiments trim meetings, boost communications--inside and outside the company.

Reuters - Texas Instruments Inc on Tuesday introduced a high-speed wireless chip for use by a wider set of mobile phone makers, initially in Japan and later in other markets around the world.

PC World - Microsoft is losing money on the consoles, but seeding the market, researchers say.

Reuters - Japan's Seiko Epson Corp. will significantly cut the exposure of its chip and display businesses to the mobile phone market after heavy price falls pushed those operations into the red, it said on Tuesday.

Reuters - TiVo Inc. on Tuesday said that it will launch its digital video-recording service in Taiwan within the next few months, its second venture outside the United States.

PC World - Newest prototype of VGA display panel measures 7 inches.

AFP - German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom cannot go ahead with its plans to reintegrate its separately listed Internet arm T-Online until objections from dissident shareholders are resolved.

The Motley Fool - When flash memory maker Spansion finally goes public, trading under the ticker symbol SPSN, it will mark the third stage of its evolution from joint venture between chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD - News) and Japanese tech company Fujitsu to stand-alone public company. While it filed for the IPO in April, no timetable has been set, and AMD reported that losses at the unit continue to mount.

PC World - Free service will let subscribers search out, jump to ads of interest.

AP - In an attempt to boost its stalled economy, the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans is starting the nation's first free wireless Internet network owned and run by a major city.

Reuters - U.S.-listed corporations would be allowed to post proxy statements on Web sites instead of sending the bulky annual documents through the mail, under a plan proposed on Tuesday by federal regulators.

AP - Vonage Holdings Corp., the nation's largest provider of Internet phone service, could be barred from signing up new customers in many markets because it failed to meet the deadline to provide reliable emergency 911 service to all subscribers.

AP - Shareholders would be able to get material from companies through the Internet on issues being put to a vote at annual meetings under a proposal made Tuesday by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Reuters - Corporations would be allowed to post proxy statements and annual reports on Web sites, instead of sending the bulky documents through the mail, under a plan proposed on Tuesday by federal regulators.

Macworld.com - IDG World Expo on Tuesday announced the schedule for the Users Conference and the Hands-On MacLabs at January’s Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Calif. The event happens January 9 - 13, 2006 at the Moscone Center.

Reuters - Hollywood faces uncertain prospects for jobs and growth in 2006 due to slowing DVD sales, the loss of local film and television production and looming labor talks, according to a report issued on Tuesday.

PC World - PlayStation Portable firmware upgrade now available.

NewsFactor - In an informal online poll, some Xbox 360 users have noted that they are seeing glitches in their gaming consoles.

PC World - Hackers release software that can cause an unpatched Windows PC to crash.

AP - Companies that sell and broker Internet domain names have filed two lawsuits against VeriSign Inc. and its oversight agency, accusing them of price-fixing and other anti-competitive practices.

AP - Vonage Holdings Corp., the nation's largest provider of Internet phone service, could be barred from signing up new customers in many markets because it failed to meet a deadline to provide reliable emergency 911 service to all subscribers.

Reuters - Shares in Web-search leader Google Inc. slid 4.7 percent on Tuesday, their biggest decline in a year, on concern that the outlook for holiday sales may not be as strong as investors had hoped.

NewsFactor - Looking to gain a stronger foothold in the enterprise, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today took the wraps off of its latest smartphone, the 9300i, essentially an update to the 9300 model, which did not come with built-in Wi-Fi connectivity.

NewsFactor - WinZip, a well-known name in software compression, recently unveiled the latest version of its long-standing utility. Available in either Standard or Pro editions, WinZip 10 provides something for everyone needing an all-encompassing compression tool.

Ziff Davis - The day after researchers estimated that Microsoft may be losing money on the Xbox 360, Samsung announced it is providing the device's expensive graphics memory chips. Does Microsoft have a trick up its sleeve to make a profit?

Reuters - Hurricane-stricken New Orleans is largely destroyed and abandoned, but city officials said on Tuesday it will soon have universal wireless Internet service.

InfoWorld - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Software startups at an industry event Tuesday received a clear message from the venture capital community and Microsoft: Do not automatically look to Microsoft as a rainmaker.

InfoWorld - Alcatel on Monday unveiled the OmniSwitch 9000 core switch family, planting its company flag in the world of 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches.

Macworld.com - Apple on Tuesday released Security Update 2005-009, which addresses issues with both Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server. Among the components affected in this release are apache_mod_ssl; CoreFoundation; CoreTypes; curl; iodbcadmin; OpenSSL; Safari;sudo; and syslog.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp. 6758.T and unlisted oil company Idemitsu Kosan Co. said on Tuesday they will jointly develop materials used in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays.

Reuters - Historic recordings of Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson reading their own poems feature in an online archive launched on Wednesday that aims to preserve the voices of contemporary English-language poets.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. is releasing preview versions of its new Windows Vista operating system about once a month in an effort to get more customer feedback than usual ahead of next year's launch, the company said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Online auction site eBay Inc. had double the traffic of Amazon.com Inc., its closest competitor among U.S. Web retail sites, at the start of the holiday online shopping season, according to data released on Tuesday.