TechWeb - The chipmaker's long-term roadmap includes a new micro-architecture for desktops, servers, workstations and mobile devices, code-named Nehalem

PC World - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) today announced the availability of its 690 chipset, the company's first integrated chipset for AMD processors that includes the ATI Radeon X1250 graphics processor.

TechWeb - The chipmaker takes more steps towards its Fusion processors, which are due to ship in 2009.

TechWeb - WebSphere Portal 6 and Portal Express customers can get Google Gadget Portlet for free starting in April.

TechWeb - The BlackBerry maker is set later this week to unveil the findings of its review of its stock-option grants practices.

AP - American computer maker Dell Inc. opened its second customer call center in the Philippines Thursday, bringing the number of local employees to 2,600, a company official said.

Reuters - Fox Broadcasting Co. is set to announce Thursday that it will make select primetime series available for download-to-own on the Web sites of more than 200 of its affiliated stations during the next few months.

TechWeb - A new proof-of-concept code is circulating for a Firefox vulnerability that was fixed in Mozilla's security update that was released last week.

AP - Politicians have not cherished most of their YouTube moments, those snippets of candid camera video posted on the popular Internet site. Now comes a friendlier YouTube politics.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission warned Microsoft on Thursday it faced further fines in its long-running antitrust battle with Brussels, this time for seeking unreasonable prices from software makers for vital data.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's NEC said on Thursday it will partner with Indian IT services firm Sify Ltd. to pitch thin client computing systems in India as an alternative to conventional desktop computing.

AP - The European Union threatened Microsoft Corp. with new fines on Thursday, claiming the software giant had failed to live up to legal promises to provide competitors with updated, complete and reasonably priced information on work group servers.

AFP - Deutsche Telekom is ready to make acquisitions in the mobile communications sector, and could finance them by selling non-core activities such as Club Internet in France, the head of the German telecoms giant said Thursday.

Reuters - Oracle Corp. , the world's top database software maker, is near an agreement to buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. , which makes software that lets companies analyze and track their performance, for about $3 billion, The New York Times said Wednesday in its online edition.

InfoWorld - The investment arm of chip maker Intel said Thursday it agreed to invest $65 million in Powertech Technology, a Taiwanese chip assembler that specializes in flash memory and DRAM (dynamic RAM).

InfoWorld - A three-layer HD DVD disc with enough room for about 7 hours of high-definition video is still under development and hasn't been submitted for approval to the DVD Forum, the standard's governing body, despite reports to the contrary, Toshiba said Thursday.

AFP - Sri Lanka suspended sales of telephones and mobile phone cards in the embattled north and east of the country as troops stepped up attacks against Tiger rebels, an official said Thursday.

AP - Business software maker Oracle Corp. will buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. for $3.3 billion in cash, renewing a shopping spree aimed at toppling rival SAP AG.

USATODAY.com - New year, new target. AT&T won't reach 18 million homes this year with its 'Lightspeed' broadband network, after all. Instead, it will reach less than half the original target: 8 million.

InfoWorld - Oracle has agreed to acquire business intelligence software vendor Hyperion Solutions for $3.3 billion in cash, it said Thursday.

PC World - Intel will invest $65 million in Taiwanese chip assembler that specializes in flash memory and DRAM.

PC World - Despite reports, Toshiba's 51GB HD DVD disc has not been submitted for approval.

InfoWorld - Texas Instruments, the world's largest maker of mobile phone chips, plans to work more closely with its Asian contract chip manufacturing partners to develop new production technologies, a company spokeswoman confirmed.

InfoWorld - Users looking for the best possible display screen on a notebook PC might want to check out a new offering from Asustek Computer due out in early March.

InfoWorld - A technology that allows movies to be downloaded and burned to blank DVDs using the same content-protection system as commercial discs received official approval on Thursday.

PC World - Technology that allows content-protected movies to be downloaded and burned to DVDs received official approval.

AP - The European Union threatened Microsoft Corp. on Thursday with fines as high as $4 million a day, claiming the software company was still not offering a fair deal to rivals seeking to make their products more compatible with Windows.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. aims to cut the cost of making its cheapest mobile phones by about $2 to $5 per handset to improve profits, Chief Executive Ed Zander said on Thursday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's oldest theater has installed equipment to block mobile phone signals in a desperate attempt to force patrons to stop taking calls during performances, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Thursday.

Reuters - Motorola Inc. aims to cut the cost of making its cheapest mobile phones by about $2 to $5 per handset to improve profits, Chief Executive Ed Zander said on Thursday.

Reuters - Russia's oldest theater has installed equipment to block mobile phone signals in a desperate attempt to force patrons to stop taking calls during performances, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Thursday.

InfoWorld - The T-Mobile brand could soon be coming to a market near you. As part of a strategy to revive profits, Deutsche Telekom intends to expand its T-Mobile cellular business in markets in which the German telecommunications group is already offering fixed-line services and possibly in entirely new markets, the company said Thursday.

Reuters - Singer and TV host Charlotte Church is expecting a child with her boyfriend, Welsh rugby star Gavin Henson, she said on her Web site on Thursday.

Reuters - The European Commission turned up the pressure on Microsoft on Thursday, warning the U.S. software giant of new fines and accusing it of serial defiance of an antitrust ruling made nearly three years ago.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless, the second-biggest U.S. mobile phone provider, launched television services on its phones, run by Qualcomm Inc. unit MediaFlo, in 20 U.S. markets on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. aims to cut the cost of making its cheapest mobile phones by about $2 to $5 per handset to improve profits, Chief Executive Ed Zander said on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Inc., the world's biggest video game publisher, on Thursday began offering music from its titles through Apple Inc.'s popular iTunes online download store.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. said on Thursday it is recalling 205,000 ThinkPad computer battery packs made by Japan's Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. because they pose a fire hazard.

NewsFactor - In a bold move against rival Intel, AMD introduced a new chipset on Wednesday that includes graphics technology it acquired along with the purchase of ATI for $5.4 billion. In the first of a line of new chipsets, the AMD 690 combines the capabilities of the AMD CPU and platform technology with the ATI Radeon X1250 GPU.

InfoWorld - An Indian mobile phone operator is the first to deploy mobile phones based on a single-chip CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) platform from Qualcomm Inc. The operator, Tata Teleservices Ltd., is offering Motorola Inc.'s Motofone F3c for 1,699 Indian rupees (US$38).

AP - The Nintendo GameCube might have been my sons' pride and joy for four years, but it was relegated to the kids' small television and not once did it earn a connection to our main family room TV.

Reuters - Motorola Inc. aims to cut the cost of making its cheapest mobile phones by about $2 to $5 per handset to improve profits, Chief Executive Ed Zander said on Thursday.

AP - It's easy to praise the PlayStation 3 for its crisp graphics and multimedia capabilities: pretty much every PS3 video game features some of the best-looking visuals around.

PC Magazine - Mobile TV firm Modeo said the company's retail launch may not involve cell phones. On Wednesday night, Modeo launched its beta network in New York City and handed out sample smart phones with live TV and radio channels on board.

Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc., the world's biggest video game publisher, on Thursday began offering music from its titles through Apple Inc.'s popular iTunes online download store.

Reuters - Verizon Wireless, the second-biggest U.S. mobile phone provider, launched television services on its phones, run by Qualcomm Inc. unit MediaFlo, in 20 U.S. markets on Thursday.

InfoWorld - Security experts working on the CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) project claim that the initiative to create a central resource of software vulnerabilities for developers is gaining momentum.

InfoWorld - A new worm targeting a flaw in Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris 10 OS delivers crude artsy payloads, including a drawing of a turkey in ASCII text.

(Reuters) - Sony Computer Entertainment said it and Immersion Corp. agreed to end a patent litigation and entered into an agreement to explore the inclusion of Immersion's technology in Sony's PlayStation format products.

Reuters - Sony Computer Entertainment said it and Immersion Corp. agreed to end a patent litigation and entered into an agreement to explore the inclusion of Immersion's technology in Sony's PlayStation format products.

AP - Verizon Wireless on Thursday launched a broadcast TV service for cell phones in about 20 Midwestern and Western markets, charging $15 to $25 a month for the initial lineup from eight leading networks.

PC Magazine - Motorola Inc. aims to cut the cost of making its cheapest mobile phones by about $2 to $5 per handset to improve profits, Chief Executive Ed Zander said on Thursday.

AP - A computer network outage at The Vanguard Group, which manages $1.1 trillion in mutual fund assets, temporarily left customers unable to access online accounts Thursday afternoon.

AP - The Masters will have one hour of coverage on its Web site before the telecast begins, an example of how new Augusta National chairman Billy Payne wants to see how new media can expand the tournament's audience.

InfoWorld - IBM hopes to bring BI to a wider audience of midmarket customers with a new software stack developed in partnership with Business Objects SA, industry sources said.

Reuters - A new sex scandal has hit 'American Idol,' U.S. TV's most popular program --- but it all could be over on Thursday night if a contestant purportedly shown in some X-rated Internet photos is voted off the show.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's oldest theater has installed equipment to block cell phone signals in a desperate attempt to force patrons to stop taking calls during performances, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless, the second-biggest U.S. cell phone provider, said it launched the country's first commercial mobile television service in 20 states with full-length programs and picture quality similar to regular TV.

Reuters - Russia's oldest theater has installed equipment to block cell phone signals in a desperate attempt to force patrons to stop taking calls during performances, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Thursday.

Reuters - Verizon Wireless, the second-biggest U.S. cell phone provider, said it launched the country's first commercial mobile television service in 20 states with full-length programs and picture quality similar to regular TV.

InfoWorld - Almost three months after a major overhaul of Ask.com's local search engine, IAC/InterActiveCorp is again moving to improve its offerings in this popular search segment by acquiring Insider Pages, a city guide with hundreds of thousands of user reviews of local businesses.

PC World - Adobe Systems Inc. later this month plans to launch the beta of a new runtime that will allow rich Web-based applications to run offline, technology that could threaten the popularity of programming platforms such as Java and Microsoft Corp.'s.NET.

InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems has added Ruby support to the NetBeans IDE and bolstered the JRuby platform as well, company officials acknowledged on Thursday.

AP - Lenovo Inc. recalled about 205,000 laptop computer batteries worldwide Thursday, warning that they could overheat and cause a fire.