NEW YORK (Reuters) - JumpTV, which offers 'ethnic' television programming on the Internet, said it will announce a deal on Friday to offer some of its shows for free on Joost, an online video service launched by the founders of Skype and Kazaa.

TechWeb - The Rinbot worm, which hit the computer network at Turner Broadcasting Thursday, targets flaws in Symantec and Microsoft SQL Server software.

AP - Sanyo Electric Co. defended laptop computer batteries that it made and were subject to a worldwide recall on Friday, saying the problem resulted from strong external impact to the battery and was not a problem with the batteries 'themselves.'

TechWeb - The computer maker is recalling Sanyo Electric extended-life, 9-cell battery packs that were sold with some of its notebooks.

TechWeb - Lowering the cost of Internet access and computer equipment could help drive the same type of growth that mobile phones have experienced in developing countries, experts said.

AP - Dell Inc.'s fourth-quarter profits plunged 33 percent because of weak sales of laptops and notebooks, and the computer maker still faces an unresolved federal accounting probe, customer service complaints, several shareholder lawsuits and stiff competition from rivals.

AP - The view of ground zero just got a little smaller. The agency that oversaw the redesign of the World Trade Center site on Thursday stopped posting on its Web site hourly images from a camera pointed at ground zero.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc. may be frustrated in efforts to reach comprehensive deals with major media companies such as NBC or Viacom Inc. to put their videos on YouTube, but it is signing up hundreds of smaller media partners, The New York Times reported on Friday.

AFP - China's Lenovo will recall more than 200,000 battery packs for laptop computers jointly produced with ailing Japanese electronics maker Sanyo, the two companies said Friday.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Google Inc. disclosed in its 2006 annual report on Thursday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission nearly a year ago had called into question how it accounted for income taxes.

PC World - Eighteen months after rival Apple Inc. raised the bar in the music player market with its video iPod, Sony Corp. will launch its first digital video Walkman.

AP - Sony Corp. and Immersion Corp. said Thursday they have settled their long-simmering patent dispute over the vibration technology that shakes video game controllers, and will work together to bring the so-called 'rumble' function back to PlayStation products.

TOKYO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Troubled Japanese electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co. said on Friday it would shoulder with China's Lenovo Group the cost of recalling 205,000 Sanyo-made laptop battery packs that can overheat.

Reuters - The White Stripes hope to release their sixth full-length album, 'Icky Thump,' this year, the Detroit rock duo revealed on their Web site (http://www.whitestripes.com).

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.

InfoWorld - Japanese electronics company Sanyo Electric and computer vendor Lenovo Group are discussing how to pay for the recall of over 200,000 laptop PC batteries, and may end up sharing the burden.

AP - The British Broadcasting Corp. said Friday it has signed a deal with Google Inc.'s YouTube that will allow the popular Web site to show excerpts of the broadcaster's news and entertainment programs.

InfoWorld - Researchers in the U.S. say they've successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make it harder to trace Internet surfers and the Web sites they are viewing.

InfoWorld - One of Europe's largest shoe companies plans to embed wireless chips in shoes sold at hundreds of stores across the continent.

InfoWorld - Two makers of virtualization software for running the Windows operating system on Apple's computers have issued dueling upgrades this week.

InfoWorld - Eighteen months after rival Apple  raised the bar in the music player market with its video iPod, Sony will launch its first digital video Walkman.

NewsFactor - Verizon Wireless customers can now watch television in the palms of their hands. The second-largest U.S. mobile phone carrier launched the nation's first commercial mobile TV service in 20 states on Thursday.

AP - The British Broadcasting Corp. began showing excerpts from its news and entertainment programs on the YouTube video-sharing Web site Friday, becoming the first international broadcaster to ink a major deal with the Google Inc.-owned portal.

InfoWorld - A judge in a San Diego court late Thursday dismissed one of several patent claims Alcatel-Lucent has made against Microsoft in several high-profile cases against the vendor, but that does not mean the software company is out of the woods yet.

AP - AMR Corp., the parent of American Airlines, is hiring International Business Machines Corp. to perform some of its personnel chores in a $217 million deal that will run for 7 1/2 years, the companies said Friday.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge dismissed Alcatel-Lucent's patent claim against Microsoft Corp. over technology that converts speech into text, the two companies said on Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc. may be frustrated in efforts to reach comprehensive deals with major media companies such as NBC or Viacom Inc. to put their videos on YouTube, but it is signing up hundreds of smaller media partners, The New York Times reported on Friday.

AP - This is one cleaning that could pass anybody's white-glove test.

InfoWorld - Despite its CEO's claims that Microsoft eventually will trump Google to be number one in online search revenue, the company's online business is "massively underperforming" against the competition, according to a leading financial analyst.

AFP - Qatar Telecom (Qtel) is to acquire 51 percent of Kuwait's National Mobile Telecommunications Co. (Wataniya) in a 3.7 billion dollar deal, a major Wataniya shareholder said on Friday.

InfoWorld - A judge in a San Diego court late Thursday dismissed one of several patent claims Alcatel-Lucent SA has made against Microsoft Corp. in several high-profile cases against the vendor, but that does not mean the software company is out of the woods yet.

Reuters - Austrian internet bookmaker bwin.com said on Friday it would temporarily withdraw its online gaming offers from Turkey after a new law was passed on Feb 28.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates will testify Wednesday at a congressional hearing on American business competitiveness, the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee said on Friday.

AP - Motorola Inc. Chief Executive Ed Zander received $13.2 million in compensation in 2006, according to a proxy statement filed Friday, for a year in which the cell-phone maker boosted sales and market share but saw profits decline under pressure from rivals.

AFP - A teacher in northern Russia could face up to three years in prison after being captured on a mobile phone camera beating a student in front of his classmates, a law-enforcement official said.

InfoWorld - Japanese electronics company Sanyo Electric and computer vendor Lenovo Group are discussing how to pay for the recall of over 200,000 laptop PC batteries, but have agreed to share the burden.

InfoWorld - EBay has big plans to provide more programming tools like new SDKs and APIs to its community of about 45,000 third-party developers.

InfoWorld - IBM reported on Mar. 2 that it has signed American Airlines as its latest major human resources outsourcing customer, announcing a $217 million deal to take over much of the airline's personnel operations.

Editor and Publisher - EVANSTON, Ill. Unlike Eddie Murphy and Alan Arkin, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times did not go quite head to head during the Oscar season, but the two newspapers did compete on the Web with revamped sites and chatty bloggers. The home team had a built-in advantage over the national champ. Still, the results overall provide insight into how top papers can best cover drawn-out cultural events over time -- and in nearly real time.

AdWeek.com - In a move that could make its business reply cards obsolete, a mobile effort from GM has its Saab brand prospecting for leads via cell phone, a strategy the company might take national.

Investor's Business Daily - A mix of low-cost labor and high-quality software and services has proved a bonanza for outsourcing firms in India, sending American rivals IBM , Accenture and others scrambling to cash in.

MIAMI (Billboard) - A girl and a song. Warner Music Latin America is banking on that combination to bolster mobile music sales of its catalog.

AP - A brazen bank robber with nothing but a baseball cap and dark sunglasses hiding his face is one of the latest members of the social-networking Web site MySpace, and he wants to meet 'more bank tellers so that I can continue my crime spree!!!'