NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced plans to launch a 512MB Memory Unit for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system and an increase in the official size limit of Xbox LIVE(R) Arcade games from 50 MB to 150 MB.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major League Baseball is nearing completion of a controversial $700 million deal with satellite purveyor DirecTV Group Inc. to exclusively air its out-of-market package of games for the next seven years, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced plans to launch a 512MB Memory Unit for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system and an increase in the official size limit of Xbox LIVE(R) Arcade games from 50 MB to 150 MB.

Reuters - Alltel Corp. has stepped up efforts to sell itself to carriers such as AT&T Inc. , Verizon Communications Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp. , said people familiar with the matter, as the Little Rock, Ark.-based wireless company tries to chart a new future, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Reuters - A rock archive Web site is fighting back against a copyright lawsuit brought by some of music's most notable classic rock acts, dragging two major record labels into the battle.

AP - Tired of being turned away at the theater box office when a movie's sold out? Unhappy there's no art-house theater in your neighborhood to cater to your hoity-toity theatrical tastes?

PC World - Here's who's shaping what you read, watch, hear, write, buy, sell, befriend, flame, and otherwise do online.

Reuters - British insurer Royal & Sun Alliance (RSA) said on Monday it had completed the disposal of its U.S. operation to Arrowpoint Capital Corp., the company set up by the unit's management, causing its shares to rise.

Reuters - Alltel Corp. has stepped up efforts to sell itself to carriers such as AT&T Inc. , Verizon Communications Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp. , said people familiar with the matter, as the Little Rock, Ark.-based wireless company tries to chart a new future, The Wall Street Journal reported.

InfoWorld - The great thing about SOA is that when you add a service, you instantly increase the potential of any application that can consume that service. Today, Avaya threw a new set of VoIP services into the enterprise SOA mix in the form of its CEBP (Communications Enabled Business Processes) solution.

Reuters - Cisco Systems Inc. said on Monday it has acquired software to create online social networking sites from privately held Utah Street Networks, Inc., the operator of Tribe.net.

InfoWorld - SugarCRM Inc., an open-source customer relationship management (CRM) vendor, has opened a new office in Dublin to help extend its European presence.

InfoWorld - Red Hat and Exadel are joining forces to try to make the open source Red Hat platform more of a destination for software developers.

InfoWorld - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has turned to IBM Corp. to introduce a new video search system and provide support in other technology areas such as content distribution and rights management.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major League Baseball is nearing completion of a controversial $700 million deal with satellite purveyor DirecTV Group Inc. to exclusively air its out-of-market package of games for the next seven years, The Wall Street Journal reported.

AP - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. warned Monday that it was unlikely to meet its first-quarter revenue guidance of $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion, the latest in a series of disappointments for investors in the struggling chip-maker.

AP - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. said Monday it will restate its financial statements as far back as fiscal 2004 because of past stock option reporting errors and it anticipates a $250 million reduction in previous earnings. Chairman and co-CEO Jim Balsillie is stepping aside as chairman.

PC World - Taiwanese PC vendor Acer Inc. has started selling laptop PCs at popular retailer Best Buy Co. Inc., expanding its presence in the U.S. market.

InfoWorld - Lawson Software continues to broaden its relationship with close partner IBM as the midmarket applications vendor Monday announced plans to enter the hosting market and use more of IBM's middleware.

AFP - Finnish company Perlos, which makes mobile phone casings for Nokia, said on Monday it would end production with the loss of 1,132 jobs, as part of a bid to return to profitability.

AFP - Research in Motion's chairman announced Monday he has resigned after a stock option probe found irregularities that will force the BlackBerry maker to restate its financial statements from 2004 to 2007.

AFP - Poles have finally been given a political game they enjoy: an online test in which they have to spot the difference between the country's identical twin leaders, President Lech Kaczynski and his prime minister brother Jaroslaw.

NewsFactor - As creative minds gather at the Game Developers Conference 2007 in San Francisco, Microsoft is making some Xbox announcements that might turn a few heads.

AP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it has fired a Wal-Mart systems technician for recording phone conversations between the company's PR office and a newspaper reporter and for intercepting text messages without authorization.

AP - Downtown strollers looking for directions, store guides or historical tidbits will be able to get an earful without talking to anyone — thanks to 1,200 computer chips embedded around Tokyo's Ginza shopping district.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Inc.'s outgoing chief executive Larry Probst said on Monday the world's biggest video game publisher expects Sony Corp.'s dominance over the console market to slip in the current hardware war.

AP - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. warned Monday that it was unlikely to meet its first-quarter revenue guidance of $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion, the latest in a series of disappointments for investors in the struggling chip-maker.

AP - Worldwide semiconductor sales rose 9.2 percent in January, boosted by better-than-expected cell phone shipments and strong sales of personal computers, digital cameras and music players, an industry group said on Monday.

Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc.'s outgoing chief executive Larry Probst said on Monday the world's biggest video game publisher expects Sony Corp.'s dominance over the console market to slip in the current hardware war.

AP - A new study that estimates how much digital information the world is generating (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff.

Reuters - Dmitry Medvedev, a Russian first deputy prime minister and a potential successor to President Vladimir Putin, took his charm offensive to cyberspace on Monday, hosting a two-hour Internet conference.

InfoWorld - Cisco Systems is continuing to buy its way into social networking, acquiring some assets of the company that operates Tribe.net while letting the site remain independent.

InfoWorld - Facing a market glut of microprocessors and weak corporate demand for PCs running Microsoft's new Windows Vista OS, Intel hopes to stay profitable by producing new chip designs faster than its competitors, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said Monday.

NewsFactor - As creative minds gather at the Game Developers Conference 2007 in San Francisco, Microsoft is making some Xbox announcements that might turn a few heads.

AdWeek.com - With Web video inventory in short supply, DaimlerChrysler is streaming clips in a novel way by using hyperlinks to lay claim to lifestyle terms like 'freedom' that it associates with its brands.

PC Magazine - NEW YORK, March 5 (Reuters) - Intel Corp's Chief Executive Paul Otellini said on Monday that competition in the chip market is continuing to put pressure on pricing.

Investor's Business Daily - These days, it seems like you can get video anywhere: your TV, your computer, your cell phone, your iPod. Even some cars are outfitted with the ability to download video out of the ether.

InfoWorld - McAfee's board of directors on Monday named former EMC executive Dave DeWalt as the security software company's CEO and president.

PC World - Cisco Systems Inc. is continuing to buy its way into social networking, acquiring some assets of the company that operates Tribe.net while letting the site remain independent.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. is set to launch a blistering attack on rival Google Inc. on Tuesday for what the software giant argues is the Web search leader's 'cavalier' approach to copyright protection.

PC World - Apple on Monday released updates for its digital jukebox software iTunes, as well as an update for QuickTime.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. is set to launch a blistering attack on rival Google Inc.