TechWeb - The maker of the BlackBerry mobile device also said that co-chief executive Jim Balsillie had voluntarily stepped down as chairman of the board, but would retain his CEO job with co-CEO Michael Lazaridis.

TechWeb - The new offering is eight times bigger than the current memory unit and is expected to have a retail price in North America of $49.99.

AP - A new study that estimates how much digital information is zipping around (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 - Life's too short, the saying goes, and a black humor Internet site called Death Clock lets you know exactly how brief it is.

Reuters - Shares in LG Electronics Inc. (066570.KS) rose as much as 4.7 percent on Tuesday amid market speculation its operating profit margins in mobile phones are stronger than expected so far in the current quarter.

Reuters - Comedy Central's 'South Park' is available in high definition for the first time beginning Tuesday as an HD episode offered via the Xbox Live Marketplace.

Reuters - NBC and MSNBC.com have unveiled an extreme makeover of the 'Today' show Web site that features a behind-the-scenes look at the three-hour and soon to be four-hour show.

Reuters - The influential French film magazine Les Cahiers du Cinema is to get an English remake after nearly 60 years in print.

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.

LONDON (Reuters) - A good butler knows just how to rouse one after a boozy night and now anyone can wake feeling pampered to the indulgent tones of the consummate valet.

(Reuters) - Activision Inc. said it agreed to acquire Dublin-based DemonWare, a provider of network middleware technologies for games, to strengthen its online multiplayer development capabilities.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Safaricom, Kenya's biggest cell phone firm, on Tuesday launched a money transfer service that will use short message services, which it said was the first of its kind in the world.

BusinessWeek Online - As Advanced Micro Devices' CEO Hector Ruiz continues struggling for customers in a cut-throat battle with archrival Intel (NasdaqGS:INTC - News), the computer chip maker announced on Mar. 5 that it won't likely meet an earlier forecast of $1.6-$1.7 billion in revenue during the first three months of 2007, according to a statement from the company. Investors sold the stock to a new low for the year after the news.

Reuters - Safaricom, Kenya's biggest cell phone firm, on Tuesday launched a money transfer service that will use short message services, which it said was the first of its kind in the world.

PC World - A Microsoft Corp. attorney will attack Google Inc.'s book search service in a speech Tuesday to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), saying Google is misappropriating principles of fair use to further its own business model.

InfoWorld - Casting the open-source Eclipse platform as a linchpin of product uniformity efforts, BEA Systems plans to reconfigure several middleware clients so they can be plugged into the Eclipse IDE, a company official said on Monday.

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

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.

Reuters - Activision Inc. said it agreed to acquire Dublin-based DemonWare, a provider of network middleware technologies for games, to strengthen its online multiplayer development capabilities.

PC Magazine - Fujitsu's newest notebook, the LifeBook S2210, is attractively priced for companies looking to keep costs down.

Reuters - A good butler knows just how to rouse one after a boozy night and now anyone can wake feeling pampered to the indulgent tones of the consummate valet.

AFP - Software giant Microsoft launched a stinging attack against Google on Tuesday, accusing its Internet rival of riding roughshod over copyright in a rush to grab content for its own commercial benefit.

PC World - Do your employees have a 'Crackberry' problem? Their compulsive BlackBerry monitoring could backfire on you: Checking e-mail via BlackBerry gives employees a sense of control but leads to more stress, according to a recent study from the MIT Sloan School of Management that examined BlackBerry use and organizational behavior. And this problem starts at the top.

PC World - Dell Inc. is seeing strong demand for its products in several Asian markets and is pleased with customer acceptance of Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows Vista operating system, according to one of the computer manufacturer's senior executives in the region.

OSLO (Reuters) - A new U.N.-led alliance will work out global scrapping guidelines to protect the environment from mountains of electronic trash such as computers, phones and televisions, the group said on Tuesday.

InfoWorld - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will miss its revenue goal for the first quarter of 2007 because the chip maker grew so fast that it couldn't keep up with demand from its customers, company CEO Hector Ruiz said Monday.

NewsFactor - With the Apple iPhone trademark battle now fading from memory, Cisco has forged ahead to its next mission: new business collaboration tools to compete with Avaya and Nortel.

Reuters - A new U.N.-led alliance will work out global scrapping guidelines to protect the environment from mountains of electronic trash such as computers, phones and televisions, the group said on Tuesday.

InfoWorld - The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.

PC World - Microsoft Corp. will ship the next version of Forecaster, its midmarket budgeting and planning application, in early April, the first major release of the software since 2003.

PC Magazine - Intel on Tuesday will aggressively move into RFID, integrating enough RFID into one of its chips to cut reader prices anywhere from 50 to 60 percent.

NewsFactor - According to Nielsen Wireless and Interactive Services, the number of video game consoles in U.S. households has expanded by 18.5 percent since the fourth quarter of 2004.

PC World - IT executives who left startups after the Internet bubble burst in 2001 had a tough time finding new positions. It wasn't just the anemic job market: The widespread perception among traditional companies was that candidates from dotcoms were undisciplined managers, profligate spenders and senseless risk-takers.

InfoWorld - The Mozilla Foundation has published a fix for a "critical" JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox browser and the SeaMonkey application suite.

InfoWorld - Oracle is making the whole of its TopLink Java persistence framework freely available as part of the vendor's increased involvement in the open-source development tools Eclipse Foundation community, the company announced Tuesday.

AP - Best Buy is under investigation by Connecticut's attorney general after consumers complained they were denied deals found at the electronic retailer's Web site by store employees who pulled up a lookalike site that listed higher prices on some merchandise.

InfoWorld - Santa Clara, Calif. -- Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich criticized Microsoft on Tuesday for not approaching Eclipse about interoperability between .Net and open source Eclipse technologies.

InfoWorld - The key to Sun's success going forward is increased adoption of its Solaris 10 operating system, company CEO Jonathan Schwartz said Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The top two U.S. wireless providers are starting to let customers use their mobile phones to remotely record television shows, hoping the new service will help them better compete against rivals.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Dell Inc. is considering offering the Linux operating system as an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows on its personal computers, a Dell spokesman said on Tuesday.

Reuters - The top two U.S. wireless providers are starting to let customers use their mobile phones to remotely record television shows, hoping the new service will help them better compete against rivals.

AP - Internet music broadcasters worry that a new ruling could put many of them out of business by drastically increasing the royalty payments they have to make to record labels and artists.

AP - An update to Apple Inc.'s iTunes music software still hasn't resolved some of the compatibility problems with Microsoft Corp.'s new operating system.

Reuters - Dell Inc. is considering offering the Linux operating system as an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows on its personal computers, a Dell spokesman said on Tuesday.

AP - Yahoo Inc.'s month-old upgrade to its advertising formula for making money from online search requests so far has done more to lift the Internet powerhouse's morale than its finances, the company's two top executives said Tuesday.

AP - TWO WEB SITES: A probe by the Connecticut attorney general centers on two nearly identical Best Buy Web sites — the one available to the public, the other only to employees — that featured varying prices on some merchandise.

AFP - Microsoft researchers from the software giant's labs around the world gathered on Tuesday to conspire on innovations intended to change the world.

PC Magazine - Toshiba said Tuesday that it has expanded its electronics recycling program to pay cash for used cameras, servers, mobile phones, and other products. The electronics manufacturer will also accept old notebook PCs for free.

REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - Lost in Seattle with nothing but a camera phone? Just snap a picture of a nearby building, send off the photo to a database and soon you'll get back a map and information about where you are.

Macworld.com - While the upcoming Apple TV and iPhone products made up the bulk of Peter Oppenheimer’s presentation at a San Francisco investment conference Tuesday, the Apple CEO also offered a glimpse into the company’s retail plans for 2007.