TechWeb - The move by the world's largest chipmaker lends credibility to the fledgling technology.

TechWeb - Sales of Sony's new disk format jumped up two weeks after the release of its PlayStation 3 videogame console.

TechWeb - Microsoft quietly fixed an Xbox 360 bug that allowed a user to bypass security and run their own applications or operating systems on the console.

TechWeb - The 2.5-inch drive is Fujitsu's third product line using perpendicular magnetic recording.

Reuters - Yahoo Inc. has added mobile phones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile software to a growing list of handsets from device makers who feature its services on their phone screens.

Reuters - Friendster Inc. named Google Inc. as its exclusive advertising and Web search provider, part of a plan by the originator of the social network craze to expand globally, the company said on Tuesday.

TechWeb - Massive multiplayer online game developer NCsoft backs the open-source platform that will become available under a GPL license in the coming months.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. has added mobile phones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile software to a growing list of handsets from device makers who feature its services on their phone screens.

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 - French media and telecoms group Vivendi posted on Wednesday an 18 percent rise in adjusted full-year net profit in line with forecasts, pulled by Maroc Telecom and its games, French mobile and pay-TV units.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. sees the shift by business organizations to Web-based phone systems running on its software to generate 'billions' of dollars in revenue for the company, a top executive said on Tuesday.

NewsFactor - Training new customer service reps to use a CRM system quickly is crucial not just to a contact center or customer service effort, but to the entire company, as well. Often, a service rep is the first contact for new customers, or for existing customers who have problems with a product or service.

AP - A group of U.S. venture capital firms, including Disney's investment arm, was set to announce Wednesday that it had invested $23.5 million in UUSee, a major Chinese site for Web video.

InfoWorld - Microsoft will release a public beta of new VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) server software by the end of this month.The software smoothly integrates with legacy phone networks and its Office application suite, the company said.

Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter)- Filmmaker Zack Snyder likes the idea of making a video game and a movie that are 'organically linked.'

AP - Regulators have ordered Chinese Web sites to limit the use of 'virtual money' after concerns that the online credits might be used for money laundering or illicit trade.

AP - The Archdiocese of Philadelphia hopes to add salvation to the seemingly endless list of things Internet surfers can find on Google Inc.'s YouTube.

InfoWorld - Google has released a new version of its desktop search tool, adding a preview feature to help find information more quickly and making some improvements to the interface design.

InfoWorld - Yahoo has teamed up with High Tech Computer (HTC) to put a suite of Internet software applications on millions of Windows Mobile handsets, the companies said Wednesday.

InfoWorld - Indian outsourcer Wipro is to develop open-source business software and offer system integration services around the open-source database from software vendor Ingres, which will be marketed jointly by the two companies.

InfoWorld - The Liberty Alliance Project has published a document outlining the legal issues enterprises should consider when networking their Web applications and identity systems with those of other businesses.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday launched a service that lets users watch video purchased on the Internet and sent to a home television hooked up to a TiVo set-top box.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. sees the shift by business organizations to Web-based phone systems running on its software to generate 'billions' of dollars in revenue for the company, a top executive said on Tuesday.

InfoWorld - Palm announced Wednesday that it would launch its Treo 680 handheld in China, and increase its presence in the Chinese market by opening a research and development (R&D) center there.

Reuters - Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday launched a service that lets users watch video purchased on the Internet and sent to a home television hooked up to a TiVo set-top box.

PC World - Strong sales forecast, says financial officer at investment event.

AFP - British supermodel Naomi Campbell is to spend a week mopping floors at a New York City warehouse for hitting her maid with a mobile phone, prosecutors said Wednesday.

InfoWorld - Talk about the coming iPhone and AppleTV device dominated the discussion with the chief financial officer of Apple at an investment conference in San Francisco Tuesday.

PC Magazine - Kodak has announced four new EasyShare camera models; two higher-end Z-series cameras and two lower-end C-series point-and-shoots that will retail for under $200.

AP - Most people just grumble and hit delete, but when Gordon Dick received a spam message advertising Internet services, he fought back.

InfoWorld - Taiwanese handset maker High Tech Computer (HTC) is racing to put out the first smartphone based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 OS, a company representative said Wednesday.

Reuters - Several Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. investors have pooled their stakes in the video game company to vote for a slate of director candidates at its upcoming annual meeting, according to a regulatory filing on Wednesday.

InfoWorld - IBM and Cisco will announce today at the Spring 2007 VoiceCon conference in Orlando, Florida, a joint effort to create an industrywide unified communications and collaboration platform.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc. launched on Wednesday a service that lets users watch video purchased on the Internet and sent to a home television hooked up to a TiVo set-top box.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The issue of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from cars has lodged in the brains of car industry executives, but the evidence under the bonnet at the Geneva car show is less conclusive.

InfoWorld - Qualcomm and Samsung Investment Venture have each invested $8 million in Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Co. (AMEC), a Chinese company that plans to develop and sell equipment used to manufacture semiconductors.

Reuters - Amazon.com Inc. launched on Wednesday a service that lets users watch video purchased on the Internet and sent to a home television hooked up to a TiVo set-top box.

Reuters - Several shareholders of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. have banded together to try to oust Chief Executive Paul Eibeler, sending the video game maker's shares up 18 percent on Wednesday.

PC World - Internet telephony will integrate with Office, Outlook.

Reuters - Sony Corp. will unveil on Wednesday 'Home,' an online network for its new PlayStation 3, which supports streaming video and advertising and will host virtual characters in common areas and private rooms.

NewsFactor - Imagine looking at far away galaxies through PC technology that simulates a powerful telescope, or a video game console that teaches kids how to program computers. Microsoft Research is imagining all that and more.

InfoWorld - I was hungry and it had started to rain when my mobile phone buzzed to tell me I could now buy sugar in a hermetically sealed packet. A picture on my phone's screen of a goldfish swimming past the cheery new packaging drove the point home.

AP - Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia's bureaucracy used his cloak of anonymity to lie about being a professor of religion, the free Internet encyclopedia plans to ask contributors who claim such credentials to identify themselves.

AP - Connecticut lawmakers unveiled legislation Wednesday that would require MySpace.com and other social-networking sites to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent before minors can post profiles.

InfoWorld - Online ad spending in the U.S. grew 34 percent in 2006, compared with 2005, as marketers continued expanding their use of the Internet to promote their products and services, according to a new study.

FT.com - Mobile phone companies will on Thursday launch a last-ditch lobbying effort over a European Union plan to force them to slash the cost of international calls by up to 70 per cent.

Reuters - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. investors who own 46 percent of the company are banding together to take over its board and potentially oust the chief executive, sending shares of the 'Grand Theft Auto' video game maker up as much as 19 percent on Wednesday.

InfoWorld - The new DST (daylight-saving time) is drawing near. Do you think you're ready? Run down this checklist to be sure.

AP - Clearly inspired by 'Grand Theft Auto,' 'Crackdown' is a new video game for the Xbox 360 that packs just enough mayhem, action and carnage to keep things interesting.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. will unveil on Wednesday 'Home,' an online network for its new PlayStation 3, which supports streaming video and advertising and will host virtual characters in common areas and private rooms.

AP - While CBS Corp. is doubling the amount of bandwidth available for viewing NCAA tournament games this year, it will still restrict the number of viewers to keep the system running smoothly.

AP - Hoping to finally become profitable, online social-networking pioneer Friendster Inc. is joining the crowd of Web sites that rely on Internet search leader Google Inc. for a large piece of their advertising.

Reuters - The state of Ohio said on Wednesday that it had reached a $144 million settlement with Time Warner Inc. on behalf of six state funds that claimed they were defrauded after the media conglomerate merged with the online service AOL.

AP - AT&T Inc. is offering subscribers a new kind of TV remote control: their cell phones.

Reuters - A federal jury on Wednesday began reviewing evidence in Verizon Communications Inc.'s $197 million patent infringement case against Internet phone service provider Vonage Holdings Corp..

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In the wake of virtual worlds like Second Life and such file-sharing stalwarts as YouTube and Flickr, Sony Computer Entertainment is using its PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable to usher in its own virtual online-connected community.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - The Microsoft Corp. executive in charge of closing the gap on Web search leader Google Inc is leaving the company, a source familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.

PC World - I was hungry and it had started to rain when my mobile phone buzzed to tell me I could now buy sugar in a hermetically sealed packet. A picture on my phone's screen of a goldfish swimming past the cheery new packaging drove the point home.

Reuters - In the wake of virtual worlds like Second Life and such file-sharing stalwarts as YouTube and Flickr, Sony Computer Entertainment is using its PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable to usher in its own virtual online-connected community.

AP - Capitalizing on the popularity of social networks and online worlds, Sony will launch its own virtual universe and another 3-D game built almost entirely by players. 'Home' is a real-time, networked world for the PlayStation 3 in which players create human-looking characters called avatars. They can buy clothing, furniture and videos to play on a virtual flat-screen television in their virtual apartments.

AP - It turns out that Republicans were right: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did violate C-SPAN's copyright by using its televised footage on her blog promoting Democrats.

AP - Gasoline prices have jumped above $3 a gallon in some parts of California and Hawaii, and may hit that level other parts of the country when the busy summer driving season approaches. 'It kills me,' said Gloria Nunez, 53, as she filled her Ford Explorer SUV at a San Jose gas station. Nunez, a clerk for a communications company, has started working a couple hours of overtime each week to help soften the blow.

InfoWorld - The president of virtualization software leader VMware Wednesday questioned the strategy of rivals that are integrating virtualization functionality into their operating systems.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled that Google Inc.'s 3D modeling software, which gives Web users an astronaut's view of the earth and allows them to zoom down to street level, does not infringe the patent of a rival.

Reuters - Web search leader Google Inc. and its top rival in China Baidu.com Inc. are racing to build out their online library services as they battle for a slice of the world's second-largest Internet market.

Reuters - A U.S. judge ruled that Google Inc.'s 3D modeling software, which gives Web users an astronaut's view of the earth and allows them to zoom down to street level, does not infringe the patent of a rival.