NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. and AT&T Inc. are negotiating potentially sweeping changes that could scale back their partnership, a person familiar with the matter said, according to the Wall Street Journal.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. said on Friday it will eliminate a key microchip from the European version of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console, reducing production costs as well as its compatibility with PS2 games.

Reuters - Sony Corp. (6758.T) said on Friday it will eliminate a key microchip from the European version of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console, reducing production costs as well as its compatibility with PS2 games.

TechWeb - CDW, Hitachi, Lenovo, Matsushita Industrial Electric, Panasonic, and Sony are all named in the suit.

TechWeb - The new Cyber-shot camera will compete with similar wireless-enabled products from Kodak, Nikon, and Canon.

Reuters - America voted and ended contestant Antonella Barba's hopes of becoming the next 'American Idol' on Thursday, after several racy photos of the New Jersey resident surfaced on the Internet.

TechWeb - The partnership builds a content aggregator for databases, business applications, spreadsheets and directories.

AFP - Video games with action dictated by brain waves will be available by the end of the year, according to a Silicon Valley company that has created low-cost headsets.

AP - Normally the switch to daylight-saving time isn't a big deal, but this Sunday, Jeff Ronner has to put people on the case.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. is removing a chip from the European version of its new PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console, a move that cuts costs but means users cannot play some of their old games.

GENEVA/SEOUL (Reuters) - Global automakers are tapping a rich seam of talented vehicle designers in a surprising spot: South Korea.

Reuters - Sony Corp. is removing a chip from the European version of its new PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console, a move that cuts costs but means users cannot play some of their old games.

AP - The music industry is asking 50 Ohio University students to pay $3,000 each to avoid lawsuits accusing them of pirating songs off the Internet.

USATODAY.com - LOS ANGELES - Apple's marketing machine has done it again. While the biggest names in tech were in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show in January showing off new gadgets and gizmos, Apple gambled it could extract attention in San Francisco for a sneak-peek debut of the iPhone, the combination music player/cellphone and Internet device.

AP - Turkey lifted its ban on YouTube Friday, an official for the country's largest telecommunications firm said, two days after a court ordered the Web site blocked because of videos that allegedly insulted the founder of modern Turkey.

AP - Japanese electronics maker Hitachi said Friday it will sell business personal computers made by Hewlett-Packard Co. under the Hitachi brand in Japan.

Reuters - Pope Benedict called on the media on Friday to promote family values and criticized the Internet and television's often 'destructive' influence on young people.

USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Daylight-saving time begins Sunday, three weeks sooner than usual. Time to spin the dial on the kitchen clock - and to brace for computer problems. The early start wasn't programmed into many electronic devices. That's created plenty of work for Luis Rodriguez, a software director at IBM, and David Woelfle, an enterprise architect at Electronic Data Systems. The two tech experts have helped dozens of companies update computer systems for the change.

InfoWorld - Jeff Jonas, the chief scientist and distinguished engineer at IBM Corp.'s entity analytic solutions group, has developed a means of sharing corporate data without revealing what that data contains.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have created a salamander-like robot that married biology and robotics and enabled them to explore ideas about the first vertebrates that emerged from water to land hundreds of millions of years ago.

InfoWorld - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., the world's largest contract chip maker, reported its worst monthly revenue in 20 months on Friday, but analysts applauded the figure as further proof that an industry glut is dissipating.

AP - Japanese electronics maker Hitachi said Friday it will sell personal computers made by Hewlett-Packard Co. that are designed for businesses under the Hitachi brand in Japan.

Reuters - Scientists have created a salamander-like robot that married biology and robotics and enabled them to explore ideas about the first vertebrates that emerged from water to land hundreds of millions of years ago.

InfoWorld - Wi-fi startup Fon Technology SL has secured an additional €10 million (US$13.1 million) in funding for its plan to establish a global network of shared hotspots, the company said Friday.

PC World - Jeff Jonas, the chief scientist and distinguished engineer at IBM Corp.'s entity analytic solutions group, has developed a means of sharing corporate data without revealing what that data contains.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. and AT&T Inc. are negotiating potentially sweeping changes that could scale back their partnership, the Wall Street Journal reported, dragging Yahoo shares down 5.3 percent.

NewsFactor - Apple might begin selling notebook computers that use flash memory instead of hard-disk drives, an analyst has predicted, and the change could come before the end of the year.

InfoWorld - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is targeting the fourth quarter of this year for the unveiling of an open-source search engine that he hopes could challenge the dominance of market-leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

PC World - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is targeting the fourth quarter of this year for the unveiling of an open-source search engine that he hopes could challenge the dominance of market-leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

InfoWorld - In search of new markets and customers, SAP AG is developing a new breed of hosted, on-demand products and looking at ways to make its complex business software easier to use.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Calls made on cell phones do not affect hospital medical devices, U.S. researchers said on Friday, but store anti-theft alarms might make implanted heart devices misfire.

Reuters - Calls made on cell phones do not affect hospital medical devices, U.S. researchers said on Friday, but store anti-theft alarms might make implanted heart devices misfire.

AP - Shares of Clearwire Corp., a wireless Internet service provider founded by cell phone pioneer Craig McCaw, sank nearly 10 percent in their second day of public trading.

AP - The high-flying Advanced Micro Devices Inc. of 2006 has given way to a company in financial peril, saddled with debt and bleeding from a brutal price battle with its larger and suddenly resurgent Silicon Valley archrival, Intel Corp.

AFP - Spanish police said Friday they arrested 15 people after smashing a huge Internet ring of paedophiles who downloaded large quantities of child pornography.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. and AT&T Inc. are negotiating potentially sweeping changes that could scale back their partnership, the Wall Street Journal reported, dragging Yahoo shares down 5.2 percent.

NewsFactor - Real-world body image concerns are bad enough, but what happens when the rest of the planet starts dissing how your Nintendo avatar looks? According to senior Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, users of the popular Wii console soon will be able to find just what others think of their online appearance.

NewsFactor - Wire by wire, electronic products are losing their tethers. Sony cut another cord Thursday with its announcement of its first wireless digital camera.

AP - Yahoo Inc.'s recently resurgent stock retreated by more than 5 percent Friday amid fears that a setback in a lucrative partnership with AT&T Inc. will undercut the anticipated gains from an overhaul of the Web portal's advertising platform.

Reuters - Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. said on Friday it was not going out of business despite a jury's verdict a day earlier that it infringed on three patents owned by Verizon Communications Inc.

AP - Yahoo Inc.'s recently resurgent stock retreated by more than 5 percent Friday amid fears that a setback in a lucrative partnership with AT&T Inc. will undercut the anticipated gains from an overhaul of the Web portal's advertising platform.

AP - Be careful who you trust.

InfoWorld - Microsoft officials deny that the Department of Transportation's recent moratorium on adoption of Windows Vista is indicative of any widespread reluctance in the government sector to install the new operating system.

PC World - Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto spoke to an audience at a packed convention room at San Francisco's Game Developers Conference on Thursday.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - AT&T Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are negotiating how they could expand a broadband promotion deal to cover mobile Internet services and advertising, a source familiar with the talks said on Friday.

Reuters - AT&T Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are negotiating how they could expand a broadband promotion deal to cover mobile Internet services and advertising, a source familiar with the talks said on Friday.

AP - Still grappling with the fallout from a boardroom spying scandal, Hewlett-Packard Co. is now facing a Senate investigation into a stock option debacle that it inherited last year with its $4.9 billion acquisition of software maker Mercury Interactive Corp.

InfoWorld - A GoDaddy.com customer is seriously concerned that this domain registrar and hosting company may not be ready for the switch to DST (Daylight Saving Time) on Sunday.

Reuters - In what is becoming an unfortunate tradition, Wilco's new album, 'Sky Blue Sky,' has leaked online, more than two months prior to its May 15 release date.