TechWeb - AMD has tested and certified the motherboards, which will be offered by Asus International, EliteGroup Computer Systems, Micro-Star International, and Gigabyte Technology.

TechWeb - The drive, which has no moving parts and is available in 1-Gbyte to 8-Gbyte densities, will be used in a variety of Intel-based computing platforms for servers, notebooks, and low-cost PCs.

TechWeb - ASI is the first computer maker to ship product with the Seagate security drive. Seagate expects other computer makers to offer the drive in the next several months.

TechWeb - Hydrastor's DynamicStor software makes it possible to build a cluster of standard x86 servers that are presented as one large storage pool.

SEPANG, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysia deployed two sniffer dogs in its battle against music and movie piracy on Tuesday, becoming the first country in the world to use the animals to hunt for disks of illegal recordings hidden in cargo. Two female Black Labradors, 'Flo' and 'Lucky', demonstrated their technique by sniffing through piles of sealed cartons in an air cargo hangar and then signaling their handler about a suspect package by sitting down in front of it.

WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - Brushing aside congressional suggestions that the nation is ill-prepared for the conversion to digital TV in 2009, the Department of Commerce on Monday unveiled its plan to help subsidize the switchover from analog.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. is in talks to buy privately-held Tellme Networks, a maker of Web-based voice technology, for about $800 million, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. said on Tuesday it had made an equity investment in privately held Amimon Inc., a developer of semiconductor technology for wireless transmission of high-definition video.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. said on Tuesday that it was suing Google Inc. and its Internet video-sharing site YouTube for more than $1 billion over unauthorized use of its programming online.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc. said on Tuesday it will invest more than $750 million in 2007 to accelerate the delivery of global Internet Protocol services and solutions to businesses and multinational companies in key markets worldwide.

PC World - Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV sold just over 887 million shares of stock in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) Monday for NT$57.66 billion (US$1.75 billion [b]), part of a sale intended to finalize Philips' exit from the semiconductor industry.

Reuters - Motorola Inc. said on Tuesday it had made an equity investment in privately held Amimon Inc., a developer of semiconductor technology for wireless transmission of high-definition video.

AP - Monster Worldwide Inc., a leading job-search Web site, is taking its latest step to forge partnerships with traditional media by linking with a technology company that runs the online help-wanted sites for more than 200 newspapers.

PC World - VC firm, ex-Microsoft execs backing potential Google, Microsoft competitor Xcerion.

PC World - IBM Corp. is enhancing its software developer's support program by creating a software code exchange.

USATODAY.com - A new police tool on the Internet has prompted hoax sites on MySpace.com, and the popular networking site is shutting them down. At least 16 police or sheriffs' departments appeared to have profile pages on MySpace to seek investigative tips or deter predators, but USA TODAY found that at least six were fakes.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc. said on Tuesday that it would spend more than $750 million in 2007 to expand its global communications network for corporate customers, an 89 percent rise from last year, as companies increasingly do business abroad.

Reuters - Video games aren't just for the kids anymore. More than one in three U.S. adults who go online, or 37 percent, own a video game console and 16 percent own a portable gaming device, Nielsen//NetRatings said on Tuesday.

AP - Shares of Texas Instruments Inc. dipped Tuesday, a day after the leading maker of chips for cell phones said it expected to grow in the second quarter but gave only a middling outlook for first-quarter profit.

Reuters - Brushing aside congressional suggestions that the nation is ill-prepared for the conversion to digital TV in 2009, the Department of Commerce on Monday unveiled its plan to help subsidize the switchover from analog.

AP - Intel Corp. has received approval to build a $2.5 billion chip plant in China amid booming Chinese demand for chips used in personal computers and mobile phones, the government said Tuesday.

PC World - Motorola Inc.'s venture capital arm has invested in Amimon Inc., an Israeli company that designs chips for wirelessly transmitting high-definition video.

InfoWorld - E-mail messages from some of Intel's most senior executives are among those that should have been preserved but were not after the chip-maker was sued for alleged antitrust violations by Advanced Micro Devices, according to a court transcript released by AMD.

AP - LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it has started producing handsets in Iran with a local partner.

NewsFactor - Sony has revealed details about PlayStation Home, a digital meeting place for PlayStation 3 users that will be similar to other virtual worlds, such as Second Life.

AFP - Governments and private operators should make greater use of the Internet to promote Asia-Pacific tourism, the United Nations said Tuesday as the industry gathered for its first regional e-tourism conference.

InfoWorld - Scott Handy started with IBM in 1983 as a systems engineer and went on to sales, marketing, and strategy positions covering large accounts, channels, small and medium business, and IBM products for Windows NT, Sun Solaris and OS/2 Warp.

NewsFactor - How can you and your business avoid the riskiest Web sites? A new research report by security software vendor McAfee, released Monday, indicates that you can do more than simply notice if the English seems badly translated.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc. said on Tuesday it will spend more than $750 million in 2007 to expand its global communications network for corporate customers, an 89 percent boost over last year, as customer companies increasingly do business abroad.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia (Reuters) - England's cricket team are using an extra player to give them the edge in the World Cup -- an MP3 player.

InfoWorld - The Chinese government has given Intel permission to build a $2.5 billion chip-manufacturing plant in Dalian, on China's northeastern coast.

InfoWorld - Motorola's venture capital arm has invested in Amimon, an Israeli company that designs chips for wirelessly transmitting high-definition video.

AFP - US chip giant Intel has won China's approval to build a 2.5-billion-dollar semiconductor plant, the government said Tuesday, in what would be a major expansion of its presence in the Asian nation.

PC World - The Chinese government has given Intel Corp. permission to build a US$2.5 billion chip manufacturing plant in Dalian, on China's northeastern coast.

NewsFactor - Intel laced up its gloves and boldly entered a new arena: the solid-state drive market. The chipmaker on Monday announced its first NAND flash memory product to a market dominated by heavyweights such as SanDisk and Samsung.

PC Magazine - In effort to further push the Wireless High-definition Interface (WHDI) standard into the mainstream, Motorola announced on Tuesday that it will be investing in Animon, a U.S./Israeli fabless semiconductor company and progenitor of the standard.

Reuters - England's cricket team are using an extra player to give them the edge in the World Cup -- an MP3 player.

NewsFactor - The gadget-as-accessory craze continues as phone manufacturers whet the appetites of consumers with stylish product releases on a seemingly weekly basis. AT&T's Cingular Wireless is no exception. The company unwrapped two jewels yesterday: the new ruby-colored BlackBerry Pearl and the crimson Treo 680.

Reuters - Online jobs service Monster Worldwide Inc. is working with privately held software company Adicio to supply classified advertising to 250 U.S. newspaper Web sites, Monster said on Tuesday.

PC World - Dell Inc. began polling customers about their software preferences on Tuesday as part of an effort by the struggling PC vendor to meet a popular request for desktops and notebooks that run on Linux instead of Windows.

InfoWorld - Oracle Tuesday announced plans to extend the capability of its system management software to offer monitoring and management for SAP AG applications through a partnership with Nimsoft.

NewsFactor - Microsoft and Novell this week released new details about their interoperability alliance, saying they are focusing on four areas of technology to address significant problems faced by enterprise customers: virtualization, Web services for managing physical and virtual servers, directory and identity interoperability, and document format compatibility.

NEW YORK/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. is in talks to buy Tellme Networks Inc., the privately owned voice recognition technology company, two sources familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. (VIAb.N) sued Google Inc. and its Internet video-sharing site YouTube for more than $1 billion on Tuesday in the biggest challenge yet to the Web search leader's strategy to dominate the online video market.

AP - The South by Southwest music festival is spreading through online broadcasts and downloadable podcasts.

InfoWorld - Grisoft SRO rolled out two security products on Tuesday for small businesses that want simple management, the company said.

InfoWorld - Google has offered Indian police a special tool for priority reporting of objectionable material on its social networking site, Orkut.

AdWeek.com - Fans who can't catch all the NCAA March Madness games on TV this month(and who can?) will once again have the option to check out the action online—and where the eyeballs go, so do the advertisers. Web watchers this year can see "highlights" from tournament games that haven't yet taken place, but have been played virtually by thousands of Xbox gamers taking part in a Pontiac promotion. Cingular Wireless will be providing a digital "halftime show" for online viewers, and State Farm will help generate excuses for fans trying to get some privacy to watch in the office.

Investor's Business Daily - Predictable may be boring, but it's preferred by Janus Enterprise Fund.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc. is confident its popular video-sharing site YouTube and other Web services Google offers have strong legal protections under current copyright law, company attorneys said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Google Inc. is confident its popular video-sharing site YouTube and other Web services Google offers have strong legal protections under current copyright law, company attorneys said on Tuesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization aims to harness smart technology to stop counterfeit medicines flooding developing world markets with sometimes-fatal results.

AP - Whether it's the albums you buy, the radio stations you choose or the songs you put in your portable player, music has always been a matter of personal taste. Now, a startup led by a team of veterans in the digital music arena seeks to offer what it considers a new level of 'personal radio' by combining elements of Internet radio, portable music and satellite distribution, while letting users choose the tunes, genres or artists they want.

Reuters - The World Health Organization aims to harness smart technology to stop counterfeit medicines flooding developing world markets with sometimes-fatal results.