TechWeb - Nielsen/NetRatings suggests price and a focus on average customers is helping Nintendo's numbers.

TechWeb - The drive can record up to 50 Gbytes of data and will cost about $1,200.

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.

AFP - Hollywood and Internet executives met Tuesday to discuss changes wrought by online social networking against the backdrop of Viacom's billion-dollar lawsuit against YouTube.

Reuters - It's a rare show in the legitimate theater when the performance is not preceded by a sepulchral voice reminding you to turn off your cell phone.

Reuters - Citigroup Inc. plans to increase its China headcount by one-third in 2007, as it opens new branches and boosts its small and medium-sized enterprise business, the top U.S. bank said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. 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.

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 Amimon, a U.S./Israeli fabless semiconductor company and progenitor of the standard.

Reuters - Hollywood star Angelina Jolie is expected to arrive in Vietnam on Thursday to take custody of a Vietnamese boy she has adopted, a state-run online newspaper said on Wednesday.

BusinessWeek Online - Qualcomm (NasdaqGS:QCOM - News), which has been embroiled in legal battles recently, sees better times this spring. On Mar. 13, the maker of chips for wireless phones forecast that earnings and sales during the three months ending in June will be better than expected.

PC World - New research shows that more software developer jobs will be created in Asia than in North America by 2010.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said its Live online service, which has attracted 6 million Xbox 360 console gamers, will be open in May to PC gamers who use its new Windows Vista operating system.

Reuters - NBC Universal said on Wednesday it will sell prime-time television shows like "The Office" and "Heroes" on demand over cell phone networks in the United States.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said its Live online service, which has attracted 6 million Xbox 360 console gamers, will be open in May to PC gamers who use its new Windows Vista operating system.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. reached an agreement with Lenovo Group Ltd. to pre-load Lenovo computers with a toolbar of Microsoft's Windows Live online services including Web search, the two companies said on Tuesday.

AFP - Microsoft, the world's biggest software company, is launching a string of court actions in the United States and Europe against cybersquatters, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Stephen Colbert is gone, but Jon Stewart is still on. 'South Park' is out, but 'Adult Swim' is still in.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it will buy privately owned Tellme Networks, a voice recognition technology company, as it promotes the service for computer users and customer call centers.

PC World - In a modest win for Microsoft Corp.'s struggling online services business, Microsoft said late Tuesday that computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. will pre-load Windows Live services on its ThinkPad notebooks, ThinkCentre desktops and Lenovo-branded PCs.

PC Magazine - No, it's not a band. Slacker is a music recommendation service that will feature a WiFi-enabled portable device and a biker-friendly logo.

Reuters - Stephen Colbert is gone, but Jon Stewart is still on. "South Park" is out, but "Adult Swim" is still in.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it will buy privately owned Tellme Networks, a voice recognition technology company, as it promotes the service for computer users and customer call centers.

AP - A Silicon Valley startup hoping to become 'the Google of audio and video' introduced software this week that trolls the Internet for podcasts, music and videos, then sorts the clips into categories such as 'fashionista,' 'hip hop' and 'gossip snoop.'

PC World - One year after Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. introduced its first Q1 ultra-mobile PC, the company has revamped the device, making it lighter and more powerful.

InfoWorld - As Red Hat prepares to launch the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system on Wednesday, the question is again being asked whether a robust and feature-laden operating system is really needed for some computing situations.

InfoWorld - Microsoft has released a major update to its server operating system, designed to make the product more stable and secure.

NewsFactor - In a move to take dominion in the data center, networking giant Cisco has announced plans to purchase privately held NeoPath Networks for an undisclosed amount.

AP - The early months of a new console's life are often overloaded with driving games. Take the Nintendo Wii: Less than a month after its launch, it was already home to 'Excite Truck,' 'Need for Speed Carbon,' 'GT Pro Series,' 'Monster 4x4' and 'Cars.'

InfoWorld - In a modest win for Microsoft's struggling online services business, Microsoft said late Tuesday that computer maker Lenovo will pre-load Windows Live services on its ThinkPad notebooks, ThinkCentre desktops, and Lenovo-branded PCs.

NewsFactor - Microsoft announced that its Live online service will be extended to PC users in May, broadening its reach beyond the Xbox 360 console gamers now using Live.

PC Magazine - If you've played Nintendo's Wii, you've probably already realized how much fun it is to actually be in the game. But how about actually physically entering the game as a virtual character? Based on a cool new product I uncovered at last week's Game Developers Conference, that day may not be too far off.

PC Magazine - With sales of the PSP lagging (Sony's PSP hardware shipments to retailers last fall were down 72 percent over the year before, only a meager 10,000 units in the U.S.), word is that a few big name retailers have given Sony a mandate: drop the price or they'll drop the system from their stores. Entirely.

PC World - A vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) browser could help fraudsters make phishing Web sites appear legitimate, a security researcher reported Wednesday.

FT.com - The stand-off over the charges paid by European mobile phone users when they travel abroad is set to heighten after Britain warned other European Union countries against imposing "rigid" caps on mobile phone roaming charges, raising the political temperature ahead of a meeting of EU industry ministers in Hanover on Thursday.

NewsFactor - According to new research by Nielsen//NetRatings, video game play isn't just for the under-18 crowd anymore. More than one-third of U.S. adults who go online own a video game console and 16 percent own a portable gaming device.

InfoWorld - Two big German mobile phone operators are racing to bring higher-speed data services to data-hungry customers on the go.

NewsFactor - IBM announced on Monday that it is beginning production of a 65-nanometer version of its Cell Broadband Engine, the multicore chip that powers the graphics processing of the Sony PlayStation 3.

InfoWorld - Microsoft plans to purchase Tellme Networks in an effort to bolster its voice services portfolio and add speech recognition to a broad range of its software and online services, the company said Wednesday.

AFP - Visits to social networking websites climbed 11.5 percent in February with big surges in popularity seen in smaller players such as Buzznet and iMeem, Hitwise research revealed on Wednesday.

PC World - Motherboard makers are showcasing products based on two of Intel Corp.'s upcoming PC chipsets, which are due for release during the middle of this year.

InfoWorld - Siemens is working with Nokia to polish the handover of voice calls between corporate wireless LANs and public mobile phone networks, a Siemens executive said Wednesday.

InfoWorld - NBC Universal plans to let mobile phone users buy and watch full-length primetime programs on demand.

AP - Google Inc. is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them — a move it believes could prevent showdowns with the government over the often sensitive data.

AP - Microsoft said Wednesday it will buy Tellme Networks Inc., which provides voice-enabled mobile search, directory assistance and computerized, speech-driven customer service hotlines.

PC World - Red Hat has launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5). As ever, the server OS incorporates many of the features previewed in Fedora, the community version of the open source OS but Red Hat is also changing both the open source operating system's packaging and the way it sells support.

AFP - Software giant Microsoft Corp. Wednesday launched a string of lawsuits in the United States and Britain against "cybersquatters" who register Internet site names in the hope of a quick buck.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A deceptively simple video game called 'flOw', in which players control the feeding and evolution of an aquatic organism, is making waves in the $30 billion market better known for fictional blood and bullets.

InfoWorld - A la Mobile is hoping to help fuel the supply of converged Wi-Fi and GSM phones with a new version of its Linux-based mobile phone software package.

AP - The online measurement service comScore Media Metrix has come up with a new way of measuring Web traffic as new technologies increasingly make one of the current industry yardsticks less meaningful.

AP - Latinos are not going online as much as non-Hispanic whites and blacks, even at younger ages where Internet use is far greater, according to a report released Wednesday.

InfoWorld - Google will start making its records about users' searches anonymous after 18 to 24 months under a policy announced Wednesday.

InfoWorld - The newly launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) operating system features a modular design that counters the argument by critics that operating systems are becoming too large and complex, a Red Hat executive said at launch ceremonies Wednesday in San Francisco.

NewsFactor - "If you build it, they will come." In 1989, that phrase referred to a magical baseball diamond in the cornfields of Iowa. Today, the same sentiment is driving the latest Internet craze: the ever-evolving mixture of user-upload and social-networking sites that are loosely described as Web 2.0.

Reuters - A deceptively simple video game called "flOw," in which players control the feeding and evolution of an aquatic organism, is making waves in the $30 billion market better known for fictional blood and bullets.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc., faced with a mountain of data on its users' Web search habits, is taking steps to bolster consumer privacy protections in coming months, the company said late on Wednesday.

Reuters - Google Inc., faced with a mountain of data on its users' Web search habits, is taking steps to bolster consumer privacy protections in coming months, the company said late on Wednesday.

Reuters - A court in Shanghai has given jail sentences to leaders of a five billion yuan ($646 million) online gambling ring, the city's largest on record, state media reported on Thursday.