TechWeb - Want an RSS feed of all Britney, all the time, or 3-D modeling software? Beyond basic search and apps like Google Earth, here are some little-known tips to enhance your online experience, including a free way to generate Sidebar Gadgets for Windows Vista.

AP - Disgraced dot-com tycoon Takafumi Horie slammed his conviction and harsh sentence for securities fraud on Sunday, insisting he had committed no crimes and that he had more than paid for any mistakes by losing his company.

TechWeb - Linux leader looks to certify the growing number of open source programs for its operating system and middleware platform.

AFP - As television sets grow to mammoth proportions and computers gobble energy at work and at home, the consumer electronics industry is slowly coming around to the idea of ecology to stay competitive.

PC World - The European Union's top telecommunications official has threatened with regulation if member states continue to wrangle over a common standard for broadcast mobile TV service.

InfoWorld - Spring put on its best face this year for the start of the annual CeBIT exhibition. Too bad it didn't last.

AP - Arleen East started the year in a rut — overweight, sedentary and plagued by bouts of depression only deepened by her unflattering extra bulk.

AFP - Saudi telecom authorities have chosen seven of nine firms who tendered for the kingdom's third mobile phone licence for further study and submission to the cabinet.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - If the sights, sounds and smells of the ShoWest exhibition floor are any indication, then theaters of the future will be digitized complexes with LED signs, ATM machines that dispense money and movie tickets and concessions selling everything from pizza to steak taquitos.

AP - Disgraced dot-com tycoon Takafumi Horie slammed his conviction and harsh sentence for securities fraud on Sunday, insisting he had committed no crimes and that he had more than paid for any mistakes by losing his company.

Reuters - Sun-Times Media Group Inc. said on Sunday it has reached a settlement with its former president, David Radler, a defendant in a suit that accuses former executives of pilfering millions of dollars.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who play car racing video games may be more prone to drive recklessly and get into accidents, according to a study that adds to evidence that video games can influence the behavior of some players.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc. purchased video game advertising firm Adscape to expand into in-game advertising, the Internet search leader said on its Web site on Friday.

PC World - Internet auction fraud remains the most frequently reported online crime, but complaints over online purchases that are never delivered are on the rise, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

AFP - MySpace pages of ten US presidential candidates will debut on Monday when the popular social networking website goes live with a channel devoted to politics, civic groups, and charitable missions.

Reuters - People who play car racing video games may be more prone to drive recklessly and get into accidents, according to a study that adds to evidence that video games can influence the behavior of some players.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gilma Gomez paces the floor, anxious to see her daughter open her birthday presents. A screen blinks to life, and there is Abi sitting on her father's knee in Central America, more than 1,500 miles away.

PC World - Tyan Computer Corp. has expanded its line of powerful Tyan PSC workgroup servers, more commonly known by the name Typhoon, with the addition of a model based on processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. is developing its own mobile phone, according to industry insiders and analysts, while a Google official in Spain last week acknowledged the company is 'investigating' such a project.

Reuters - Google Inc. is developing its own mobile phone, according to industry insiders and analysts, while a Google official in Spain last week acknowledged the company is "investigating" such a project.

InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems' open source GlassFish application server is to be fitted with enterprise-level capabilities and interoperability with Microsoft technologies.

AFP - Taiwan's Acer Inc said Monday it expects its notebook computer sales of the quarter to March will rise 30-40 percent from a year earlier, citing a sucessful global marketing strategy behind the growth.

Reuters - Brace yourself, Oscar. Step aside, MTV. Next week, the online video-sharing Web site YouTube will present awards for best user-generated videos of 2006.

PC World - Taiwanese electronics maker Asustek Computer Inc. plans to release in the months ahead two smartphones based on Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Windows Mobile 6 software.