AFP - Listening at least 400 times to different heart sounds on an iPod is an effective way to improve a doctor's ability to detect a problem, a study published Sunday showed.

TechWeb - Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says that Google appears to be building software for Web search on mobile phones and location-finding services to work with Apple's iPhone.

TechWeb - Tabblo's technology helps consumers arrange and print text, graphics and photos from the Internet using AJAX.

AFP - US chip giant Intel said Monday it will build a 2.5-billion-dollar plant in China, a potential landmark moment in the Asian giant's quest to become a high-tech manufacturing power.

PC World - Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini Monday confirmed the company plans to build a US$2.5 billion chip plant in China. The plant, to be built in Dalian, on China's northeastern coast, will enter production during the first half of 2010.

PC World - An Internet scorecard application which rates potential risks on Web sites has been downloaded more than 38 million times since it was launched 12 months ago.

InfoWorld - As the fourth new president at McAfee in the past six years, and also its newest CEO, former EMC executive David DeWalt will face a lot of questions about how and why he will succeed where those before him did not.

Reuters - International Business Machines Corp. scientists plan to unveil a prototype chip on Monday that uses optical connections to increase the speed of moving data among chips to eight times that of previous technologies, The Wall Street Journal reported.

InfoWorld - Intel Corp. President and CEO Paul Otellini Monday confirmed the company plans to build a US$2.5 billion chip plant in China. The plant, to be built in Dalian, on China's northeastern coast, will enter production during the first half of 2010.

Reuters - Intel Corp. , the world's top chip maker, will build a $2.5 billion plant in fast-growing China to produce microchips, in an effort to move up the mainland's technology food chain.

PC World - ORLANDO, Florida-- Pre-show activities for CTIA, the wireless industry's biggest U.S. trade show, kicked off today, although the exhibition officially begins tomorrow.

PC World - ORLANDO, Florida-- Want maps and driving directions on your cell phone? Your options have just expanded--again. Web mapping pioneer Mapquest today announced improved cell phone support--including a new Send to Cell service--that will make its maps and driving directions easily available to just about anyone with a browser-equipped handset and a data plan.

InfoWorld - Virtual Iron Inc., the open source underdog to virtualization industry leader VMware Inc., has been chosen to join a Hewlett-Packard Co. partnership program and has landed the travel Web site Priceline.com Inc. as a customer.

InfoWorld - ona Technologies Inc. is broadening its suite of Artix infrastructure software with a new tool announced Monday for managing software services in an SOA environment.

InfoWorld - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) took the top spot in the contract chip manufacturing business again in 2006, and extended its lead over some rivals, such as IBM Corp.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alcatel-Lucent won a three-year contract worth $6 billion to supply Verizon Wireless with network equipment, software and services, the companies said on Monday, lifting shares of the Paris-based telecommunications equipment maker.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vonage Holdings Corp. said on Monday the market was overreacting after a federal judge agreed to bar the Internet phone company from using technology patented by Verizon Communications Inc..

AP - The Japanese broadcaster Fuji TV sued former dot-com luminary Livedoor on Monday for $292 million in damages over losses it absorbed after buying a stake in the since disgraced Internet portal company.

Reuters - Vonage Holdings Corp. said on Monday the market had overreacted after a federal judge agreed to bar the Internet phone company from using technology patented by Verizon Communications Inc..

Reuters - Alcatel-Lucent won a three-year contract worth $6 billion to supply Verizon Wireless with network equipment, software and services, the companies said on Monday, lifting shares of the Paris-based telecommunications equipment maker.

PC World - Virtual Iron Inc., the open source underdog to virtualization industry leader VMware Inc., has been chosen to join a Hewlett-Packard Co. partnership program and has landed the travel Web site Priceline.com Inc. as a customer.

PC World - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) released a software tool Monday that could allow hardware and software vendors to meet a new industry standard for IT management and security.

InfoWorld - Microsoft Corp. is warning of an attack that could be used to divert someone's Web traffic through a malicious proxy server.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vonage Holdings Corp. said on Monday the market had overreacted after a federal judge agreed to bar the Internet phone company from using technology patented by Verizon Communications Inc..

InfoWorld - One of Europe's leading clusters for semiconductor research and manufacturing may be unable to compete globally for new high-tech investors without greater financial support from the European Union.

PC World - A new tool to meter usage of mobile phone content could help kick-start the market for mobile advertising.

InfoWorld - A new tool to meter usage of mobile phone content could help kick-start the market for mobile advertising.

InfoWorld - Symbian Ltd. has updated its operating system for mobile phones, improving support for digital TV, cameras, database applications, location-based services and roaming between Wi-Fi and 3G (third-generation) networks.

Reuters - Time Inc. said on Monday that it will stop publishing LIFE, the iconic photography magazine that has been featured as a weekly newspaper insert since 2004.

AP - Microsoft Corp. now has until April 23 to respond to charges that it fails to offer rivals a fair deal on information that helps servers work with Windows, an EU spokesman said Monday.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Monday that it sold more than 20 million Windows Vista licenses in the first month since the operating system's general debut on January 30.

AP - Intel Corp.'s plan to build a chip factory in China is a victory for China's campaign to attract high-tech investment that it hopes will speed development of its own technology industries.

NewsFactor - Microsoft, which steadfastly rejected reports that there was a security problem with its popular Xbox Live gaming system, now concedes that some account information might have been illicitly obtained through a social-engineering technique known as "pretexting."

PC Magazine - The new Helio Ocean is a dual-slider messaging phone that finally sets the "MySpace carrier" apart.

Reuters - With a virtual drum roll, online video-sharing Web site YouTube on Monday announced the winners of its inaugural awards, paying tribute to the wannabe stars who have used the site as a launching pad to fast fame.

InfoWorld - A "patchwork" of state laws make it difficult for electronics manufacturers to comply with e-recycling laws, speakers at a CEA (Consumer Electronics Association) forum said Monday.

AFP - India's top software exporter Tata Consultancy Services may get a minority stake in a unit of Deutsche Telekom in return for one billion dollars in services, reports said Monday.

InfoWorld - Symantec Corp. is set to dramatically expand its mobile security offerings this week, adding VPN (virtual private network), data encryption, antispam and other features.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Napster Inc. and AT&T Inc. said on Monday that they had agreed to a deal to provide some of the top U.S. phone company's wireless and high-speed Internet customers with free digital music.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gameloft , Europe's biggest provider of games for mobile phones, on Monday said it is making and selling games for Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry smartphones.

TORONTO (Reuters) - A decade ago, in-flight entertainment consisted of watching a movie projected on a shared screen whose images were often distorted or blocked by fellow passengers' heads.

AFP - Finnish telecommunications equipment maker Nokia said on Monday it is to build a plant in Romania to make mobile phones for markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Reuters - New Jersey drivers who insist on sending text messages on their cell phones or personal digital assistants may find themselves on the wrong side of the law if legislators approve a new bill.

Reuters - Gameloft , Europe's biggest provider of games for mobile phones, on Monday said it is making and selling games for Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry smartphones.

AP - It says something about the state of the cell phone industry that the product looming largest over the annual wireless show doesn't even exist yet. Never mind that it's coming from a company that's never even made a cell phone.

InfoWorld - In the coming weeks, AOL will upgrade the beta version of its latest Web mail offering to include an expanded integrated instant messaging capability.

Reuters - Napster Inc. and AT&T Inc. said on Monday that they had agreed to a deal to provide some of the top U.S. phone company's wireless and high-speed Internet customers with free digital music.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Monday that it sold more than 20 million Windows Vista licenses in the first month since the operating system's general debut on January 30.

Reuters - Sprint Nextel Corp. plans to cut its digital music download fee to 99 cents per song, matching prices at iTunes, the leading Internet music service run by Apple Inc..

AP - Microsoft Corp. said Monday it sold 20 million consumer copies of the new Windows Vista operating system worldwide in February, but analysts said the data shed little light on the program's popularity during its first month on the market.

InfoWorld - Microsoft not only plans to release Orcas, a major upgrade to its Visual Studio software development platform, by the end of the year but also plans to follow up Orcas with the Rosario release of the platform a year later, a Microsoft official said on Monday.

AP - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. announced Monday the creation of a full-service music label in a joint venture with Nettwerk One Music Ltd.

PC Magazine - Am I the only one who thinks cell phones are the bane of modern society?

AP - Having already blossomed as a newspaper, Web site and book publisher, The Onion — perhaps the most dominant provider of fake news anywhere — is bringing its brand of humor to the hot medium of the moment: Online video.

InfoWorld - New software has been published on the Internet that could be used to exploit a known flaw in Internet Explorer.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Konica Minolta Holdings said on Tuesday it has tied up with General Electric Co. to jointly develop flexible and thin lighting products using organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology.

AP - British music company EMI Group PLC and German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG said Monday they have agreed to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit over Bertelsmann's connection with the original Napster online file-sharing service.

BOSTON (Reuters) - The non-profit group that owns rights to much of the Linux operating system says it will seek to undermine a controversial deal between Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. through a new software licensing agreement to be unveiled on Wednesday.

AP - Yahoo Inc. is recruiting other Web sites to help make its mobile search services more useful for consumers and advertisers, marking another step in the Internet portal's push to build a lucrative sales channel beyond the personal computer.

Reuters - The non-profit group that owns rights to much of the Linux operating system says it will seek to undermine a controversial deal between Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. through a new software licensing agreement to be unveiled on Wednesday.