ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - AT&T Inc. said on Tuesday it had taken a step toward the long-promised notion of phones replacing credit cards, checks and cash by signing agreements with Wachovia Corp. and several other banks.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - ZenZui, a newly formed company spun out of Microsoft Corp.'s technology research, aims to help cellphone subscribers easily link to their favorite Web sites, even on tiny mobile phone screens.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc. is unveiling the first upgrade in two years of its flagship design software -- including Photoshop -- which accounts for more than half of the company's overall revenue.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday will take the next step to bring advertising to mobile phones by offering publishers of Web sites aimed at cellphone users a set of tools for posting and managing ads via Yahoo.

TechWeb - China is counting on the plan to create jobs, build the electronics industry and help rejuvenate a region that has been hurt by a decline in old polluting manufacturing technologies.

Macworld.com - When Adobe first announced it would bring Premiere back to the Mac earlier this year, the company released very few details. With the release of Creative Suite 3 on Tuesday, more information is available on what Adobe has planned.

Reuters - Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday will take the next step to bring advertising to mobile phones by offering publishers of Web sites aimed at cellphone users a set of tools for posting and managing ads via Yahoo.

Reuters - ZenZui, a newly formed company spun out of Microsoft Corp.'s technology research, aims to help cellphone subscribers easily link to their favorite Web sites, even on tiny mobile phone screens.

PC World - At this week's CTIA conference in Orlando, Fla., Sony Ericsson showed off the forthcoming W580 Walkman Phone, a new Walkman-branded cell phone that will go on sale in select markets starting in the third calendar quarter of 2007. Pricing was not announced-- that's typically set by the carriers who sell the phones along with service plans.

TechWeb - Last week, Microsoft said it was investigating reports of hackers breaking into Xbox Live accounts and stealing users' points and information. This week, it's laying the blame on users being duped.

TechWeb - The three-year deal covers network equipment, software, and services that support ongoing expansion of Verizon's nationwide mobile phone network.

Reuters - Adobe Systems Inc. is unveiling the first upgrade in two years of its flagship design software -- including Photoshop -- which accounts for more than half of the company's overall revenue.

TechWeb - The software bundle includes Web conferencing and the ability to share and collaborate on documents, for a maximum of six people.

AFP - US technology start-up ZenZui launched on Tuesday, offering a test version of software that lets people customize mobile telephones with tile-shaped icons that link quickly to favored websites.

AFP - Samsung Electronics, the world's top memory chipmaker, said Tuesday it has developed the industry's first fusion semiconductor that combines two different types of flash memory.

(Reuters) - AT&T said its wireless business customers will get Motorola Inc.'s MC35 enterprise digital assistant (EDA) in April.

(Reuters) - Motorola Inc. , which last week reduced its first-quarter revenue outlook, added four new mobile phones to its mass market portfolio with features such as camera, video capability, and Bluetooth technology.

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - A top European Commission official raised questions on Tuesday about whether competition authorities needed to regulate Apple's iPod music players.

Reuters - Motorola Inc. , which last week reduced its first-quarter revenue outlook, added four new mobile phones to its mass market portfolio with features such as camera, video capability, and Bluetooth technology.

Reuters - A top European Commission official raised questions on Tuesday about whether competition authorities needed to regulate Apple's iPod music players.

PC Magazine - PC OEMs and camera makers could be among the customers for Memjet's revolutionary inkjet printers that were first disclosed last week. Meanwhile, the company has already started talking about taking the Silverbrook technology roadmap to 360 pages per minute in as little as two years' time.

Reuters - AT&T Inc. said on Tuesday it had taken a step toward the long-promised notion of phones replacing credit cards, checks and cash by signing agreements with Wachovia Corp. and several other banks.

InfoWorld - Symantec, McAfee, and a swarm of rival security software makers are beginning to ship a wider number of products designed specifically to protect smartphones, the more PC-like handhelds that are finding their way into a growing number of enterprises.

Reuters - AT&T said its wireless business customers will get Motorola Inc.'s MC35 enterprise digital assistant (EDA) in April.

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Cingular Wireless, the mobile unit of AT&T Inc., has received about 1 million requests for information on Apple Inc.'s new iPhone, AT&T Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson said on Tuesday.

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc. Chief Executive Paul Jacobs said on Tuesday he was not optimistic about resolving a licensing dispute with Nokia

PC World - 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.

PC World - Voice--the original cell phone application--makes a comeback as an input technology for new data services.

InfoWorld - Users looking for bargains in DRAM (dynamic RAM) for their PCs or laptops might see bargain prices within the next few weeks, but anyone looking for new USB (universal serial bus) flash memory sticks, iPods, or memory cards for digital cameras and other devices should think about buying soon.

InfoWorld - Yahoo launched new services on Tuesday to help publishers put their content on mobile phones and take advantage of an emerging medium for advertising.

Reuters - Cingular Wireless, the mobile unit of AT&T Inc., has received about 1 million requests for information on Apple Inc.'s new iPhone, AT&T Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson said on Tuesday.

USATODAY.com - WASHINGTON - Federal law enforcement's plan to develop a $5 billion secure wireless communication system that would allow agents to share information across government agencies is at "high risk of failure," a Justice Department audit concluded Monday. Almost six years in development at a cost of nearly $200 million, the Integrated Wireless Network (IWN), designed to replace antiquated systems at the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and other key agencies, is "not on the path that was envisioned," the audit concluded.

USATODAY.com - Adobe Systems, maker of popular software including Photoshop and Flash, today launches a sweeping upgrade of its signature Creative Suite line aimed at graphic artists and photographers. For Adobe, the next six months "are 'Happy days are here again,' " says Gene Munster, an analyst at equity firm Piper Jaffray. "Historically, 35% of its customers upgrade, so Adobe will be generating lots of cash."

USATODAY.com - The killing machines swarming SEGA's Armored Core 4 are great at slaying one thing: Interest in mech-action titles. AC4 is chock full of strong visuals and impressive customization options. Yet those positives are forgotten when you consider the weak multiplayer options and highly frustrating solo campaign.

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - AT&T Inc. said on Tuesday it has taken a step toward the long-promised notion of phones replacing credit cards, checks and cash by signing agreements with Wachovia Corp. and several other banks.

PC World - Users looking for bargains in DRAM (dynamic RAM) for their PCs or laptops might see bargain prices within the next few weeks, but anyone looking for new USB (universal serial bus) flash memory sticks, iPods, or memory cards for digital cameras and other devices should think about buying soon.

PC Magazine - Motorola announced a new rugged Windows Mobile handheld for businesses, the MC35, at the CTIA Wireless trade show Tuesday.

Reuters - AT&T Inc. said on Tuesday it has taken a step toward the long-promised notion of phones replacing credit cards, checks and cash by signing agreements with Wachovia Corp. and several other banks.

Reuters - Jajah Inc. said on Monday it has signed up 2 million callers for its Web-based long-distance phone service in the year since it was introduced, growing 66 percent in just the last three months.

InfoWorld - A former head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will lead a U.S.-based advisory board for Japan's NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese mobile telecom carrier said Tuesday.

InfoWorld - Months later than had been expected, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) intends to release the third draft of its GNU general public license version 3 (GPLv3) on Wednesday. The organization now also plans a final "last-call" draft following feedback on the third draft.

AP - A Russian school principal accused of installing pirated Microsoft software in school computers was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for a second time, in a case widely seen as a misguided attempt to crack down on software bootlegging.

Reuters - Portuguese power provider Energias de Portugal (EDP) has agreed to buy U.S. wind-farm company Horizon Energy from Goldman Sachs, valuing Horizon's equity at $2.15 billion, boosting its renewable energy business.

PC World - The world's second largest chip maker does not plan to follow Intel Corp.'s lead and build a chip fabrication plant in China anytime soon, a top executive said Tuesday.

PC Magazine - The new killer app for wireless is ease of use. That's the word that Randall Stephenson, chief operating officer of AT&T, delivered in his keynote speech at the 2007 CTIA Wireless conference here.

Reuters - Bombarded by spam, e-mail users are eager for tools like a "report fraud" button that would help weed out unwanted messages that litter inboxes, according to a survey by the Email Sender and Provider Coalition released on Tuesday.

InfoWorld - U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin wants wireless Internet access to be included in efforts to ensure universal communications for all U.S. residents.

InfoWorld - Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Google Inc. and other tech companies called on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to move forward with a proceeding to make unused television spectrum available for wireless networking technologies.

InfoWorld - The recently formed Linux Foundation, a merger of two Linux evangelizing industry consortiums, named its 15-person board of directors Tuesday. Along with executives from IT firms, the board also features the founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, a leading end-user of open-source software, and a lawyer whose work is focused on consortiums and standards development.

NewsFactor - Microsoft reported on Monday that it has sold more than 20 million copies of its new operating system, Windows Vista, during the first month of the software's general availability.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Releasing its approval of AT&T Inc.'s BellSouth acquisition, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission made a merger condition revision that benefits rivals Verizon Communications and Qwest Communications International Inc. .

AP - Even the FCC chairman appears to have iPhone fever.

NewsFactor - Some of the most interesting software development these days is being driven by two simple truths: The World Wide Web is vast, and mobile phones are small.

AP - European Union legislation creating a compulsory cap on mobile phone roaming charges would lead to a sudden massive drop in network providers' revenues that could cause share prices to plummet, a key EU lawmaker said Tuesday.

NewsFactor - As the phone world prepares for Apple's iPhone release in June, Sprint Nextel and Samsung are gearing up to offer some competition.

PC Magazine - On Monday, lost-and-found service Yougetitback.com announced a new electronic e-tagging system for lost cell phones and PDAs at CTIA.

Reuters - Releasing its approval of AT&T Inc.'s BellSouth acquisition, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission made a merger condition revision that benefits rivals Verizon Communications and Qwest Communications International Inc. .

InfoWorld - Dell on Tuesday announced it has launched a division to design customized data centers for companies that rely on servers to run their businesses, such as Web 2.0 firms or Internet search engines.

Reuters - Top U.S. video game retailer GameStop Corp. on Tuesday reported a quarterly profit and a full-year earnings forecast that topped Wall Street targets, sending shares up as much as 12 percent.

AFP - Telecommunications giant ATT announced Tuesday that it formed an alliance to enable people in the United States to use mobile telephones like cash, checks or credit cards.

AdWeek.com - NEW YORK In the 1950s and 1960s, DuPont produced dozens of product films, such as police showing the effectiveness of bulletproof vests, and showed them to clients and small audiences at trade shows. Fast-forward 50 years: DuPont has unearthed that archival footage to form the basis of Science Stories, a series of two-and-a-half minute videos explaining the DuPont products that make possible such things as fire-retardant clothing and shatterproof glass.

InfoWorld - Developers have released a major update to the Metasploit security testing tool designed to run more smoothly on the Windows operating system.

InfoWorld - Dell on Tuesday announced it has launched a division to design customized datacenters for companies that rely on servers to run their businesses, such as Web 2.0 firms or Internet search engines.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - In Google Inc.'s vision of the future, people will be able to translate documents instantly into the world's main languages, with machine logic, not expert linguists, leading the way.

Reuters - In Google Inc.'s vision of the future, people will be able to translate documents instantly into the world's main languages, with machine logic, not expert linguists, leading the way.

InfoWorld - Malware purveyors are increasingly tailoring their virus distribution and attack techniques to take advantage of different classes of end-users, according to researchers with the Internet Security Systems' X-Force team at IBM.

InfoWorld - For at least the third time this month, Google is grappling with performance and availability problems in the Gmail service of Google Apps, the suite of hosted services that many consider a potential threat to Microsoft's Office suite of desktop software.

AP - Forget who won this year's Oscars, Grammys and Emmys, there are millions of movie, music and TV fans out there just dying to learn which celebrity burps the loudest. And they'll find out, as well as learn the winners in more than a dozen other categories for film, TV, music, sports, books and video games, during Saturday's 20th annual Kids Choice Awards.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. plans to offer unlimited e-mail storage to its roughly quarter of a billion users, starting in May, it said on Tuesday.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Police who have raided vice-ridden Mexico City neighborhoods in a push against drug violence hope to take guns off the streets by offering to swap them for computers and video-game consoles.

Reuters - Police who have raided vice-ridden Mexico City neighborhoods in a push against drug violence hope to take guns off the streets by offering to swap them for computers and video-game consoles.

Reuters - Yahoo Inc. plans to offer unlimited e-mail storage to its roughly quarter of a billion users, starting in May, it said on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it will begin selling a new version of its Xbox 360 console that transmits high-definition video and comes with a larger hard drive in its latest effort to position the video game machine as a digital media hub.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sixteen months after the release of its Xbox 360, Microsoft Corp. is unveiling a $480 'elite' version of its next-generation console April 29 that will come with a 120GB hard drive and cables for HD hookups.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it will begin selling a new version of its Xbox 360 console that transmits high-definition video and comes with a larger hard drive in its latest effort to position the video game machine as a digital media hub.

AP - Microsoft Corp. will sell a version of its Xbox 360 with a 120-gigabyte hard drive and a souped up high-definition video connection, in a bid to broaden the appeal of its popular console beyond video games.

AFP - South Korea's LG Electronics said Wednesday it has reached a deal with the world's leading search engine Google to pre-install its services on millions of mobile phones.

Reuters - Sixteen months after the release of its Xbox 360, Microsoft Corp. is unveiling a $480 "elite" version of its next-generation console April 29 that will come with a 120GB hard drive and cables for HD hookups.