AP - Timothy Swager began developing bomb-sniffing technology a decade ago under a Pentagon-funded research project to help explosives disposal teams clear land mines — but it hasn't been used for that purpose.

AP - In what analysts think might be a first in the highly experimental advertising market, YuMe Networks Inc. is powering an ad campaign that allows the customization of video ads for some television shows that are downloaded from a Web site.

AP - The news-aggregation site Topix has developed software for filtering out spam and other junk from its message forums. To filter in the good postings, however, the site has turned to human volunteers.

Reuters - Google Inc. has emerged along with Microsoft Corp. as a contender to buy DoubleClick Inc., presenting competition that stands to increase the final sale price of the online-advertising company, people familiar with the situation said in The Wall Street Journal.

Reuters - In little more than a year after its launch, AOL's celebrity news site TMZ.com has become the most popular site in the category, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - The anticipated battle between Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 for videogame console supremacy has become a sideshow to the unexpected rise of Nintendo's Wii as the new-generation game console of choice.

Reuters - The anticipated battle between Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 for videogame console supremacy has become a sideshow to the unexpected rise of Nintendo's Wii as the new-generation game console of choice.

AFP - Japan's first online university began classes on Monday, offering degrees to older students in a country whose model of lifetime company jobs is changing.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc. and EMI Group Plc will reveal a ground-breaking deal on Monday for Apple to sell the music label's songs free from copy protection limits, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

PC Magazine - No wires, no pads, just power across an air gap. Powercast's new technology "broadcasts" power to your phone, iPod, and other portable devices. And it's FCC approved.

USATODAY.com - ALPHARETTA, Ga. - There's rising concern among privacy experts and legislators about the frenetic business of assembling and distributing personal data. Everyone seems to want more of your personal data. And cybercriminals are boosting demand for personal information as they concoct new Internet-enabled scams.

AP - China Netcom Corp., China's second-biggest phone company, said Monday its 2006 profits dropped 6.7 percent amid falling subscriber numbers as potential customers opted for mobile service.

USATODAY.com - Guitar Hero was just the opening act. MTV and the developers of that video game have a headliner in the works called Rock Band, which lets four music lovers gig together in person or online.

InfoWorld - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. introduced its M690 chipset for embedded devices on Monday, rounding out the company's first chipset line that integrates technology from ATI Technologies Inc.

Reuters - EMI said it was making its digital music catalog available without the anti-piracy measure known as digital rights management (DRM), with Apple Inc.'s iTunes as its first retail outlet.

InfoWorld - Tibco Software is debuting on Monday an open-source test tool for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) applications built with the company's General Interface toolkit.

InfoWorld - Microsoft has decided to rush out a fix for a flaw in its Windows operating system, saying that the problem has become too serious to ignore.

Reuters - EMI, the world's third largest music company, said on Monday it was making its music available online without a key anti-piracy measure in a deal with Apple Inc. to boost sales of digital music.

InfoWorld - Microsoft Corp. is offering two new licensing options for Windows Vista enterprise customers that want to take advantage of emerging scenarios for large data centers.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. plans to patch a security hole in Windows on Tuesday related to an animated cursor that hackers have used to launch attacks after users click on links to malicious Web sites.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. on Monday said it is teaming with Viacom Inc.'s MTV and 'Guitar Hero' developer Harmonix to deliver 'Rock Band,' a new music game, late this year.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Rogers Communications Inc. has become the first wireless carrier in North America to offer video calling to cellphone subscribers, the company said on Monday.

PC World - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. introduced its M690 chipset for embedded devices on Monday, rounding out the company's first chipset line that integrates technology from ATI Technologies Inc.

InfoWorld - Intel Corp. may have received up to US$1 billion in incentives from the Chinese government to build its new chip factory in the country, a Gartner Inc. analyst said on Monday.

PC World - Sony has announced a new firmware upgrade for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) that allows users to surf the internet and play compatible games online at over 7,000 T-Mobile US HotSpots. Locations include most Starbucks, Borders bookstores and over 70 major airports.

Reuters - Solengo Capital Advisors, a new hedge fund founded by former Amaranth Advisors traders, sued DealBreaker on Monday over the Wall Street-focused Web site's refusal to remove a Solengo marketing document.

Reuters - Rogers Communications Inc. has become the first wireless carrier in North America to offer video calling to cellphone subscribers, the company said on Monday.

Reuters - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. on Monday said it is teaming with Viacom Inc.'s MTV and "Guitar Hero" developer Harmonix to deliver "Rock Band," a new music game, late this year.

AP - To honor an employee's son who was badly wounded in Iraq, IBM Corp. plans to give the U.S. military $45 million worth of Arabic-English translation technology that the Pentagon had been testing for possible purchase.

InfoWorld - Acquisitive midmarket applications player Infor Global Solutions is at it again. The company announced Monday plans to purchase Canadian online workforce management software vendor Workbrain Corp. for around US$227 million in cash.

NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Top U.S. telephone company AT&T Inc. and Mexican mobile phone operator America Movil have separate agendas as they jointly bid for a stake in Telecom Italia SpA .

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp. has shifted its advertising account to Omnicom Group Inc.'s Goodby, Silverstein & Partners as part of a move to market its wireless service more aggressively.

InfoWorld - Under pressure from falling prices, global semiconductor revenue fell to $20.09 billion in February, down 6.5 percent from January, according to an industry report released Monday.

Reuters - Top U.S. telephone company AT&T Inc. and Mexican mobile phone operator America Movil have separate agendas as they jointly bid for a stake in Telecom Italia SpA .

AP - Ken and Kristie Sigler have sold cookbooks and football tickets to raise $16,000 for an adoption. For the final $8,700, they are appealing directly to strangers — through a new online clearinghouse that bypasses traditional charities.

Reuters - Sprint Nextel Corp. has shifted its advertising account to Omnicom Group Inc.'s Goodby, Silverstein & Partners as part of a move to market its wireless service more aggressively.

InfoWorld - Quantum Monday updated its StorNext storage management software, joining the trend among vendors that are expanding storage systems for enterprises.

BRUSSELS/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The European Commission has sent formal charges to major record companies and Apple Inc., alleging they are restricting music sales in Europe, a Commission spokesman said on Monday.

InfoWorld - Spansion posted a sharp rise in the number of NOR flash chips it sold to mobile phone makers in 2006, allowing the company to push Intel to second place in that market segment, according to an analyst report released Monday.

InfoWorld - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has prohibited telephone and mobile phone carriers from releasing customer records over the phone without a password in an effort to protect against the practice of pretexting.

AP - European Union regulators are investigating Apple Inc.'s iTunes online music store for possible violation of competition rules, a British newspaper reported Monday.

InfoWorld - Software that could be used to turn a Web browser into an unwitting hacker's tool has been posted to the Interne, after it was downloaded by a quick-thinking attendee at last month's Shmoocon hacker conference.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of a U.S. electronics supplier and three employees have been indicted for shipping controlled U.S. computer technology with missile applications to India, court documents made available on Monday showed.

AP - Google Inc. will sell and select some of the ads shown to EchoStar Communications Corp.'s 13.1 million satellite TV subscribers, marking the online search leader's latest effort to extend its marketing muscle beyond the Internet.

Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK While newspaper circulation continues to slide, readership is growing, especially with younger readers -- when taking online newspaper sites into consideration. According to the latest data from the Newspaper Association of America, newspaper Web sites contributed a 13.7% increase in total newspaper audience for adults 25-to-34.

InfoWorld - A new version of the XenSource virtualization hypervisor, released Monday, now works on servers running the Windows 2000 operating system from Microsoft.