LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - If you've never heard the term 'WiMAX' before, don't sweat it. You're probably not alone.

AFP - Thailand on Monday vowed to continue blocking video-sharing website YouTube until clips deemed offensive to the king are removed, accusing the firm's parent company Google of double standards.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. has announced the launch of Windows Live Messenger on Xbox 360, connecting people across Xbox 360 consoles, Microsoft Windows-based PCs and Windows Mobile-powered devices.

PC World - Intel Corp. is launching a quad-core chip for desktop gamers on Monday, continuing a barrage of new products the company has announced in the past week.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. has announced the launch of Windows Live Messenger on Xbox 360, connecting people across Xbox 360 consoles, Microsoft Windows-based PCs and Windows Mobile-powered devices.

TOKYO (Reuters) - NEC Corp. has developed a corn-based bioplastic that conducts heat faster than stainless steel, and it aims to mass-produce the material starting in April 2008 for use in mobile phones and other portable devices, the company said on Monday.

Reuters - NEC Corp. (6701.T) has developed a corn-based bioplastic that conducts heat faster than stainless steel, and it aims to mass-produce the material starting in April 2008 for use in mobile phones and other portable devices, the company said on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Flash memory maker Sandisk Corp. said on Monday that Yahoo Inc. would provide music services for its Sansa Connect digital audio player.

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Sony Corp. affiliate developing a new type of flat display said on Monday it has no plan to compete directly with the LCD or plasma camps, and will instead focus on the niche market for professional-use panels.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc., which is seeking to broaden its presence in China, on Monday apologized to Internet users and Sohu.com Inc., one of the country's major Web portals for using third-party technology in its latest product rollout.

PC World - 2.93-GHz Core 2 Extreme ships in time for new multi-threaded games.

USATODAY.com - NEW YORK - Even as agencies ramp up their capabilities for producing online advertising, Wieden & Kennedy has been taken to task by No. 1 client Nike for not being hip enough fast enough.

Reuters - A Sony Corp. (6758.T) affiliate developing a new type of flat display said on Monday it has no plan to compete directly with the LCD or plasma camps, and will instead focus on the niche market for professional-use panels.

InfoWorld - Chinese Internet company Sohu.com has asked Google to stop distributing a product that allegedly copies portions of Sohu's Sogou Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME) software.

AFP - Japan's KDDI Corp. plans to offer a mobile telephone service in the United States targeting Japanese subscribers through the network of a US operator, a company spokesman said Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc. said on Monday it has sold 100 million iPods since launching the digital media player in November 2001.

Reuters - Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Monday it expects to report first-quarter revenue of about $1.23 billion, well below Wall Street forecasts, and announced a restructuring to lower costs.

AP - Hynix Semiconductor Inc. said Monday that a U.S. court has told Sun Microsystems Inc. and Unisys Corp. to submit more evidence for their antitrust lawsuit against the South Korean memory chip maker and six other technology companies.

InfoWorld - Intel is launching a quad-core chip for desktop gamers on Monday, continuing a barrage of new products the company has announced in the past week.

Macworld.com - Apple on Monday announced that the 100 millionth iPod has been sold. Apple claims that the iPod is the fastest-selling music player in history.

Reuters - Apple Inc. said on Monday it has sold 100 million iPods since launching the digital media player in November 2001.

InfoWorld - A cat-and-mouse game between the guardians of the copy-protection system on next-generation DVDs and those intent on hacking it has kicked off with the first revocation of a descrambling key used in a popular software application.

InfoWorld - Google has closed a security hole in a recently released Chinese-input software tool that lies at the heart of a dispute with Chinese Internet company Sohu.com.

Reuters - Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Monday it expects to report first-quarter revenue of about $1.23 billion, well below Wall Street forecasts, and it announced a restructuring to cut costs.

PC World - Even SonyStyle no longer markets the cheaper of Sony's two PlayStation 3 consoles.

PC World - Microsoft Corp. Monday announced Windows Live Messenger instant messaging (IM) software for the XBox 360, in another step towards making the game console a home Internet access device.

PC Magazine - Apple said Monday that the company has sold 100 million iPods since the player was launched in Nov. 2001.

AP - Google Inc. apologized Monday following complaints the U.S. search company's new Internet tool for inputting Chinese characters incorporated data from a Chinese rival.

NewsFactor - It's not quite official, but Microsoft seems poised to pair up its Zune digital music player with EMI's catalog of music without digital-rights management, or DRM, technology. Even the consideration marks a shift in Microsoft's attitude. In the past, Microsoft deemed DRM a necessary technology for companies selling digital media.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. said on Monday it will continue providing services to existing customers, after a judge said on Friday that it could not add new customers due to a finding that it infringed Verizon Communications patents.

AP - With its sales shriveling even more than analysts feared, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is imposing a partial hiring freeze and curtailing its spending as the slumping chip maker tries to weather a fierce battle with Intel Corp.

NewsFactor - SanDisk and Yahoo will now make beautiful music together. Sandisk announced Monday that it will partner with the Yahoo Music service for its new Sansa Connect Wi-Fi-enabled MP3 player. Sansa Connect owners can use either the free Yahoo service, or sign up for the subscription-based one -- in either case without having to use a PC to load up music.

PC World - Businesses interested in advertising on AOL LLC's Web search engine will now be able to do it, thanks to an agreement between the Time Warner Inc. subsidiary and Google Inc.

AP - Flash memory maker SanDisk Corp. said Monday it will pair its new wireless music player with free and subscription music services from Yahoo Inc.

PC World - The Linux Foundation updated its Linux Standard Base (LSB) server specification Monday to include new automated testing toolkits to make it easier to develop applications for different distributions of the open-source operating system.

InfoWorld - The Linux Foundation updated its Linux Standard Base (LSB) server specification Monday to include new automated testing toolkits to make it easier to develop applications for different distributions of the open-source operating system.

InfoWorld - A court has granted Intel seven extra days to explain to a judge why it lost e-mail records that could provide proof that the chip maker used anticompetitive practices as alleged by AMD.

Reuters - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said on Monday that quarterly revenue would fall short of Wall Street expectations by about 20 percent, but the microprocessor maker's shares rose after it promised to slash this year's capital spending by one-fifth.

AP - A federal judge has tossed out an antitrust lawsuit filed against seven memory chip makers, but left the door open for the complaining customers to revive the case with more detailed price-fixing allegations.

NewsFactor - The Xbox 360 added another communications option Sunday, as Microsoft announced that Windows Live Messenger is arriving on the popular entertainment platform.

NewsFactor - Researchers at security firm Kaspersky Lab have discovered a virus that can infect Apple's popular portable media player, the iPod. But users do not have to scramble for protection just yet. The virus would only affect players that run Linux instead of the iPod's native operating system.

PC Magazine - SanDisk has announced the availability of the new SanDisk Connect Wi-Fi MP3 player, and named Yahoo! Music as the partnering music service.

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InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems Inc. is promising to file a new lawsuit after a federal judge on Thursday threw out Sun's complaint that Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and other manufacturers of DRAM (dynamic RAM) illegally inflated their prices.

PC Magazine - AMD's restructuring is being accompanied by dramatic drops in the prices of its microprocessors, according to new official information released Monday.

AP - The group behind security measures for next-generation DVDs said Monday it has fixed a leak that allowed hackers to discover the keys for unlocking movies on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs.

PC Magazine - Microsoft's refrained from commenting on all the information leaks that lead to everyone figuring out the Xbox 360 Elite ahead of time, until now. And they're upset.

Reuters - Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. said on Monday it will continue providing services to existing customers, after a judge said on Friday that it could not add new customers due to a finding that it infringed Verizon Communications patents.

Reuters - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. said on Monday that Chief Financial Officer Karl Winters had resigned, marking further management upheaval at the troubled video game publisher.

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NewsFactor - The price war between Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel is taking its toll on the #2 maker of personal-computer processors. AMD warned Monday that its first quarter revenue will miss its forecast by more than 20%. It will formally report its earnings next week.

PC World - A court has granted Intel Corp. seven extra days to explain to a judge why it lost e-mail records that could provide proof that the chip maker used anticompetitive practices as alleged by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD).

Reuters - Carl Icahn, who is pressing for a board seat and changes at Motorola Inc. , has raised his stake of the struggling mobile phone maker's shares to 2.9 percent from 2.7 percent, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.

AP - The chief financial officer of beleaguered video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. announced his resignation Monday, less than two weeks after a shareholder revolt that ousted the CEO and several board members.

Macworld.com - Generally, Apple has very little use for anniversaries. Recent milestones—like 2006’s 30th anniversary of the company’s founding, the Mac’s 20th anniversary in 2004, and the iPod’s fifth anniversary last fall—passed without much official to-do from the company. But when Apple sold its 100 millionth iPod recently, the company made sure not to let the occasion go by without comment.

InfoWorld - Apple has published a firmware update for its Airport Extreme Base Station that fixes two security flaws in the Wi-Fi router.

InfoWorld - SourceForge hopes to make it easier for developers to find existing open-source projects through an agreement with Krugle that boosts the search capabilities on SourceForge.net.

AFP - China's growing band of young Internet gamers will face virtual penalties if they stay online for more than three hours, under a new set of rules to combat cyber addiction published on Tuesday.