SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Salesforce.com Inc. introduced software on Monday that allows business customers to more easily manage and share documents, e-mail and videos, much as they do on Web sites like YouTube and Gmail.

TechWeb - The latest Core 2 Extreme is designed with gaming fans, digital design professionals, and computer enthusiasts in mind.

TechWeb - The good news in all of this is that consumers should expect the price of chips to continue to fall, which should lead to lower prices for servers and PCs.

AP - Cablevision Systems Corp., a New York-area cable TV provider, said Tuesday that it will appeal a federal court ruling that blocked the company's rollout of a next-generation digital video recorder service.

TechWeb - Since the iPod's introduction 5-1/2 years ago, Apple has unveiled more than 10 models and sparked an ecosystem of more than 4,000 accessories.

AP - A judge violated a juvenile's free-speech rights when he placed her on probation for posting an expletive-laden entry on MySpace criticizing a school principal, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled.

Reuters - Salesforce.com Inc. introduced software on Monday that allows business customers to more easily manage and share documents, e-mail and videos, much as they do on Web sites like YouTube and Gmail.

AP - A licensing agreement between Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. expires Tuesday, potentially heralding a new wave of lawsuits between the wireless industry heavyweights.

TechWeb - BEA plans to resell AmberPoint's governance software under the AquaLogic brand.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. said on Tuesday it planned to launch the world's first 42-inch plasma TVs with full high definition panels on April 27 in Japan.

Reuters - Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. said on Tuesday it planned to launch the world's first 42-inch plasma TVs with full high definition panels on April 27 in Japan.

Reuters - Domestic doyenne Martha Stewart took the wraps off a new Web site on Tuesday designed to capture advertising dollars as well as devoted fans.

Reuters - Yahoo China on Tuesday launched a new blogging and networking service, in a move aimed at diversifying its revenue streams as it steps up expansion in the world's second-largest Web market by subscriber numbers.

USATODAY.com - When Mark Rodgers' laptop malfunctioned on a business trip before an important presentation in Vancouver, British Columbia, he raced to a computer store just before closing. Luckily, he got the problem fixed. The consultant from New Berlin, Wis., says he was so happy he gave the store's technicians a $30 tip, and then handed a homeless person on the street $20.

USATODAY.com - Mario returns to his slimmer self for his Wii debut in Super Paper Mario, a light-hearted adventure filled with more depth than the two-dimension surface suggests. At first glance, Super Paper Mario appears like your standard side-scroller. Clever gameplay, however, mixed with RPG elements create yet another engaging journey for Nintendo's gaming icon.

AFP - The British government said Tuesday it will urge Internet providers to block or remove mobile telephone videos showing pupils or teachers being bullied.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cablevision Systems Corp. said on Tuesday it is filing an appeal of a recent U.S. court ruling barring it from launching a digital video recorder (DVR) service that stores television shows on its servers.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Yahoo China on Tuesday launched a new blogging and networking service, in a move aimed at diversifying its revenue streams as it steps up expansion in the world's second-largest Web market by subscriber numbers.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp. said on Tuesday its LCD plant joint venture with South Korea's Samsung Electronics would start production this summer, a few months ahead of schedule.

BusinessWeek Online - What's going on with AMD? On Apr. 9, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said it would come in far short of Wall Street's expectations for revenues in the first quarter. Yet its stock surged on the news.

AP - A judge violated a juvenile's free-speech rights when he placed her on probation for posting an expletive-laden entry on MySpace criticizing a school principal, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled.

Reuters - Two out of three British Internet users lose significant portions of their time to irrelevant web browsing, a study said on Tuesday.

BusinessWeek Online - Among teenage girls and young women in Japan, Ringo to Kedamono (The Apple and the Beast) is a hot-selling comic. The story line is somewhat unusual; it's basically a romance between two young, androgynous males--but it's standard fare for the "boys love" (BL) genre of Japanese comic books, or manga.

InfoWorld - On-demand software vendor Salesforce.com on Tuesday announced plans to enter the content management market via the acquisition of Web 2.0 content collaboration startup Koral.

PC World - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. will start making chips with transistors and other components as tiny as 45-nanometers by September, enabling smaller, more powerful and energy efficient chips.

InfoWorld - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Tuesday reported its worst quarterly revenue since the second quarter of 2005.

InfoWorld - Sony is refreshing its lightweight Vaio Type-G laptop and has begun offering a solid-state flash drive as an option.

PC World - Sony Corp. is refreshing its lightweight Vaio Type-G laptop and has begun offering a solid-state flash drive as an option.

AP - Domesticity diva Martha Stewart aims to parlay her authoritative voice on everything about lifestyle to the millions of women who surf the Internet with the relaunch of her namesake Web site.

AP - LG. Philips LCD Co., the world's second-largest manufacturer of liquid crystal displays, said Tuesday it swung to a loss in the first quarter amid a steep decline in prices.

PC World - Forget about botnets. If you want to knock a Web site offline, all you need is a nationally syndicated radio show.

PC World - A security researcher has demonstrated that it's possible to put together a Bluetooth sniffer out of an inexpensive wireless dongle, raising fresh questions about the security of the wireless technology.

InfoWorld - Sohu.com on Tuesday threatened to sue Google for violating its intellectual property rights, and renewed a demand for the company to stop downloads of a Chinese software tool based, in part, on one of its own databases.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Palm Inc. said on Tuesday it sees growth fueled by stronger sales of its Treo mobile phone devices in Europe and Asia, and it made no mention of recent speculation about it possibly being a takeover target.

InfoWorld - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. will start making chips with transistors and other components as tiny as 45 nanometers by September, enabling smaller, more powerful and energy efficient chips.

PC World - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. on Tuesday reported its worst quarterly revenue since the second quarter of 2005.

AP - Amp'd Mobile reported Tuesday that subscribers to its youth-oriented, entertainment-heavy cell phone service grew nearly 70 percent in the first quarter to about 175,000 customers.

Reuters - Microsoft Game Studios said on Tuesday a test of the new "Halo 3" game will be available May 16 on its Xbox Live online gaming service.

NewsFactor - For the past four years, a format battle has been waged over the next generation of DVDs. In 2003, the DVD Forum, a consortium headed by Toshiba, endorsed the HD DVD as its preferred format. A few months later, the Blu-ray Disc Association (spearheaded by Sony) announced that it was launching a competing format.

Reuters - Palm Inc. said on Tuesday it sees growth fueled by stronger sales of its Treo mobile phone devices in Europe and Asia, and it made no mention of recent speculation about it possibly being a takeover target.

NewsFactor - It's official. Apple has sold its 100 millionth iPod and has secured its title as the fastest-selling music player in the short-lived digital era. But can the company sell 100 million more before new technology disrupts the market?

AP - Yahoo Inc. will be the exclusive provider of search ads at MTV.com, Nickelodeon.com and other sites run by entertainment company Viacom Inc. under a multiyear partnership announced Tuesday.

AP - Nokia Corp. said Tuesday it is continuing talks with Qualcomm Inc. on a just-expired licensing agreement.

Reuters - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. said on Tuesday that it had chosen Yahoo Inc. to provide search advertising for 33 of its Internet sites in a major boost to Yahoo's new Web ad system.

FT.com - Nokia Siemens (NYSE:SI) Networks, a mobile telecom joint venture between the Finnish and German multinationals, has high hopes of playing a leading role in building China's third-generation wireless networks, but appears to be getting off to a slow start.

InfoWorld - Iona Technologies has acquired open-source software company LogicBlaze, its second acquisition in as many months to help grow its SOA business.

InfoWorld - The Apache Software Foundation is in a dispute with Sun Microsystems over a license for the Java technology compatibility kit needed for the Apache Harmony project.

InfoWorld - Microsoft, with its hands full integrating its Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) line, does not plan to acquire any of the smaller vendors competing with the software giant in the midmarket area, a senior executive said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. said on Tuesday that it chose Yahoo Inc. to provide search advertising for 33 of its Internet sites in a high-profile boost to Yahoo's new Web ad system.

NewsFactor - Gamers and digital-media professionals have one thing in common: They never have too much processing power. On Monday, Intel raised the bar for both groups with its new Core 2 Extreme QX6800, a quad-core chip running at a blazing 2.93 GHz.

InfoWorld - If you're like me then no matter how many new gadgets you see some still make you say "wow" when you first see them.

NewsFactor - For the past four years, a format battle has been waged over the next generation of DVDs. In 2003, the DVD Forum, a consortium headed by Toshiba, endorsed the HD DVD as its preferred format. A few months later, the Blu-ray Disc Association (spearheaded by Sony) announced that it was launching a competing format.

AP - Microsoft Corp. released four security fixes it deems critical as part of its regularly scheduled software update Tuesday, while it corrected a handful of problems caused by last week's emergency patch.

InfoWorld - Yahoo's new search marketing system continues to gain momentum with an announcement that Viacom plans to use the system on all of its 33 Web sites.

InfoWorld - In a move to offer customers a broader range of stand-alone or integrated wireless broadband systems, NextWave Wireless has agreed to acquire IPWireless, a supplier of high-speed cellular technology.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. said on Tuesday it chose Yahoo Inc. to provide search advertising for 33 of its Internet sites in a pact that Viacom sees expanding over time.

NewsFactor - On the heels of its Monday announcement that first-quarter revenue would fall short of projections, Advanced Micro Devices has announced price cuts in Athlon FX and X2 desktop processors. Most of the cuts were expected as AMD prepares for price cuts planned later this month by its arch-competitor, Intel.

AP - Smart phone maker Palm Inc. said Tuesday it will use a new platform based on Linux to help the company compete better.

AP - A Florida-based Web site that invites women to warn others about men they've dated cannot be sued in a Pennsylvania court by an attorney who said its postings falsely claimed he was unfaithful and had sexually transmitted diseases.

PC World - Palm Inc. will unveil a platform before the end of 2007 that runs the Palm OS on top of a Linux kernel, allowing the company to improve the performance and stability of its handhelds and smartphones, CEO Ed Colligan said Tuesday.

InfoWorld - The Apache Software Foundation is in a dispute with Sun Microsystems over a license for the Java technology compatibility kit needed for the Apache Harmony project.

InfoWorld - Microsoft has released its regularly scheduled batch of security patches, fixing critical flaws in Windows and the Microsoft Content Management Server.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA will delay the launch of space shuttle Atlantis at least until June 8 so its hail-damaged fuel tank can be repaired, managers at the U.S. space agency said on Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. warned of four security flaws in its software that it categorized as 'critical' on Tuesday that could allow attackers to gain control of a user's computer.

PC World - The recent buzz about security threats posed by iPods to corporations has reinforced the need for IT managers to treat these devices like any other removable media that employees with malicious intent can use to extract sensitive data.

AP - Google is using its popular online mapping service to call attention to atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan.

AP - Newly appointed senior executives at Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. broadly outlined a 100-day plan to turn around the beleaguered video game company.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA will delay the launch of space shuttle Atlantis at least to June 8 so that its hail-damaged fuel tank can be repaired, managers said on Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. is in talks to sell television advertising with DirecTV Group Inc. , the largest U.S. satellite TV broadcaster, Silicon Valley blog VentureBeat reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed source.

Investor's Business Daily - Intel, IBM and the other big boys aren't the only chip companies trying to put the squeeze on power usage.

PC Magazine - Revenue for plasma televisions took a substantial hit in February, according to the latest figures released by the NDP Group on Tuesday, generating only $181 million compared to the nearly $216 million in February 2006.

Reuters - Google Inc. is in talks to sell television advertising with DirecTV Group Inc. , the largest U.S. satellite TV broadcaster, Silicon Valley blog VentureBeat reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed source.

Investor's Business Daily - For many young daters, before ever calling the number they got at a bar there's one must-do step: Google the name. Between social networking sites, news stories and blogs, it's getting increasingly difficult to hide things like one's real age or love for the taboo. Some even pay to get an online background check on their date to be. There are drawbacks though, such as finding out too much, or nodding in interest when the date explains things already found out online.

Reuters - Palm Inc. said on Tuesday Treo phone sales in Europe and Asia would spur growth in the next three to five years, but declined to discuss the topic of most interest to investors -- rumors it is for sale.

PC World - Pocket PC users can get the look and feel of the iPhone before the iPhone even hits the shelves.

AFP - Outrage abounded in the "blogosphere" on Tuesday as a pair of Internet luminaries lobbied for rules of behavior in the lawless world of online commentary.