TechWeb - IBM introduced a half-dozen low-power BladeCenter and System x servers that combine the latest energy-efficient technology from Big Blue and chip makers AMD and Intel.

TechWeb - The chipmaker continues its fierce competition with Intel, which started the price war last April.

TechWeb - The biggest impact on Apple will be in missing the back-to-school season that runs from mid-July to mid-September.

TechWeb - The company said its technology is superior to rival HDTV displays because it uses materials similar to those used by fireflies to emit light, rather than depending on a backlight.

AP - The Chinese government is launching a new crackdown on online pornography which it says has 'perverted China's young minds,' a state news agency said Friday.

AP - Nissan is tying up with Japanese electronics maker NEC in producing batteries for ecological vehicles, an official said Friday, signaling efforts to catch up with rival automakers that have a head start in green technology.

AP - Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday that first-quarter net profit fell 15 percent from the same period last year on declines in prices for its mainstay memory chips.

Reuters - McClatchy has left an online advertising partnership with Tribune and Gannett to join a rival group of publishers that is in the final stages of negotiating a deal with Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday.

TechWeb - Iona Technologies, a supplier of software to build services-oriented architectures, has purchased an open-source company specializing in an SOA stack, LogicBlaze.

AP - India's Infosys Technologies Ltd. said Friday that its quarterly net profit jumped 70.4 percent on sustained momentum in outsourcing, while annual revenues crossed $3 billion in the financial year that ended in March.

AFP - A Muslim council in Malaysia has issued a religious ruling or fatwa banning people from using the Internet to trade shares or makes investments, reports said Friday.

Reuters - India's second-largest software exporter, Infosys Technologies Ltd. , reported a forecast-beating 70 percent rise in consolidated quarterly profit as outsourcing by foreign clients surged, but predicted more modest earnings growth for this fiscal year.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Tobey Maguire and other stars from 'Spider-Man 3' are again lending their voices and likenesses to the Activision video game based on the film, the first in the franchise for all three next-generation consoles.

AP - Via Technologies Inc., the often-overlooked third player in the microprocessor arena, said Friday that Hewlett-Packard Co. has decided to use its low-cost, low-power chips in new energy-efficient business PCs in the booming China market.

AFP - Chinese authorities have vowed to purge the Internet in China of pornography amid rising disgust over the explicit content in cyberspace, state press reported Friday.

Reuters - Tobey Maguire and other stars from "Spider-Man 3" are again lending their voices and likenesses to the Activision video game based on the film, the first in the franchise for all three next-generation consoles.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nissan Motor Co., NEC Corp. and unit NEC Tokin Corp. said on Friday they would form a joint venture company to produce lithium-ion batteries from 2009 to be used in hybrid and other electric cars and challenge rivals in the promising field.

BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - Steel and coal from the Titanic have been transformed into a new line of luxury wristwatches that claim to capture the essence of the legendary oceanliner which sank in 1912.

NEW YORK/HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia said on Friday that Qualcomm Inc is the largest user in the world of its technology and patents, firing the latest volley in an increasingly bitter public quarrel over patent royalties.

USATODAY.com - NEW YORK - Internet phone company Vonage Holdings (VG) said Thursday that Chief Executive Officer Michael Snyder has stepped down and that it would cut costs, amid growing worries about its future after setbacks in a patent lawsuit by Verizon Communications (VZ).

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wireless chipmaker Broadcom Corp. said on Friday it had launched a new legal battle against Qualcomm Inc. , accusing its rival of unfair competition, fraud and breach of its licensing contracts.

InfoWorld - Intel and Advanced Micro Devices may be locked in a vicious price war over desktop and mobile chips, but that hasn't stopped Taiwan's Via Technologies from gaining ground in the market with its focus on low-cost processors that don't draw much power.

InfoWorld - One of the main backers of the Blu-ray Disc format, South Korea's Samsung Electronics plans to release an optical disc player this year that will play both Blu-ray Disc and the rival HD DVD format, it said Friday.

AP - The Chinese government is launching a new crackdown on online pornography, complaining it has 'perverted China's young minds,' a state news agency said Friday.

AP - Google Inc. made its 'Google Checkout' available to British retailers on Friday, the Internet payment service's first venture abroad, the company said in a statement.

InfoWorld - CBS will distribute its television programs more widely over the Internet, adding new deals with Joost, Microsoft's MSN and AOL to existing agreements with Apple's iTunes and Google's YouTube.

InfoWorld - The patent license fight between Qualcomm and Nokia has gone into another round. Just hours after Qualcomm refused to accept a $20 million payment from Nokia for royalties on patented Qualcomm technology, the Finnish mobile manufacturer on Friday rejected claims by the U.S. company that it does not use Nokia patents.

InfoWorld - Infosys Technologies, India's second largest software and services outsourcer, announced Friday that it expected its revenue to grow by 28 to 30 percent to about $4 billion in its current fiscal year ending March 31 next year.

InfoWorld - Attackers are trying to take advantage of a newly disclosed vulnerability in several of Microsoft's server products that could allow them to run unauthorized code on affected computers, the company has warned.

BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - Luxury mobile phones are seeking to rival handmade watches for many jet-set consumers, especially business travelers who rely on digital gadgets to tell the time abroad.

KARACHI (Reuters) - Mobile service providers in Pakistan have been inundated by calls from subscribers worried by a prank message that they could die of a deadly virus being transmitted via their phones.

PC World - IBM Corp. is adding to its server lineup with new models featuring lower-wattage processors and flash memory instead of disks, all in the name of energy conservation.

Reuters - Luxury mobile phones are seeking to rival handmade watches for many jet-set consumers, especially business travelers who rely on digital gadgets to tell the time abroad.

PC World - CBS Corp. will distribute its television programs more widely over the Internet, adding new deals with Joost, Microsoft Corp.'s MSN and AOL LLC to existing agreements with Apple Inc.'s iTunes and Google Inc.'s YouTube.

InfoWorld - IBM has teamed up with the Apollo Hospital Group, a large hospital chain in India, to offer hosted software applications for mid-size hospitals in India.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A start-up backed by Silicon Valley's power elite hopes to convince regulators to back a business plan that could scrap many restrictions on wireless networks and help Internet service providers like Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. into the market.

NewsFactor - The iPhone is holding back the Leopard. Apple announced on Thursday that Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" will be delayed until October because its new iPhone product launch is drawing away engineering and testing resources.

AP - Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over.

AP - Government and university researchers have been exploring ways to redesign the Internet from scratch. Some of the challenges that led researchers to start thinking of clean-slate approaches:

AP - Transitioning to a next-generation Internet could be akin to changing the engines on a moving airplane.

AP - The university researchers who began construction on the Internet some four decades ago never imagined the power their creation would have today. They toiled away in their labs quietly, and few outside cared.

Reuters - A start-up backed by Silicon Valley's power elite hopes to convince regulators to back a business plan that could scrap many restrictions on wireless networks and help Internet service providers like Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. into the market.

AP - A judge has signed off on a restitution agreement requiring the former chief executive of Computer Associates International Inc. to pay at least $52 million over the next two years to victims of a huge accounting fraud at one of the world's largest software companies.

PC Magazine - Count Samsung among the major manufacturers designing a player that will accept both HD DVD and Blu-ray discs.

AP - For at least 17 months, someone had free rein inside TJX Cos.' computers. Without anyone noticing, one or more intruders installed code on the discount retailer's systems to methodically unearth, collect and transmit account data from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards.

NewsFactor - The CBS eye soon will be all over the Internet. The on-air network announced Thursday the creation of the CBS Interactive Audience Network to distribute its content through a wide array of video and interactive platforms and services.

Reuters - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn sent a letter to Motorola Inc. shareholders calling for the No.2 mobile phone maker to fix its operational problems, saying that took precedence to a share buyback.

NewsFactor - "Easier to use" and "faster." The words must be written in large letters on a wall somewhere in the printing division of Hewlett-Packard, and they appear to be the drivers behind a pair of new, high-end enterprise printers that HP released Wednesday.

PC Magazine - The Army is sponsoring a Global Gaming League as part of its larger initiative to find new recruits and spread its advertising message via the medium of video games.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Enter the video game accessory as date killer.

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PC World - A bug has been found in a major Linux Wi-Fi driver that can allow an attacker to take control of a laptop-- even when it is not on a Wi-Fi network.

AP - Although a top Senate Democrat believes even a teenager could recover missing White House e-mails, experts said Friday that doing so could be tough — but not impossible.

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Reuters - Enter the video game accessory as date killer.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Web advertising leader Google Inc. said on Friday it will acquire DoubleClick Inc., a leading online advertising network, for $3.1 billion, consolidating Google's grip on the Internet ad market.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - What a difference a year has made in the microprocessor industry.

Reuters - What a difference a year has made in the microprocessor industry.

AP - Seeking to expand its already well-honed ability to sell targeted Internet advertisements, online search leader Google Inc. said it has agreed to pay $3.1 billion in cash to acquire ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc.

InfoWorld - Google has agreed to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash, an acquisition that strengthens Google's status as an online advertising powerhouse.

NewsFactor - On the same day that Cisco's selection to provide software for the U.S. military in space was announced, the networking company tried to plug security leaks back on Earth in its wireless networking technology.

AP - The Internal Revenue Service on Friday warned of Internet scam artists trying to obtain people's bank account numbers and other information by posing as a participant in a program offering free tax preparation software to low- and middle-income taxpayers.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. said on Friday it would buy Web advertising tools provider DoubleClick Inc. for $3.1 billion, its biggest acquisition, to accelerate its push into the graphic ad market now dominated by Yahoo Inc. .

Reuters - Google Inc. said on Friday it would buy Web advertising tools provider DoubleClick Inc. for $3.1 billion, its biggest acquisition, to accelerate its push into the graphic ad market now dominated by Yahoo Inc. .

Investor's Business Daily - When cell phone service provider MetroPCS Communications goes public, expected as soon as this week, it hopes to avoid the fate of telecom brethren Vonage and Clearwire, whose offerings quickly turned south.

Investor's Business Daily - Most tech stocks soared to new heights during the late 1990s, and Oracle (NasdaqGS:ORCL - News) was no exception. The enterprise software maker broke out of a 21-week base Sept. 3, 1999, as part of the bull market's last, and most profitable, rally.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. said on Friday it would pay $3.1 billion for Web ad supplier DoubleClick Inc., its biggest acquisition, accelerating a push into the graphic ad market led by Yahoo Inc. .