SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc. unveiled on Sunday video-player software that lets consumers play back video online or offline, a move that could help reshape an acrimonious debate over video-sharing.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Samsung Electronics, which last year introduced the first Blu-ray Disc player, says it will support the rival HD DVD format as well, a move hailed by supporters of the No. 2 entrant in the high-definition disc format war.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet and media rivals to Google Inc., fearing an unprecedented consolidation of power in the online advertising market, are expected to urge regulators to closely scrutinize the Web search leader's $3.1 billion deal to buy DoubleClick Inc.

AP - Toshiba Corp. — known among consumers for its televisions, laptops and DVD players — will begin selling portable hard drive products as well, becoming the latest company seeking to capitalize on people's expanding collections of digital data.

Reuters - Samsung Electronics, which last year introduced the first Blu-ray Disc player, says it will support the rival HD DVD format as well, a move hailed by supporters of the No. 2 entrant in the high-definition disc format war.

Reuters - Internet and media rivals to Google Inc., fearing an unprecedented consolidation of power in the online advertising market, are expected to urge regulators to closely scrutinize the Web search leader's $3.1 billion deal to buy DoubleClick Inc.

InfoWorld - Microsoft Corp. this week will reveal new technology to deliver rich media applications on the Web, part of a broader strategy to go head to head with Web and design tools powerhouse Adobe Systems Inc.

InfoWorld - IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have enhanced their joint enterprise search product, a free competitor to Google Inc.'s Mini device.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch car navigation device marker TomTom is launching a new product line with large displays, the company said on Monday.

AFP - Malaysia has banned mobile phones and handheld computers in high-security areas of government offices to prevent spying, a report said Monday.

PC World - A New York-based company that is one of a handful developing fuel cells for consumer electronics devices says it has started commercial production of a fuel cell-based recharger for Microsoft Corp.

PC World - As businesses worldwide debate the pros and cons of using wikis, tagging, Web mashups, syndicated feeds and blogs, the Web 2.0 Expo opened Sunday in San Francisco with a gaggle of vendors betting these Internet tools belong in the workplace.

PC World - Apple has introduced Final Cut Server. The new server application provides media asset management and workflow automation. The scalable server application supports workgroups of any size, according to Apple. It also includes a cross-platform client that enables content browsing, review and approval from within a studio or over the Internet.

PC World - Microsoft Corp. has consolidated some of its efforts to help Web hosting companies offer software-as-a-service (SAAS) into a new program tailored for offerings to independent software vendors (ISVs).

LONDON (Reuters) - Jalipo, a new online distribution network for high-quality TV and video content that aims to act as an alternative to YouTube, launched on Monday with partners including BBC World and Al Jazeera English.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Mobile handset firm Nokia said on Monday it had agreed to work with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to boost open standards in mobile television, based on its favored DVB-H technology.

InfoWorld - The news out of Cupertino, California, was mostly dour last week, as Apple Inc. announced that it was delaying the delivery of the next version of its OS X operating system by four months so that it could complete work on the iPhone cell phone.

PC Magazine - The new DXG-589V is a $199 gizmo for kids that includes a digicam, camcorder, MP3 player, and games.

USATODAY.com - NEW YORK - Vonage has finally confirmed what many had feared: The embattled Internet phone company has no "workaround" in hand to sidestep Verizon's patented Internet phone technology.

USATODAY.com - Regulators are poised to send the crackling and bulky analog cellphone to the scrap heap next February, denying a last-ditch appeal from a business group. The shutdown of analog wireless networks Feb. 18 will mean lost service or disruptions for 500,000 GM car owners with OnStar emergency wireless service, up to 1 million alarm customers and a few million diehards who refuse to trade in their analog phones.

InfoWorld - Seeking to improve enterprise governance of e-mail and file archiving systems, EMC today announced upgrades to its EmailXtender e-mail management and DiskXtender file archiving products.

InfoWorld - The next version of Intel's Centrino notebook platform, called Santa Rosa, will hit the market next month, but the company is already looking ahead to other products, including an updated "Santa Rosa refresh" and a quad-core mobile processor set for release next year.

InfoWorld - A New York-based company that is one of a handful developing fuel cells for consumer electronics devices says it has started commercial production of a fuel cell-based recharger for Microsoft.

InfoWorld - A worm targeting Skype's VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) application is harvesting e-mail addresses and directing users to a range of sites hosting other malicious software, security vendors said Monday.

InfoWorld - With an upgrade to its portal software, BEA Systems on Monday is touting a Web 2.0 interactivity theme with the product able to expose portlets, which can be produced for use in mashup apps, to other applications. The company is set to announce BEA WebLogic Portal 10. Key to the product's new portlet capabilities is support for REST (Representational State Transfer) Web services.

PC World - IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have enhanced their joint enterprise search product, a free competitor to Google Inc.'s Mini device.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia expects to start selling mobile devices using WiMAX Internet technology in early 2008, the world's top handset maker said on Monday.

PC World - The next version of Intel Corp.'s Centrino notebook platform, called Santa Rosa, will hit the market next month, but the company is already looking ahead to other products, including an updated "Santa Rosa refresh" and a quad-core mobile processor set for release next year.

InfoWorld - Next week, new HD DVD movies will hit the shelves that won't play on some players, the first countermeasure by the content and software industries to combat intensive efforts by hackers to break copy-protection technology.

AP - Motorola will drop a court case charging an Indian state-run telecommunications company with unfairly disqualifying it from bidding on a large contract, the company said Monday.

Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) expects to start selling mobile devices using WiMAX Internet technology in early 2008, the world's top handset maker said on Monday.

InfoWorld - Joseph Kiniry, a computer science lecturer at University College Dublin, seems an unlikely candidate to work on open-source voting software.

PC World - A worm targeting Skype Ltd.'s VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) application is harvesting e-mail addresses and directing users to a range of sites hosting other malicious software, security vendors said Monday.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's plan to boost sales of more advanced third-generation cellphones by allowing bundling of new phones with subscriptions has been a failure, the chief executive of third-largest mobile operator Finnet said.

PC World - Next week, new HD DVD movies will hit the shelves that won't play on some players, the first countermeasure by the content and software industries to combat intensive efforts by hackers to break copy-protection technology.

Reuters - Comcast Corp. on Monday said it would join the News Corp. and NBC Universal planned online video site as a distributor and content provider.

Reuters - Finland's plan to boost sales of more advanced third-generation cellphones by allowing bundling of new phones with subscriptions has been a failure, the chief executive of third-largest mobile operator Finnet said.

PC World - Joseph Kiniry, a computer science lecturer at University College Dublin, seems an unlikely candidate to work on open-source voting software.

NewsFactor - In the halls of Las Vegas, two software giants are facing off with their new media players. As they head into the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show this week, Adobe and Microsoft each have announced a new generation of software for experiencing media playback and interaction.

NewsFactor - In what has become a string of vulnerabilities in recent weeks, Microsoft has confirmed limited, targeted attacks against its Windows Server Domain Name System (DNS) service.

AP - AT&T said Monday it is pulling out of talks to buy a one-third stake in the holding company that controls Telecom Italia SpA.

AFP - McClatchy Company on Monday joined a consortium of US newspaper groups merging local news and advertising with Yahoo's global Internet search engine.

InfoWorld - The founders of Dodgeball, the mobile social networking service that Google bought in 2005, quit working for the search giant on Friday.

NewsFactor - On Sunday, Apple took the wraps off its new Final Cut Studio 2, the newest version of the Mac-maker's popular video-production software. Announced just as the National Association of Broadcasters trade show opens this week in Las Vegas, the package includes several enhancements for a worldwide community of users that the Cupertino, California-based company said number over 800,000.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. and Endemol, creator of the 'Big Brother' television show, said on Monday they are partnering on a new project that will combine reality television and online virtual reality like the Second Life virtual world.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile said on Monday it would propose a law to give people more say about where mobile phone companies can set up transmission antennas, seen by many as towering eyesores.

Reuters - Chile said on Monday it would propose a law to give people more say about where mobile phone companies can set up transmission antennas, seen by many as towering eyesores.

AP - Internet radio broadcasters were dealt a setback Monday when a panel of copyright judges threw out requests to reconsider a ruling that hiked the royalties they must pay to record companies and artists.

AP - Vonage Holdings Corp. is delivering conflicting messages on its ability to deploy a substitute technology should the Internet phone provider lose its bid to overturn a jury's verdict that it infringed on Verizon Communications Inc.'s patents.

AP - Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs received a salary of $1 last year, according to documents filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Reuters - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. and Endemol, creator of the "Big Brother" television show, said on Monday they are partnering on a new project that will combine reality television and online virtual reality like the Second Life virtual world.

AP - It has not escaped Microsoft's attention that some of the coolest sites on the Web — YouTube and MySpace included — get much of their flash from Flash and other design programs sold by Adobe Systems Inc.

InfoWorld - Antipiracy tools vendor V.I. Laboratories has joined forces with ICG (Internet Crimes Group) to offer software developers and enterprise IT shops a way to keep track of criminals who are illegally publishing their software.

Investor's Business Daily - A resurgent Sun Microsystems is hoping to get an added boost from a new server lineup that includes models powered by the long-awaited Advanced Product Line of next-generation Sparc chips.

Reuters - Images of child abuse posted and sold online are rapidly becoming more graphic and more sadistic and involving younger children, a British-based Internet monitoring group said on Tuesday.

Investor's Business Daily - With financial backing coming soon from Microsoft, Tellme Networks has put a trio of mobile search services on the fast track.

InfoWorld - Like the mainframe, ERP (enterprise resource planning) software soldiers on, though companies complain bitterly about its inflexibility. Oracle just took a significant step toward softening that rigidity with its new Application Integration Architecture (AIA), announced by Oracle president Chuck Phillips at the company's Collaborate ‘07 User Group Conference.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Google moved to reassure broadcasters on Monday that the Internet company was not encroaching on their turf after announcing two major deals that widen its scope in the advertising industry.

PC World - Intel Corp.'s Penryn processors will push desktop PCs to run 40 percent faster for gaming than the latest Intel Core 2 Extreme chip, a company executive said Monday, giving details on the new chip design planned to reach markets in the second half of 2007.

Reuters - Google moved to reassure broadcasters on Monday that the Internet company was not encroaching on their turf after announcing two major deals that widen its scope in the advertising industry.

AP - A student's shaky cell phone video with the sound of multiple gunshots provided the most riveting impression Monday as television networks rushed to cover the sickening massacre at Virginia Tech.

PC World - Ubuntu Linux's next release will appear on Thursday, sporting fresh virtualization features and installation management tools, project sponsor Canonical said on Monday.