AP - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. is introducing a software application that can make Palm Treos and other Windows-based mobile devices made by rivals work like a BlackBerry.

AP - In a big win for a little Wi-Fi startup called Fon, Time Warner Cable Inc. will let its home broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hotspots, a practice shunned by most U.S. Internet service providers.

Reuters - Research In Motion Ltd. is set to roll out new software that will let users turn smartphones running on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile platform into virtual BlackBerries.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Videogame publisher Gameloft has gained the rights to bring DreamWorks Animation's 'Shrek the Third' to mobile games in conjunction with the film's May 18 theatrical release. The game will be released across 170 operators in more than 75 countries.

Reuters - Videogame publisher Gameloft has gained the rights to bring DreamWorks Animation's "Shrek the Third" to mobile games in conjunction with the film's May 18 theatrical release. The game will be released across 170 operators in more than 75 countries.

TOKYO (Reuters) - NTT DoCoMo Inc. , Japan's biggest wireless operator, on Monday unveiled a new mobile phone equipped with a motion sensor that lets users play games like the popular Nintendo Wii console.

USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Strange things are happening in the normally staid world of computer servers. A shift in the market for the back-office business computers is helping prompt manufacturers to exercise unusual amounts of creativity.

Reuters - NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437.T), Japan's biggest wireless operator, on Monday unveiled a new mobile phone equipped with a motion sensor that lets users play games like the popular Nintendo Wii console.

USATODAY.com - It's midnight. You're walking alone to your car deep inside a garage, when you notice you're being followed. Instinctively, you grab your cellphone and dial 911. Good move? The honest answer: probably not as good as you think.

USATODAY.com - SEATTLE - Cyberspies have a new secret weapon: tainted Microsoft Office files. A rising number of cyberattacks are taking aim at specific individuals at critical government agencies and corporations - enticing them to unwittingly open a corrupted Word, Excel or PowerPoint file sent as an e-mail attachment.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Videogame publisher Gameloft has gained the rights to bring DreamWorks Animation's 'Shrek the Third' to mobile games in conjunction with the film's May 18 theatrical release. The game will be released across 170 operators in more than 75 countries.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. , the world's No. 2 wireless telephone maker, said on Monday it would buy Terayon Communication Systems Inc. in a move to boost its video-processing services.

InfoWorld - NTT DoCoMo will begin selling in May three cellphones that offer motion-sensitive gaming like that possible with Nintendo's Wii games console.

AP - Mobile phone users in Europe could face higher domestic charges if the European Union forces telecom companies to limit the costs of international calls, the industry warned Monday.

InfoWorld - New software from Research in Motion (RIM) will enable all BlackBerry wireless applications to run on smartphones from rival handset makers.

AP - The heart of London's financial district has gone wireless as the Square Mile, Europe's premier financial center, has been turned into an oversized WiFi 'hot zone.'

AP - Internet retailer Amazon.com will employ 450 people at its new Irish support center, which will help customers on its British and French Web sites, the online auctioneer said Monday.

Reuters - Videogame publisher Gameloft has gained the rights to bring DreamWorks Animation's "Shrek the Third" to mobile games in conjunction with the film's May 18 theatrical release. The game will be released across 170 operators in more than 75 countries.

InfoWorld - India had 206.8 million telephone subscribers as of March 31, up by 47 percent from a year ago. Mobile telephone connections took the dominant share, as fixed line subscribers dropped in number.

Reuters - Salesforce.com Inc. said on Sunday customers no longer have to buy its core product to use the company's online market for business software, in a move aimed at better tapping into rising demand for Web-delivered applications.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Of the high-definition discs bought by consumers in the first quarter, 70% were in the Blu-ray Disc format and 30% were HD DVD, according to sales figures provided by trade publication Home Media Magazine.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday launched a campaign to rid the country's sprawling Internet of 'unhealthy' content and make it a springboard for Communist Party doctrine, state television reported.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft said on Monday it had responded to European Commission charges that it set unreasonably high prices to discourage would-be competitors from making server software.

FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union president Germany plans to propose milder cuts for European cell phone roaming charges than it had suggested, the German economy ministry said on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. , the world's No. 2 cell phone maker, said on Monday it will buy Terayon Communication Systems Inc. for about $140 million in a bid to boost its video technology.

SINGAPORE, April 23 (Reuters) - Construction sites are rubbish-strewn inconveniences to most people, but for an environmentally friendly Thai architect, they spell opportunity.

BOAO, China (Reuters) - Asia will increasingly become a source of technological innovation, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said on Saturday.

Reuters - Microsoft said on Monday it had responded to European Commission charges that it set unreasonably high prices to discourage would-be competitors from making server software.

Reuters - Motorola Inc. , the world's No. 2 cell phone maker, said on Monday it will buy Terayon Communication Systems Inc. for about $140 million in a bid to boost its video technology.

Reuters - European Union president Germany plans to propose milder cuts for European cell phone roaming charges than it had suggested, the German economy ministry said on Monday.

PC World - NTT DoCoMo Inc. will begin selling in May three cell phones that offer motion sensitive gaming like that possible with Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii games console.

Reuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday launched a campaign to rid the country's sprawling Internet of "unhealthy" content and make it a springboard for Communist Party doctrine, state television reported.

PC World - Motorola Inc. will buy Terayon Communication Systems Inc., a digital video processing and networking software maker, for US$140 million, the companies announced on Monday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft may face a new kind of antitrust punishment from the European Union if the company, already hit by multi-million-dollar fines, continues to defy it, the bloc's top competition official hinted.

NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Get a '$200,000 mortgage for $667 a month!' a banner advertisement on a lending Web site proclaims. 'Bad credit OK!'

Reuters - Microsoft may face a new kind of antitrust punishment from the European Union if the company, already hit by multi-million-dollar fines, continues to defy it, the bloc's top competition official hinted.

PC World - New software from Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) will enable all BlackBerry wireless applications to run on smartphones from rival handset makers.

AP - Microsoft responded Monday to European Union allegations that it is overcharging rivals for information that would make their products work better with Windows. The software maker also repeated its request for more guidance on what regulators consider to be an acceptable price.

Reuters - The Huffington Post political blog has signed on Web media company Yahoo Inc. and online news site Slate to help host two debates among presidential hopefuls ahead of the 2008 election.

InfoWorld - The City of London is home to a new Wi-Fi network that is not only one of Europe's largest but also among the first to give users mobile coverage similar to a cellular network.

AFP - Microsoft responded Monday to concerns raised by EU regulators in an antitrust standoff just hours before the European Commission's deadline for the US software giant ran out.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Best Buy Co. Inc. said on Monday it will carry the U.S. broadcast radio industry's high-definition radio technology at all of its stores nationwide, a move that could boost exposure for the nascent system.

NewsFactor - If the contest between Blu-ray and HD DVD were a horse race, the two are at the point on the track where Blu-ray pulls ahead -- just as HD might be getting its second wind.

NewsFactor - With the BlackBerry outage still impressed on the minds of many users, Research In Motion on Monday announced a new software application suite that will let its wireless applications and services run on competing handsets.

PC Magazine - A representative from the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative confirmed on Friday that notebook shipments will be delayed until the fourth quarter of 2007.

AP - A 25-employee startup in Utah has snared a multimillion-dollar contract to provide massive General Electric Co. with software that automatically backs up files on office computers, jolting a market that appears to be getting hot.

AP - To be among the first to know the result of France's presidential election, you had to be ... surfing Web sites in Switzerland or Belgium, or watching British TV.

Reuters - Moviegoers are buying online tickets to "Spider-Man 3" at a faster clip than they did for its blockbuster predecessor almost two weeks before that film hit theaters, top online ticket sellers said on Monday.

InfoWorld - The concept of enterprise mobility has been maturing for years, but large companies are only just beginning to get their hands around wireless technologies, according to the latest report from Forrester Research.

NewsFactor - The marketplace for hosted business applications opened another door on Monday. Leading on-demand CRM provider Salesforce.com announced that software through its AppExchange marketplace now is available to companies that are not currently Salesforce.com customers.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sony Corp.'s 'God of War II' for the PlayStation 2 was the best selling video game in the United States in March, market research firm NPD Group said on Monday.

AFP - The IT outsourcing market in Russia will reach a billion dollars in 2007, the chairman of the Russian branch of US semiconductor giant Intel said on Monday.

PC Magazine - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) this week released an upgrade to its Opteron family of dual-core server processors, which is intended to boost speed and pave the way for its quad-core release later this year.

Reuters - Sony Corp.'s (6758.T) "God of War II" for the PlayStation 2 was the best selling video game in the United States in March, market research firm NPD Group said on Monday.

PC Magazine - Apple's iPhone reminds me of a dream I used to have. Thankfully, I'm awake now.

AP - Activist groups dropped a federal lawsuit against Viacom Inc. on Monday after the parent of Comedy Central acknowledged it made a mistake by asking YouTube to yank a parody of the cable network's 'The Colbert Report.'

AP - Texas Instruments Inc. reported a 4 percent drop in first quarter earnings Monday as the world's leading maker of chips for cell phones dealt with a glut of inventory and shifting demand in the wireless market toward lower-end phones with less-expensive chips.

InfoWorld - EnterpriseDB is releasing an upgrade to its database software next month, hoping to lure customers away from Oracle with the promise of lower license fees and compatibility with applications written for Oracle's database.

InfoWorld - AT&T plans to market the iPhone to business users in addition to consumers, but analysts aren't recommending that enterprises supply workers with the phones.

InfoWorld - With the announcement on Monday of Salesforce Platform Edition, Salesforce.com finally unveiled its long-term strategy to become the sun around which revolves an infinite number of SaaS (software as a service) planets.

PC World - AT&T Inc. plans to market the iPhone to business users in addition to consumers but analysts aren't recommending that enterprises supply workers with the phones.

Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK As spring print circulation numbers are due out in a week -- they are supposedly just as terrible as they have been in periods past -- it’s encouraging to see that newspaper Web sites are growing. The Newspaper Association of America said today that during Q1 newspaper Web site traffic advanced 5.3% hitting a new record high.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has made great strides in protecting patents and copyrights and a U.S. complaints over commercial piracy would 'seriously harm' cooperation, Vice Premier Wu Yi said on Tuesday.

PC World - For the first time, the Opera Mini has infiltrated desktop browser rankings in a European country, indicating that the use of mobile browsing software may be gaining momentum overseas, according to Opera Software ASA and market-share data.