TechWeb - IBM hopes the software will capitalize on its customers' needs to use Linux for their back-end server functions, as well as implementing virtualization in the data center.

TechWeb - The partnership with Microsoft comes on the heels of a crippling outage that effectively shut down BlackBerry service across North America.

TechWeb - An unemployed programmer's "reach out and touch someone" idea stemmed from similar campaigns on the video posting site.

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

AP - California continues to employ far more technology workers, pay higher wages and attract more venture capital than any other state. But the overall U.S. tech sector is also growing at a surprisingly brisk clip — for now.

Reuters - News Corp.'s popular Internet social network, MySpace, plans to launch a test version of its U.S. site in Spanish and another that targets users in Latin American countries on Tuesday, as part of a rapid global expansion that will see the service operate in about 20 global regions by June.

AP - Texas Instruments Inc. said it is emerging from an inventory glut and expects stronger growth in the coming months due to rebounding demand for its chips, which are used in a variety of electronic gadgets such as cell phones.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese college has introduced fingerprint scanners to stop students playing truant, the China Daily said on Tuesday, but not everyone is pleased about it.

AP - Yahoo Inc. is expanding its online music section to include the lyrics of 400,000 songs, hoping to strike a chord with Web surfers looking for a more reliable alternative to Internet sites that publish the words without the permission of the copyright owners.

Reuters - Yahoo Inc. and digital media company Gracenote launched an online lyrics service on Tuesday, the first industry-backed effort in a market dominated by unauthorized, rogue Web sites.

AP - Texas Instruments Inc. said it is emerging from an inventory glut and expects stronger growth in the coming months due to rebounding demand for its chips, which are used in a variety of electronic gadgets such as cell phones.

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. complaints to the WTO over commercial piracy in China will 'badly damage' cooperation, Vice Premier Wu Yi warned on Tuesday, insisting that China has made great strides in protecting patents and copyrights.

USATODAY.com - Brought to life on film, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy ruled in theaters and on DVD. Now the classic tale of hobbits, dwarves, elves, men and magic moves into the world of online role-playing. Fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons owe a debt to Tolkien's intricate world. With today's arrival of The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, gamers can finally play their own role in a game based on Tolkien's work.

USATODAY.com - After last week's Virginia Tech massacre, hundreds of colleges are considering a text-message emergency-alert system, and thousands of students have signed up for the cellphone service on campuses where it's already in use. "The standard changes after Virginia Tech," said Mark Rosenberg, chancellor of Florida's state university system. He is asking the state Legislature for $1.5 million for new emergency-alert systems that include text-message notices for the 11 state-run campuses.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU politicians and officials on Tuesday failed to resolve key details of a plan to cut the cost of calling abroad on cell phones, EU sources said.

InfoWorld - The world's largest contract chip manufacturer is part of a group of companies exploring the use of 18-inch (450 millimeter) silicon wafers to drive down chip costs, but the technology faces a major hurdle: nobody can afford an 18-inch wafer factory.

InfoWorld - For years, the guts of a PC remained largely unchanged. In one product generation after another, Intel processors connected to a chip set that consisted of a memory controller and an I/O controller. That's about to change.

InfoWorld - Less than one week after disclosing a $611 million first-quarter loss, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Monday said it hopes to raise up to $2.2 billion through the sale of convertible notes to institutional investors.

Reuters - A Beijing court has ordered Yahoo China to delete links to free Web sites offering music-downloads and to pay about 200,000 yuan ($27,200) for facilitating distribution of unlicensed songs by other sites, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.

AP - Telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent on Tuesday warned of its second profit slump in as many quarters, as a weak performance in its wireless unit continued to affect the recently combined business.

WIMBLEDON (Reuters) - The traditional bleep of Wimbledon's Cyclops line-calling system will be silenced on the show courts this year as the All England Club adopts HawkEye technology for the first time.

PC World - Less than one week after disclosing a US$611 million first-quarter loss, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Monday said it hopes to raise up to $2.2 billion through the sale of convertible notes to institutional investors.

PC World - For years, the guts of a PC remained largely unchanged. In one product generation after another, Intel Corp. processors connected to a chipset that consisted of a memory controller and an I/O controller. That's about to change.

Reuters - EU politicians and officials failed on Tuesday to resolve important details of a plan to cut the cost of making and receiving cell phone calls abroad, a lawmaker said.

PC World - Microsoft Corp. hopes the launch in May of a gaming platform that ties together Windows PCs and the Xbox 360 console will give PC gaming a boost in Japan and in turn mean better business for its console.

Reuters - A U.S. task force created to curb identity theft urged federal agencies on Monday to help protect consumers by ceasing unnecessary use of Social Security numbers.

Reuters - The traditional bleep of Wimbledon's Cyclops line-calling system will be silenced on the show courts this year as the All England Club adopts HawkEye technology for the first time.

Reuters - Warner Music Group, said on Tuesday it will receive $110 million from Bertelsmann AG, after agreeing to settle claims related to Bertelsmann's relationship with the original Napster in 2000/2001.

InfoWorld - First-quarter operating profit dipped at telecoms equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent on weak sales of the company's products for wireless and core networks.

InfoWorld - Did HP swallow Mercury, or did Mercury swallow HP?

Reuters - IBM said on Tuesday it will raise its quarterly dividend by a third and its share buyback program by $15 billion, sending its shares up more than 4 percent.

PC World - The world's largest contract chip manufacturer is part of a group of companies exploring the use of 18-inch (450 millimeter) silicon wafers to drive down chip costs, but the technology faces a major hurdle: nobody can afford an 18-inch wafer factory.

Macworld.com - iQuiz is Apple’s newest premium game for the fifth-generation iPod, available as a 99 cent download from the iTunes Store. It is a pop culture trivia game that features an open-ended architecture to support new trivia packs, and Aspyr Media has stepped up to the plate with iQuiz Maker, a free Mac OS X application that lets you make your own quizzes for iQuiz.

Macworld.com - Apple offered up its newest iPod game on Tuesday in the form of iQuiz — the first 99 cent game for download from the iTunes Store.

PC World - The latest in Sony Corp.'s T-series line of slim digital still cameras, the DSC-T100, is now on sale in most regions.

PC World - Lawmakers gathered in Brussels Tuesday failed to hammer out an agreement on a law that would slash the cost of mobile-phone roaming in Europe, and planned to take up the issue again next week.

InfoWorld - Lawmakers gathered in Brussels Tuesday failed to hammer out an agreement on a law that would slash the cost of mobile-phone roaming in Europe, and planned to take up the issue again next week.

AP - Wikipedia's advocates like to tout its dynamic nature: Volunteers can quickly respond to new developments and errors in the collaborative online encyclopedia by adding or changing entries themselves.

InfoWorld - Red Hat said Tuesday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of MetaMatrix, a provider of data management and integration software.

InfoWorld - Microsoft's Vista operating system took some of its first punches when a dangerous vulnerability was disclosed earlier this month, but the OS held strong, a security analyst said Tuesday.

Reuters - IBM said on Tuesday it will raise its quarterly dividend by a third and its stock buyback program by $15 billion, sending its shares up nearly 5 percent.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. said on Tuesday a federal appeals court permanently stayed a lower court order that barred it from signing up new customers.

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. complaints to the WTO over commercial piracy in China will 'badly damage' cooperation, Vice Premier Wu Yi warned on Tuesday, insisting that China has made great strides in protecting patents and copyrights.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing court has ordered Yahoo China to delete links to free Web sites offering music-downloads and to pay about 200,000 yuan ($27,200) for facilitating distribution of unlicensed songs by other sites, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.

AFP - A South Korean firm said Tuesday it is developing a mobile phone which allows users to feel broadcasts as well as seeing and hearing them.

AFP - Online music retailer Napster will shortly launch an over-the-air music subscription service in Japan, through the mobile phone giant NTT DoCoMo, according to the US firm's Japanese unit.

AFP - Wikipedia already has thousands of people logging on at their homes and offices. In Japan, those looking for instant answers now need look no further than their mobile phones.

InfoWorld - Microsoft hopes the launch in May of a gaming platform that ties together Windows PCs and the Xbox 360 console will give PC gaming a boost in Japan and in turn mean better business for its console.

NewsFactor - In the not-too-distant future, those people on the sidewalk energetically waving their hands might be using their cell phones to play a game rather than signaling for a cab. Such scenes might become commonplace if new motion-sensor phones from NTT DoCoMo become popular.

PC Magazine - On Monday, a Hitachi subsidary filed a patent infringement suit against LG Electronics and one of its subsidiaries for the improper use of Hitachi's plasma display panel technologies.

Reuters - Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. said on Tuesday a federal appeals court permanently stayed a lower court order that barred it from signing up new customers.

Reuters - U.S. complaints to the WTO over commercial piracy in China will "badly damage" cooperation, Vice Premier Wu Yi warned on Tuesday, insisting that China has made great strides in protecting patents and copyrights.

AP - Internet phone carrier Vonage Holdings Corp. won relief Tuesday from a potentially crippling court order that would have barred it from signing up new customers while it appeals a verdict that it infringed on patents held by Verizon Communications Inc.

InfoWorld - SAP AG and Microsoft Corp. have underscored their commitment to their Duet partnership, jointly developed software that integrates Microsoft's desktop Office suite with SAP's back-end mySAP enterprise applications.

AP - Looking for another bounce in its stock price, International Business Machines Corp. increased its dividend payout by 33 percent and authorized an aggressive ramp-up of its share buyback program Tuesday.

Reuters - Intel Corp. captured more than 80 percent of the computer chip market in the first quarter while rival AMD lost the headway it had made in all of 2006 and then some, industry data showed on Tuesday.

AP - Sun Microsystems Inc. swung to a profit in the third quarter, matching Wall Street's tepid expectations, as the struggling company gained market share in servers and saw continued adoption of its open-source software.

InfoWorld - AT&T on Tuesday pointed to high wireless revenue for driving the company to a $2.8 billion profit in the first quarter, twice what it earned for the same period last year.

InfoWorld - CyberLink may have come up with the perfect software for busy sports fans around the world: an auto-editing program that turns sporting events into highlight shows as short as three minutes long.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. won a legal victory that sent its shares sharply higher when a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday the company can continue signing up new customers while it appeals a patent infringement ruling.

AP - A new report by a public safety group throws into question the ability of police and firefighters to locate people through their cell phones when they dial 911 in an emergency.

Reuters - Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. won a legal victory that sent its shares sharply higher when a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday the company can continue signing up new customers while it appeals a patent infringement ruling.

AP - Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. said Tuesday its first-quarter profit more than doubled, sending shares up more than 12 percent in after-hours trading. The company also raised its revenue outlook for the year.

FT.com - Jorma Ollila, part-time chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, is arguably the most successful European business leader of his generation, having transformed Nokia from a struggling engineering group to a global power in mobile telephones. But he remains, he suggests, a "modest, down-to-earth Finn".

InfoWorld - Oracle's venture into the Linux market was called "a bit disingenuous" by a Red Hat executive speaking at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, Calif. on Tuesday.

InfoWorld - McAfee introduced its newest data leakage prevention technology on April 24, taking the wraps off a gateway package meant to compliment its existing host-based DLP (data loss prevention) software.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sony Pictures Entertainment on Tuesday said DVDs in China that were reported to be pirated copies of widely anticipated 'Spider-Man 3' are in fact copies of its predecessor, 'Spider-Man 2.'

TOKYO (Reuters) - Demand for digital cameras will slow over the next few years as the market enters a maturity phase, and the market will begin to shrink by 2011, researcher IDC said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission will take its first stab on Wednesday at defining how a 2007 auction of airwave spectrum will take place.

Investor's Business Daily - 1 The major indexes recovered from early losses, led by a 3.1% jump in the Philadelphia semiconductor index and a big move by IBM . The Dow rose 0.3%. The Nasdaq ticked up less than 0.1%, while the S&P 500 eased less than 0.1%. Volume picked up across the board. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note slid to 4.62% from 4.65% Mon.

PC World - Looking to merge mobile phones with PCs, Nokia Corp. has expanded its presence in Silicon Valley and is exploring a wireless network that local developers can use to try out new applications.

Reuters - Demand for digital cameras will slow over the next few years as the market enters a maturity phase, and the market will begin to shrink by 2011, researcher IDC said.

Reuters - Sony Pictures Entertainment on Tuesday said DVDs in China that were reported to be pirated copies of widely anticipated "Spider-Man 3" are in fact copies of its predecessor, "Spider-Man 2."

Reuters - The Federal Communications Commission will take its first stab on Wednesday at defining how a 2007 auction of airwave spectrum will take place.

AFP - Just as Internet and iPod changed the music world forever, digital technology is the "big bang" for new-age television, giving people freedom to watch what they want, when they want and how they want.

Reuters - Days after Alec Baldwin's ranting voice-mail message to his daughter surfaced on the Internet, the actor has severed ties with his longtime talent agency, a spokesman said on Tuesday.