TechWeb - The server software includes more than 130 management tools, an integrated scripting language, and a built-in Web server that brings together numerous online publishing technologies.

TechWeb - The companies have agreed to work together in offering the MySQL Server for i5/OS, the flagship operating system for System i, and to certify IBM's DB2 as a MySQL storage engine.

TechWeb - The inventor of Sony's PlayStation video game consoles, Ken Kutaragi, will retire as chief executive of the Japanese company's game division June 19.

TechWeb - There have been no reports of Acer products suffering damage because of the Sony battery cells, but the company is issuing the recall to be on the safe side.

AP - Windows Vista buoyed Microsoft Corp.'s quarterly results, easing fears that the new operating system is too pricey, requires too many hardware upgrades and doesn't work with other companies' applications.

AP - German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG posted an unexpected net loss for the second quarter, dashing analyst forecasts for a profit, as lower sales and restructuring costs chipped away at its bottom line.

FT.com - Sir Julian Horn-Smith, the former deputy chief executive of the mobile phone giant Vodafone, on Friday stepped down unexpectedly as chairman of Sage, the UK's largest software group, less than one year after his appointment, citing "differences in culture and style".

PC World - Though Windows Vista may be safer than XP, Microsoft's far-from-impregnable new operating system is already proving to be vulnerable.

InfoWorld - The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) group said Thursday that it had raised the price for its hundred-dollar laptop to $175, but were still confident they would collect enough orders to begin volume production by September.

USATODAY.com - LOS ANGELES - Today, the iPod; tomorrow, the iPhone. Investors Thursday cheered Apple's record second-quarter results, which showed major sales growth for its iPod digital music device and Mac computers. But Apple's best days are ahead, tech analysts say. Apple is putting most of its energies into the June release of the iPhone, a combination iPod/Internet browser and cellphone that will sell for $499 and $599. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has projected sales of 10 million iPhones in its first year.

AP - Google Inc., No. 2 in China's Web search market, is giving its local managers more autonomy and investing more in China in an effort to make up for its late entry and take the lead in the industry, CEO Eric Schmidt said Friday.

AP - News Corp.'s popular social networking site MySpace launched a test version of its new China service on Friday, making a late entry into the intensely competitive Chinese Internet market.

AFP - Japanese mobile phone giant NTT DoCoMo said Friday its net profit dropped more than 25 percent in the year to March as it lost out to stiff competition and spent heavily on upgrading its network.

USATODAY.com - SEATTLE - Software maker Microsoft said Thursday its fiscal third-quarter profit jumped 65%, helped by revenue from Windows Vista upgrade coupons issued over the holidays.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's slave trading past gets a human face on Friday as an ancestry-tracing Web site starts putting the personal histories of the victims online for the first time.

InfoWorld - The group that oversees the Internet's address system has released a toolkit for Web site designers and application developers to fix problems caused by recently added Internet addresses.

Reuters - Alltel Corp. , the leading rural wireless service provider, on Friday reported stronger-than-expected customer growth in the first quarter, but its profit missed estimates due to higher costs.

AFP - Sony Computer Entertainment said that the "Father of the PlayStation," Ken Kutaragi, is stepping down as chief executive of the video game giant which is battling fierce competition from its rivals.

InfoWorld - Singaporean contract chipmaker Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Friday that chips manufactured using a 65 nanometer process will account for 5 percent of its revenue as the technology enters commercial production.

PC World - Healthy demand for digital consumer electronics products particularly overseas helped Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) achieve higher sales and profits in the fiscal year just ended.

InfoWorld - A Japanese Web portal operator has repackaged the content of Wikipedia so it can be searched and viewed on cell phones.

InfoWorld - Baidu.com, China's top search engine, is on a roll. The company announced its first-quarter revenue and profit more than doubled thanks to skyrocketing demand for online ads.

Reuters - Britain's slave trading past gets a human face on Friday as an ancestry-tracing Web site starts putting the personal histories of the victims online for the first time.

AP - A large retail chain had a problem. It sold three similar power drills: one for about $90, a purportedly better one at $120 and a top-tier one at $130. The higher the price, the more the store profited.

AP - Google Inc., No. 2 in China's Web search market, is giving its local managers more autonomy and investing more in China in an effort to make up for its late entry and take the lead in the industry, CEO Eric Schmidt said Friday.

NewsFactor - Google has removed paid advertisements that link to 20 search terms online criminals hijacked to steal the personal identities of people searching the Internet. Google canceled the ads on Tuesday, but security researchers said there might be additional links that need to be removed.

AFP - India's foreign investment body on Friday cleared Vodafone's 11.1-billion-dollar plan to buy mobile phone operator Hutchison Essar.

NewsFactor - With Moxie, Adobe is Flex-ing a key strategy against Microsoft's Silverlight -- going open source. On Thursday, the graphics and multimedia powerhouse announced that the source code for its Flex Web development framework would be released as open source in the second half of this year with the final release of Flex's new version, called Moxie.

AP - Retailers use price-optimization software to assess tricky issues and often uncover results no human would likely find on a spreadsheet. A sampling, gathered from interviews with retailers and software vendors:

NewsFactor - With its PlayStation 3 in third place among next-generation videogame consoles, Sony Computer Entertainment announced the retirement Thursday of the man who spearheaded the game console's development, Chairman and CEO Ken Kutaragi. The decision is effective as of the shareholder's meeting on June 19.

AFP - India's top mobile phone company, Bharti Airtel Ltd, said fourth-quarter net profit nearly doubled as its number of customers rocketed in the world's fastest-growing wireless market.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Looking for the perfect watch? The Internet has a wealth of resources to find just the right accessory for your wrist -- new, gently used, antique, or custom-made.

Reuters - Apple Inc. said on Friday some batteries in its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook computers may have performance problems, but they do not pose a safety risk.

InfoWorld - EarthLink is pulling in the reins on its municipal Wi-Fi business, focusing on existing deals and big cities for the rest of this year.

PC World - More types of Microsoft Corp. Zune music players are in the works, but some analysts are unsure whether new form factors or functions will significantly boost Zune's popularity.

InfoWorld - The hardest thing about learning to use the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project's XO notebook PC is finding the right way to twist its antenna ears and open the display. Once you can see the screen, just follow the icons to write a note, snap a photo, or compose a tune.

FT.com - Indian regulators on Friday night gave Vodafone permission to take a 52 per cent stake in Hutchison Essar, the country's fourth-largest mobile operator.

InfoWorld - Microsoft is expected to show a new friendliness to the open-source community by unveiling plans to release the source code to a part of its Silverlight technology at MIX 07 next week, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.

PC World - Xbox 360 EliteThe $480 Xbox 360 Elite, which comes dressed in matte black with metallic details, has several improvements over its predecessor. It packs a roomy 120GB hard disk (up from 20GB), a High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), and a wireless controller. Like the previous version of the Xbox, the Xbox 360 Elite plays regular DVDs, stores music ripped from audio CDs or digital photos, and connects to a PC to enable digital content streaming. ...

Investor's Business Daily - Its purchase of WebEx will give networking gear king Cisco Systems its biggest foothold yet in the fast-emerging world of Web 2.0 services and collaboration, but it looks like it will do even more: make it a middleman in the selling of software.