Reuters - Advanced Micro Devices has started selling the new generation of its Opteron quad core processors for servers, AMD announced on Wednesday, nearly one year after Intel launched its own 45 nanometer chip.

AP - A year ago, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. worsened its financial problems by botching the launch of a powerful new server chip. The flubbed introduction gave bigger rival Intel Corp. eight months to steal market share.

AP - Following in the footsteps of Nintendo's popular 'Wii Fit,' the video game publisher known for the 'Madden' football games is jumping into fitness software targeted mostly at women.

Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc unveiled its first personal training product on Thursday, tapping into the growing appeal of video games as fitness systems as seen with Nintendo Co Ltd's hit title 'Wii Fit' earlier this year.

Reuters - Thailand's third largest mobile phone firm, True Move, a subsidiary of True Corp, said on Thursday it had signed a deal with Apple Inc to sell the 3G iPhone in Thailand.

AP - Intel Corp.'s deep cuts to its fourth-quarter guidance offers further evidence that technology companies are in for a beating because of the economy.

AP - Here's another reason for ailing newspaper and magazine publishers to wince: On average, the audience perusing unauthorized online copies of their articles is nearly 2.5 times larger than the readership on their own Web sites, according to a study being released Thursday.

CNET - On the same day that he published a detailed missive about his dire predictions for the online ad market, Gawker Media overlord Nick Denton made public his decision to shut down Valleywag, the blog network's Silicon Valley gossip title. Valleywag was launched early in 2006.

Reuters - Google Inc said on Thursday it is launching a new feature to help businesses that use its Site Search service to instantly incorporate and update new Web pages in the latest phase of its expansion into business services.

AP - Microsoft Corp. is planning a Windows Live update in the coming weeks that adds social networking features to the software maker's instant messaging program, free Hotmail e-mail service and other sites.

Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc unveiled its first personal training product on Thursday, tapping into the growing appeal of video games as fitness systems as seen with Nintendo Co Ltd's hit title 'Wii Fit' earlier this year.

AFP - Margaret Johnson had such a tough time finding fun learning games for her daughters that she created a company to market a game she created that uses computer play to teach reading.

Reuters - Verizon Wireless said on Thursday that it would sell the touch-screen BlackBerry Storm for $199.99, after a rebate -- in line with pricing for its popular rival, Apple Inc's iPhone.

Reuters - Video clips of a Japanese police crackdown on a group of 'working poor' who tried to get a look at the wealthy prime minister's luxurious private home in Tokyo have attracted of thousands of viewers on the Internet.

PC Magazine - AMD has finally begun shipping processors on the 45-nm node with the launch of 'Shanghai,' its first 45-nm server processor, on Thursday.

CNET - Two months ago, MySpace and RIM announced a joint effort to create a rich native app for MySpace on BlackBerry phones. On Thursday, RIM made MySpace for BlackBerry globally available from the Web and from the BlackBerry browser when you navigate to m.myspace.com.

CNET - Presidential elections may capture the public's attention, as Barack Obama's victory did last week, but the less glamorous work in the U.S. Congress tends to prove more important for technology topics.

Reuters - Authorities in nine countries have raided businesses suspected of supplying medicines illegally over the Internet in an unprecedented global swoop coordinated by Interpol, officials said on Thursday.

PC Magazine - It's official: The BlackBerry Storm 9530 will be available in Verizon Wireless stores and online for $199.99 starting November 21.

AP - If you've ever sold something on eBay, you may have been pleased to receive positive feedback from the buyer. Multiply that by a million, and you can imagine how Jack Sheng feels.

AP - Two thieves broke into the house of Argentina's most famous living writer Ernesto Sabato, allegedly stealing a cell phone, a painting and a framed copy of the cover of his 1998 autobiography 'Before the End.'

NewsFactor - The Storm is coming Nov. 21. Verizon Wireless announced that Research in Motion's 'clickable' touchscreen BlackBerry Storm will be available online and at its retail stores on that date for $199.99 after a rebate.

PC Magazine - MySpace announced Thursday that it will offer a mobile app for Research in Motion's popular BlackBerry smartphones.

AP - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that paying people to use its Internet search engine is attracting new consumers, although there is little evidence that those people are making a habit of it.

NewsFactor - The Internet is a little less jammed with spam after a cybercrime group blew the whistle on one of the biggest offenders. HostExploit, an alliance of volunteers who work at Google, McAfee and Arbor Networks, has been tracking and documenting cybercrime activity and its latest effort slashed worldwide spam by 50 percent and junk e-mail by 75 percent.

Reuters - Video game sales are expected to be strong this year and in 2009, despite the economic troubles that have hurt some of the retail stores that sell the games, industry executives said on Thursday.

CNET - There is a huge market for mobile phones in India, but according to the locals, Apple's iPhone hasn't even made a dent.

AFP - Microsoft ramped up its battle for Internet popularity on Thursday with plans to make Windows Live services more social and build bridges to Twitter, Flickr and other popular websites.

Reuters - Qualcomm Inc , seeking to cut costs in the face of slowing demand for cell phones, has stopped developing a next-generation wireless technology called Ultra Mobile Broadband and is making small-scale layoffs.

NewsFactor - IBM on Thursday announced two blade servers that will feature the new quad-core Opteron Shanghai processor from Advanced Micro Devices. The announcement was synchronized with AMD's release of the 45nm processor.

PC Magazine - AMD dramatically updated its desktop roadmap on Thursday at its analyst meeting, revealing a top-to-bottom approach to address the market from ultraportables and netbooks on up to high-end entertainment PCs. AMD's Conesus processor will take on the Atom, but not across all markets.

PC Magazine - AMD dramatically updated its desktop roadmap on Thursday at its analyst meeting, revealing a top-to-bottom approach to address the market from ultraportables and netbooks on up to high-end entertainment PCs. Included in the update was the company's answer to Intel's Atom processor.

NewsFactor - Electronic Arts wants to be part of the Wii magic for women interested in getting fit. The publisher of popular game series under its EA Sports label, including Madden, NASCAR and NBA Live, has developed EA Sports Active, a game exclusively for Nintendo's Wii game console. The game will be available in the spring.

NewsFactor - In another move to gain traction in the enterprise, Google on Thursday launched a new feature to help businesses that use its Site Search service instantly add and update Web pages.

NewsFactor - AT&T and Nokia on Thursday brought the Nokia 6650 to market to compete against other devices launching in time for the holiday shopping season. The small folding device runs on the Symbian-based S60 platform, which lets users personalize their mobile experience with third-party application downloads, themes and profile settings.

AP - Many of the problems facing Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are of its own making. But the limited choices the chip maker has for solving its troubles are symptoms of an affliction sweeping through Silicon Valley.

Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS) sold 803,210 Wii video game consoles in the United States in October, continuing the console's lead as the country's best-selling video game console, the company said on Thursday, citing figures from market research firm NPD.

AFP - Travel-planning website GoPlanit.com has launched an iPhone game in which players shake, tap and blow on devices to defend nature on a 'Pet Earth' and earn world-greening virtual trees.

Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 18 percent in October from a year earlier, after falling 7 percent in September, as Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii console sold over 800,000 units, market researcher NPD reported on Thursday.

AP - Angry online subscribers who had their Web surfing habits tracked in detail are suing a Silicon Valley startup that created the technology and six Internet service providers that briefly used it.

AP - People flocked to buy video games in October despite a drop in consumer confidence to a historic low, spending $1.31 billion in U.S. retail stores on hardware, software and accessories.

AFP - NPD Group reported on Thursday reported that Nintendo's Wii and DS continued in October to dominate videogame system sales in the United States.