AP - Technology companies face a bumpy ride in 2009.

Reuters - Shares in India's Satyam Computer Services edged lower on Tuesday, after jumping 44 percent in the previous session, as a new government-appointed board got down to the business of trying to put the software services exporter back on track after a damaging fraud.

Reuters - Josh Schwartz plans to make good use of the indie rock bands appearing in his upcoming online endeavor 'Rockville,' putting their entire exclusive performances online.

AP - The United Arab Emirates' biggest telecommunications provider says its team has won a potentially lucrative deal to enter the Iranian mobile phone market.

CNET - Bill Clinton sent only two e-mail messages as president and has yet to pick up the habit. George W. Bush ceased using e-mail in January 2001 but has said he's looking forward to e-mailing 'my buddies' after leaving Washington, D.C.

CNET - This weekend, I loaded fresh copies of Windows onto two PCs.

InfoWorld - Apple and Microsoft topped the list of InfoWorld's annual product award winners this year, nabbing three and four Technology of the Year Awards, respectively. Announced today, InfoWorld's 2009 Technology of the Year Awards recognize the best hardware and software products evaluated by InfoWorld reviewers during 2008.

PC World - If World of Warcraft were a college course, would you enroll? David Friedman, an academic economist 'who teaches at a law school and has never taken a course for credit in either field' hopes so. He's laid out a few reasons why he thinks all that copper and iron and mithril and thorium mining you've been grinding into virtual booty might be worth an elective credit or two.

PC World - Would you buy an 80GB PS3 for just $300? Would a $100 price drop have swayed you to nab a PS3 in lieu of an Xbox 360 or Wii over the holidays? Does the prospect of $300 Blu-ray playback make you swoon even a little?

AP - China's fast-growing population of Internet users has risen to 298 million after passing the United States last year to become the world's largest, a government-sanctioned research group said Tuesday.

BusinessWeek Online - Just as advertisers and wireless companies are hoping for the business of marketing on mobile phones to take off, consumer groups are raising pointed questions about the business practices of these companies. On Jan. 13, the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission charging that wireless ad companies need to disclose more to their customers about what data are being collected about them and how those data are being used.

AP - When Nintendo started its WiiWare download service last May, the range of its original games was laudable, with the action, puzzle, strategy and simulation genres all represented. The games themselves weren't all that great, but the promise was there.

Macworld.com - Mariner Software, developer of Mariner Write, MacJournal, StoryMill, MacGourmet, and the upcoming iPhone version of Mariner Calc, announced during Macworld Expo that it bought ReceiptWallet from GGT Enterprises.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate a key technology advisor to be the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, according to a person who has worked with the transition team on technology issues.

AP - China's fast-growing population of Internet users has risen to 298 million after passing the United States last year to become the world's largest, a government-sanctioned research group said Tuesday.

AP - Caribbean mobile phone company Digicel is reducing its work force after years of blistering growth.

AFP - India's second-largest software exporter Infosys saw a healthy rise in profits Tuesday, beating market expectations and giving a rare boost to the country's battered IT sector.

NewsFactor - To the growing list of Things That Are Less This Year, add attendance at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which wrapped up Sunday. According to figures released by the sponsoring Consumer Electronics Association, the attendance was roughly 110,000, or about 22 percent less than 2008's show.

Macworld.com - Google Mac Team members Nicholas Jitkoff and Dave MacLachlan have announced the release of a developer preview of a Google Quick Search box for the Mac desktop.

Macworld.com - CCP Games has introduced a public beta version of its long-awaited Premium Graphics pack for its massively multiplayer online game, EVE Online.

AP - Yahoo is poised to name Silicon Valley veteran Carol Bartz as its new chief executive, according to The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper's Web site cited undisclosed people familiar with the situation Tuesday.

Reuters - A New York judge has tossed out a lawsuit brought by Amazon.com Inc that challenged the state's right to collect sales tax from out-of-state Internet retailers.

AFP - Carol Bartz, former chief executive of software company Autodesk, has accepted an offer to become the next CEO of Yahoo!, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

AP - The Sony PlayStation 2 debuted in 2000, before the beginning of the Bush administration, when Google Inc. was still a private search startup and the iPod and Windows XP hadn't been born. Yet despite its age in a business obsessed with the new, the video game console remains a big seller today.

Macworld.com - Freeridecoding has announced BurnAgain FS 1.2, an update to its CD/DVD multisession burning software for Mac OS X. BurnAgain FS 1.2 costs $22, the update is free.

Macworld.com - In another weekend item about politicians getting a Mac, the Omaha World-Herald is reporting that the Nebraska Legislature will soon be acquiring 70 new MacBook Airs. That'll be one for each of the 49 state senators (Nebraska's state legislature is unicameral) and the rest for staffers and backup machines.

CNET - Intel demonstrated a working version of USB 3.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. Here's why it will make eSATA and FireWire obsolete.

Macworld.com - One of the more exciting announcements at Macworld this year was Sling's addition of HD support for Mac as well as a version of their player software for the iPhone. I've been eagerly awaiting both for some time now, having followed the company ever since they started offering their Mac client (I subsequently bought an original Slingbox, which the guys at the Sling Media booth dubbed 'old school').

Macworld.com - In what may be the only opinion that Mike Huckabee and I actually share, the new Fox News commentator said Sunday that he'd recently switched to a Mac. In his segment, after dissing an airline and a computer company that he'd had bad experiences with, he lauded his new experience of moving to the Mac.

PC World - With its announcements at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Olympus showed that it fully intends to play both sides of the fence: the company revealed two extra-rugged additions to its waterproof/freeze-proof/drop-proof line, as well as three models that are better fits for the fashion-minded.

PC World - In announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Pentax is adding two point-and-shoot models--priced at $200 or less--to its Optio camera line, units that pack in a nice range of features for their cost.

PC Magazine - Internet radio provider Slacker has long been a favorite at the PCMag offices, so it's a bit exciting to hear that the site has finally crafted a version of the service for the iPhone. The app is live and available now through iTunes.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate one of his key technology advisers to be the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, according to a Democratic official and a person who has worked with the transition team on tech issues.

Reuters - Regular mobile phone use does not appear to increase a person's risk of getting a type of cancer called melanoma of the eye, German researchers said on Tuesday.

Macworld.com - Let’s conclude my trilogy of reports from Intuit’s booth at Macworld Expo, by circling back to the very first one—a story on Intuit’s plans to produce a native iPhone app that complements its Quicken.com online personal finance service. That blog post generated some feedback from Macworld.com forum member Planobt, who wrote:

PC World - More sketchy iPhone rumors have caught fire in the blogosphere.

AFP - Carol Bartz, a veteran Silicon Valley executive and former chief executive of software company Autodesk, has been named CEO of Yahoo!, the Internet company announced on Tuesday.

Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama's choice to lead the Federal Communications Commission faces issues ranging from promoting wireless carrier competition to the problem-plagued shift to digital television, if approved by the U.S. Senate as expected.

PC World - Research In Motion issued a software update to address a vulnerability that could let a hacker send malicious code in a PDF file.

AFP - IBM on Tuesday said it has enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology 100-million-fold, paving the way to one day see what is going on at molecular levels in people's bodies.

Macworld.com - Cartoon Network has announced plans to launch its massively multiplayer online game Fusion Fall on Wednesday, January 14, 2009. The game will be priced at $19.99, with a $5.95 per month subscription fee.

AP - The economy took its toll on the International Consumer Electronics Show, but its organizers found a bright side. They said the more modest attendance pleased exhibitors.

PC World - Okay, we're a bit premature here. But that might happen if one analyst's prognostications are true.

AP - A task force charged with assessing technologies for protecting children from unwanted contact online has concluded that no single approach is foolproof and that parental oversight is vital.

Reuters - Yahoo Inc named Autodesk Inc Chairman Carol Bartz as CEO, but Wall Street questioned whether the software executive has the experience needed to turn around the Internet media company.

AP - Don't hit that pause button just yet. Despite the tanking economy and an increasing number of video game-industry layoffs, many believe 2009 will be a year of evolution for games. The combination of innovative new titles, long-awaited franchise follow-ups and desire for escapism could spawn a gaming renaissance.

Macworld.com - iPhone and iPod touch users who want to listen to stream music through their mobile device. Slacker is the latest to throw its knit cap into the ring, introducing its Slacker Radio program to the App Store.

Reuters - Worries that the Internet and social networking services like MySpace pose a threat to child safety may be overblown, a report by industry, academics and technology experts suggests.

PC World - Two privacy groups on Tuesday asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to regulate how mobile marketers can use consumers' personal information, saying many people don't know when their information is being collected from cell phones and how it's being used.

InfoWorld - Engine Yard, which has specialized in Ruby on Rails application-hosting, is introducing Wednesday a platform to extend SOA to the cloud. The company also is extending its Rails stack to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform, for quicker deployment of Engine Yard customer applications.

Reuters - Oracle Corp , the world's No. 3 software maker, has fired 'several hundred' of its more than 86,000 workers, according to two sources close to the situation, as the business software maker struggles in an economic downturn.

Reuters - New Zealand police have arrested a safe burglar by using the popular social networking website Facebook to identify and track him down.