AP - Many parents would love to be able to give their teenagers a cell phone that couldn't be used while driving. Now some inventors say they have come up with ways to make that possible, but they appear to be relying on wishful thinking.

CNET - PARK CITY, Utah--Sure, you can venture out to this snowy resort town, pay for overpriced housing, squeeze into crowded shuttle buses, deal with lots of Hollywood attitude (these, of course, the glass-half-full observations), or you can do a little Sundancing from the comfort of your own home.

AP - Former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke made a surprising return to the front lines of British politics Monday as shadow business and enterprise secretary for Britain's main opposition party.

InfoWorld - The largest single type of security breach is the stolen or lost laptop, according to the Open Security Foundation, yet these computers are among the least protected of all IT assets.

PC World - Make what you will of Sony's embryonic PlayStation Home, the PS3's online matchmaking service ultimately costs nothing, while Microsoft's Xbox Live equivalent reaches into your wallet and extracts $50 annually. It's all a bit strange, really, considering the Xbox's Windows-based sibling, Games For Windows Live, made the transition to 'on the house' this summer.

CNET - news analysis Months after being sworn in as president, George W. Bush sat down with reporters and his wife, Laura, for a technology-themed event: a relaunch of the Whitehouse.gov Web site, which previously had been rather dilapidated.

PC World - Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices will shed 1,100 more jobs and cut salaries as it tries to reduce costs in a tough economic environment, the company said Friday.

PC World - On Sunday Amazon cut the price of a $50 Xbox Live Gold subscription by 40 percent to $30. The sale is part of Amazon's Hardware and Accessories sale for gamers and lasts until January 31.

NewsFactor - Microsoft violated European Commission rules by tying Internet Explorer to its market-dominating operating system, the commission said in a preliminary ruling. The EC said that tie shields Microsoft from head-to-head competition with rival Web browsers.

Reuters - German Deutsche Telekom's wireless unit T-Mobile will begin selling its G1 phone, which has been available in Britain and the United States since October, in several European countries in coming weeks.

Macworld.com - As reported elsewhere on the site, you can catch Tuesday’s presidential inauguration festivities on your Intel-based Mac through the courtesy of Silverlight on the Presidential Inaugural Committee’s Web site. But what if you’re nowhere near your Mac, Intel-based or otherwise?

Reuters - IBM, the world's largest technology services company, and German software company SAP AG plan to roll out their first jointly developed software product in March, the two companies said on Monday.

Macworld.com - The books are barely closed on one holiday, it seems, before stores have already set up decorations and displays for the next holiday on the calendar. The App Store appears to be following the lead of its brick-and-mortar brethren, with Valentine’s Day apps finding a prominent place within the store.

NewsFactor - Joining the parade of business software moving onto the Internet, IBM launched an online suite of services Monday at IBM Lotusphere 2009 in Orlando, Fla.

PC Magazine - On Sunday, Intel cut the prices of its Core 2 Quad chips by up to 40 percent, scattering price drops along its other product lines, as well.

NewsFactor - The growing category of very inexpensive laptops, spearheaded by netbooks and One Laptop Per Child's vision of the $100 laptop, may soon have another offering.

CNET - Fake positive reviews of Belkin products were actively solicited by one of its employees, the company admitted on Sunday.

NewsFactor - Google may have slashed its budget for technology tinkering on engineers' pet projects, but that doesn't mean the company isn't seeking new ways to make its search-engine results better.

PC World - IBM has introduced LotusLive, which it describes as a portfolio of integrated Internet-hosted services for social networking and collaboration in workplaces.

Reuters - The music industry needs to learn from the 'dark side of the Internet' that has so decimated its business if it is to ever regain the upper hand in the fight against piracy.

Reuters - Cisco Systems Inc plans to start selling servers equipped with virtualization software as early as March, The New York Times reported on Monday, a move that could position it for tough competition with Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM.

PC World - Intel on Monday announced price cuts across a wide range of chips used in mobile and desktop PCs, including cuts of up to 40 percent for its quad-core chips.

AFP - After Apple's hit iPhone revolutionized the mobile music scene, a slew of new services are being rolled out around the world by major cellphone makers who believe there are huge possibilities on the horizon.

Reuters - Apple Inc said on Tuesday it had launched an online shop selling second-hand Apple products in China, offering discounts of up to 22 percent, as it looks to beef up its business in the country.