PC World - The bankruptcy filing by Germany's Qimonda AG last week marks a first for a major technology company amid the current global economic downturn, and it likely won't be the last.

InfoWorld - Google Chrome was built from the ground up to be a more secure Web browser, and Google and its Chromium developers should be applauded for the attention they have brought to browser security. Google deserves much credit for the wealth of security information posted on the Internet and on the Google Chrome blog, and for making Chrome's source code available for anyone to examine.

Macworld.com - Security software firm Intego reports that pirated copies of Adobe Photoshop CS4 may contain a variant of the “trojan horse” malware first reported in copies of Apple iWork ‘09 last week.

Macworld.com - Wuomn on Monday announced the release of Layers 1.0, a new screen capture utility for Mac OS X. It costs $19.95 (available now for $15).

Reuters - Sprint Nextel Corp, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service provider, said it would eliminate up to 8,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce, under a plan to cut labor costs.

InfoWorld - The battered economy is not stopping wireless developers from building enterprise applications for devices, according to an Evans Data study detailed on Monday.

AP - Verizon Wireless has started selling a book-sized device that boosts cell phone signals within a home for $250, making it easier for people to drop a home phone line and rely solely on wireless.

CNET - Despite a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, the new BlackBerry Storm has gotten off to a shaky start, according to The Wall Street Journal.

PC World - Microsoft's fourth-quarter revenue from its Zune platform dropped by US$100 million, a decline of 54 percent on a year earlier.

AP - An agreement has been reached in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by GateHouse Media against The New York Times Co.

Reuters - Sprint Nextel Corp, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service provider, will cut up to 8,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce, as part of a plan to reduce labor costs by $1.2 billion a year.

NewsFactor - Advanced Micro Devices has rolled out five new quad-core Opteron HE processors designed to meet the industry's rising demand for low-power data-center technology. Additionally, the chipmaker has just launched two new quad-core Opteron SE processors targeting data centers with performance-intensive workloads.

PC World - What's the best way to recover after a $2.9 billion annual operating loss? Sony says: introduce new PSP colors!

Macworld.com - Briksoftware on Monday announced the release of Snapplr, a new utility that replaces Mac OS X’s built-in screenshot capabilities with a system that emphasizes online sharing. It costs €19.99 (US$25.84); a free trial version is available for download.

PC World - A little over a year ago I found myself sitting in the San Francisco offices of an international humanitarian NGO (nongovernmental organization). Their main focus at the time was a major human-rights treaty, and they wanted advice about mobilizing rural communities to lobby their governments to ratify it.

PC Magazine - Vudu, the HD Internet movie player company that recently cut its star product's price to $99, has launched a mobile app for the iPhone.

AP - Sprint Nextel Corp. is eliminating about 8,000 positions as it seeks to cut annual costs by $1.2 billion in the face of persistent subscriber losses.

PC World - Startup Lucid Imagination is banking on the belief there's a market in commercial support for enterprise search applications built with the popular open-source Lucene and Solr projects.

PC World - Microsoft has extended the general availability of the Windows 7 beta until February 10 due to the software's popularity, the company said.

AP - Sun Microsystems Inc. is set to report its fiscal second-quarter results Tuesday. Below is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.

AFP - Wikipedia is considering tightening its rules on who can edit the online encyclopedia after vandals last week changed the entries of two US senators to erroneously report that they had died.

NewsFactor - Apple has made good on Vice President Philip Schiller's promise at Macworld to release iLife 'O9 this month. Beginning Tuesday, all new Macs will have an upgraded version of iLife '09 with iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand. The software suite is for Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later.

NewsFactor - In less than a week, two different forms of Trojan horses have invaded Macs whose users downloaded pirated copies of first Apple iWork 09 and now Adobe Photoshop CS4.

AFP - Luxury mobile phone brand Vertu, owned by Finnish cellphone giant Nokia, will this year begin offering mobile services in Japan, it said in a joint statement with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN).

PC Magazine - On Monday, Verizon Wireless announced its entry into the market for femtocells, small home routers expressly designed to allow mobile phones to place crystal-clear calls even while indoors.

PC Magazine - With Device Stage, a photo-realistic picture of your gadget can live in your Windows 7 taskbar, providing one-click access to relevant apps, services, and information. Jeremy Kaplan has managed to get it working; he reports on his results.

AP - Netflix Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit climbed 45 percent to surpass analysts' estimates Monday, propelled by the widening appeal of its relatively inexpensive DVD rental service during a budget-crimping recession.

AFP - MySpace and YouTube are sending a pair of 'citizen reporters' to the annual World Economic Forum in Switzerland this week to do online video coverage for users of the popular websites.

AP - Texas Instruments Inc., which makes chips for cell phones and other gadgets, said Monday that it will cut 3,400 jobs because demand has slackened amid a slowing economy.

InfoWorld - Open source data integration vendor Talend is planning to release a master data management product by the end of the year,�as well as�to offer a massively parallel processing architecture in current products, according to company executives.

AP - Volterra Semiconductor Corp. said Friday its fourth quarter 2008 profit fell as expenses helped offset rising sales, but excluding nonrecurring items the company beat analyst expectations.

Macworld.com - Whenever we’re on a grocery run, my wife always has to remind me to check out the cost per unit—the figure that helps you compare the prices of different quantities of the same goods to ensure that you’re getting the most for your money. Often times, stores will helpfully print out that information on the price tag; some times, they do not.

CNET - A New Zealand man who bought a used MP3 player from an Oklahoma thrift store found names, cell phone numbers, and Social Security numbers of American soldiers on the device, according to news site TVNZ.

NewsFactor - The BlackBerry Storm was supposed to be the proverbial iPhone killer . . . or at least it was supposed to give BlackBerry users another reason not to ditch their faithful mobile device for a shiny new Apple iPhone.

PC Magazine - On Monday, Verizon Wireless announced its entry into the market for femtocells, small home routers expressly designed to allow mobile phones to place crystal-clear calls even while indoors.

AP - Netflix Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit climbed 45 percent to surpass analysts' estimates Monday, propelled by the widening appeal of its relatively inexpensive DVD rental and Internet streaming service during a budget-crimping recession.

AP - Netflix Inc.'s board has authorized the DVD rental and Internet streaming service to spend up to $175 million buying back its own stock.

Reuters - Texas Instruments posted a smaller-than-expected drop in quarterly profit, but said it may post a loss in the current quarter and announced a 12 percent cut in jobs, as demand for cell phone chips fell.

AFP - US computer and software giant IBM Corp. is planning to cut more than 2,800 jobs, a labor union representing the firm's employees said Monday.

PC World - U.S. President Barack Obama ran a successful Web 2.0 campaign last year. Now, as president, he's got to deal with a very Web 2.0 problem: hackers abusing the social-networking features of his Web site.

PC World - Advanced Micro Devices on Monday said it has no replacement planned for the aging Geode low-power chip, creating uncertainty for its use in products like future XO laptops made by One Laptop Per Child.

AFP - A Malaysian newspaper that exists only in cyberspace has inspired a torrent of online debate since its launch a decade ago, in a phenomenon that has shaken up the nation's media and political scene.