Reuters - China will limit the number of messages that a mobile number can send per day to battle rampant spam messages clogging cell phones, state media said on Friday.

AP - European Union regulators said Friday that Microsoft Corp. was offering less choice, not more, by vowing to sell the next version of Windows without any Web browsers at all.

AFP - Microsoft has said regulatory wrangling has prompted it to strip Internet Explorer Web browsers from copies of its Windows 7 operating system to be sold in Europe.

AP - Memory chip company Rambus Inc. said Friday that European Union antitrust regulators had provisionally agreed to drop a probe and any fines if the company reduced its royalty rates for DRAM memory chip patents.

PC World - As cybercrime continues to proliferate on the Internet, one industry security group is hoping its work will help stem the tide of spam and scams.

Macworld.com - Apple on Friday announced that Safari 4, the new version of its Web browser for Mac OS X and Windows, has been downloaded more than 11 million times in the first three days of its release.

Reuters - Norwegian browser maker Opera ASA said on Friday that Microsoft's plan to ship its Windows operating system in Europe without its Internet Explorer web browser was not enough to restore competition.

Macworld.com - Summer blockbusters are usually associated with the film industry, but Freeverse is releasing some quality entertainment media for the iPhone during this year’s hottest season. From sports games to advanced strategy simulations, Freeverse is pushing the iPhone platform into new and exciting directions.

Macworld.com - Mark/Space on Friday announced the release of The Missing Link for Pre, software that helps new Palm Pre smartphone owners synchronize data with their Macs. The software is available as a free 1.0 beta version.

PC World - Who should know more about PC threats than the company whose software makes most of them possible? Is Microsoft's upcoming, free anti-malware app the company's way of apologizing to customers?

Reuters - An effort by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to revamp the way employers and workers account for personal cell phone use is intended to save companies money, an IRS official said on Friday.

NewsFactor - According to market research firm NPD Group in a report Thursday, monthly sales for the video-game industry dipped below $1 billion in May for the first time since August 2007. This represented a 23 percent drop and the third straight month with a decline. Sales in May were $863.3 million, including both game and console sales.

AP - The 'Wiimote' — the motion-sensing wand that controls the action on Nintendo's Wii — serves many purposes. It doubles as a sword, a gun, a racket, a steering wheel or whatever else a game designer might dream up.

PC World - I know I'm cruisin' for some abusin' at the hands of the Mac fanatics today, because twice in one morning I've felt compelled to bring a little skepticism to the exuberant reporting surrounding the latest developments from Apple. This time, all the major tech outlets are credulously reporting on this morning's press release from Apple, which heralds the runaway success of Safari 4 on the basis of 11 million downloads in three days.

PC World - French portable media players maker Archos introduced last night the Archos 9, a Windows 7 powered touchscreen-only Internet tablet. Calling it a MiniPC, the Archos 9 is not exactly the Google Android-touting Archos MID everybody was expecting.

AFP - An undersea fibre optic cable bringing broadband Internet connectivity to east Africa, reached the Kenyan coast from the United Arab Emirates on Friday, the president said.

AP - Sprint Nextel Corp. says it plans to sell a chunk of its cellular network in the Midwest to comply with an Illinois court decision.

Macworld.com - RealVNC has announced the release of VNC Enterprise Edition 4.5. It’s priced at $50 for a single VNC Server license.

PC World - PC games sales in the U.S. fell 40% to $29 million in May, reports analyst Michael Pachter in his May report following NPD's sales numbers, released last night. May spelled bad news for consoles, too, with software sales down 17% to $450 million. Put the two together (hardware, software, including PC sales) and you get a drop of 23%, year-over-year. Also: It's the third month of consecutive game industry sales declines.

Reuters - A loss in server connectivity that caused the New York Stock Exchange to halt trades in about 240 companies has been restored, Ray Pellecchia, spokesman for NYSE Euronext, said on Friday.

Macworld.com - If the calendar is about to flip over to summer, it must be time for Apple to roll out another smartphone. Just as summer 2007 saw the release of the original iPhone and last summer brought us the iPhone 3G, this year, we’ve got a new model to obsess over—the iPhone 3G S.

NewsFactor - Most eyes may be on the iPhone 3GS this week (and a few on the new MacBook Pro family), but one of Apple's latest product launches is making plenty of noise beyond the hardware spotlight. More than 11 million copies of Safari 4, the latest version of Apple's Web browser, have been downloaded in the first three days of its release. That figure includes more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows.

NewsFactor - Time Warner's AOL has acquired two companies. The New York-based Internet service provider announced Thursday the purchase of Patch Media, an online provider of local news and information, and Going, an online service enabling people to share information about cities and destination places.

AP - Sprint Nextel Corp. said Friday it plans to sell a chunk of its cellular network in the Midwest to comply with an Illinois court decision.

PC Magazine - YouTube has agreed to ditch its monitoring cookies for videos viewed on the official White House Web site, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

PC World - ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor and its investor, Golden Gate Capital, have formed a holding company to buy SoftBrands in a US$80 million deal that will further expand Infor's sprawling, acquisition-driven portfolio.

PC World - PC World editors Tim Moynihan and Robert Strohmeyer sit down with Macworld editorial director Jason Snell for a breakdown of all this week's Apple news from WWDC. In the mix: What to expect from the iPhone 3G S, long-awaited features on the new MacBook Pro laptops, and how Snow Leopard will improve the Mac experience. Yes, it's all Apple stuff this week, and our editors don't pull their punches.

PC World - With laptop shipments gaining momentum over the past few years the question arises: Are desktops on the verge of being banished from the enterprise?

AP - Ralph Deangelis planned his family's cross-country RV excursion around taking in great sights at Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon. But Deangelis also likes being able to see practical things like local TV weather reports while they're on the road.

AP - Amazon.com Inc. will pay $51 million to Toys R Us Inc. to end a long-standing legal dispute between the online retailer and the toy seller.

AFP - The CIA is adopting Web 2.0 tools such as blogs and collaborative wikis, but not without a struggle in an agency with an ingrained culture of secrecy, CIA officers said Friday.

NewsFactor - In its ongoing effort to regulate citizen access to Internet content, China has announced that all new computers sold in the country will be required to have preinstalled filtering software known as Green Dam-Youth Escort.

NewsFactor - At 12:01 EST Friday, a new cyber landrush will get under way, as the social-networking giant Facebook introduces so-called 'vanity URLs' to its popular service. On a first-come, first-served basis, Facebook subscribers will be able to choose customized descriptors for their profiles.

PC World - Just as expected, Apple showed off its next iPhone at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference, but even though we knew that news was coming it still tops the list this week because, honestly, how could it not?

AP - A California company claims the Internet-filtering software China has mandated for all new personal computers sold there contains stolen programming code.

Reuters - Top Mexican broadcaster Televisa and its U.S. licensee Univision on Friday rested their cases in a lawsuit to determine if Televisa can transmit its TV shows to U.S. markets on the Internet.

AFP - Videogame players will soon get to tinker with some of the grimmest times in history.

PC World - Symantec's GoEverywhere online data-sharing service is going nowhere, it turns out.

PC World - An alleged spammer could face jail time in connection with a Facebook lawsuit after a judge referred him to the U.S. Attorney General's Office for criminal proceedings.