Reuters - Children are using the Internet to watch YouTube videos, connect with friends on social network sites and look up 'sex' and 'porn,' according to a study of the top Web searches by youngsters.

Macworld.com - Logitech on Tuesday announced two new iPod-dock speaker systems, the Rechargeable Speaker S315i and the Portable Speaker S125i. Both systems sport a Universal iPod dock and can be powered by batteries or AC power.

Reuters - Chinese media conglomerate Tom Group said on Wednesday it is teaming up with European Internet firm Spotify to bring the company's popular digital music streaming service to China.

Reuters - An Australian website is giving texting an intergalactic touch and allowing users to send short mobile phone-type messages into space.

PC World - RealNetworks may have lost its bid to sell software that lets people copy DVD movies to their computer hard drive after a ruling on Tuesday.

PC World - MphasiS, the Indian services subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard (HP), said on Wednesday that it reached a definitive agreement to acquire AIG Systems Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (AIGSS), the IT services arm in India of insurer American International Group (AIG).

PC Magazine - AT&T's commercials promise more bars in more places, but the provider usually delivers far, far less.

PC Magazine - On Tuesday, José Piñero, Zune's new senior director of marketing, swung by the PCMag.com Labs to preview the brand-new Zune HD for us. We really, really liked what we saw.

PC World - A segment of the Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) undersea cable network between China and Taiwan suffered a serious cable fault on Wednesday, causing Internet traffic to be rerouted onto other undersea cables and slowing Internet access for some users in Southeast Asia.

InfoWorld - Oracle will delve further into the server virtualization space Wednesday,  offering a template-building tool to speed up deployments based on the open source Oracle VM software product.

PC Magazine - Facebook has added some updates to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, a document intended to make the site more democratic. Most of the changes are rather minor, but the social networking site does want to ban users from earning money from their personal profiles.

AP - DVD rental kiosk company Redbox said Wednesday it has sued 20th Century Fox over the movie studio's attempts to delay its titles from appearing in Redbox vending machines.

Reuters - The Georgian blogger targeted by a cyber attack last week that affected millions of Internet users across the world said Wednesday that Russian hackers were to blame, but that he would not be silenced.

AP - Satellite-TV services provider Dish Network Corp. said Wednesday its subsidiary plans to launch a $1 billion debt offering.

Reuters - A U.S. federal court ruled that Microsoft Corp would have to pay more than $290 million in damages to Canadian software firm i4i Ltd for infringing a patent.

PC World - Four open-source and proprietary vendors on Wednesday announced a new partnership resulting in a cloud-based BI (business intelligence) stack.

AP - The CEO of National Semiconductor Corp. saw the value of his compensation package decline 36 percent in fiscal 2009, according to an Associated Press calculation of figures disclosed in a regulatory filing.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp and Nokia announced an alliance on Wednesday to bring business software to smartphones to counter the dominance of Research in Motion Ltd's BlackBerry.

AFP - A Malaysian telecom group said on Wednesday it had launched a mobile phone network in Sri Lanka's former warzone, becoming the first international company to operate in the area.

AFP - A French teenager suffered an eye injury when his girlfriend's iPhone shattered, a few weeks after a similar incident involving an iPod in Britain, his mother said Wednesday.

NewsFactor - Microsoft on Tuesday issued nine security updates to patch 19 vulnerabilities. The bugs affect a wide range of Microsoft products, including Windows, Outlook Express, Windows Media Player, Office and Internet Information Server (IIS).

Macworld.com - Wuh oh, Microsoft’s in troooooooouble. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer , the Redmond-based software giant has found itself on the receiving end of an injunction (PDF) from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas—and that should ring an alarm bell right there—where Judge Leonard Davis has declared that the company cannot sell a little product called Microsoft Word.

AFP - Microsoft and Nokia announced an agreement on Wednesday to make Microsoft Office software available on smartphones made by the Finnish company.

PC World - Using an analog display to show your PC's various statistics seems to be a fairly popular modification right now.

AFP - Microsoft and Nokia, in a challenge to Research in Motion's Blackberry, announced Wednesday that Microsoft Office software will be available on smartphones made by the Finnish company.

AP - Microsoft is working with Nokia to put Office software and other programs on smart phones.

PC World - Microsoft and Nokia are working together to put a version of Microsoft's Office productivity applications on Nokia handsets, the companies said Wednesday.

PC World - College students could soon be able to ditch their backpacks and put their textbooks into their shirt pockets thanks to a new program that will let them read their books using iPhones or iPod Touch devices.

AP - Do you use your kids' names? Your pet's? Your favorite color? We all use some dumb passwords that are too easy to guess.

AP - Sentencing has been postponed for a private investigator who helped Hewlett-Packard Co. unearth private telephone records of board members and journalists.

NewsFactor - Microsoft and Nokia on Wednesday announced an alliance to deliver an enterprise-grade solution for mobile productivity. Under terms of the agreement, the industry giants are collaborating on the design, development and marketing of productivity software solutions for mobile workers, including plans to bring Microsoft Office Mobile, Microsoft business communications, collaboration and device management software to Nokia's Symbian devices.

Macworld.com - Phil Schiller is working overtime, folks—he wants you to know he’s not just a pretty face standing up in front of the masses, telling them how awesome Snow Leopard is. On the heels of the Apple senior vice president’s response to Daring Fireball’s John Gruber last week, Schiller has also taken the time to respond to Panic co-founder Steven Frank.

InfoWorld - Embarcadero later this month plans to update a suite of Windows  and .Net developer tools acquired when the company bought the former software development arm of Borland Software, adding capabilities for application gestures and Firebird database support.

PC Magazine - Several of Marvell's partners have either announced or begun shipping 'plug computers' based on the company's Sheeva ARM CPU, for as little as $89.

InfoWorld - Microsoft is developing a software wrapper to better enable iPhone application developers to add Bing search results to their applications, a Microsoft official said on Wednesday.

AFP - Worldwide mobile phone sales fell by 6.1 percent in the second quarter from a year ago but smartphone sales were up sharply in the period, market research firm Gartner reported Wednesday.

PC World - Microsoft and Nokia have teamed to bring Microsoft's Office applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, to Nokia eSeries handheld devices. The move is a shot across the bow of RIM Blackberry which currently dominates the business smartphone space. The partnership also enables Microsoft to extend the reach of its messaging and communications products.

PC World - We are just over a month away from the launch of Microsoft's contender to the iPod Touch, the Zune HD. Microsoft has put all its creative forces behind the upcoming Zune HD portable media player, and by the looks of it, the iPod Touch is up for some serious competition.

PC Magazine - A day after RealDVD lost a bid to allow its DVD-ripping software to be sold, a court has found for Hollywood again, ruling against Kaleidescape's DVD-ripping server.

AP - Have a gripe about Office? A couple of guys at Microsoft Corp. want to hear it directly.

AP - Web address shortening service tr.im is back in business — just days after announcing it would trim itself out of operation.

AP - A judge ruled Wednesday that the Alaska governor's office can use private e-mail accounts to conduct state business, as former Gov. Sarah Palin sometimes did.

AFP - Governments in the Middle East and North Africa are clamping down on Web freedom while they invest in plugging their countries into the Internet Age, the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) said Wednesday.

Macworld.com - Adobe today put PowerPC users on notice: in a newly published FAQ, the company confirms that future versions of the Creative Suite will run only on Intel-based Macs. In explaining the move, Adobe cited Apple’s announcement that the forthcoming release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) will not support the PowerPC chip set.

NewsFactor - A Texas judge on Tuesday issued a final judgment against Microsoft in a patent suit related to its word-processing software. Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled in favor of i4i, a Canadian technology firm that claimed Microsoft violated its intellectual-property rights for custom XML in Word 2003 and Word 2007.

Macworld.com - With the security content of all the updates Apple has been rolling out in the last few weeks, you might have thought the tides of darkness stemmed. But hackers never sleep—or so it seems—so neither can Apple. On Wednesday, the company released Security Update 2009-004, which is recommended for all Mac OS X users.

InfoWorld - Microsoft is developing a software wrapper to better enable iPhone application developers to add Bing search results to their applications, a Microsoft official said on Wednesday.

PC World - As smartphones become more popular, they're going to get some unwanted attention from criminals, Google's head of Android security said Wednesday.

AP - Missouri is seeking $142 million of federal stimulus money to expand high-speed Internet access to remote parts of the state.

AP - Sprint Nextel Corp. has agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit claiming the fees it has charged customers who end their wireless contracts early are illegal.

Reuters - Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc Chief Executive John Chambers said on Wednesday that the company's latest expansion in the online media and entertainment business will help improve relations between the music industry and Silicon Valley.

NewsFactor - Facebook is testing a stripped-down version of its social-networking Web site. The new version, which reportedly increases the speed of updates and posts, is expected to make Facebook a better contender against Twitter.

InfoWorld - Search-based marketing has come a long way but more advances are anticipated, such as searches that move beyond keywords along with capabilities in image searches and mobile phone-based searches,  a Google official stressed Wednesday.

AFP - Google on Wednesday added social-networking features to its customizable homepages by adding software 'gadgets' that enable people to play and stay in tune with friends online.

PC World - eBay Mobile, one of our favorite iPhone business apps, just got better. This tool for on-the-go buyers and sellers lets you bid on items, check prices, and answer customers' questions. Its newest release, available now at the iTunes App Store, also will send push notifications to bidders when they've been outbid, or when an auction is nearing completion. Upon receiving a push message, bidders can either tap the 'View' button to take action (such as upping their offer) or touch 'Close' and forget about it.

PC World - Google has just launched a new series of social gadgets for your personalized iGoogle home page. The gadgets allow you to interact with both friends and strangers through a series of games and productivity tools.

AP - Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd. said it has reached an agreement to sell its 51.3 percent stake in Israeli wireless carrier Partner Communications Co. Ltd. to Scailex Corp. Ltd. for $1.38 billion in cash and debt.

AP - A federal judge in Texas has ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling some versions of its Word software in the U.S. within two months.

AFP - The Internet was buzzing Wednesday with talk of Facebook testing a streamlined 'Lite' version of the social-networking service that could challenge microblogging sensation Twitter.

Macworld.com - CrumplePop has released CrumplePop ShrinkRay, an effect for Apple’s Final Cut Pro video editing application.

PC World - Microsoft has recently announced a partnership with mobile phone giant Nokia to integrate Microsoft Office apps into Nokia phones.

AP - China said Thursday it might appeal a World Trade Organization ruling that it improperly restricts distribution of foreign movies, music and books and insisted it does not impede imports.