PC World - Here we go again.

Reuters - Up to 90 percent of all voice call and Internet services from parts of East Asia that were disrupted after Typhoon Morakot damaged undersea cables will resume by the end of Thursday, a senior Chunghwa Telecom official said.

AP - A 20-year-old Australian man has been charged with infecting more than 3,000 computers around the world with a virus designed to capture banking and credit card data, police said Thursday.

AFP - Foreign pornography producers are suing South Korean Internet users for breach of copyright by uploading their content onto local websites, police said Thursday.

AFP - Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) said Thursday its regional mobile partners drove up quarterly profits by 7.7 percent despite a tough business climate.

PC World - A combination of factors, including an economic recovery and lower depreciation expenses, should propel Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), China's largest chip maker, into the black after years of losses, the company's top executive said Thursday.

AFP - Malaysian rights activists on Thursday welcomed the government's decision not to implement a controversial plan to create an Internet filter blocking 'undesirable' websites.

Reuters - A U.S. federal court has ordered Microsoft Corp to stop selling some versions of its widely used Word software in the United States in two months, ruling in favor of a small Canadian firm that accused the software giant of violating its patents.

AP - Roku says its pioneering Internet video set-top box is adding its first live feed, from Major League Baseball.

PC World - Perhaps you've heard that Microsoft and Nokia announced a strategic partnership to develop Microsoft application tools and support for the Nokia Symbian-based mobile devices.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp put its new Zune HD digital music and video player on sale on Thursday, pricing it below comparable Apple Inc iPod devices, in an attempt to claw some market share away from the dominant leader.

AFP - The Zune HD, Microsoft's rival to Apple's iPod, will hit stores in September and cost 220 dollars for the 16-gigabyte model and 290 dollars for the 32GB version, the company announced on Thursday.

Macworld.com - Microsoft announced Thursday that the next edition of Microsoft Office for Mac will be released in late 2010. The new edition of the venerable office suite will include Outlook for Mac, a new application that will replace the Entourage.

AP - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday a new generation of its Zune music player will go on sale Sept. 15, but eager customers can pre-order the gadget online now.

PC World - It is hard to congratulate a top-tier executive of a consumer electronics company for deigning to speak to customers, but Apple's Phil Schiller deserves it. As much as anyone in his position can.

PC World - Apple. Tablet PC. It's what anyone worth their weight in gossip is talking about on the Internet right now. And because people are inherently evil and mischievous, a new poster on Macrumors has jumped into the fray and released two separate videos showing off the look and interface of a working iTab/PortableJobs/Lil'Apple.

PC World - Can't wait to get your hands on Microsoft's new Zune HD? Starting today, you can pre-order the device, and, later this month, you'll be able to a sneak peek at it, too, Microsoft says.

PC World - Apple's upcoming operating system, Mac OSX Snow Leopard, could arrive earlier than the expected September launch date. Multiple sources are reporting that Snow Leopard has now been designated 'Gold Master' status, which means the OS is ready to ship to users.

NewsFactor - Smartphone sales continued to surge in the second quarter, with worldwide unit shipments growing 27 percent to 40.9 million units in comparison to the year-earlier period, according to Gartner. The robust sales contrasted sharply with the global cell-phone market overall, which fell 6.1 percent year over year to 286.1 million units.

AP - The White House is trying to counter health care criticism that's circulating on the Internet by asking supporters to forward a pro-overhaul chain e-mail.

PC World - The governor of Illinois signed into law yesterday a bill that banishes sex offenders from social networking sites. The law, designed to protect children from predators who use sites such as Facebook and MySpace to lure potential victims, is the first of its kind.

PC World - Should you be able to use products like RealDVD to make a copy of a DVD movie so you can back it up for safekeeping or store it on a laptop for easy playback without having to carry the disk anywhere you travel?

NewsFactor - The e-publishing market may be following the same steps as its relatives in the music industry as Sony announced Wednesday that it will adopt the open ePub format for its Reader e-book readers. The move could signal the beginning of a new phase of e-publishing for consumers and businesses.

AFP - Sony, in a challenge to Amazon's Kindle, unveiled plans on Thursday to do away with the proprietary software on its electronic Sony Reader and convert its e-book store to an industry standard format.

Macworld.com - Electronics vendor Edifier has announced the US and Canada release of the company's iF500 iPod-dock speaker system.

NewsFactor - Microsoft will include Outlook in its next version of Microsoft Office for Mac. Outlook will replace Entourage for Mac, the current e-mail application used by Mac users.

AFP - A French teenager's claim that an Apple iPhone shattered in his face is a first involving the device but similar incidents have occurred with the iPod according to a US television station.

PC World - Before Firefox, before Internet Explorer, there was Opera. Okay, it's not the oldest graphical web client (Mosiac was before it), but it's the oldest one that's still around. It's also one of the most prolific, with browsers on the Wii and Nintendo DS along with excellent versions for mobile phones. Now up to version 9.64, the Norwegians at Opera Software have been hard at work on Opera 10.

PC World - Microsoft on Thursday said that starting next year it will include Outlook in its version of the Office for the Mac platform, replacing Entourage, the e-mail and groupware application for Mac users the suite has now.

Macworld.com - Microsoft may be looking ahead to next year with Thursday’s announcement of the next version of Microsoft Office for the Mac. But the software giant has plenty to focus on in the near-term with its existing productivity applications.

PC Magazine - A new version of Office for Mac will show up on shelves in time for the 2010 holiday season, replacing the suite's current Entourage offering with a native version of Outlook. Meanwhile, Microsoft will consolidate two Office versions into a single Business Edition.

AFP - A top Beijing official said Thursday that a controversial Internet filter software was optional for all users after plans to install it on computers sold in China triggered a storm of protest.

AP - Video software firm On2 Technologies said it will fight legal challenges to its planned acquisition by Google Inc.

NewsFactor - People calling for better e-mail search on the iPhone are getting a possible answer: reMail. The software app downloads e-mail to your iPhone or iPod touch and lets you search the full text of the copy -- even offline. The app sells for $9.99, but the developer has it on sale for $4.99 through Sept. 1.

NewsFactor - Microsoft's next-generation Zune digital media player is now available for pre-order through Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart in advance of its official release on Sept. 15. Available in two models featuring 16GB and 32GB of storage capacity, the Zune HD players will feature touch-sensitive screens, Wi-Fi connectivity, and live radio station access.

Macworld.com - Paging Mr. Godwin. Mr. Godwin, please come to the white courtesy iPhone.

AFP - Microsoft on Thursday released details of an application they are crafting to let businesses equipped with Apple Macintosh computers use the software giant's Outlook email program.

PC World - SAP has inked a deal with LinkedIn that will provide the software vendor's channel partners with special tools and services for the popular business social-networking and careers site.

Macworld.com - Developer TLA Systems has made many improvements to the iPhone version of its PCalc calculator application. Now it’s bringing many of those changes to the Mac version of the scientific calculator.

PC World - According to Gizmodo, an insider has revealed that the Apple tablet is indeed real, and mostly what people are expecting: A 10-inch touch-screen tablet running the iPhone OS, priced somewhere between $700-$900. However, there's a twist. The tablet can act as a secondary screen/touchpad for Apple computers. This makes it different from and more appealing than every tablet that has come before.

PC World - If you own a Wii 4-Dock Battery Recharge Station, unplug it now. If you don’t, you may feel the burn—and not the good kind after a Wii Fit workout. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a voluntary recall of these recharging stations for Nintendo’s popular game console. Here are the facts:

AP - Hurt by the recession and few hit game launches, U.S. retail sales of video games dropped sharply in July, showing an even bigger decline than what many analysts were expecting.

AP - AT&T Inc. has filed a complaint with federal regulators charging that Cablevision Systems Corp. is violating federal law by denying AT&T's video customers in Connecticut access to Cablevision's New York area sports programming in high-definition format.

InfoWorld - Mobile software development proponents debated on Thursday the merits of framework and Web approaches to combat the fragmentation developers face when building applications for the multitude of handheld phones.

PC World - Hold the presses, kiddos -- we have a hot new Apple rumor on our hands. This time, Apple has allegedly scheduled a 'keynote event' for September, according to some unnamed sources quoted over at some unnamed blog. (Okay, I got carried away; the blog isn't really unnamed. It's All Things Digital.) The event has been unveiled so far only to mysterious people within the music industry, All Things D says.

Reuters - U.S. video game equipment and software sales fell 29 percent in July to $848.9 million, research group NPD said on Thursday, as the gaming industry limps through the economic downturn.

PC World - The number of organizations applying for broadband deployment grants and loans from two U.S. federal agencies has overloaded the agencies' servers and prompted them to extend the application deadline by six days.

PC World - In an effort to expand its Linux offerings, Dell is researching new netbook-type devices and will soon offer netbook Linux OS upgrades, a company official said on Wednesday.

PC World - Zer01 Mobile, the company that says it can deliver a true unlimited mobile-phone service, announced on Thursday that it has ended its relationship with network marketing company Global Verge.

AFP - Microsoft is touting freshly-launched Internet Explorer 8 as its champion in the competitive Web browser arena, urging holdouts to upgrade from earlier versions of the software.