AP - Panasonic Corp. has signed on 'Titanic' director James Cameron and his upcoming film in an advertising blitz for its TVs equipped with 3-D technology, both sides said Friday.

PC World - Both Google and Microsoft are making big promises about browser-based environments that allow you to access documents, spreadsheets, calendars, contacts, and more, all in one place online. But so far, it's not entirely clear how these systems will work or what they will be able to do. Google's Chrome OS, for example, will be designed primarily to get you online faster.

AFP - India's top mobile firm Bharti Airtel hopes to conclude a merger deal next month with South Africa's MTN to create a telecoms giant and has no plans to sweeten its bid, a report said Friday.

Reuters - Films and videogames would seem a match made in heaven, so why are games based on hit movies so bad? Despite sharing the same demographic of devoted fans, action, sci-fi and fantasy films rarely translate into branded videogame hits.

AFP - A court in eastern China has sentenced four people to up to three-and-a-half years in prison for selling bootleg versions of Microsoft's Windows XP software, court officials said Friday.

InfoWorld - To help IT security professionals sharpen their skills, InfoWorld is offering a free, 20-lesson 'Security Boot Camp' online class. The class is conducted via e-mail, with students getting one assignment each workday that connects the theory of best security practices with the hands-on reality of implementing such advice.

Macworld.com - I love my Mac, and I love OS X. I’m not afraid to admit it. That being said, my Mac doesn’t do a great job of keeping me up to date on, well, the date.

PC Magazine - Simple rules to make your iPod, MP3s, earphones, and PC speakers work for you.

Reuters - In an effort to combat falling advertising revenue, News Corp executives have been proposing the formation of a consortium with other publishers to charge for news distributed on the Internet and on portable devices, the Los Angeles Times reported on its website.

PC World - The chairman of China Mobile on Friday offered 10 emergency mobile telecommunications trucks to areas of Taiwan devastated by Typhoon Morakot, which caused landslides and flooding that swept away entire towns.

PC World - The U.K. aims to have a plan by the end of this year that lets people use their mobile phones or smart cards to pay for travel across England's public transport system.

Reuters - China Mobile, the world's largest mobile carrier, aims to sign a series of deals with key Taiwanese firms this week, helping them gain access into China's rapidly growing telecoms market.

Macworld.com - Apple’s latest MacBook Pro lineup has been getting rave reviews. And deservedly so. Of course, as with any new hardware, these models are prone to a few minor hiccups that don’t affect older MacBook models. Here are two of the oddest ones:

NewsFactor - Location, location, location. That's a running theme in technology these days. After witnessing TomTom launch a $100 GPS application for the iPhone and Garmin introduce its much-anticipated N�vifone series, Twitter is now stepping up to the location plate, rolling out broader support for developers working on geolocation software.

Macworld.com - Consumer electronics shopping resource Retrevo says that Apple's absence from the netbook market is hurting it with students buying laptops. The company has released the results of a study showing the trend.

AP - Filmgoers who have long turned to the local newspaper to find theaters and show times for movies may have to start looking elsewhere as theater chains rethink the value of paper and ink in a digital age.

AP - 'Titanic' director James Cameron has signed on with Panasonic Corp. to promote new 3-D TVs.

AP - Fans are getting their first look at extended scenes from James Cameron's much-anticipated 3-D sci-fi epic 'Avatar.'

Reuters - A federal appeals court in New York, in a victory for Yahoo Inc, on Friday ruled that a webcasting service that provides users with individualized Internet radio stations need not pay licensing fees to copyright holders of the recordings it plays.

AP - Southwest Airlines is on its way to providing in-flight Wi-Fi access on all of its aircraft.

NewsFactor - Location, location, location. That's a running theme in technology these days. After witnessing TomTom launch a $100 GPS application for the iPhone and Garmin introduce its much-anticipated N�vifone series, Twitter is now stepping up to the location plate, rolling out broader support for developers working on geolocation software.

AP - A federal appeals court in New York says Yahoo's LAUNCHcast music service is not 'interactive' enough to require separate licensing deals with recording labels.

AP - It's been a busy week in professional football, with a couple of big, controversial stars � Brett Favre and Michael Vick � joining NFL rosters. No worries, though, for John Madden, because both men are already set to take the field in 'Madden NFL 10,' his namesake video game.

Reuters - A federal appeals court in New York ruled that a Yahoo Inc Internet radio service is not required to pay fees to copyright holders of songs it plays, a defeat for Sony Corp's BMG Music.

Macworld.com - True to its promise, Apple has released its mid-level music creation application, Logic Express 9. The application, like previous versions of Logic Express, holds the middle ground between iLife’s GarageBand () and Apple’s professional music creation and performance suite, Logic Studio.

PC World - A Chinese court has sentenced four people to jail for pirating Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, China's state-owned media reported on Friday.

AFP - The German government warned job-seekers Friday to avoid posting potentially compromising pictures or remarks on social networking sites such as Facebook, citing a study about their use by employers.

AP - Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. are expected to tell federal regulators Friday why they rejected Google Inc.'s phone service for the iPhone.

AP - A small icon of Chad Ochocinco's smiling face is the doorway to the receiver's latest media venture.

Reuters - A federal appeals court in New York ruled that a Yahoo Inc Internet radio service is not required to pay fees to copyright holders of songs it plays, a defeat for Sony Corp's BMG Music.

AFP - Facebook on Friday said it is letting celebrities, businesses and others with public pages at the social-networking hotspot instantly turn status updates into tweets at Twitter.

InfoWorld - Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism Interoperability team is introducing on Friday an open source project to bridge PHP and Microsoft's .Net programming model, Microsoft representatives said.

PC World - Chip makers will describe plans to deliver server processors with eight CPU cores at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University next week, though there is some debate about what the products will mean for end-users.

AP - Apple Inc. told federal regulators Friday that it blocked the Google Voice program from running on the iPhone because it alters important functions on the device � yet Apple denied that it has rejected Google's application outright.

Reuters - AT&T Inc, the exclusive carrier for the iPhone, said on Friday it played no role in a decision by Apple Inc to reject Google Inc's voice application on the handset.

Macworld.com - Namco has released a Mac version of BurgerTime Deluxe, a reboot of the company’s classic video game franchise. It costs $20 and a demo version is available for download.

AP - Personalized Internet radio stations got a boost Friday when a federal appeals court ruled that Yahoo's LAUNCHcast music service was not interactive enough to be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in licensing fees.

Reuters - The heated online debate about Miley Cyrus' Teen Choice Awards performance of 'Party in the U.S.A.' threatens to overshadow one of her most entertaining songs yet.

NewsFactor - As Apple and AT&T file responses to a Federal Communications Commission inquiry into why Apple recently rejected Google Voice from its App Store, the FCC is launching a broader investigation into several aspects of the wireless industry.

PC World - A California nonprofit is suing Lawson Software for more than US$1 million over an allegedly failed ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementation, according to documents filed last month in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

PC World - Intel has acquired software company RapidMind in an effort to push development of programs that can exploit the power of Intel's multicore processors, the company said Friday.

PC World - Intel will focus on its next generation of smaller and faster chips at a conference next month as it prepares to ship new chips for systems in 2010.

AP - Apple Inc. told federal regulators Friday that it blocked the Google Voice program from running on the iPhone because it alters important functions on the device � yet Apple denied that it has rejected Google's application outright.

Reuters - IPhone maker Apple Inc told U.S. regulators it has not approved Google Inc's Voice application, which could challenge the wireless industry's giants, because it interferes with the iPhone 'user experience.'

PC World - It's been a stressful day for AT&T, Apple, and Google, as the deadline looms for submitting comments to the Federal Communications Commission on their treatment of mobile VoIP.

PC World - The latest victim of accurate pre-announcement leaks, Blizzard revealed that those World of Warcraft 'Cataclysm' expansion rumors you'd been reading about are true during the inaugural moments of BlizzCon 2009. BlizzCon is Blizzard's annual games convention (because if you made games with over 10 million suscribers, you'd have one all to yourself too) taking place today and tomorrow at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Macworld.com - In a posting Friday to its Web site, Apple provided several intriguing details about its App Store approval processes, all in response to questions from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about the rejection of Google Voice from the App Store.

Macworld.com - Blizzard Entertainment’s annual “BlizzCon” event is in full swing, and the first major announcement is the revelation of a new expansion pack for World of Warcraft” Cataclysm. The release schedule has not been announced.

PC World - Apple is still reviewing the Google Voice iPhone application, and AT&T has not played any role in that review process, the companies told the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Friday.

AFP - Apple has told US regulators it is studying a Google Voice application for iPhones and is not conspiring with telecom partner AT&T to bar the software from the coveted mobile devices.

Reuters - Software giant Oracle Corp said in a regulatory filing on Friday that it would cut the salary of its chief executive to $1 in fiscal 2010 from $1 million in the previous year.