AFP - China Mobile and Taiwan's leading smartphone maker HTC Corp have agreed to work together to develop products for the mainland's third generation mobile network, the companies said Monday.

PC World - There are no immediate plans to propose a law that would cut off Internet access for Singaporean users who receive repeated warnings from their Internet service providers for downloading pirated music and videos, according to the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS).

Reuters - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it would start to make laptops, entering a fiercely competitive, but fast-growing market.

PC World - Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract notebook computer manufacturer, will put out its first cloud computing products next year as it seeks growth in new markets, the company's chairman said Monday.

InfoWorld - Microsoft on Sept. 8 plan to discontinue its Live Framework Community Technology Preview for developers, instead integrating the framework into the next release of the company's Windows Live online services.

PC World - Taiwan-based High Tech Computer (HTC) will launch seven smartphones that support China Mobile's next-generation mobile standard by the end of next year, executives said Monday.

AP - Shares of chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. rose 6 percent in premarket trading on Monday after a Citigroup analyst upgraded it to 'Buy' from 'Hold,' saying he sees a chance for increased market share with AMD's main customer, PC maker Hewlett-Packard Co.

InfoWorld - Apple will ship its new Mac OS X version, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, on Friday, Aug. 28, the company's Web site confirmed today. Speculation has run rampant in the last week about the Aug. 28 date, given leaks at Apple's and Amazon.com U.K.'s Web-based stores. Apple formally unveiled Snow Leopard at its Worlwide Developers Conference in June but gave only a vague release schedule of 'September.'

AP - Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of cell phones, said Monday that it will start making a small, light laptop, similar to ones PC manufacturers are already selling through wireless carriers around the world.

Macworld.com - The wait for Snow Leopard is over: on Monday, Apple announced that the latest version of its Mac OS X operating system would be available starting Friday, August 28. The company had previously said that the update would ship in September, but speculation intensified that it would ship earlier than anticipated after a glitch on Apple’s Web site late last week.

AFP - Police in Sweden said Monday they were investigating Global Gaming Factory, the Swedish online games firm looking to buy illegal download site The Pirate Bay, as doubts surfaced about the sale.

PC World - RealNetworks wants to put Rhapsody, its music subscription service, on the iPhone. The application has been submitted to Apple and, if approved, will offer users unlimited music streaming over Wi-Fi, 3G and Edge for $15 per month.

InfoWorld - When a new OS upgrade costs $29, you can be forgiven for thinking of it as a service pack. Such may appear to be the case with Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, which Apple has positioned as an under-the-hood upgrade whose new capabilities won't be so obvious to users, and thus not worth the usual $129.

NewsFactor - Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday, Aug. 28, Apple announced Monday. Enhancements in this v10.6 of the Mac OS X will make existing features run faster and more efficiently, Apple said, including a more responsive Finder, a faster-loading Mail, and 80 percent faster initial backup from Time Machine.

NewsFactor - Denying earlier media reports, Apple said Friday that it's still evaluating Google Voice for iPhone as a possible addition to its Apps Store. On the other hand, the software from Google raises concerns about its impact on the iPhone user experience, said Apple Vice President Catherine Novelli in a written response to the Federal Communications Commission.

AFP - Finnish telecoms giant Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, announced on Monday it would launch its first-ever mini laptop.

PC World - Perfect Dark was one of those games I heard about, but never actually played. We all have one. 'That game' the masses went Beatlemania over, but which, for one reason or another, we never got around to. Every time I read a '90s gaming retrospective--the original came out in 1998--it's like a finger wagging. Call it parochial ludological guilt.

PC World - AT&T and Apple have each responded to the FCC inquiry regarding the rejection of the Google Voice app from Apple's App Store. The problem is that their answers don't seem to be in sync and neither of them really sounds like the truth.

AP - A Swiss government official is demanding that Google Inc. immediately take off the Internet any image of Switzerland in its 'Street View Maps,' and the company said Monday it would discuss the matter with the privacy rights regulator.

AFP - Apple announced on Monday that its next-generation Snow Leopard operating system tailored for the California company's Macintosh computers will be unleashed on the market on Friday.

Reuters - Shares of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc rose nearly 10 percent on Monday after Citigroup upgraded the company to a 'buy.'

Macworld.com - Canon U.S.A. on Monday introduced the imageFormula DR-2510M and DR-2010M desktop scanners, the first fully Mac-compatible high-speed document scanners offered from Canon. They’re priced at $795 and $555 respectively.

Macworld.com - Google Reader, the search giant's news reading software, works quite well as a Web app, but sometimes a native app can provide features and integration that the browser just can't. Gruml, a new desktop client for Google Reader, is currently in beta and it might someday fill this void for the Mac, as apps like Byline have done for the iPhone.

PC World - It was a busy Friday with Apple, AT&T, and Google all responding to the Federal Communications Commission's inquiry sparked by the (apparent) rejection of the Google Voice app for iPhone. In case you headed out of town late Friday when the news broke, here's a recap of what happened.

PC World - The answer to the question, what if the Xbox 360 Elite dropped to $300 with its exorbitantly priced $100 Wi-Fi adapter included gratis, is easy: It'd be cheaper than Sony's brand new slim-line PS3. About $20 cheaper, in fact, according to my chart, once you've factored in the basic add-in essentials like headsets, HDMI cables, and online multiplayer fees.

PC World - Apple's latest operating system update, Mac OSX Snow Leopard, should be ready to roll on August 28, and while Apple says the new OS is 'refined, not reinvented,' it'll become the de facto competitor to Microsoft Windows 7 come October. We love a good argument, so here's your fodder: five innovations for each OS being touted by their respective makers.

PC Magazine - Real Networks plans to submit a Rhapsody iPhone app to Apple this week, the company announced in a Sunday blog post.

AP - A Swiss government official is demanding that Google Inc. immediately take off the Internet any 'Street View' images of Switzerland, and the company said Monday it would work to resolve problems with the privacy rights regulator.

AFP - An anonymous blogger who was unmasked by Google on the orders of a New York judge says she plans to sue the Internet giant for revealing her identity.

Reuters - Sprint Nextel Corp's proposed $483 million merger with Virgin Mobile USA Inc received antitrust clearance, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Monday.

AP - Some e-mails purporting to be from the Homeland Security Department's intelligence division were fake and contained malicious software.

NewsFactor - Nokia is getting into the netbook game. The mobile-phone maker announced Monday the Nokia Booklet 3G, a Windows-based netbook with an Intel Atom processor that is set to compete in a crowded, but growing, market.

Reuters - Apple Inc said on Monday its new operating system for Mac computers will go on sale this Friday, a bit earlier than expected, as the company looks to continue to expand its share of the PC market.

NewsFactor - Research In Motion has acquired Torch Mobile, a company focused on mobile browsers. The acquisition of the Toronto-based company will help RIM focus on enhancements for its popular BlackBerry line of smartphones.

AFP - Microsoft on Monday unveiled software that lets Twitter, Facebook and other hot Internet services be delivered to low-cost 'feature phones' common in developing countries.

AP - Microsoft Corp. is giving people with regular cell phones access to the same kinds of programs smart phone owners have embraced.

PC Magazine - One of the cool WiMAX devices I saw Monday in Seoul was a router called the 'Egg', which turns a WiMAX subscription into a Wi-Fi hotspot.

PC Magazine - Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard will be available starting Friday, the company announced Monday.

AP - Although it plans to lean on rival Microsoft's search engine, Yahoo says it will keep innovating in the field. That's one of the main messages that Yahoo tried to convey Monday it previewed an upcoming overhaul to its search page.

AP - IREX Technologies Inc. said Monday that its upcoming electronic reader will include an application for accessing Barnes & Noble Inc.'s e-bookstore.

Macworld.com - BlizzCon, Blizzard Entertainment's two-day celebration for enthusiasts of its popular computer games, converged this past weekend in Anaheim, Calif. Blizzard used the event to reveal its upcoming 'Cataclysm' expansion pack for World of Warcraft, and also provided details of other games in development.

PC World - Nokia announced it is moving beyond its mobile roots and boldly entering the PC market with its netbook offering dubbed the Booklet 3G.

AP - Shares of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. notched higher Monday after an Argus Research analyst upgraded the stock on signs that business in the computer-networking world is improving.

PC World - Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming 12-core chips will draw the same power as existing six-core chips, but will have reduced clock speeds, a company official said Monday.

AP - Microsoft Corp. is giving people with regular cell phones access to the same kinds of programs that smart phone owners have embraced.

Macworld.com - Electronic Arts (EA) is getting ready to release the first installment of its legendary Madden NFL game franchise on the iPhone. The company on Monday offered a first glimpse of Madden on the iPhone, with news that the game will be released in September.

NewsFactor - RealNetworks is looking to leverage Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch to get its digital music subscription service to iPhone users around the world. But will Apple allow the iTunes competitor a place on its devices?

Macworld.com - We’re all busy people. I know this and Mac developers know it as well. How else can one explain the veritable cornucopia of task-managing apps for our platform of choice?

PC World - There are a variety of enhancements and refinements introduced in Snow Leopard, the next version of the Mac OS, which Apple announced will be available this Friday (August 28). The Mac is generally viewed as a consumer or niche platform, but some of the features in Snow Leopard show a maturity that makes the Mac better than ever for the enterprise.

PC World - BlackBerry phones may soon get a new browser, now that Research In Motion has acquired Torch Mobile.

AP - Apple Inc.'s latest operating system software, Snow Leopard, will go on sale this Friday.

AFP - Yahoo! on Monday vowed to fight Microsoft on a new frontier, saying that having the software giant power its online searches won't stop it from battling for the devotion of Web surfers.

AP - The Federal Trade Commission has removed a regulatory hurdle to Sprint Nextel Corp.'s proposed $483 million acquisition of Virgin Mobile USA Inc.

Reuters - Multitaskers of media activities like watching YouTube, writing e-mail and talking on the phone are not very good at any of their tasks, according to a Stanford University report on Monday.

Reuters - GameStop Corp , the video game retailer, on Monday said finance chief David Carlson planned to retire early next year.

Reuters - Yahoo Inc said on Monday it has revamped its search to compete against Microsoft Corp's Bing, even as it relies on the Redmond giant to power its queries.

AP - The fate of ownership of the Unix computer operating system is heading to trial after a federal appeals court reversed a judge's decision that granted the copyright to Novell Inc.

PC Magazine - Trend Micro today unveiled new versions of its Trend Micro Internet Security and Trend Micro Internet Security Pro consumer security products, both optimized for Windows 7.

PC World - Those of us who have watched VOIP for a while now always keep an eye out for cases where traditional voice carriers act defensively to keep people from using VOIP.

PC World - Some wireless access points from Cisco Systems have a vulnerability that could allow a hacker to redirect traffic outside the enterprise or potentially gain access to an entire corporate network, a security company said.