Reuters - How much should a copyright owner pay for improperly telling a web site to remove content?

PC World - Hewlett-Packard on Monday launched its first mainstream business laptop with a touchscreen, but said it would be cautious in bringing touch technology to its existing business laptop lines.

AFP - The Internet has become the third most popular news platform for American adults, trailing only local and national television stations, according to a survey released on Monday.

PC World - Sony's PlayStation Network has been hit by a glitch that has left users on all continents unable to connect to the online service, the company said Monday.

AP - Just over a quarter of American adults now read news on their cell phones, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.

PC World - What could simultaneously bring down Sony's PlayStation Network worldwide and make it impossible for millions of gamers to play single-player games like Heavy Rain, Bayonetta, and BioShock 2?

AP - Dish Network gained more subscribers for the third straight quarter, and the nation's second-largest satellite TV operator reported a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit even though its earnings declined.

Reuters - Vivendi, Europe's largest entertainment group, sounded a cautious note on its profit outlook for this year despite posting better than expected results for 2009, boosted by its video games and telecoms units.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp made its most vehement and public attack on Google Inc on Friday, calling its Internet rival's actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators.

AP - Perfect World Co. on Monday reported a jump in fourth-quarter earnings, helped by growing revenue from the online games it operates.

Reuters - Freescale Semiconductor says its newest chip will help drive down prices in the next generation of electronic readers, which analysts say is key to the devices gaining mass adoption.

AP - Mobile phone operators must now limit how much they charge customers for using the Internet within the European Union, after new rules went into effect Monday.

InfoWorld - In a few short years, Apple has established the iPhone as the mobile platform to beat.

AP - Dell Inc. hopes to expand a key part of its business through a deal to sell computer hardware and technology consulting to medical practices that want to use new electronic medical records and related services from the American Medical Association.

NewsFactor - The Internet is gaining momentum among news consumers -- but 92 percent of Americans use multiple platforms to get their daily fix of news, sports and weather. So says a new survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

AP - Amtrak has rolled out wireless Internet access on all 20 of its Acela Express trains between Washington and Boston and in six major stations along the northeast corridor.

PC World - ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor says its customers are warming up to Flex, a new upgrade and application-exchange program it started last year.

AFP - Worldwide semiconductor sales rose 47.2 percent in January over a year ago and were 0.3 percent higher than the previous month, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported Monday.

AP - Sony says it has found a bug that has knocked some PlayStation 3 users off the game console's online network.

AFP - Sony PlayStation 3 owners were grumbling on Monday after a technical problem left some owners of the popular videogame console unable to connect to the Internet.

PC World - Sony's PlayStation 3 appears to be in the throes of an inadvertent global gaming lockdown, suffering from an unidentified glitch that prevents gamers from playing specific games whether online or offline.

AP - The British Library is creating an archive of the country's defunct Web sites to preserve snapshots of the ever-changing Internet for posterity.

AP - AOL Inc. has sold its affiliate marketing business, Buy.at, for an undisclosed price to Digital Window Ltd., which runs a network of affiliate marketing sites. Such sites steer customers to e-commerce sites in exchange for a cut of sales.

PC World - Print publications are lining up to offer digital interactive versions of their wares on Apple's iPad and other tablet-shaped readers -- but there is a problem.

AP - International Business Machines Corp. said Monday it has closed its acquisition of privately held Initiate Systems.

Macworld.com - Wacom has introduced a new version of its Cintiq 21UX, a redesigned update of its interactive pen display. It features enhanced pen performance and improved ergonomics for professional photographers, designers, artists, and animators. The new product carries the same name and nearly the same specifications as the previous version, but it offers a number of updated features.

AP - Worldwide semiconductor sales came in at $22.5 billion in January — 47.2 percent above year-earlier levels — the Semiconductor Industry Association reported Monday.

AP - Sony Corp. said a glitch has knocked PlayStation 3 users off the game console's online network, and the company warned that data loss could occur if gamers continued using the machines.

AFP - Japanese electronics giant Sony on Monday advised owners of older versions of the PlayStation 3 not to use the videogame console until it can fix a problem with the clock in the system.

PC Magazine - Sony has acknowledged a problem that has prevented many of its PlayStation 3s from connecting to the PlayStation Network, but not a solution. A PCMag.com editor also reported being unable to connect to Netflix via his PS3.

PC Magazine - Not surprisingly, Americans are not tied to one news source, and about 92 percent get their news from multiple platforms � Internet, newspapers, TV, or cell phones, according to a Monday report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

PC Magazine - In the wake of Saturday's devastating earthquake in Chile, Verizon Wireless today announced that it will be waiving long-distance fees made between the U.S. and Chile between February 26 and March 6, on cell phones and landlines covered by the carrier.

PC World - The European Commission Monday gave a conditional go-ahead for the merger of Orange UK and T-Mobile UK, owned by France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom respectively.

AP - Dish Networks Corp. added net TV subscribers for the third consecutive quarter after a period of losses, a sign that the turnaround at the satellite TV operator may be sticking. Here's a look at the quarterly gains and losses at Dish since 2007:

NewsFactor - Apple's long-awaited iPad may be even more long-awaited as manufacturing glitches will limit the initial availability of the tablet computer, a Wall Street analyst has warned. Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek said in a note to investors that the problems will limit initial availability to 300,000 units and could even push the launch of the product, currently scheduled for this month, back to April.

InfoWorld - Microsoft is offering on Monday a second beta release of its Windows Server AppFabric technology, which features services intended to improve speed, scale and management of Web, composite and enterprise applications.

Reuters - Lockheed Martin Corp, the No. 1 information technology provider to the U.S. government, is working hard to better predict and protect against increasingly sophisticated and stealthy cyber attacks.

NewsFactor - Google's Chrome was the only web browser application to gain global market share last month, with all other major browser platforms showing month-to-month declines, according to Net Applications. Mozilla's Firefox browser -- which had been racking up steady gains at Microsoft's expense through November 2009 -- saw its global market share fall for the third straight month, the web metrics firm reported.

PC World - Now it's finally March -- here comes the iPad. To prep for the big reveal, developers are scurrying to build and announce new apps and accessories for Apple's tablet computer. With so much shouting in a crowded room, it's easy to get lost in the buzz. Here are a few key aspects that may make a sizable splash.

NewsFactor - Freescale Semiconductor on Monday announced a new processor that could help make the next generation of e-readers more affordable. Freescale's i.MX508 applications processor relies on ARM Cortex-A8 technology and a hardware-based display controller from E Ink to drive costs down.

AP - Tessera Technologies Inc. said Monday that its semiconductor packaging unit has signed an updated technology licensing agreement with United Test and Assembly Center Ltd., settling outstanding litigation between the companies.

AP - Mobile phone operators must now limit how much they charge customers for using the Internet within the European Union, after new rules went into effect Monday.

PC World - It's probably just a 24 hour bug, but you'll want to leave your glitchy PS3s off in the meantime, just in case, says Sony.

PC Magazine - Sony said Monday that the company has confirmed that a date glitch has prevented users of older PlayStation 3s from connecting to the PlayStation Network. Sony also warned users to stop playing the affected consoles, or risk losing data.

AP - Apple Inc. said it found more than a dozen serious violations of labor laws or Apple's own rules at its suppliers that needed immediate correction.

AFP - Internet giant Google announced Monday that it had bought Picnik.com, a website that allows users to edit and store photos online.

AP - Thumbplay Inc., a company that provides content such as music and games for cell phones, said Monday it has named Apple Inc.'s Pablo Calamera its first chief technology officer.

AP - The chief executive of Dish Network Corp. relinquished his position as CEO of sister company EchoStar Corp. during the fourth quarter.

AP - Apple Inc. may delay or limit the size of the launch of its anticipated iPad tablet computer because of an 'unspecified production problem,' Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek wrote in a research note Monday.

Macworld.com - It’s time to take healthcare “out of the 70s.” That was the message put forth Monday at this year’s HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference—a big get-together for doctors, nurses, and health care professionals) by keynote speaker and Sprint CEO Dan Hesse. Fortunately for healthcare, software companies like Nuance Communications are determined to take that message to heart.

AP - LTX-Credence Corp., which makes chip testing equipment for the semiconductor industry, said Monday it is publicly offering 14 million shares of common stock.

NewsFactor - Hewlett-Packard unveiled its latest convertible tablet PC on Monday in what some are predicting will be a banner year for that class of devices. Geared toward small to midsize business owners, the EliteBook 2740p, which sells for $1,599, has multi-touch capabilities, runs Windows 7, and features Intel Core i7 or i5 processors, making it far faster than its predecessors.

PC World - eReaders are about to get hotter, faster and cheaper. Freescale Semiconductor -- makers of the guts behind Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader -- announced it has created a chip that will rock the eReader world. The forthcoming i.MX508 processor will double eReader speed, support large color screens, improve battery life and lower the retail cost by about $30.

AFP - Japanese electronics giant Sony warned millions of users of older versions of the PlayStation 3 on Monday not to use the videogame console until it can fix a bug in the system.

Macworld.com - Has your 3G network ever suffered from conventionitis? It's a condition known to strike when a few too many smart phone users take advantage of their provider's data network to share photos, inspirational quotes, bragging, video, and other goings-on in the midst of fine tech festivals and conferences such as South by Southwest (SXSW), Macworld and WWDC.

AP - IBM Corp. has cut hundreds of jobs across a number of divisions. The cuts Monday represent a sliver of the technology company's nearly 400,000 workers worldwide.

Reuters - Google Inc acquired online photo-editing site Picnik, as the Web search leader continues with a deal binge includes three acquisitions in about three weeks.

PC World - 3D HDTVs are practically here, which means 3D videogames should be making a slow creep into the mainstream soon enough. A new Nintendo DSi Ware game, however, doesn't need any fancy polarized LCD screens or expensive shutter glasses to make those eye popping images come to life. Clever use of the DSi hardware's mechanics and that quintessential MacGyver spirit proves 3D can be achieved on almost any device, if you try hard enough.

PC World - Don't look now, it's another iPad rumor, this time claiming that production bottlenecks will either delay the iPad's launch or tighten initial inventories of Apple's tablet.

PC World - A US District Court judge has put an end to a year-old lawsuit accusing Microsoft of antitrust violations for its program allowing new systems loaded with Windows Vista to be downloaded to Windows XP. Citing a lack of any benefit to Microsoft, Judge Marsha Pechman dismissed the suit.

PC World - Have you ever wanted to play a quick round of Wii Sports while out and about? A recent case-moddder has taken Nintendo's popular Wii console and built it into a laptop-style case, making on-the-go Wii gaming possible.

AP - Raising money shouldn't cost startups so much money.

PC World - Have you heard the news? We Americans are increasingly getting our news online, as evidenced by the very fact that you're reading this now. But you don't have to rely on your own personal experience for proof.

Macworld.com - On Monday, Google announced its latest acquisition, online image service Picnik. In Google's own words, Picnik was “one of the first sites to bring photo editing to the cloud.”

Macworld.com - As we creep on toward the iPad launch, developers are scurrying about getting their apps ship-shape, consumers are twiddling their thumbs waiting for pre-orders to be announced, and print publishers are making preparations. Apple, of course, announced that its iBookstore would cater to books, but it seems that periodicals are going to have to make their own arrangements.

PC World - The glitch that nerfed my old-style 'fat' PlayStation 3 and temporarily 'bricked' millions of others worldwide appears to have vanished as mysteriously as it appeared.

AFP - Apple is pressing makers of its popular gadgets to avoid child labor, sloppy disposal of hazardous waste, and overworking employees in the wake of an audit by the company.

PC World - A telepresence system that uses a transparent screen can make meeting participants appear as if they are in the same room, without the need for 3-D glasses, vendor Digital Video Enterprises says.

Newsarama.com - For the last day or so, many users around the globe have reported problems with their PlayStation 3 gaming consoles, particularly when trying to get online with them. Error codes, lack of PlayStation Network service, and disappearing trophies are some of the symptoms plaguing gamers.

PC World - Following a ban on social networking by some sectors of the U.S. Department of Defense, the agency has now decided that social networking is integral to its operations and is to be encouraged.