PC World - Amid the industry hype about 4G (fourth-generation) mobile technologies this week at the CTIA Wireless trade show, the Wi-Fi Alliance will play up the growing importance of wireless LANs on mobile phones.

Reuters - Dish Network Corp, the No. 2 U.S. satellite television operator, counter sued DirecTV Group for running false and misleading advertisements, a month after its rival charged the company over similar claims, court documents showed.

Reuters - U.S. jeweler Zale Corp , which expected to have secured funds to steady its finances by late May, is considering a financing proposal from Sun Capital Partners Inc, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd plans to launch a new model of its DS handheld game gear that allows users to play three-dimensional (3D) games without using special glasses.

Reuters - Opera Software said it would apply on Tuesday for its mobile browser to be distributed on Apple's iPhone, seeking to crack a new and potentially lucrative market closely guarded by Apple.

InfoWorld - Apple's stubborn refusal to open the iPhone/iPad platform is catching up with it.

Reuters - Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are out, but in China's vast and bewildering online universe you can freely read the New York Times or visit a favorite porn site.

AP - The looming launch of Creative Suite 5, Adobe Systems Inc.'s flagship software package, will likely be on the minds of many investors when the company reports fiscal first-quarter earnings Tuesday after the close of regular trading.

InfoWorld - Nearly three years after its introduction, the JavaFX multimedia application development platform that Oracle inherited from Sun Microsystems remains just another entrant in a crowded field, with questions looming about how much momentum the platform can gather.

PC World - Just days before the start of a hacking contest set to target Web browser vulnerabilities, Mozilla has patched its flagship Firefox browser.

AFP - Internet giant Google led high-profile criticism of Australia's controversial plan to filter the Internet Tuesday, saying it went too far and could set a dangerous precedent.

AP - Looking for its next big hit, Nintendo said Tuesday it would begin selling a 3-D version of its popular handheld console within a year.

AP - Checks with companies up and down the chip industry supply chain show concerns about a slowdown in demand this year are overblown, according to a report from Credit Suisse.

AP - Leap Wireless International Inc. said Tuesday that it's eliminating roaming fees for its Cricket contract-free wireless service, continuing a series of price cuts and service enhancements in the growing and competitive prepaid market.

PC Magazine - The Wi-Fi alliance on Tuesday announced a major push to get faster 802.11n networking into mobile phones, along with the first 10 phones featuring 802.11n.

AP - An Internet company run by one of Asia's richest men said Tuesday it has ended its affiliation with Google Inc. as the American search giant stopped censoring the Internet in violation of Chinese regulations.

AFP - Europe's top court on Tuesday found Google not guilty of breaching trademark law by selling names such as Louis Vuitton in its Internet keyword advertising service.

PC World - Nintendo is planning to launch a new version of its handheld DS gaming device on which users can get the illusion of 3D without using special glasses, it said Tuesday.

AP - Papers filed in a massive insider trading case indicate that a former high level executive at IBM is likely to enter a plea to end the case against him.

NewsFactor - If you thought the upcoming 3-D revolution meant you had to sit in front of a TV with special glasses, Nintendo is hoping to change that perception. The game company has announced it will show a 3-D version of its popular DS handheld game console this summer -- with no glasses required.

AFP - Egypt has banned international calls made through mobile Internet connections, one of Egypt's top three mobile phone operators said on Tuesday, which would include internet Skype calls.

PC Magazine - Opera Software has officially submitted its Opera Mini browser to Apple's App Store, in what could become an interesting showdown on the state of alternative iPhone Web browsers.

PC World - Imagine picking up a Nintendo DS and playing games in 3D without the clunky, dork-tastic glasses. Nintendo says a handheld gaming device that'll do just that will launch in Japan before the end of March 2011, and that it'll reveal its so-called 'Nintendo 3DS' to the world for the first time at E3 2010 this summer.

Macworld.com - Apple has continued to ink deals with independent book publishers, having signed an agreement with Workman Publishing to bring its catalogue to the iBookstore and the iPad. Like Perseus Books Group, Workman is an independent publisher; its titles include the What to Expect series, the historical novel Water for Elephants, and the Silver Palate line of cookbooks.

PC World - Since Facebook introduced advertisements in 2007, many strange and irrelevant marketing ads have appeared on the right-hand column of user profiles, but that is going to change. Facebook has begun rolling out a new policy that promises to weed out spammy ads, using both automation and human judgment.

NewsFactor - Google on Monday put its China showdown to an abrupt end. Refusing to censor results on Google.cn, the Internet giant has started directing search traffic to Google.com.hk. Google is offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese via its Hong Kong servers.

Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world's second-biggest mobile phone maker, on Tuesday unveiled a new smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S, which is based on Google Inc's Android software.

Macworld.com - Looking to get an iPhone without the pesky two-year AT&T contract? You’re in luck: Apple Stores are now selling the handset with no commitment upfront.

Macworld.com - Zosh, an iPhone app for filling out and signing documents, is now out of beta, with version 1.5 available in the App Store.

PC World - Opera is one of the top five Web browsers in terms of global market share, but it is in fifth place and is definitely the most obscure of the five. The small Norway-based browser developer is making headlines these days, though--first as the main benefactor of the Microsoft browser ballot in Europe, and now trying to bring its mobile Web browser to the Apple iPhone.

PC Magazine - Tuesday morning's DEMO sessions featured a number of consumer technologies, including a neat educational scheduling service and a new approach to mobile phone cameras.

AP - A computer hacker who helped orchestrate one of the largest thefts of credit and debit card numbers in U.S. history faces sentencing this week for hacking into computer systems of major retailers, including TJX Cos., BJ's Wholesale Club and Sports Authority.

AP - Adobe Systems is reporting a decline in its fiscal first-quarter profit on higher expenses, but sales climbed as demand for its design and publishing software improved along with the economy.

AP - Now that Google is sending Web surfers in mainland China to a Hong Kong-based site, the company is free to display complete search results on any topic without the self-censorship Beijing had required. But that doesn't mean people in China are getting more information.

NewsFactor - In a move to build mobile commerce, Verizon Wireless on Monday announced a deal with Danal's BilltoMobile payment service. Beginning later this spring, Verizon customers can do more than shop on the mobile web -- they can make purchases.

AFP - A Brazilian court Tuesday fined US Internet giant Google for not blocking pages of dirty jokes on its social networking site Orkut.

PC World - Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.2 about a week ahead of the original schedule. The update addresses some stability issues and a number of security vulnerabilities, most notably the critical security flaw described in Bug 552216, which could allow an attacker to execute malicious code on the target system.

AP - Cell phone company executives support a proposal by federal regulators to find more wireless spectrum for mobile broadband services, but say the industry needs to do more to help networks keep up with the demand for wireless data over the next four years.

NewsFactor - You may have thought that Apple's iPhone goes with a long-term AT&T contract like peanut butter with jelly, but a new report indicates some things may be changing. Several Apple enthusiast sites Monday displayed an image of an internal company memo allowing U.S. customers to pay full price for an iPhone at an Apple Store without having to show an AT&T contract.

NewsFactor - Opera Software submitted a mobile web browser for the iPhone to Apple's App Store on Tuesday. Called Opera Mini for iPhone, the application was first demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona last month.

PC World - AT&T hopes to encourage more enterprise use of the iPhone with WorkBench, an application that enables secure access to enterprise Web apps from their phones.

AP - Sprint Nextel Corp. is aiming to make video calls a selling point of the new, faster data network that it's spending billions with co-investors to build.

PC World - A survey from ComScore tried to figure out how people will use Apple's iPad, and found the most enthusiasm for browsing the Web and checking e-mail. Downloading apps from the App Store and playing intense video games such as first-person shooters were among the least popular potential uses.

AP - Adobe Systems Inc. said Tuesday that fiscal first-quarter earnings declined on higher expenses, but sales climbed as demand for its design and publishing software improved with the stabilizing economy.

AP - J. Montgomery 'Monty' Cook is stepping down as editor of The Baltimore Sun after about 15 months on the job and will go to work at the University of North Carolina.

PC World - A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate Tuesday would compel the White House to identify international cybercrime havens and establish plans for cleaning them up.

InfoWorld - A CIO.com survey released today of where IT pros are actively engaged confirms strong business interest in analytics, cloud, and collaboration technologies, but it also shows that open source and ERP are falling off their radars as key concerns. (The PDF report is available for download.)

PC World - Apple's iPad goes on sale April 3 triggering a challenge by Amazon to keep customers interested in buying its Kindle e-book reader and e-books. A study released Tuesday by research firm Comscore suggests Amazon could be seriously threatened by Apple. Comscore found the iPad rated higher than the Kindle among consumers seriously considering buying either in the next three months.

Macworld.com - According to mobile analytics firm Flurry, iPhone OS devices have rapidly risen to prominence as a gaming platform, acquiring significant market share at the expense of the industry’s existing firms.

PC Magazine - The Verizon Wireless Skype application will be available starting Thursday, March 25 several BlackBerry and Android handsets, the two companies announced Tuesday.

Reuters - The United States on Tuesday said Google's action to shut its mainland Chinese-language portal was a business decision by the company that did not involve the U.S. government.

AFP - US carrier Sprint and Taiwan's HTC unveiled a new smartphone on Tuesday called the HTC EVO 4G designed to take advantage of faster next-generation wireless technology.

NewsFactor - With smartphone applications soaring exponentially, the next generation of devices will need far more storage space to hold them all, as well as megabits of music, photos and other data. And memory chipmakers seem ready to meet that demand.

PC World - Today, Nintendo announced the successor to its handheld gaming DS platform, which will include a 3D screen and debut at this years E3 expo in Los Angeles. Beyond that info, however, we don't know very much at all about the hardware powering the new device, unique input methods being introduced, or even the kind of 3D tech employed.

PC World - With the Apple iPad arriving in less than two weeks, Sony is making things interesting in the e-reader market by temporarily cutting the price of its Pocket Edition device by $30. The low-end Sony Reader drops to $170 through April 3, which not coincidentally is the same weekend the iPad starts to ship. Prices on Sony's more advanced e-readers, including the $300 Touch Edition and the $400 Daily Edition remain the same.

AP - Adobe Systems Inc. posted solid results for its fiscal first quarter, boosted by higher revenue amid a stabilizing economy. Its revenue and adjusted earnings beat Wall Street's expectations.

PC World - Master car hacker Dave Phipps has been modifying cars for over a quarter of a century, doing everything from tweaking stereos to rebuilding classic rides. His latest project is a 1969 Pontiac GTO convertible--the ultimate American muscle car--that has been completely restored and rewired to include automatic windows and doors, a wireless network, and voice control via Bluetooth.

PC World - After months of anticipation, the FCC finally presented Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan to Congress and the general public a few weeks ago. As I stated at the time, the intense debate leading up to the official unveiling of the plan gave the perception of an end-result, but the FCC's plan is merely a set of proposals and guidelines that basically frame the real debate--which is just beginning.

Reuters - Skype's popular telephony application will be available on nine phone models sold by Verizon Wireless starting on Thursday.

Macworld.com - Adobe will release the next major version of its Creative Suite collection of applications for print, Web, and video creative pros on April 12. The company announced plans to take the wraps of Adobe Creative Suite 5 on Tuesday in order to give its customers a chance to register for the online launch event.

PC World - Nintendo says it'll release a 3D version of its DS handheld gaming portable. We learned that much from Nintendo's official press teaser this morning. But according to Japanese newshound Adriansang, several mainstream Japanese sources are weighing in with claims of tantalizing supplemental specs.

PC World - A bug in Google Apps' Sync for Microsoft Outlook that has apparently existed for months is causing some e-mail messages to remain in Gmail servers and not be downloaded into Outlook, causing end users to overlook messages or see them late.

Macworld.com - Want an Ivy League education but don’t want to pay Ivy League prices? That’s not exactly what you’ll get from Harvard’s offerings at iTunes U, but you’re sure to find plenty of quality, Harvard-produced content at no cost to you.

AFP - Nintendo has unveiled plans to launch a handheld 3D video game console that does not require special glasses, seeking to harness surging interest in images that appear to jump out of the screen.

PC World - Attention gamers: Do you often find yourself logging onto your Xbox Live account, only to play video games with your (male) friends or (male) strangers? Do you yearn for the soft caress of a female voice over your Xbox headset?

Reuters - Users of Google Inc.'s search engines across Beijing reported erratic service on Wednesday, with the site sometimes failing to open, and some searches for even non-sensitive terms like 'hello' returning error messages.

PC World - I purchased G Data Internet Security 2010 from Ultimate Internet Security's Website.

PC World - By now, most people are fully aware of the dangers of oversharing online. We've heard horror stories of people getting the ax at work or stirring up strife with family members over their too-much-information status updates. But it gets worse: Reports now say that your social networking activities could prevent you from getting a loan for the house, car, or boat you've had your eye on.