Reuters - Video-sharing sensation Hulu and founding investor NBC Universal were sued Tuesday by a Canadian company called Hulavision, which claims NBCU executives stole its trademark and trade secrets after meeting with its founder.

AP - Google Inc. is still censoring search content for some of its customers in China, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday, in a decision that underscores the Internet giant's delicate effort to hold onto its mainland businesses days after moving its search engine offshore.

PC World - Criminals are stepping up their attacks leveraging an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, using it to install fake antivirus products and malicious back doors on victim's computers.

PC Magazine - A little time with a Micro Four Thirds digital camera was enough to convince me it's time to trade up.

PC Magazine - Skype Mobile for Verizon Wireless smartphones will be available Thursday, Verizon announced today at the CTIA Wireless trade show, so I gave it a spin on a BlackBerry Storm2 - and found that it sounds just like a regular phone call.

AP - Lee Kun-hee, the former chairman of Samsung Electronics convicted of tax evasion and later pardoned by South Korea's president, has returned to lead the company after a nearly two-year absence.

AP - Shares of Adobe Systems rose in premarket trading Wednesday following the release this week of better-than-expected first-quarter results and a solid outlook for this quarter.

AP - A Morgan Keegan analyst downgraded shares of Israeli data recording products maker NICE Systems Ltd. on Wednesday, saying the company's largest customer plans to develop its own software instead of relying on NICE's.

NewsFactor - With Apple's iPad just a bit more than a week away, developers are getting excited about the possibilities of deploying their apps on a giant 9.7-inch version of the iPhone. 'If there ever was a space to do some land-grabbing in, this is it,' said Scott Lahman, CEO of Gogii, which publishes a popular app called TextPlus, which lets iPhone users text-message without paying AT&T for the privilege.

Macworld.com - Mariner Software’s MacJournal has long been an “iPhoto for journaling.” It's a powerful text editor that features support for multiple journals, blogging, rich media, and MobileMe sync, along with a healthy dose of iLife integration. But one realm into which it hadn't ventured is that of the iPhone—until now.

PC World - Sprint has been aggressively promoting its expanding 4G wireless network at the CTIA show in Las Vegas this week. Verizon and AT&T are also pursuing 4G or LTE broadband, but Sprint--true to its name--is sprinting ahead to deliver 4G in more markets ahead of the competition.

AP - KVH Industries Inc., a maker of mobile communications products, said Wednesday it has opened a Singapore-based subsidiary, KVH Industries Asia Pte.

InfoWorld - Eclipse 4 (e4), the next generation of the Eclipse open source development tooling platform, is slated to ship in July.

PC Magazine - On Wednesday, HP released info on its new small-form-factor workstation PC, the HP Z200 SFF workstation. HP also introduced new configurations of its existing Z400, Z600, and Z800 workstations using the new six-core Intel Xeon processors.

PC World - Leathered, nimble, with a lip tattoo like the world's stubbiest exclamation point, meet Kasumi, the newest member of Mass Effect 2's planet-hopping coterie. She's one-third of game publisher BioWare's upcoming DLC trio, an all-new playable character debuting this April on North American and European Xbox 360s for 560 Microsoft points, or $7.

Macworld.com - We’re still more than a week away from knowing what it’s like to have a giant iPod touch in our hands, but developers have been anything but idle. With Apple’s March 27 deadline for iPad apps looming, many of them have been hard at work prepping what may be the first third-party apps for the new device. Among them, Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper, who posted a sneak peek of what the forthcoming supersized version of his app will look like.

PC Magazine - If you've got a laptop with a built-in accelerometer, you, too, could help detect earthquakes with Quake-Catcher, a sort of distributed-detection program for earthquakes.

AP - Go Daddy Group Inc., a leading reseller of Internet domain names, says it will stop registering new names in China. The company says it's taking the step because the Chinese government has begun demanding pictures and other identification documents from its customers.

AFP - French police have arrested a hacker who sabotaged the account of US President Barack Obama in one of his attacks on the Twitter online social network, a police source said Wednesday.

Reuters - The head of Clearwire Corp said he envisions incompatible network technologies WiMax and Long Term Evolution (LTE) eventually converging to form a common standard for high-speed wireless services.

The Gadget Hound - We're still waiting for a mobile version of Hulu, but Hulu stakeholder News Corp. is teeing up a new mobile app that promises streaming and downloadable video of your favorite TV shows and movies for your smartphone. Unlike the free (for now, anyway) TV episodes and movies on Hulu, though, the full-length shows on Bitbop will cost you.

Macworld.com - Wondering why other computer makers suffer from Apple envy? Deutsche Bank may have an answer for you: its profits are higher—way higher—than any of its competitor.

Reuters - Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile operator, said it would open its own mobile phone applications store on March 29.

AP - China issued a blistering public attack against Google on Wednesday and appeared to quietly begin getting businesses to abandon the U.S. Internet giant after it moved its controversial Chinese search engine offshore.

AP - Four countries and two territories have won preliminary approval to have Internet addresses written entirely in their native scripts as early as this summer.

AP - MetroPCS Communications Inc. plans to be the first wireless carrier to introduce a phone using a new network technology that provides faster data access. It's beating Verizon Wireless, the country's largest carrier.

AP - THE NEED: Internet addresses written entirely in scripts other than the Latin alphabet, to make the Internet friendlier to users with little or no knowledge of English.

PC World - T-Mobile announced Tuesday that it will upgrade its 3G network to the faster HSPA+ cellular technology in 100 U.S. cities by the end of 2010.

AP - Adobe Systems Inc. spent $70,000 in the fourth quarter to lobby federal officials on cyber-security, government procurement policy and other issues, according to a disclosure report.

Reuters - Dell Inc on Wednesday announced a new series of servers designed for large cloud computing environments.

NewsFactor - It's not just TV makers who are looking to 3-D for a shot of adrenaline. Video-game console makers are also hurriedly going dimensional to boost or maintain market shares for their systems.

NewsFactor - Beginning Thursday, Verizon Wireless will provide its customers with free downloads of Skype mobile for selected 3G smartphones running the Android and BlackBerry operating systems. Data-plan subscribers will be able to place an unlimited amount of free calls to other Skype users worldwide and dial overseas numbers at Skype's low international rates.

NewsFactor - LG Electronics rolled out a number of smartphones at the CTIA Wireless 2010 show this week. The new models feature some advances in mobile-phone technology.

Macworld.com - Yahoo released two new applications for the iPhone on Tuesday, both of which are unsurprisingly search-oriented.

PC World - Does your laptop battery die out right before you hit send on that important email? With scientists at MIT, Intel and other facilities researching microstructures (i.e. micro- or nano-scale pieces of computing hardware) it may be only a matter of time before nano-scale ultra-powerful capacitors challenge lithium-ion batteries.

PC World - Mobile operators say that they are open to accepting a range of wireless devices on their networks as well as using new models for charging people for services to those devices, based on experiences with the Kindle and the iPad, but they will still want a degree of control over their networks.

Macworld.com - Microsoft's Mac Business Unit just released a beta version of the upcoming Messenger for Mac 8 and it heralds the arrival of the long-awaited audio/video conferencing feature. The new functionality has been in the works for a while, first teased by Microsoft in December 2008.

AP - POSSIBLE PRESSURES: China appears to be quietly getting businesses to abandon the U.S. Internet giant after it moved its controversial Chinese search engine offshore.

AP - Red Hat Inc. on Wednesday reported a 44 percent increase in its fiscal fourth-quarter profit on the back of a strong gain in subscription revenue.

PC World - Microsoft plans to release a new version of its Office Communications Server (OCS) by the latter half of 2010, according to Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Unified Communications Group.

AFP - A US Senate committee on Wednesday approved a bill to try to tighten cybersecurity to better protect US government agencies and businesses from Internet threats.

Macworld.com - Random House, the world’s largest publisher by sales volume, is still holding out on including its titles in the iPad’s iBookstore. At issue, apparently, are fears that Apple’s business model will spark a price war among publishers, ultimately hurting profits.

Macworld.com - If you often find that when you're at home your iPhone is constantly dropping calls or suffering from generally poor reception, AT&T’s offering a remedy for your network signal blues. The company announced on Wednesday that it will begin rolling out its AT&T MicroCell nationwide in mid-April.

PC World - Walmart.com has the Sceptre X46BV on sale for $598 (with free shipping to a local store). Newegg has the same model marked down to the same price, $598, plus $50 shipping. Either way, that's a substantial discount from the current regular price of about $730. The 46-inch LCD HDTV has a 1080p resolution, a 60Hz refresh rate, and a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio.

PC World - Newegg knocks down the price of the practical, no-nonsense Lenovo G530 Notebook to $400 (it typically retails around $450). It has a 15.4-inch screen and a 160GB hard drive, and it comes with Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit).

PC Magazine - AT&T announced a slew of new mobile apps and devices today, including an app to let U-Verse TV subscribers download TV onto their phones, an iPad-like tablet, and a 3G home cell site that lets iPhone users avoid overcrowded networks.

AFP - Two days after Google halted censorship in China, another leading US Internet company, Go Daddy, said Wednesday it was cutting back on its activities there because of Chinese regulations.

Reuters - With most Americans already toting cellphones, AT&T Inc now wants to target their dogs.

Macworld.com - Apricorn on Wednesday released the Aegis Padlock Pro, a portable storage device with security features to keep your data secure.

PC World - IBM's former server chief, Robert Moffat, is heading to court on Monday after he agreed to waive his right to a grand jury in a case related to the Galleon Group insider-training scandal, according to court documents.

PC World - A delayed flight didn't stop Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Weinmann from scoring a cool US$15,000, a brand-new iPhone and a trip to Las Vegas at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver on Wednesday.

Macworld.com - If you’ve got a printer from Canon and want to make sure it’s fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.6, relief is just a download away. Apple on Wednesday posted updated printer drivers that include the latest Canon printing and scanning software for Snow Leopard.

Macworld.com - If you’ve got the latest version of Apple’s Final Cut Studio suite of pro video applications on your Mac, it’s time to fire up Software Update—Apple has an update just for you!

PC World - Yahoo introduced two iPhone applications this week, including one that lets users draw a circle on a map to look for restaurants within a specific area.

PC World - Nintendo may be hip to sell 3D handhelds, but Sony's having none of it.

PC World - Google has found a fix for a bug that affected Google Apps' Sync for Microsoft Outlook by preventing some e-mails from being downloaded from Gmail servers to the Outlook program on end-users' PCs.

Investor's Business Daily - Red Hat's Q4 EPS slid 14% to 19 cents ex items, 3 cents above estimates. Sales rose 18% to $196 mil, over views. The Linux software firm plans a $300 mil stock buyback. But deferred revenue, a key gauge of new business, missed forecasts. Shares fell.

PC World - Apple CEO Steve Jobs has taken to his iPhone and iPad to respond to several customers' e-mail messages, according to multiple reports over the past weeks. In at least nine instances so far, Jobs has sent brief replies to customer concerns over the iPhone, the iPad, and MacBook laptops.

PC World - New smartphones with ultrafast 4G wireless broadband are making headlines this week, particularly Sprint's slick HTC EVO 4G handset. But laptop manufacturers are getting in on the 4G action too.

AFP - A top Chinese official has said the nation's online population, already the largest in the world, is expected to exceed 500 million in the next two to three years.

Reuters - Leading Latin American wireless operator America Movil , controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim, asked for authorization to launch a tender offer for Carso Global Telecom (TELECOMA1.MX) and Telmex Internacional , the stock exchange said on Wednesday.