AP - The United States has raised concerns with Australia about the impact of a proposed Internet filter that would place restrictions on Web content, an official said Monday.

PC World - Intel remained the world's largest chip maker by revenue for the eighteenth consecutive year in 2009, despite an overall decline in the global chip market, Gartner said Monday.

AFP - As US newspapers struggle for a business model for the digital age, the founders of a free online news site which recently celebrated its first birthday are optimistic about its future.

AFP - Kuwait's Zain telecom and India's top mobile firm Bharti Airtel are expected to sign a 10.7 billion dollar deal for the sale of Zain's African assets on Tuesday, a Kuwaiti daily reported.

InfoWorld - Nearly a year has passed since Adobe made public the beta versions of Flash Builder 4, the next-gen Eclipse-based IDE for constructing data-driven apps on its open source Flex framework. Since then, few innovations have emerged, but don't be lured into thinking this toolset is more fizzle than flash. This package represents a sizable improvement over its predecessor, Flex Builder 3.

AFP - Japan is moving towards ending restrictions on mobile telephone users switching operators or using an overseas network by changing the SIM memory card, a government official said Monday.

PC World - Acer will be among the first major computer vendors to sell systems based on Advanced Micro Devices' latest Opteron server chips, the 6100 series, the chip company said Monday

PC Magazine - On Monday, Advanced Micro Devices announced Magny-Cours, the code-name for both 8- and 12-core processors which will be sold under the name Opteron 6100.

PC Magazine - The strangest demo I saw at CTIA had to be the eye-controlled earphones from NTT Docomo, which was used to control a music player and mobile phone.

AFP - Swedish telecom giant Ericsson said Monday it had won contracts to provide equipment to two of China's largest operators, China Mobile and China Unicom, to the tune of 1.8 billion dollars (1.3 billion euros).

AP - Over the last few years, Nintendo has discovered a whole new market for video games: seniors. Not a demographic that's known for welcoming new technology, the senior-citizen crowd has nonetheless embraced the Wii console, with its intuitive controls and easy-to-understand interface.

PC World - Sony giveth and Sony taketh away: When the company's newest PlayStation 3 firmware update drops on April 1, it'll remove a beloved feature once trumpeted as a system sale-maker. That's right Linux wonks, it's time to kiss the PS3's 'Install Other OS' option goodbye.

PC World - As we get closer to the iPad launch on April 3, speculation is growing over what iPad applications will be available on day one. Several blogs over the weekend obtained alleged screenshots of a variety of 'upcoming' iPad applications including a Yahoo Entertainment app, FileMaker's Bento, and the Omni Group's Mac OS X sketching application Omigraffle.

NewsFactor - Ready to get over your skepticism about Apple's iPad and place your pre-order? Go ahead, but if you haven't already ordered you won't get an iPad until April 12 at the earliest, Apple's online store indicated Friday. People who placed pre-orders before March 27 will get their iPads on Saturday, April 3. If you order this week, you'll get a new iPad on April 12.

Macworld.com - On Saturday, Apple made two small but significant changes to the online pre-ordering section of its store. First, the ability to reserve iPads and pick them up at an Apple Store location at launch on April 3rd is gone—the only option now is to pre-order one and have it delivered. In the latter case, it will no longer be possible to have the device delivered by launch day, so you'll have to wait a few extra days.

AP - A former IBM senior executive says he is pleading guilty to federal charges arising from what prosecutors call the largest insider trading case in hedge fund history.

Macworld.com - If you haven’t already pre-ordered an iPad and were wondering what you’d need to do to get one come this weekend, then look no further. Apple announced on Monday that the Wi-Fi iPad models will be available in all of its 221 Apple retail stores on Saturday, April 3.

PC World - IBM's former server chief, Robert Moffat, on Monday pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit securities fraud in a case connected to an insider-trading scandal.

InfoWorld - Brightcove announced on Monday Brightcove Experience for HTML5, a framework for publishing interactive and ad-supported Web videos for HTML5-compatible devices, including Apple's iPad and iPhone.

NewsFactor - Even though many sites use Flash-based video and animation in their content and advertising, Apple has been adamant about not allowing Flash on its popular iPhone, iPod touch, or the upcoming iPad. But the new HTML5, with its expanded interactive multimedia capabilities, took another step Monday toward being a viable alternative as Brightcove, an online video platform, announced a framework for 'video experiences' specifically for HTML5 devices.

Macworld.com - Apple on Monday morning released Mac OS X 10.6.3, the latest update to Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The update is recommended for all users of Snow Leopard, and brings a number of fixes, improvements, and security patches. The update’s size may vary depending on the configuration of your Mac.

Reuters - British state broadcaster BBC has delayed launching mobile applications delivering its news and sport free to devices like Apple's iPhone after newspapers expressed concern about direct competition.

NewsFactor - Research In Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphones, has added another company to its list of acquisitions. RIM acquired Toronto, Canada-based Viigo, the creator of the popular software application Viigo for BlackBerry, one year after acquiring encryption supplier Certicom.

Macworld.com - The name Brightcove may not be familiar to you, but the company provides Web-based streaming video for a number of high-value clients, such as The New York Times, Time, Condé Nast, The Weather Channel, Universal, and many more. On Monday, Brightcove announced that it’s launching a video player based on HTML5 specifically to bring compatibility with the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

AP - Teri Hatcher is launching a Web project titled 'A Chick's Guide to Life.'

AP - A former IBM senior executive pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges arising from what prosecutors call the largest insider trading case in hedge fund history.

Macworld.com - The Case of the Missing iPad Camera Connection Kit has been unraveled, with the much-awaited kit for Apple’s new tablet becoming available for pre-order over the weekend.

NewsFactor - Advanced Micro Devices on Monday introduced its latest Intel fighter, the Opteron 6000 series. AMD is making big promises with the new processor that addresses what it sees as pain points for today's server customers.

PC World - AMD is closing out the month of March with the introduction of a new line of 12-core Opteron 6000 series processors, previously code-named Magny-Cours. The processor architecture not only raises the bar for server CPU's, but doubles the number of cores in Intel's latest Xeon processors rolled out just a few weeks ago.

Macworld.com - In addition to rolling out an update to Mac OS X 10.6 on Monday, Apple also issued a security update for users of its operating system. Security Update 2010-002 is included with the Mac OS X 10.6.3 update; Leopard users can download the update separately for client and server versions of Mac OS X 10.5.

PC Magazine - Eighty-eight separate vulnerabilities are patched in 43 different components of OS X in Apple's latest Security Update 2010-002 and version 10.6.3 of Mac OS X.

PC Magazine - A Maine lawmaker's bid to label cell phones with cancer warnings has failed.

AP - Amazon.com, which has dominated the young but fast-growing electronic book market for the past few years with the Kindle, could get its biggest threat Saturday, when Apple releases its iPad multimedia tablet.

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AP - If you're choosing between a Kindle or an iPad for reading electronic books, you might keep in mind some advantages of both products.

PC Magazine - F-Secure has spotted a new kind of rogue anti-virus spreading on Facebook. If you see an ad for 'Facebook Antivirus', don't be fooled.

AFP - The Apple iPad launches in the US on Saturday with an apparent deluge of early online orders indicating that the tablet computers will be another big hit for the company.

AP - The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple may be working on an iPhone designed for Verizon Wireless.

NewsFactor - Sony Computer Entertainment recently slashed the price of its popular PlayStation 3 gaming console, and now it is slashing a feature from the device: PS3 gamers no longer will have the option to use other operating systems, including Linux, according to Sony.

Macworld.com - Game developer Valve Software has announced plans to bring its Steam online store and several of its popular games—such as Half Life 2, Portal, and Left 4 Dead—to the Mac platform next month. But the Mac is a totally new platform for Valve, so it’s only logical that the company’s gone ahead and posted an application for would-be Mac-based beta testers.

Macworld.com - For many years now, I’ve written articles detailing the changes in each minor OS X update that’s released, such as the now-available Mac OS X 10.6.3. In the beginning, writing these articles was both interesting and worthwhile, as Apple rarely went into great detail about what was in a given update.

PC World - Teachers around the world, rejoice. A new mobile-phone technology could restore your students' spelling and grammar skills. '

AP - WAR OF WORDS: Amazon's Kindle might get its strongest challenger yet when Apple releases its iPad tablet computer. Although the Kindle starts at $259 and the iPad at $499, the iPad does so many other things that people who want to read books electronically might have a tough choice.

PC World - The one caveat for those planning to buy HTC's latest smartphone powerhouse is that the HD2 will be running Windows Mobile 6.5. The soon to-be-obsolete OS will be replaced by the newest, snazziest contender in the mobile space, Windows Phone 7 Series, later this year. So what are you to do if you want your 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen and 1GHz Snapdragon processor now, but don't want to be stuck with old software later? You hack that thing!

PC World - Eleven U.S. lawmakers have asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google's launch of its Buzz social-networking product for breaches of consumer privacy.

Reuters - JC Penney Co Inc was one of the victims of notorious computer hacker Albert Gonzalez, according to unsealed documents made available on Monday by a federal judge in Boston.

PC Magazine - Apple is working to develop a CDMA version of the iPhone that could be marketed by Verizon Wireless, according to a report.

PC Magazine - Now owners of iPhones, iPod touch, and the forth-coming iPad tablet can buy credits in $1.99 increments good for 60 minutes at Boingo hotspots.

PC Magazine - Earlier today, someone over at Microsoft made what may be a fairly telling mistake. For a few hours this morning, the official Zune site listed a 64GB version of the Zune HD, alongside the standard 16GB and 32GB models.

AP - The total compensation of Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt fell 52 percent last year as the Internet search leader cut back on its employee perquisites to help lift its profits during the recession.

Reuters - Latin pop star Ricky Martin on Monday announced he was gay in a blog posting, ending years of speculation.

Reuters - Apple Inc appears to be working on a new iPhone model for No. 1 U.S. mobile carrier Verizon Wireless, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

PC World - The optimistic sales predictions for the iPad just keep getting brighter. Soon after Apple began taking pre-orders on March 12 for its new tablet device, industry watchers estimated that iPad orders were easily in the 'hundreds of thousands,' and that Apple would sell more iPads than it did iPhones during the device's first three months of availability.

PC World - Open source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its virtualization platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV), to include support for desktop virtualization, the company announced Monday.

AP - Oracle Corp. spent $1.05 million on lobbying in the last three months of 2009, advocating on issues including antitrust delays in Europe to its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

AP - Intel Corp. spent $1.0 million on lobbying in the last three months of 2009, nearly double the amount the computer chip maker spent in the same period the year before.

PC World - The iPhone could finally be coming to Verizon, if a new report in the Wall Street Journal proves true.

AFP - Microsoft on Tuesday will release an emergency patch for a weakness hackers are exploiting in earlier versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser software.

PC World - The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple may have a Verizon iPhone in the works.

AFP - Google reported that its mobile Internet service in China was partially blocked but it was unknown whether the trouble was related to a stand-off over censorship there.

PC World - If there ever were a divisive computer, Apple's iPad is it.

AP - IBM Corp. spent $1.1 million on lobbying Congress and other government agencies in the fourth quarter, slightly more than what the technology company spent in the same quarter last year.