WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI has squandered $170 million on a failed computer system agents can use to instantly share information, and seems to know neither how long it will take nor how much it will cost to build one, a Justice Department audit showed on Thursday.

Ziff Davis - TiVo is on the move with its TiVoToGo service...

AP - Peruvian alpaca herders are turning to technology to thwart a growing problem of the high Andes Mountains: the smuggling of prize-winning, wool-producing alpacas to neighboring countries.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a pivotal case pitting copyright holders against the makers of file-sharing software.

AP - Setting up a battle for the future of computing, engineers from IBM, Sony and Toshiba unveiled details Monday of a microprocessor they claim has the muscle of a supercomputer and can power everything from video game consoles to business computers.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Daily computer security headaches such as viruses and spam threaten to spread to a far wider range of devices -- from phones to car engines, a survey to be published by IBM on Wednesday has found.

Reuters - Yahoo Inc. said late on Wednesday it has released a test version of its toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser.

AP - Free speech activists and Yahoo Inc. declared a small victory Thursday in a dispute over whether the e-commerce giant can host auctions for Nazi memorabilia on its U.S. sites.

AP - Like thousands of other merchants, Tammy Harrison thought she had struck gold when hordes visited her Web site by clicking on the small Internet ads she purchased from the world's most popular online search engines. It cost Harrison as much as $20 for each click, but the potential new business seemed to justify the expense. Harrison's delight dimmed, though, when she realized the people clicking on her ads weren't really interested in her products.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp., the world's fifth-largest chip maker, will start supplying Toyota Motor Corp. with microchips that control key functions of hybrid cars by the end of the year, a Japanese newspaper said on Sunday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp. said on Monday it was in the final stages of talks with Toyota Motor Corp. about supplying the world's second-largest auto maker with microchips that control key functions of hybrid cars.

AP - Unwanted programs that spy on PC users, deliver pop-up ads and track Web surfing habits will be a hot topic at a security conference that's usually more focused on viruses, hackers and the encryption of sensitive information.

AP - A company that collects consumer data warned thousands of Californians that hackers penetrated the company's computer network and may have stolen credit reports, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government needs to boost spending on scientific research to avoid falling behind India, China and other countries that are rapidly gaining ground, business and education leaders said on Wednesday.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - As Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O prepares to ship new software to protect its Windows operating system, a top target for malicious programers and hackers, the world's largest software maker also faces another threat -- the scrutiny of antitrust regulators fearing the monopolist could choke off competition.

AP - Federal authorities are investigating two e-mail scams, including one targeting families of soldiers killed in Iraq, that claim to be connected to the Homeland Security Department.

AP - A former consultant for Fox Cable Networks has been acquitted of charges that he made pirated movies and software available for downloading through the company's computer network.

YOKKAICHI, Japan (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp. and its U.S. partner SanDisk Corp. said on Monday output at their new flash memory chip plant would be 40,000 wafers per month by the first half of 2007.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp. on Tuesday named Corporate Executive Vice President Atsutoshi Nishida, who oversees its reviving personal computer operations, as its new president, taking over from Tadashi Okamura who becomes chairman.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. 6758.T said on Wednesday it would halt production of personal digital assistants (PDAs) for Japan in July, completing its withdrawal from a market hit by multi-functional mobile phones.

PHOENIX/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc. DELL.O considered building PCs with chips from Advanced Micro Devices AMD.N but now aims to keep Intel Corp. INTC.O as its sole supplier, Dell's chief executive said on Wednesday.

Reuters - International Business Machines Corp. regained the top spot in servers that run the heavy-duty Unix operating system in the fourth quarter, market research firm IDC said on Thursday.

InfoWorld - JBoss at its JBoss World 2005 conference in Atlanta next week will upgrade its Hibernate object-relational mapping software and debut service programs for open source projects and users of the vendor’s middleware.

washingtonpost.com - America Online Inc. took a few more bricks down from its subscription wall Thursday by introducing a local search service open to anyone, not just AOL members.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world's top maker of memory chips, said on Monday the outlook for its key businesses was not good due to slower global economic growth and sluggish domestic consumption.