SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Taiwanese citizen living in California took computer chip design information from a San Francisco-area firm and e-mailed it to a potential rival in Taiwan, U.S. authorities charged on Monday.

AP - Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive wants to make the world's most popular Web site more entertaining, but Terry Semel says he isn't planning to push the Internet company into the movie or television business.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp. INTC.O, the world's largest chip maker, is seeing good results with an advanced manufacturing technology it plans to use in products next year, an executive said on Wednesday.

PC World - Software giant shows new ways to protect systems against Internet worms and prevent hacker attacks.

Ziff Davis - Several new technologies and utilities promise to make wireless security encryption just about idiot-proof.

washingtonpost.com - Transferring your old LPs and cassette tapes to MP3 files offers a rare kind of satisfaction -- for once, you don't have to repurchase your old music to hear it on your new hardware. But you may still find yourself paying in other ways.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world's top flat-screen maker, said on Monday a profit-sapping slide in LCD prices won't reverse until the fourth quarter, dashing hopes for a recovery as soon as next month.

AP - Hoping to regain some of its luster in a market dominated by the iPod, the company that brought us the Walkman is coming out with big lineup of portable music players.

Reuters - Oracle Corp. on Tuesday opened a bidding war with SAP AG for retail software provider Retek Inc. , offering about $500 million in a bid to stop its German rival from encroaching on a key market.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. MOT.N is set on Thursday to unveil several new phones that it says make it easier for consumers to store, share and print pictures, betting that cameras in handsets are no longer just a clever gimmick.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online gaming company Xfire said on Thursday it countersued Yahoo Inc. YHOO.O in a legal battle over instant-messaging patents.

Reuters - The U.S. film industry on Friday hailed a raid by Swedish police against an Internet service provider as a major blow to European piracy of movies and music on the Web.

AP - The nation's electronic intelligence agency warned President Bush in 2001 that monitoring U.S. adversaries would require a 'permanent presence' on networks that also carry Americans' messages that are protected from government eavesdropping.

AP - Instant messaging will become a more prominent feature on Blackberrys under separate agreements by Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the popular wireless e-mail devices, with both America Online Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

Investor's Business Daily - In the pantheon of sectors making big strides in the late 1990s, few matched the might of enterprise software makers. Old- and new-line companies realized they could streamline operations and save millions by implementing the right software suite, marking one of the biggest tech advances of the decade.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. MOT.N did not show upcoming phones designed to work with Apple Computer Inc.'s AAPL.O iTunes digital music service at a recent tech show because of the pair's differing approach to launching new products, executives from Motorola said on Tuesday.

Reuters - In an effort to boost sales of high-priced TV-to-DVD boxed sets, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment will be lining checkout counters nationwide with TV series DVD 'starter sets' next week.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - The director of MIT's Media Lab has recommended that Brazil install open-source software on thousands of computers that will be sold to the poor, saying proprietary software programs like ones offered by Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O may be less attractive.

Reuters - Agence France Presse has sued Google Inc. , alleging the Web search leader includes AFP's photos, news headlines and stories on its news site without permission.

washingtonpost.com - Sony has often won big by thinking small. Portable gizmos such as the Walkman, the Discman and the Handicam helped make this company the consumer electronics power it is today. But until now, it hasn't tried to run that play with its most successful product of the past decade, the PlayStation line of video-game machines.

MacCentral - There is good and bad news for Apple Computer's market share numbers in the calendar fourth quarter. The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer company's desktop market share is on the rise, while the portable market is showing a decline. While numbers are not available to show the impact of Mac mini, research analysts expect to see continued good news for the company's desktop market share in 2005 as Mac mini sales increase.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Xbox consoles were in short supply at several major retail outlets recently due to unexpectedly high demand for the video game machines, Microsoft Corp. said on Monday.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - America Online Latin America Inc. AOLA.O, the beleaguered provider of Internet services in South America, said on Tuesday that it was running out of cash and may shut down or file for bankruptcy protection.

AP - First 'Star Wars' movies, then Harry Potter books. Now, Sony Corp.'s new PlayStation Portable is getting the midnight-release treatment reserved for the most hyped of pop culture products.

AP - Recording industry executive Andy Gershon sees opportunity in the online file-sharing networks that most of his rivals decry as havens for music pirates. As president of V2 Records, home to such established acts as The White Stripes and Moby, Gershon mines such Internet distribution channels for new fans and revenues.

AP - A freelance journalist who authored two online news articles that Technology Review magazine retracted over questions of veracity is also facing review of stories she wrote for other publications.

AP - It's a journalist's job to ask questions, but they're usually aimed at outsiders. At the News & Record, a 93,000-daily circulation newspaper in Greensboro, reporters and editors are asking tough questions about the paper itself. The biggest questions: If the paper needs to change to survive, what changes should be made? What can it do, especially online, to make itself the electronic equivalent of a town square?

Ziff Davis - Opinion: Adobe's activation system conflicts with a few RAID controllers, causing hassles for some individual users. Such concerns should be just as important to the company as its big-picture enterprise goals.

AP - A judge has ordered Sony Corp. to pay $90.7 million to a company that develops technology that enhances video game realism but immediately stayed an order that would halt U.S. sales of Sony's popular PlayStation consoles.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Shares in Japanese glass maker Hoya Corp. jumped to an 11-month high on Wednesday after several analysts issued bullish comments about the prospects for the company's liquid crystal display photomask business.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - IBM IBM.N is taking the highly anticipated Cell chip technology at the heart of the future Sony PlayStation and offering to help customers design it into a far wider range of electronics, from aerospace to military to medical products, the company said on Wednesday.