AP - A year after unveiling a free e-mail service with a full gigabyte of storage, Google Inc. is doubling the capacity of each account and plans to keep bumping up the limit in the future.

AP - The Japanese company that launched popular computer data storage units shaped like rubber ducks and sushi started selling a new product Friday — a ghost detector.

washingtonpost.com - It's a blog. It's a dog. No, it's Yahoo 360!

AP - Researchers and volunteers around the world are taking early steps toward a complex but straightforward technological goal: to use electrical signals from the brain as instructions to computers and other machines, allowing paralyzed people to communicate, move around and control their environment literally without moving a muscle.

AP - Online search engine leader Google has unveiled a new feature that will enable its users to zoom in on homes and businesses using satellite images, an advance that may raise privacy concerns as well as intensify the competitive pressures on its rivals.

AP - Ethiopia, one of the poorest nations on earth, will expand Internet coverage from a handful of users to the entire country in three years, the prime minister said Tuesday.

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - IBM IBM.N and Network Appliance Inc. NTAP.O said on Wednesday they agreed to a deal where IBM will resell a broad line of Network Appliance storage products, taking aim at corporate data storage supplier EMC Corp. EMC.N and its allies.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Men spend more money on video games than they do on music, research group Nielsen Entertainment said on Thursday, lending credence to a growing belief that video games are displacing other forms of media for the attention of young men.

Ziff Davis - The Mozilla Foundation plans to ship Firefox 1.0.3 as early as this weekend to correct an information disclosure vulnerability.

AP - 'The brick' weighed 2 pounds, offered just a half-hour of talk time for every recharging and sold for $3,995. Clunky and overpriced? Not in 1984, when consumers lined up in droves to buy the first cellular phone as soon as it hit the market. And certainly not to Rudy Krolopp, lead designer of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.

AP - The Walt Disney Co. is expanding its broadband offerings for kids, adding activities for preschoolers and planning a second multiplayer online game aimed at teens.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Moore's Law, the 40-year-old prediction that computer chip performance would double every year or two, may have found a place in history as an accurate forecast. Original copies of the declaration, however, are lost. And a hunt on eBay has begun.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O on Wednesday launched a simplified version of its Windows operating system in Brazil, which could be used in computers to be sold to the poor under a government-subsidized program.

Reuters - Amazon.com Inc has approached online DVD rental service companies, including Blockbuster Inc and Netflix Inc. , to explore a partnership rather than launching its own U.S. DVD rental service, an industry source said on Thursday.

Reuters - A 19-year-old Los Angeles woman has sued AOL saying that a former monitor of its 'kids only' chat room seduced her online when she was a lonely teenager, persuading her to send him nude photos of herself and to engage in phone sex.

washingtonpost.com - To Texas-based Auctions Expert International LLC, it was an easy way to make money on the Internet. Sign up with Google, which functions as a kind of online ad agency, and agree to let the online giant place ads on your Web site. Then, every time someone clicks on one of the ads, the advertiser pays a fee, and Google shares that fee with Auctions Expert.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Infinity Broadcasting said on Sunday it planned to broadcast its programs to mobile phones in the United States, and include text data for subscribers.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O will expand the availability of its corporate instant messaging software to mobile devices and cell phones, the world's largest software maker said on Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A round of more positive earnings news from leading technology names -- led by bellwether Intel Corp. INTC.O -- put investors in a giddy mood on Tuesday, but the relief may still prove short-lived.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. GOOG.O on Wednesday debuted a test service called My Search History that analysts said is a move closer to personalized search, widely considered the Holy Grail for the Web search leader and its rivals.

AP - Elwood 'Woody' Norris pointed a metal frequency emitter at one of perhaps 30 people who had come to see his invention. The emitter — an aluminum square — was hooked up by a wire to a CD player. Norris switched on the CD player.

Reuters - The wireless industry, through its trade group, Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Assn. (CTIA), has begun defining a standardized content rating and filtering system that eventually will be applied to all content offered on their networks, including music.

AP - As technology has evolved, it's become lighter, smaller and more portable. For most people, that makes it more convenient. For millions of blind and vision-impaired people, it's anything but.

AP - Venture capitalists told Drew Massey, founder of the 1990s young men's magazine P.O.V., that old media was dead and he believed them.

AP - Political commentator Arianna Huffington will launch a news and opinion Web site next month including blogs written by more than 200 celebrities and leaders such as retired journalist Walter Cronkite, writer David Mamet and billionaire Barry Diller, CEO of IAC InterActive Corp.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Digital media company RealNetworks Inc. RNWK.O on Tuesday said it expanded its subscription music service to allow paying subscribers access to more than 1 million songs and now will allow nonpaying users to listen to 25 songs for free each month.

AP - Tired of waiting while your PC slowly scours its hard drive for a document you stashed somewhere six months ago? Sick of having to change how you work to conform with the computer's rigid way of organizing files? Bored with the flat look of the desktop's graphics?

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc. said on Thursday its chief executive and two early leaders will pay $3 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit alleging they received shares in hot stock offerings from their investment bankers.

InfoWorld - IBM on Monday is unveiling XML-based tools and resources to be added to its alphaWorks program for free testing of technologies in development.