TORONTO (Reuters) - Vonage Holdings Corp. will easily cross the 1 million subscriber mark before year-end, the head of the fast-growing Internet phone company said on Tuesday.

AP - Server maker Sun Microsystems Inc. said Thursday it agreed to purchase Storage Technology Corp. for $4.1 billion in a deal that would create a network computing and data management company which would have had combined revenue of more than $13 billion over the past year.

Reuters - More than two years after introducing its first chip for cellular phone communications, Intel Corp. finally has a customer.

USATODAY.com - Server maker Sun Microsystems said Thursday that it has agreed to buy Storage Technology Corp. for $4.1 billion in a deal that would create a network computing and data management company that would have had combined revenue of more than $13 billion the past year.

Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. plans to announce on Monday that it will switch to using Intel Corp's microprocessors and phase out its current chip supplier, International Business Machines Corp. , CNET News.com reported late on Friday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Internet media company Yahoo Inc. will quit charging fees for auctions on its U.S. site in an effort to encourage more people to sell their wares, the company said on Sunday.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Siemens SIEGn.DE and Taiwan's BenQ 2352.TW are to set up a partnership in mobile phones, sources said on Monday, in a long-awaited solution for the German company that also gives BenQ access to new markets.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - TiVo Inc.TIVO.O on Wednesday said it extended its TiVoToGo portable video service to pocket computers and mobile phones running Microsoft software, as the television recording company beefed up its offerings in an effort to differentiate from its rivals.

Ziff Davis - Analysts expect Apple to adopt Intel's low-power chip for its notebooks and small desktops.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Mobile phone and network company Nokia NOK1V.HE and chip giant Intel INTC.O said on Friday they would step up their efforts and collaboration to make WiMAX a new standard in mobile broadband Internet access.

LONDON (Reuters) - Music fans broke a world record when they sent more than 2 million text messages to try to get tickets for next month's Live 8 concert in London, the Guinness Book of Records said Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sirius Satellite Radio SIRI.O on Tuesday said it reached a deal to supply music channels to telecommunications company Sprint FON.N on a mobile phone to be introduced later this year.

NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson has teamed up with online music company Napster for a service that will let consumers download music to mobile phones.

AP - Drivers lacking coins now may use cell phones to feed parking meters in Coral Gables, purportedly the first city in the country to offer such a service.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd.'s RIM.TO 'workaround' technology, designed to skirt patents at the center of its legal battle with NTP Inc., could be used with all of its existing BlackBerry email devices, the firm's co-chief executive said on Thursday.

AP - Already a device of multiple disguises, from camera to music player and mini-TV, the cell phone's next trick may be the disappearing wallet.

washingtonpost.com - Ben Freedland did two things that his fellow college students have been doing routinely for the past several years: First, he bought a new music CD by campus fave the Dave Matthews Band, then he tried to upload it onto his Apple iPod.

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, who traditionally have focused on software, electronics and medical devices, now see a growing opportunity to make money from technology to clean up the environment.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world's top maker of memory chips, on Monday said it is the first supplier to mass produce graphic chips for the next generation of video games.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Concerned with the growth of identity theft, California lawmakers gave initial approval on Tuesday to a bill that, with other state safeguards, would require companies to notify consumers of all security breaches involving their personal information.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc. is named in a lawsuit expected to be filed on Thursday that seeks to block the personal computer maker from receiving state tax-breaks for building a new production plant in North Carolina.

AP - The operations center for a credit card processing firm whose security was breached by a hacker, exposing 40 million accounts to possible fraud, has put new security software in place.

AP - The University of Connecticut is notifying 72,000 students, staff and faculty as a precaution after officials found a computer-hacking program in a server at the school.

washingtonpost.com - DENVER -- E-mails were flooding in from all over the country. Something strange was going on with the Internet, alarmed computer users wrote. Google, eBay and other big sites had suddenly disappeared. Kyle Haugsness scanned the reports and entered crisis mode.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's JSAT Corp. 9442.T said on Monday it has agreed with U.S.-based PanAmSat Holding Corp. PA.N to jointly launch a satellite in 2007 to meet demand for high-definition TV and other services in the United States.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. is bolstering its joint research with Japanese universities, targeting such areas as security and natural language processing, the world's largest software maker said on Tuesday.

AP - Beset by rampant counterfeiting across Latin America, Microsoft on Tuesday introduced a cut-rate, reduced version of Windows XP that is aimed at first-time, low-income computer users who might otherwise run pirated software.

AP - Google Inc. is throwing the doors open on the technology used to power the search engine's mapping service, allowing developers to create Web sites and software applications that merge Google's mapping information with data elsewhere.