AP - In its first significant expansion beyond the Internet, Google has bought advertising in a handful of technology-industry magazines and resold chunks of the space to merchants already participating in its booming Internet marketing network.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Prices of flat screens for televisions, computers and laptops will rise in the third quarter and growing demand will help revenues rise 35 percent to a record high, a U.S.-based research firm said on Friday.

TechWeb - Recording artists will soon have a place on the Internet to record and scout for people who have worked with Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney and other big names in music.

AP - A long-running court battle between Australia's record industry and file-swapping giant Kazaa reaches a climax Monday, when a judge is to rule on whether the peer-to-peer network is no different from a photocopier or is a giant 'engine of copyright piracy.'

AP - A court ruled Monday that popular file-swapping network Kazaa breaches copyright in Australia and gave the service's owners two months to modify their Web site to prevent further piracy by its millions of users.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Whether it is wafting lavender or citrus scents to calm drivers and keep them awake, or vibrating seat belts to get them to slow down, smart cars in the future could help reduce road accidents.

InfoWorld - Eyeing the mid-market IT-user segment, with its estimated 1.4 million companies, Microsoft on Wednesday will introduce role-based ERP applications as well as a package of system-management tools to be bundled with an upcoming version of Windows Server.

AP - Texas Instruments Inc. says it has developed semiconductor technology that will let manufacturers quickly produce digital video devices with more power and features.

AFP - The war of the mobile music players reached a new level this week, but while Apple's launch of an iPod phone reverberated around the globe, Sony's unveiling of its new Walkman barely registered on the radar.

InfoWorld - Melding the contemporary concepts of SOA and open source, Iona Technologies on Monday is announcing its participation in the Eclipse Foundation and will propose an Eclipse SOA Tools Platform project.

AP - Yahoo had to comply with a demand by Chinese authorities to provide information about a personal e-mail of a journalist who was later convicted under state secrecy laws and sentenced to 10 years in prison, the company's co-founder Jerry Yang said Saturday.

Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said on Monday it would start producing next year the world's highest-density flash memory chip, capable of boosting storage in hot-selling devices such as music players and digital cameras.

LONDON (Reuters) - Sony Corp. 6758.T is recalling 3.5 million faulty power adaptors for its popular PlayStation 2 video game console because they may overheat and cause injury, the Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer said on Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Washington judge on Tuesday cleared the way for a former Microsoft executive to work for Google in China but placed tough restrictions on confidential information he had gleaned while working at Microsoft.

AP - The next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox game console will be available in the United States two days before Thanksgiving, in time for the important holiday shopping season, the company said Wednesday.

AP - The Internet's key oversight agency approved a domain name for the Catalan language Thursday while deferring final action on creating a red-light district on the Internet through a '.xxx' suffix.

TechWeb - In another twist on the eBay/Skype deal, a research firm cautions big businesses should steer clear of the combined companies' technology. The problem: lackluster VoIP security.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The number of mobile phone subscribers in the world has surpassed the 2 billion milestone Wireless Intelligence, an information service set up by industry body GSM Association and consulting firm Ovum, said on Sunday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Computer hackers seeking financial gain rather than thrills or notoriety are increasingly flooding the Internet with malicious software code, according to a semi-annual report issued on Sunday.

AP - Government cargo inspectors would be able to get real-time data about the contents and whereabouts of shipping vessels around the world under a new tracking service being introduced by International Business Machines Corp. and the Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oracle Corp. ORCL.O on Tuesday said it would buy closely-held logistics software maker G-Log for an undisclosed sum, boosting the software giant's portfolio of supply chain software.

Reuters - Popular file-sharing site WinMX.com ceased operating and the New York office of another, eDonkey.com, appeared to be closed, in the continuing legal fallout among underworld peer-to-peer music services, industry sources and users said on Wednesday.

Reuters - U.S. digital media company, Snocap, run by Napster founder Shawn Fanning, said on Friday it signed deals with various independent labels.

TechWeb - An exploit for the just-patched IDN bug in Mozilla's Firefox browser and namesake suite has been published on the Internet, a French security vendor says.

SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - And so it begins. Wireless operators and record companies are starting to let mobile subscribers buy and download full songs over wireless networks directly to mobile phones capable of storing and playing music.

AP - LaRonika Thomas got upset when Comcast moved the Sci-Fi channel to its digital service this summer, ensuring she couldn't continue to watch her favorite show, 'Firefly,' without paying $20 more a month.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Intel Corp. INTC.O said on Tuesday it has signed a technology deal with Research In Motion Ltd. RIM.TO RIMM.O, to supply processors for upcoming Blackberry mobile e-mail devices.

Reuters - Sony Corp (6758.T) departs from the well-worn model of gadget marketing in ads for its new flat screen television, seeking to hook women consumers with the product's slim lines as much as with its large display.

AFP - Goldman Sachs, the US investment bank, will invest 25 billion yen (225 million dollars) in a mobile phone venture planned by Japanese broadband services firm eAccess.

TechWeb - IBM announces the availability of the new IBM Blade Center 4Gb, the industry's first fully enabled 4-gigabit-per-second Storage Area Network solution for blade servers.