LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The five pictures competing for the live-action short film Oscar on Sunday are available to buy on Apple's iTunes Music Store.

AP - An agreement by Hynix Semiconductor Inc. executives to plead guilty to price-fixing charges in the United States is a 'personal issue,' a Hynix official said Thursday.

Reuters - Perhaps the biggest threat to Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and the portable music player industry is a device already nestling in a billion pockets: the mobile phone.

TechWeb - Semiconductor supplier Intel Corp. announced that first-quarter revenue will top of at $8.7 to $9.1 billion, compared to the previous guidance of $9.1 to $9.7 billion, due to weaker than expected demand and a slight market segment share loss.

AP - Margaret Atwood has had enough of long journeys, late nights and writer's cramp.

AP - While AT&T Inc.'s $67 billion bid for BellSouth Corp. would expand the number of voices using the country's largest telecommunications company, it may end up sounding more like a hang up for some employees.

AFP - The world's biggest high-tech fair opens this week, showcasing the latest in robotics, computers and consumer electronics to make the hearts of gadget fans beat faster.

TechWeb - The new blade server will let Sun re-enter a market that's currently dominated by Dell, Egenera, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM.

Reuters - Dog poop girl is infamous in South Korea.

AFP - This year's soccer World Cup in Germany is firing up the consumer electronics market as new generation televisions offer fans the next best thing to the live experience.

TechWeb - Apple Computer Inc. would stand to sell 1 million more Macs to current PC users, if the new Intel-based Macs could run Windows applications at the same speed and performance as PCs, a study says.

AFP - Telecom companies are breaking down the barrier between phone networks and the Internet, with mobile phones that can surf online at the speed of a broadband connection and portable handsets that hook up to a fixed line or mobile network wherever you go.

Reuters - America Online's AOL Black Voices is set to screen the feature documentary 'New Orleans: My Home, My Life, My Love' Monday as the centerpiece of its Hurricane Katrina-related broadband package.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O said on Monday it plans to include a free service to help parents control and monitor what their children are doing online in its upcoming Windows Live offering of Web services.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AOL said it plans to launch on Wednesday one of the biggest free video services on the Internet, serving up vintage shows and short clips backed by online advertisements.

AFP - Struggling Malaysia Airlines has signed an agreement with Octopus Travel, a global online company, to enable passengers worldwide to book Malaysia Airlines tickets.

AP - British mobile phone company Vodafone has agreed to sell its struggling Japan unit to Internet services company Softbank, Kyodo news agency reported Friday.

AP - Google Inc.'s mysterious methods for ranking Web sites came under attack Friday in a lawsuit accusing the online search engine leader of ruining scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index.

AFP - The hugely popular US college basketball championships get under way, with the CBS TV network looking to slam dunk an Internet experiment that could revolutionise sports broadcasting.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Only mobile gamers will have the ability to be a virtual Ethan Hunt when mobile game giant Gameloft unleashes 'Mission: Impossible 3' across 150 carriers in May, coinciding with the worldwide rollout of the Tom Cruise thriller.

AP - Online search engine leader Google Inc. is devoting a section of its Web site to information about the stock market and corporate America, filling a gaping product hole as it continues to battle for Internet traffic with rivals Yahoo Inc., MSN and America Online.

TOKYO (Reuters) - When Yumi, a 36-year-old housewife in Tokyo, decided to go back to work, she immediately looked into buying her 9-year-old daughter a mobile phone.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online payment company PayPal said on Wednesday it was preparing to offer a service for consumers to make purchases or money transfers using simple text messaging via mobile phones.

AP - Sarah Steineker, 50, is stuck to her seat. She's got a bingo game going, and the "hot ball" jackpot is up to $14,490. But thanks to mobile gambling regulations that passed the Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday, she soon may be able to take that bingo game with her elsewhere in the casino.

AP - The flophouse bathtub James Earl Ray stood in to shoot Martin Luther King Jr. is for sale on eBay for a third time.

PC Magazine - Microsoft will use its annual business-solutions confab to push its software-as-a-service messages to Microsoft Business Solutions customers and partners.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. 6758.T, Toshiba Corp. 6502.T and NEC Electronics Corp. 6723.T have agreed to extend their existing cooperation in the development of advanced microchips to production, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper said on Monday.

TechWeb - Nvidia’s plan for a validated desktop platform using processors from Advanced Micro Devices will include management capabilities that will compete directly with a similar offering from Intel.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Beatles and Apple Computer are set to face off in on Wednesday in a trademark dispute triggered by Apple's move into the music business through its popular iPod player and iTunes download service.

AP - Microsoft Corp. is releasing new versions of its software packages for safeguarding and archiving e-mails and other corporate messages.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. on Friday started rolling out its high definition DVD players in Japan, becoming the first company to offer next-generation optical disc players worldwide.