AFP - Japan has begun to watch digital television broadcasts on mobile telephones, in a highly anticipated service that could lead to a new genre of TV programs.

TechWeb - Performance management goes beyond task-specific software.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AOL unit MapQuest on Monday unveiled a mobile map service that customers can use on their cellular phones, complete with voice directions, text and maps in a bid to expand on the popularity of its Internet maps.

LONDON (Reuters) - The music industry launched a new wave of lawsuits and criminal proceedings against file-sharers across Europe on Tuesday, part of its drive to curb online piracy and encourage the use of legal music services.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co. DIS.N is set to reveal plans on Wednesday to start selling cellphone services to teenagers and their parents as it hopes to carve a niche in the U.S. market by giving parents the option to take strict control of their children's wireless use.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Movie ticketing firm Fandango is set to announce Thursday that a third major wireless carrier will make it easy for its subscribers to use their cell phones to buy movie tickets.

AP - I signed up for my first Hotmail account in 1996 when a tech-savvy friend told me it would be part of the wave of the future.

TechWeb - Software-as-a-service company Nsite will launch a browser-based development environment that lets users build new applications.

Reuters - Online fashion retailer Yoox is eyeing a bourse debut, convinced that its mix of cut-price designer clothes, vintage and one-off pieces will succeed where other e-tailers have failed.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. KS> , the world's second-largest maker of large liquid crystal displays (LCD), said on Monday it has agreed with Sony Corp. to jointly invest $2 billion on a new LCD production line.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft and the European Commission will clash in court over innovation and intellectual property rights when the software giant appeals against a 2004 anti-trust decision, according to court papers seen by Reuters.

TechWeb - A case that some are calling the "Xbox murder trial" begins in Florida next week.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sony Corp. 6758.T is expected to cut the price of its popular PlayStation 2 video game console by 13.4 percent before the end of the month, Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian said on Wednesday.

AFP - A federal jury has ordered US satellite broadcaster EchoStar Communications Corp. to pay 73 million dollars in damages and interest to TiVo Inc., the digital video recording pioneer, for patent infringement.

TechWeb - A federal jury in Texas has awarded TiVo $74 million in damages in patent lawsuit against EchoStar Communications Corp.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. MOT.N is interested in Siemens' SIEGn.DE loss-making telecoms unit Com, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported.

AP - Newspaper and magazine health coverage will be reviewed online at a new Web site beginning Monday.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The first HD-DVD titles are slated to go on sale Tuesday and, contrary to speculation, Toshiba players have arrived at Best Buy and should be on sale in at least some of the chain's locations.

HANOI (Reuters) - The world's biggest chip maker Intel INTC.O is investing in Vietnam and Microsoft MSFT.O chairman Bill Gates is due to visit this weekend, but the poor Southeast Asian country's IT industry has a long way to go.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O expects the average selling price of its iPod digital music players to decline in the current quarter from the prior period, the company's CFO said on Wednesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT.O antitrust battle in Europe threatens to snarl the release of the next version of Windows and has turned into a big distraction for executives that could spur more lawsuits, analysts and investors say.

AP - Microsoft Corp. will fight next week for the way it conducts future business as it urges the European Union's second-highest court to overturn an antitrust ruling that ordered it to pay a record $613 million fine.

AP - Del Mar College students now have to use computers outside the school's system if they want to visit the popular Web site MySpace.com.

PC World - Updated online office suite adds easier sharing, more storage.

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Microsoft faces questioning from judges on Tuesday about its contention that a landmark European Commission antitrust decision denied the software giant's right to compete and innovate.

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Microsoft opens a second front in its challenge to a landmark European Commission antitrust decision on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter)- Early adopters who bought one of the first two Toshiba high-definition DVD players had mixed comments about the official start of packaged media's high-definition era.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O has ramped up shipments of its Xbox 360 console to widen its head start on video game rival Sony Corp.'s 6758.T PlayStation 3, the software giant's chief financial officer said on Thursday.

TechWeb - Chipmaker finds a potential heat problem with a small percentage of Opteron chips run under extreme conditions. Some 3,000 processors at customer sites could be affected.

AP - A Chinese businessman has bought a MiG-21f plane from a U.S. seller on the online auction Web site eBay for $24,730 and plans to use it to decorate an empty space at his offices, a newspaper reported Sunday.