AFP - The governing Labour Party is at it, as are the opposition Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Political blogging, podcasting and online video is taking off in Britain as politicians look to widen the net for new -- and importantly younger -- voters.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Shares in Sony Corp. fell to a 2 ½ month low on Monday after Toshiba Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. joined the list of PC makers recalling Sony-made batteries, boosting the potential blow to its earnings.

CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - Canon and Toshiba said on Tuesday they would start mass production of ultra-thin flat-panel TVs in early 2008, entering a market dominated by makers such as Matsushita Electric Industrial and Samsung Eletronics .

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AOL on Wednesday plans to launch a new version of its software that lets users access their e-mail, instant messaging, search and media on the same screen.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google is introducing a new search service -- strictly for computer programmers only.

Reuters - Elvis Presley's three appearances on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' will be chronicled on the 3-disc DVD set 'Elvis Presley: The Sullivan Shows,' which will be released November 21.

TechWeb - Nearly three quarters of U.S. adults subscribe to a mobile phone services, more than those who say they subscribe to a landline service.

AFP - For many of us, the latest mobile telephones on the market are simply cool gadgets for making calls, with a few nifty electronic extras -- MP3, agenda, e-mail, image capture -- tacked on.

AP - The online hangout MySpace.com will organize 20 concerts featuring bands promoted on its site as part of a campaign to raise awareness and money for humanitarian relief in Sudan.

Reuters - International Business Machines Corp. said on Tuesday it would offer global service products aimed at helping companies to make their computer data centers more reliable to save on the cost of energy used to run those computer centers.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. is set to introduce on Wednesday information-sharing software that combines the company's Web-based Google Spreadsheets with Writely, the word processor it acquired in March.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. is launching a new educational campaign to help parents take control of the games and other content their children consume using its new Xbox 360 video game console, an executive said on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Time Warner will take continuing talks with YouTube Inc. over copyright issues to the video entertainment site's new owner Google Inc., Chairman and Chief Executive Dick Parsons said in a British newspaper interview published on Friday.

TechWeb - Japan's Sony unveiled its latest Walkman music players in a bid to wrestle some of the music player market share from Apple's iPod. The products, which feature noise cancelling technology, are set to hit stores next month.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. doesn't expect the iPod media player to be hurt by Microsoft Corp.'s Zune, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a magazine interview.

AFP - Japanese high-tech giants Toshiba and Fujitsu are considering demanding compensation from Sony over the recall of the electronic giant's batteries used in laptop computers, a report says.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. said on Tuesday it is reviewing its full-year earnings outlook in light of recalls of Sony-made batteries by PC makers and a cut in the price of its upcoming video game console, PlayStation 3.

Reuters - Electronic Arts has assembled one of the largest Hollywood voice casts in the publisher's history for its 2007 real-time strategy PC game, 'Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.'

AFP - Hundreds of convicted sex offenders have been discovered using the popular Internet website MySpace following an investigation by a US technology magazine, it emerged.

AP - Nine people convicted of selling illegally copied DVDs and other goods have been jailed for up to 13 years in China's biggest anti-piracy crackdown to date, a news report said Friday.

SEOUL (Reuters) - When a South Korean police squad cracked down on illegal computer gambling, they did it by literally smashing hard disc drives with hammers.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Microsoft aims to double the number of mobile phones running its Windows software this year from 6 million at the end of 2005 and to keep up this rate of growth in coming years, a Microsoft executive said.

AP - Movies and television shows from Paramount Pictures will be available for sale through AOL's new video portal under a deal announced Monday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. said on Tuesday it would recall about 250,000 batteries for its own notebook computers worldwide.

TechWeb - The two companies are neighbors in Texas, and Dell is now selling servers based on AMD's 64-bit Opteron chip.

TechWeb - E*Trade joins other online brokers, including TD Ameritrade, in falling victim to a variety of schemes aimed at stealing client information for fraudulent transactions.

AP - Server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. beat Wall Street's tepid expectations Thursday, reporting a narrower-than-expected loss for the first quarter thanks to the growing popularity of its newest operating system for corporate computers.

TechWeb - A quick look at how strong quarter sales from entertainment and server software boosted Microsoft Corp. revenue in the just-reported quarter.

AFP - Police have arrested a man in southern India for sending an email threatening to kill Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Abdul Kalam.

AFP - Japanese industrial output flagged in September, the government said, reinforcing the view that economic growth has peaked and dampening expectations of a near-term interest rate rise.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Customers of Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. mobile provider, can now have the contacts in their phones automatically updated without manually entering the data, according to Plaxo Inc, which created the service.