TechWeb - Verizon Wireless is offering cellular phones that can synchronize their contact lists with popular email applications.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. is going into the food business.

TechWeb - While it won't do everything, IBM says its new tool can manage and virtualize about 80% of a heterogeneous data center.

TechWeb - The PC powerhouse has begun selling a laptop equipped with an AMD Turion 64 processor, the first time it's sold a portable not powered by an Intel chip.

AP - A fierce battle is brewing for consumer-electronics dollars this holiday season as two new video game consoles join the widening mix of TVs, cameras, portable music players, computers and cell phones.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. is set to begin helping customers buy advertisements in 50 U.S. newspapers in a test of how the Web search leader can extend its business into offline media, the company said on Sunday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. is to begin delivering graphical ads to mobile phones as part of a test of how it can extend corporate brand marketing on the Web into the wireless market, the company said on Monday.

Reuters - Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, is to more than treble its investment in building two plants in Vietnam to $1 billion, sources familiar with the firm's plan said on Wednesday.

TechWeb - The addition of AMD processors to Dell's commercial desktop PC product line will help the company offer customers more options. But it's not the only step the company needs to take, analyst say.

TechWeb - Apple applied for patents for an "actuating user interface for media player," technology that will likely replace the iPod scroll-wheel; and for a universal docking station, with speakers.

TechWeb - IBM says it will be shipping over the next two months a line of servers with three to four times the performance of systems that IBM offered less than a year ago.

AFP - Microsoft's sturdy Zune foot soldiers will march out in an improbable mission to topple Apple's world champion iPod MP3 player.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lycos Inc., a U.S. Internet portal that survived the bursting of the late 1990s dot-com bubble, plans to resurrect itself as a teen broadband video channel with a built-in text chat room.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - News and information company Reuters Group Plc has taken a stake in Web media syndication site Pluck Corp. and agreed to distribute blogs worldwide as part of its new media strategy.

TechWeb - AMD adapted an ATI graphics processor for floating point intensive computing. The stream processor will have 48 floating point cores and offer a peak performance of 360 gigaflops.

AFP - Once written off by its critics, Nintendo has emerged as a serious contender in the next-generation console war with its family friendly Wii machine that it hopes will attract a new legion of gamers.

TechWeb - IBM says its BladeCenter system uses up to 30% less energy than HP's BladeSystem. Analysts were surprised by IBM's direct assault on its main rival.

TechWeb - One console that was offered in an auction that was nearing its close on Friday afternoon had bids that reached $2,850. Sony suggests a retail price of $500 for the basic system.

Reuters - Computer and software giant Hewlett Packard Co. said on Sunday its largest research and development center will be located in Israel in the wake of its acquisition of Mercury Interactive .

Reuters - Yes, Dan Rather lives. And he's never looked better. Or so we hear. As this show was viewed on DVD in a converted, standard-definition format rather than the high-definition of HDNet as intended, we'll simply have to take the digital network's word for it.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Supporters of PC operating system Linux are preparing to counter a recent deal penned by Microsoft Corp which establishes for the first time the principle of paying the software giant for the operating system, whose license requires it to be free.

TechWeb - Hewlett-Packard was tops in shipments and IBM in sales in the third quarter, says Gartner.

TechWeb - The phone has twice the memory, weighs less, and is thinner than the popular Treo 650 model it replaces.

Reuters - German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG may withdraw from the Internet TV market in China, a local newspaper reported on Friday. Siemens has dismissed its team in charge of Internet Protocol Television in China, the Shanghai Securities News said, citing industry sources saying that it was a 'failure' for Siemens after the company had lost a bid to cooperate in the launch of IPTV services in Shanghai.

TechWeb - An inspection of the first batch of laptops to roll off the production lines in Shanghai as part of the One Laptop Per Child program backed by MIT's Media Lab.

Reuters - Break.com, one of the rising number of Web sites offering user-generated videos to rival the likes of YouTube, said on Sunday it would nearly double the amount of money it pays for video clips to $400.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless said on Monday it will start to sell a new LG Electronics Inc. smartphone, the latest handset with computer-like functions to join an increasingly crowded U.S. market.

TechWeb - The Project on Emerging Nanotechnology updated its online catalog of products incorporating nanotech, ranging from the Apple iPod Nano to Zellens Fullerene C60 Night Cream.

TechWeb - Nokia also introduced a smartphone, camera phone, and low-end phone including an FM radio.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. unveiled three new high-end computer processors on Wednesday as the chipmaker battles rival Intel Corp. for the 'power users' that often set industry buying trends.