AFP - YouTube and Warner Music Group rang in the new year online despite a seemingly broken promise by the superstar video-sharing website to have an anti-piracy system in place by 2007.

TechWeb - SEOUL, Jan 1 - South Korea's antitrust watchdog agency has formed an exclusive team to investigate U.S. wireless technology company Qualcomm Inc. QCOM.O, state television reported on Monday.

TechWeb - Worldwide semiconductor revenues are expected to reach $285.8 billion this year, a 10.6% rise from $258.5 billion last year, iSuppli predicted Tuesday.

AP - Hollywood studios have approved a new technology and licensing arrangement that should remove a major obstacle consumers now face with burning movies they buy digitally over the Internet onto a DVD that will play everywhere.

TechWeb - Besides online burn-to-DVD services, Sonic Solutions believes its technology will be useful to companies planning to offer in-store movie kiosks where a consumer could go to get a copy of a movie not available on the shelves.

TechWeb - The companies, which expect to launch the service in the second quarter, are marketing the offering as a pre-built way for ISPs to tap into the multibillion-dollar PC game market.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. unveiled on Saturday a new entertainment and communication system running on software from Microsoft Corp. that aims to bring the connectivity of a computer to the car.

SACRAMENTO/LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp. said on Sunday they hit sales targets as their PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game consoles battle for top billing in the $30 billion game market.

TechWeb - HP's MediaSmart Server will be powered by an AMD processor and includes four hard drive bays and four USB ports for printer or external storage connections.

Reuters - Time Warner Inc. said top U.S. retailers would stock its proposed new DVD, which merges two competing formats on one disc, in a step toward getting consumers to pay more for better pictures and sound.

TechWeb - Google Earth and Virtual Earth are desktop applications the two rivals offer for download at no charge.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Canon Inc. will make a new type of ultra-thin flat-panel TV on its own, buying out Toshiba Corp.'s stake in their joint venture to resolve a patent dispute, the Nikkei business daily said in its Friday evening edition.

TechWeb - AMD issued a release warning that its fourth-quarter results would come in below expectations. Analysts say too much chip inventory and its price war with Intel are to blame.

AP - The pillars glide by as you float through the courtyard of an ancient palace. Moments later, the world turns blue as you slip along the ocean floor and poke through the Earth's crust in search of oil.

AP - AOL, a unit of Time Warner Inc., said Monday it is making a $900 million cash bid to buy Swedish online marketing specialist TradeDoubler in an effort to improve its Internet advertising in Europe.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The company making the biggest splash at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week was not even there: Apple Computer Inc., which

AP - Investors may just have to live with slightly lower profit margins at Intel Corp. as the world's largest chip maker is forced to coexist in the same markets with much-smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alltel Corp. , the biggest rural U.S. wireless provider, said on Thursday it revamped its cell phone user interface to make it easier for consumers to navigate wireless data applications.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc. said on Friday it will let subscribers who pay at least $110 a month make unlimited calls between their mobile and home phones, as it moves to stop customers from defecting to cable rivals.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Pop singer Lily Allen knows precisely where she was when she first realized her 'Smile' single was taking off in the United Kingdom: on the Internet.

TechWeb - Outsourced service provides deep dive into security of software code.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - IBM's Lotus unit will introduce on Monday a set of social networking services that functions like a MySpace for office workers and which analysts say marks a renewed challenge to Microsoft Corp..

CHICAGO (Hollywood Reporter) - What do Hillary Clinton announcing her presidential candidacy on her Web site and the continuing travails of big media's digital transformation have in common? Plenty.

TechWeb - For Sun to supplant H-P, Dell, and IBM as the server sales leader, it needed a second x86 provider and perhaps a bit more, analysts suggest.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp. said on Thursday it will launch the high-end version of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console on March 23 in Europe, but it has no plan at the moment to offer the basic model there.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - News Corp. is finalising a deal with partners to launch a networking Web site venture in China within a few months, venture capital and Chinese government sources said on Friday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp. and IBM have announced one of the biggest advances in transistors in four decades, overcoming a frustrating obstacle by ensuring microchips can get even smaller and more powerful.

TechWeb - Customers are the real winners, as battle for sales and bragging rights delivers faster and cheaper processors.

TechWeb - Intel is set to capitalize on a new chip-fabrication insulation breakthrough more quickly than AMD, but analysts say the advantage is temporary.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. rolled out Windows Vista at retailers in 70 countries on Tuesday, delivering a new computer operating system that aims to better manage the explosion of digital media and protect users from the dangers of the Internet.

TechWeb - Converter 3 can take snapshots of other brands of virtual machines, such as Microsoft Virtual Server, and migrate them to VMware Server or VMware ESX Server virtual machines.