TechWeb - Despite the apparent focus on Apple's iPod at an event on Sept. 5, European telecom companiess are among those anxious for a chance to catch iPhone fire.

TechWeb - Here's how to roll your own computer equipped with Intel's top-of-the-line quad-core processor, along with CPU benchmarks and some lower-cost project alternatives.

Reuters - Australian Prime Minister John Howard used the internet site You-Tube on Monday to sell an Asia-Pacific leaders summit in Sydney this week, ahead of expected protests against global warming and the Iraq war.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The vast majority of Chinese schoolchildren chose to stay home and surf the Internet during the summer holidays rather than play outside, state media said on Tuesday, citing a survey.

TechWeb - Palm does plan a "Foleo II," but it would be based on the same platform under development for the Treo.

TechWeb - The chipmaker revealed six migration-friendly processors with Caneland chipsets designed to help companies build out their virtualization and server consolidation plans.

InfoWorld - IBM is launching a free syndicated content service Friday enabling access to technical resources and emerging technologies via systems ranging from computers to devices like the popular iPhone.

TechWeb - The processor's sweet spot will be in four-way servers, and midrange two-way servers, but AMD will need to show increased performance for the price if it wants to add customers, analysts suggest.

PC World - Offshore outsourcing's reigning champion, India, squares off against its upstart rival, China, on software quality, staff costs, advanced business skills and more. We also figure in a few top of mind questions for the IT manager who'll be traveling to his company's offshore provider once a quarter: Can I get a decent cup of coffee, and how long will I actually be on the plane?

AP - Technology consultancy Capgemini will begin recommending Google Inc.'s online suite of office software to its corporate customers, bolstering the Internet search leader's effort to drum up more sales to big businesses.

TechWeb - CEO Hector Ruiz touts performance-per-watt as the new gage of success in server processors.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - NTP Inc, which last year won a $612.5 million settlement from the maker of Blackberry, has sued several leading wireless companies for patent infringement, according to court papers.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has begun publicly testing two Web services that are the fruit of intensive, one-day internal programming competitions the company has been hosting to foster employee innovation.

TechWeb - The new specs will help to provide a consistent method for automated management of computer servers from multiple vendors.

BANGALORE (Reuters) - Portable navigation devices are poised to take off this holiday shopping season as market leaders Garmin and TomTom race each other to make deeper inroads into the mass market by pushing out cheaper models.

TechWeb - Three years after settling legal matters, Sun and Microsoft enter second stage of cooperation.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A European Union court rules on Monday whether Microsoft abused its near-monopoly on computer operating systems to push out rivals, in a protracted case that has major implications on the EU's power to enforce antitrust policy.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - IBM on Monday said it would start offering free word processing and other office software, joining a growing group of companies with free applications challenging a core Microsoft Corp product.

TechWeb - Intel's redesign of its Core architecture can host up to eight cores and is expected to be installed in next-generation rack servers, blade servers, workstation PCs.

CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Thursday it would postpone the launch of the 'Home' virtual community service for its PlayStation 3 game console to early next year, the latest setback in its videogame battle with Microsoft Corp and Nintendo Co Ltd.

TechWeb - The chipmaker's initiative includes information on performance tools, power management, and Linux that in some cases won't be available until 2009.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has been the target of a big increase in cyber-attacks in recent years and faces more of a threat from hackers than any country in the West, a military researcher said on Saturday.

TechWeb - With all that's going on, GPUs might soon become more important than regular multicore processors.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nvidia Corp is rolling out a graphics microchip that will be embedded in the main collection of components that make up a personal computer, as the company goes toe to toe with Intel Corp in the integrated graphics chip market.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp began its midnight sales of 'Halo 3,' the acclaimed alien shooter game that it hopes will widen its lead over Sony Corp in the battle for industry dominance.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is offering to replace damaged discs of its just-launched 'Halo 3' game for the Xbox amid reports that special limited-edition packaging is scratching them.

TechWeb - Any ongoing rally in the second half of the year will stem from a surge in memory integrated circuit revenue and a stronger end-equipment market, researcher iSuppli predicts.

TechWeb - Halo 3 broke records for first day sales, for pre-orders, and for the number of gamers who played the game online over Microsoft's Xbox Live system on launch day.

TechWeb - The collaboration is expected to ease software migration to new servers capable of running more business applications than older machines.

AFP - A court in eastern China has ordered a French electrical company to pay 330 million yuan (44 million dollars) for infringing the copyright of a Chinese enterprise, a company official and state press said Sunday.