Reuters - Australia's election has become a war of bytes, with Labor challenger Kevin Rudd swooping on the Internet's high ground to build an army of young supporters and a Facebook fanclub on a promise of 'fresh thinking.'

AP - Tom Curley, CEO of The Associated Press, called on news executives Thursday to 'stop pining' for the past and adapt to the new ways that news is being distributed and consumed.

PC World - ICANN sought to allay fears that come with leadership change as it announced a new chairman for the group, replacing the charismatic Vint Cerf.

PC World - Online privacy policies need to be easier to understand and more conspicuous because few people now actually read them, said panelists at a U.S. Federal Trade Commission workshop on targeted online advertising.

AP - Microsoft Corp. has added college basketball and other ESPN programming to the growing lineup of video content available for download to its Xbox 360 video game console.

AP - Once one of Silicon Valley's most bellicose technology companies, Sun Microsystems Inc. struck new alliances during the first quarter with two of its fiercest former foes, Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp.

TechWeb - The company said its Celeron-based SS4200-EHW is ideal for manufacturers building storage systems based on Microsoft's Windows Home Server.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. digital video recorder company TiVo Inc is offering a new service giving advertisers detailed profiles of its users, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday in its online edition.

TechWeb - Shortly after he began working for a rival company, Gary Min uploaded some 180 DuPont documents to his new corporate laptop.

TechWeb - By 2011, blades are expected to account for nearly 21.6% of all server shipments, according to analyst estimates.

AFP - US media and entertainment giant Disney will launch cell phone carrier services in Japan early next year by leasing local telecommunications networks, a press report said Sunday.

AFP - US entertainment giant Disney said Monday it will launch a mobile phone service in Japan in a tie-up with Softbank Corp., hoping to use its popular characters to win a slice of the cutthroat market.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is offering consumers in Latin America's three largest markets a set of mobile Internet search services, paving the way for network carrier partners to offer Yahoo services of their own.

TechWeb - Microsoft and the GSM Association say consumers want notebooks with built-in technology for accessing the Internet over a cell phone network.

TechWeb - The strong demand is being fueled by growing sales of consumer electronics, coupled with the emergence of large markets outside the U.S., according to a trade group.

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. sales of Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 (PS3) more than doubled in the weeks following a price cut and the launch of a lower-priced version, the company said on Friday, in a sign of changing fortunes for the game console.

TechWeb - Each member of Team Slipstream/Chipotle has been given a BlackBerry Pearl, which will be used to send team updates and to keep track of the riders.

AFP - Ang Lee's steamy 'Lust, Caution' has become a massive hit in China, and the award-winning film is also helping spread online computer viruses, state media said Sunday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese anti-virus company has warned against free downloads of Ang Lee's steamy spy thriller, 'Lust, Caution', saying several hundred sites offering the service were embedded with viruses.

TechWeb - The Phenom processor launch was accompanied by AMD's announcement of a platform called Spider for gamers and other computer enthusiasts.

TechWeb - Under the deal, Staples customers can seek data recovery from any type of digital media, from a notebook or a desktop to portable media player.

TechWeb - Motorola tested a fix that it will implement in existing and future Sidekick Slide phones. T-Mobile expects to begin offering the handset again next week.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Small Finnish handset maker Benefon , which has changed its business name to GeoSentric, said Nokia has picked its social networking application for the Nokia GPS handsets N95 and 6110.

PC World - Thousands of gadgets, systems, games, and other goodies pass through the eager hands of PC World evaluators each year; here's what they want to get and keep for themselves.

TechWeb - Hyperic, Zenoss, GroundWork, and Qlusters are expanding what they can do.

AP - He learned at the knee of his bookmaker father in New York, took street bets in his teens, and partied with Las Vegas high-rollers. He made millions of dollars as a self-proclaimed offshore sports gambling 'pioneer,' flirted with Internet gambling, and was pinched by the FBI.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Fast growth in the cellphone industry, the largest consumer electronics sector in the world, is set to continue in the holiday-sales-fuelled fourth quarter, research firm Gartner said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online media syndication company Pluck Corp said on Wednesday it would give traditional media companies the ability to link their Web sites to online social networks like MySpace and Facebook.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Thursday that it and four other Japanese companies would set up a joint venture to promote the use of FeliCa noncontact cards, used for ticketing and electronic money transactions.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc was set to announce on Friday it will bid on coveted airwaves to launch a U.S. wireless network, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter.