TechWeb - The highly miniaturized version of the Core 2 Duo made by Intel specifically for the MacBook Air could end up spurring a raft of Windows-based competitors.

AFP - The US Congress Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing next week to scrutinize Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar bid to acquire Yahoo in order to take on Internet goliath Google.

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Bezeq Israel Telecom, the country's dominant phone company, on Sunday launched a service that would block calls to porn and other 'improper' destinations in a bid to attract ultra-Orthodox customers.

AP - Yahoo Inc. will cease operating its online music subscription service and switch its customers to RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody music service as part of a new deal between the companies that calls for Yahoo to promote Rhapsody on its site.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Three global record companies have launched legal proceedings against China's top Internet search engine Baidu.com Inc, accusing it of violating copyright by giving access to music files, an international music trade body said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc is planning to boost its presence in China by tying up with a Chinese online music company to provide free music downloads, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

TechWeb - The phase-change memory device, which stores 128 Mbits on a 90-nanometer chip, is being tested as a faster alternative to conventional flash memory.

TechWeb - Rock is the first UltraSparc CPU to implement scout threads and transactional memory, increasingly important features for multicore processors.

TechWeb - Freescale said its LTE technology is working in cellular handsets on cellular networks and offers peak data rates of 96 Mbps on downlinks and 86 Mpbs on uplinks.

TechWeb - Big Blue introduces business intelligence products and services for banking, retail, health care, and other industries.

PC World - True mobile TV. Connected cars. Personal robots. The coolest new gadgets and services are still found in the Land of the Rising Sun.

NEW YORK (MediaWeek) - Since CNN embraced the citizen journalist movement in August 2006 with the launch of its iReport initiative, the news organization has received nearly 100,000 news-related photos and videos from viewers.

NewsFactor - Open-source Linux is coming of age for mobile phones. While Google's Android platform has attracted attention at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Spain, so has LiMo, another Linux-based platform.

TechWeb - The company has teamed up with Intercasting to build on its 40 million-plus members.

TechWeb - If Nintendo succeeds, then it would be the first time that the Wii has taken the lead among new-generation home video game consoles.

TechWeb - The announcement is the latest major blow dealt to the Toshiba-backed technology.

TechWeb - Here's how to find a DSLR, point-and-shoot, or ultra-compact digital camera that's right for you, with a look at models from Nikon, Olympus, Sony, Canon, and FujiFilm.

AP - Toshiba may pull the plug on its HD DVD business, the Japanese electronics maker said Monday, in what would signal the almost certain defeat of its next-generation video format to rival Blu-ray technology.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp unveiled a new initiative on Monday that will give college and high school students around the world free access to technology tools used to develop and design software.

TechWeb - Toshiba plans to stop shipping HD DVD players and recorders by the end of March, and end production of disk drives for PCs and videogames in the same timeframe.

TechWeb - Companies that dropped support for HD DVD include Wal-Mart and Best Buy.

AFP - British Internet service providers (ISPs) face legal sanctions from the government if they do not crack down on online piracy by April 2009, a minister said in an interview published Friday.

TechWeb - The GiFi chip can transmit data wirelessly at 5 Gbps over a distance of nearly 11 yards, which could have a major impact on consumer electronics.

TechWeb - Over the next two years a new generation of mobile processors and faster mobile networks will combine to put the power of a PC onto the smartphone in your pocket.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Pioneer Corp will stop making 42-inch plasma panels and instead buy panels in that size and smaller from Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial or Hitachi Ltd to turn around its loss-making flat TV business, the Asahi newspaper said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Texas Instruments Inc unveiled new application chips on Tuesday that can be used in everything from music players to medical equipment, with an aim of expanding its business beyond the cell phone chip market.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics is in the final stages of talks with Sony to jointly build a new LCD panel production line and the two may cooperate on another, bigger line, a Samsung source said on Wednesday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii game console outsold Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 nearly 4-to-1 in Japan in February, a game magazine publisher said.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it plans to cut prices of its Windows Vista operating system sold at retail outlets in a move aimed at pushing customers to switch to the newest version of Windows.