AP - A startup is betting that people are tired enough of their cable and satellite bills to take a look at an alternative pay TV system that combines a number of different technologies to deliver programming.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forget the flowers and candy -- Nintendo Co Ltd's highly anticipated 'Wii Fit' video game will debut in the U.S. later this month, and Wal-Mart Stores Inc's online division is trying to persuade shoppers to order the game as 'a perfect gift' for Mother's Day.

TechWeb - SpringSource Application Platform 1.0 is an open source, lightweight version of an application server and will compete with products from Oracle, IBM, and Red Hat.

TechWeb - Bid to increase its enterprise systems management coverage hinges on OpenPegasus.

DENVER (Billboard) - The emerging effort to use videogames as a channel for selling music is entering its next phase with the recent release of 'Grand Theft Auto IV.'

PC World - Advanced Micro Devices needs to more than double its share of the microprocessor market to survive, according to a brief filed...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict will text message thousands of young Catholics on their mobile phones during World Youth Day in Sydney in July, hoping going digital will help him connect better with a younger audience.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The chipmaker introduced its two-year product roadmap for servers and workstations on Wednesday.

PC World - Two giant offers for free Wi-Fi extended, one from AT&T to iPhone users, and another from Cablevision for its millions of home territory broadband subscribers.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The payout was based on user complaints that led to Apple recalling 570,000 power adapters and offering replacements at no charge.

TOKYO (Reuters) - German carmaker Volkswagen and Japan's Sanyo Electric Co will jointly develop a lithium-ion battery to be used in hybrid and electric cars, the Nikkei financial daily reported on Sunday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd is launching a new high-end version of the BlackBerry aimed at its core base of business users, but it hopes the sleek device will also catch on in the broad retail market.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The company's adoption of solid state drives will reportedly save energy, speed search, and potentially lead to a shortage of 16-GB and 32-GB NAND flash chips.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - IBM's BladeCenter QS22 is powered by PowerXCell 8i processors and aimed at the financial services, digital media creation, and medical imaging markets.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - GTA IV also helped boost the subscriber base to Microsoft's Xbox Live online gaming service to more than 12 million this month.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Questions about a one-per-customer policy may suggest Apple is reducing inventories to make way for a new version of a 3G iPhone.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - HP says the problem could occur because XP SP3 tries to place on computers a power management driver that's only supposed to run on PCs that use Intel chips.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Your IRS tax rebate check can buy more tech fun than you think. A search for goodies from Apple, Asus, LG, Magnavox, Garmin, and others turns up computers, flat screens, a Blu-ray DVD burner, and more.

PC World - Intel will start shipping a quad-core version of its Itanium processor to system vendors in about six months, with the first...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese videogame maker Square Enix Co Ltd said on Tuesday it is considering taking stakes in game developers to combat rising competition from established companies and firms entering the videogame market.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The open source platform will be optimized to run on Intel's Atom processor, which the chipmaker introduced in April.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Gartner predicts that networking functionality will soon become commonplace in consumer electronics, freeing entertainment-based home networks from the PC.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - In order for an attacker to exploit these vulnerabilities, he or she would have to convince an iCal user to open an .ics file sent via e-mail or hosted on a Web server.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - In surpassing IBM, HP had increases in both its ProLiant and HP Integrity brands, which offset some revenue declines in other brands, Gartner said.

AP - An Indian telecommunications company has called off merger talks with South Africa's largest mobile phone network operator, MTN Group Ltd., a company statement said.

PC World - Nvidia is planning to announce a line of Arm-based CPUs at the Computex exhibition in Taipei next week.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Tuesday it has started buying chipsets, a key part of handsets, from German chipmaker Infineon in a move to reduce its reliance on Qualcomm Inc .

TOKYO (Reuters) - Rohm Co plans to buy Oki Electric Industry Co chip operations for about $959 million, the Nikkei business daily said, sending Oki's shares 5 percent higher and pointing to a further shakeup in Japan's microchip industry.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Japan said they were taking action at the World Trade Organization aimed at overturning European Union tariffs on computer screens, multifunctional printers and TV set-top boxes capable of accessing the Internet.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The new devices are smaller than the size of a thumbnail but can store more than 2,000 digital photos or up to 1,000 songs.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The reason for RIM's success? It's been able to broaden the appeal of the BlackBerry to more than just professionals, an IDC report found.