TechWeb - InformationWeek - Get the most from your TomTom, Garmin, Magellan, or other GPS device by learning how to speed satellite lock, send maps from your PC, create POIs, and more from our GPS expert.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nvidia Corp on Sunday announced a processor line-up it believes will power a new class of fast, small devices with long battery life that can surf the full Internet, play high-end games and display high-definition video.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - While there are only about 115,000 registered users with RIM devices in India, it's a market that's rapidly growing.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc is rolling out a much-awaited line-up of chips for laptops, as Intel Corp's main rival seeks to regain a competitive footing against the world's biggest chip maker.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Looking to supplant Centrino, the CPU-graphics combination includes the Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile processor and the AMD 7-series chipset.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - In the lawsuit originally filed in 2005, AMD accused Intel of giving computer makers illegal discounts and retaliating against manufacturers who used AMD chips.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Looking to take on the iPhone, a Microsoft exec said mobile music will be a huge business opportunity.

AP - Amazon.com's Web site experienced problems in North America for more than two hours in the middle of the day Friday because of system issues, the online retailer said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Technology giant Hewlett-Packard Co. Inc. said on Sunday it had settled patent litigation with Taiwan-based computer maker Acer .

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing warned on Tuesday its second-quarter gross profit would be almost a fifth below its earlier guidance due to higher costs, but kept its net profit forecast thanks to a tax writeback.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Business software maker Red Hat Inc said on Wednesday that it has settled two of three pending patent lawsuits that the company has been fighting.

AP - Monster Cable Products Inc., the company that's synonymous with expensive video and audio cables, is going wireless.

SEOUL (Reuters) - When tens of thousands of Koreans converged in the center of Seoul on Tuesday for a mass protest against the new president, many were clutching two vital items: a candle and a mobile phone loaded with snazzy features.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Analysts say the latest iPhone has the security and speed businesses seek in a smartphone, and the enterprise applications they depend on aren't far behind.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Now playing: HDTV movies in your home, with a little help from Apple TV, Blu-ray, Netflix Player by Roku, Vudu, and Xbox Live Marketplace.

NewsFactor - Nearly half of all Americans have used the Internet, e-mail or cell-phone text messaging to get news about the 2008 presidential campaign, share their views, and mobilize others, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

PC World - The engineer whose 30-year-old architecture still influences PCs today talks about how Intel took the SEX out of the pioneering CPU, and other tales from the beginning of the x86 era.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The U.K. carrier O2 says more than 130,000 people have preregistered for the latest iPhone, compared with only 35,000 people who had preregistered for the original model.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Apple has proposed the Open Computing Language, or OpenCL, specification to enable applications to access GPU and CPU resources through a C-based language.

TOKYO (Reuters) - After taking on the big and small screens, comic book heroes like Spiderman and Superman may soon be appearing on an even smaller screen -- your mobile phone.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Two rack-mount products offered this week can apparently run Mac OS X Leopard Server as well as Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Ubuntu Server, and CentOS.

AFP - After weeks of tumultuous protests inspired largely by South Korea's netizens, the country which claims to be the world's most wired society is considering new ways to monitor the Internet.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Steve Jobs may not lose sleep over knock-off iPhones, but legitimate Chinese brands such as Ningbo Bird are fretting about fakes in the cut-throat world of low-end handset makers.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Plazes links its mobile phone users with each other as they move about.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's first advertising-funded mobile telecoms operator, Blyk, will enter the highly competitive German, Spanish and Belgian markets next year, the firm said on Wednesday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion on Wednesday posted a profit outlook that fell short of analyst expectations, sending its shares 8 percent lower, even as the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone posted quarterly earnings that more than doubled.

Reuters - AniBoom.com, an Internet home for animators to create and share their work, has raised an additional $10 million in funding led by venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Rogers said there would be no unlimited data plans, and prices range from $60 to $115 a month.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Steve Ballmer has been CEO at Microsoft Corp for eight years, but he will finally get to move into the corner office vacated by Bill Gates, the college friend who brought him to the company nearly three decades ago.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Digital music seller Rhapsody is launching a $50 million marketing assault on Apple's iTunes, offering songs online and via partners including Yahoo Inc and Verizon Wireless, Rhapsody said on Monday.