AFP - A Chinese court has issued tough sentences to members of a huge software counterfeiting ring, which distributed more than two billion dollars' worth of fake Microsoft goods, the company said.

Reuters - Nokia will focus on profit development amid a falling cell phone market in which many competitors are cutting prices, Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told the Financial Times.

PC World - Online forums have been filling up with the cries of iPhone 3G users worldwide.

PC World - Samsung Electronics plans to unveil a flat-panel TV that's as thin as just 6.5-millimeters at this week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it said Sunday.

Macworld.com - If you’d like to use your iPhone to sync up more than just contacts, calendars, and e-mails between your mobile device and your computer, Soonr thinks it has the app for you. The company’s self-titled iPhone app makes files stored on your computer accessible via your iPhone, allowing you to view, comment, and print documents when you’re on the go.

PC World - Taiwanese processor vendor Via Technologies confirmed its plans for a dual-core version of its Nano processor remain on track, but said recent news reports about its product plans confused this chip with another upcoming version of the processor, the Nano 3000.

PC World - Asustek Computer on Tuesday unveiled its latest Eee PC netbook, with an 8.9-inch touchscreen that swivels and can even fold down to convert the device into a tablet PC.

AFP - Japanese electronics giant Sony has debuted a powerful, fashionable notebook computer small enough to fit in a purse or suit jacket.

AFP - Sony chief executive Sir Howard Stringer unveiled prototypes of video bifocals and bendable televisions as he kicked off a gadget-rich Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

PC Magazine - At the CES show in Las Vega Yoggie Security Systems launched the new HyPC, a hybrid computer solution that provides complete browsing security by running the browser on its own internal CPU.

AFP - Shortcovers expects to be turning iPhones into electronic books by month's end with the release of a mini-application that lets people read books, short stories or other written works on Apple-made smart phones in a direct challenge to electronic book devices sold by Amazon and Sony.

Macworld.com - iPod accessories are pretty common these days, so it’s hard to stick out among the throng—especially when you’re talking about the throngs that flock to Macworld Expo.

AP - Technology companies face a bumpy ride in 2009.

CNET - When James Bossert saw he that his Whack 'em All iPhone game had 400 new users in one day last week he initially got excited. But that sentiment quickly changed when he saw that only 12 people had paid 99 cents for the game on Apple's iPhone App Store. Bossert e-mailed the person who claimed to have cracked and distributed it and posted the response on his blog.

Reuters - Upright Citizens Brigade player Aubrey Plaza has landed a co-starring role on UCB alumna Amy Poehler's upcoming NBC comedy series.

AP - Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it will consolidate four key businesses — semiconductors, liquid crystal displays, mobile phones and televisions — into two divisions as the company deals with the slowing global economy.

CNET - Wondering who that mysterious new Flickr contact is with all the slick product photos? Maybe it's a viral marketer.

CNET - PARK CITY, Utah--As Hollywood stars drew crowds to the screening rooms here at the Sundance Film Festival, several Web media pioneers--celebrities in their own right-- also got the spotlight Saturday at a panel focused on the future of entertainment in the Digital Age.

AP - Many parents would love to be able to give their teenagers a cell phone that couldn't be used while driving. Now some inventors say they have come up with ways to make that possible, but they appear to be relying on wishful thinking.

CNET - Beefed-up cell phone networks in Washington, D.C., got their first real test over the holiday weekend--with reports of scattered outages affecting people who attended the pre-inauguration concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday.

AP - In what promises to be a dismal year for tech spending, IBM Corp. packed a wallop of a surprise with its 2009 profit guidance: the numbers were so far ahead of Wall Street's forecast they were initially met with disbelief.

PC World - Chinese officials have closed 1,250 Web sites and arrested 41 people as part of the country's ongoing campaign against Internet pornography, and plan to extend the crackdown to content for mobile phones, China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said Thursday.

PC World - The morning after Sony said it expects to report its first net loss in 14 years, shares in the consumer electronics company slid 7 percent.

CNET - Microsoft announced Friday night that computer enthusiasts will have a while longer to get their hands on the beta version of Windows 7.

CNET - IBM has been quietly laying off workers in its North American offices since Wednesday, according to numerous reports online.

PC World - The bankruptcy filing by Germany's Qimonda AG last week marks a first for a major technology company amid the current global economic downturn, and it likely won't be the last.

AFP - Apple has won a US patent for touch-screen controls and gained a potential legal weapon against iPhone competitors.

AP - Sun Microsystems Inc.'s wobbly financial performance has done little to hearten investors over the past couple of quarters. But Wall Street found some joy in the server and software maker's latest results: sales weren't as bad as expected during the last three months of 2008.

PC World - Intel plans to detail an eight-core Xeon processor at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco next month, offering an early look at what appears to be the company's first eight-core chip.

PC World - Singaporean contract chip maker Chartered Semiconductor will lay off 600 workers as the company grapples with sinking demand for semiconductors, executives announced Friday.

CNET - It was a rather blase day for Yahoo's closing stock price Friday. It didn't shoot to the moon on the latest Microsoft takeover rumor, nor crater to the Earth's core on fears that the software giant is never coming back in some shape or form.