AFP - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asked Apple and AT&T to explain the decision to reject an application developed by Google for the iPhone.

AFP - Robots that can cook, dance to Michael Jackson songs or guide the blind are among the gadgets aimed at helping humans cope with illnesses on display in Spain at one of the world's biggest annual gatherings of new technology enthusiasts.

Reuters - Yahoo Inc, which last week announced a Web search deal with Microsoft Corp, will invest money from reduced marketing and infrastructure costs into its display ad, content and mobile services technology, its chief executive Carol Bartz told the New York Times in an interview.

Macworld.com - The beauty of a digital camera is that you can show off the results seconds after taking the shots. But sharing your photos with a large group means either being willing to let your camera get passed around or forcing everyone to crowd around the small LCD screen on the back. With the Coolpix S1000pj, Nikon offers a third option. This compact point-and-shoot camera can project your digital photos onto a nearby wall.

PC World - A Chinese teenager was allegedly beaten to death by counselors at one of the country's rehabilitation camps for Internet addicts, state media said Wednesday.

AP - Lenovo Group, the world's fourth-largest personal computer maker, reported a $16 million quarterly loss Thursday and said it faces pressure from weak global demand and intense competition.

PC World - Taiwanese DRAM maker Powerchip Semiconductor, once the largest DRAM maker on the island, plans to call back workers full time and end unpaid leave as the global memory chip glut eases.

AFP - The EU Commission on Saturday defended its record-busting anti-trust action against Intel, following a report that it missed evidence which could have boosted the US computer chip giant's case.

PC World - Despite recent drama, Google Voice will soon be available for iPhone -- as a Web-based app, says The New York Times.

PC World - Chinese police have detained 13 people over the death by beating of a teenager at an Internet addiction camp in southern China, according to state media.

PC World - Heading off our monthly round-up of the hottest gadgets from Asia is Sony's Party-shot, which attempts to make the cameraman obsolete -- or at least a little less necessary. The device is coming with a couple of new digital still cameras that also bring improvements on previous models. But Nikon takes the prize for the most innovative camera of the month with its projector-equipped Coolpix.

Reuters - Children are using the Internet to watch YouTube videos, connect with friends on social network sites and look up 'sex' and 'porn,' according to a study of the top Web searches by youngsters.

PC World - Here we go again.

PC World - Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has been forced to truck water to its chip factories in the southern city of Kaohsiung after Typhoon Morakot muddied up local water supplies, making them difficult to use.

Reuters - Facebook's vision of becoming a 'utility' that offers activities to keep people online for hours could set it on a collision course with the Web's giants.

PC World - Excitement for the Zune HD seems to be building in the blogosphere.

Macworld.com - TomTom's long-awaited turn-by-turn navigation app for the iPhone, TomTom U.S. & Canada (iTunes link), is now available on the US iTunes App Store.

AP - The White House is blaming unnamed political groups for the unsolicited e-mails it had wrongly insisted no one was receiving from its online operation.

AP - Hewlett-Packard Co.'s 19 percent drop in quarterly profit shows that the company still relies heavily on printer ink and the troubled personal computer market, despite the aggressive transformation it's undertaking to branch out and encroach more on rival IBM Corp.'s turf.

PC World - The PlayStation 3 Slim gaming console from Sony Computer Entertainment is not only smaller and cheaper, but adds hardware enhancements that make it speedier, including a new Cell microprocessor.

AP - Panasonic Corp. has signed on 'Titanic' director James Cameron and his upcoming film in an advertising blitz for its TVs equipped with 3-D technology, both sides said Friday.

Reuters - Most music videos might not have the promotional impact they used to. But what about videos that make fans the star, allow them to sing with an artist and seem to pop out of the screen?

AFP - The boom in 'smartphones', led by Apple's iPhone, has inspired language learning tools that would have been inconceivable just months ago -- and a Hong Kong firm is leading the charge.

AFP - China Mobile and Taiwan's leading smartphone maker HTC Corp have agreed to work together to develop products for the mainland's third generation mobile network, the companies said Monday.

Macworld.com - Striving to provide an all-in-one-retail-box solution to Windows users who want to switch to the Mac, Parallels announced Tuesday that it’s releasing a new version of its Parallels Desktop software that comes with a USB transfer cable and in-depth interactive tutorials to ease in the Windows-to-Mac transition.

AFP - Google has invited US motorists to share their progress -- or lack thereof -- with other drivers through the Internet giant's online mapping service linked to smart phones.

Reuters - China Unicom will announce a deal to sell Apple's iPhone in China as soon as Friday, an analyst said, citing an industry source with direct knowledge of the situation.

PC World - People in most of the Western world will start seeing price reductions on Xbox 360 game consoles Friday, but Japan and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region will have to wait.

AP - Watch what you tweet.

AP - Goofy videos weren't on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that have drawn more than a billion people online.

PC World - Add open-source BI (business intelligence) vendor Pentaho to the list of vendors rolling out financial incentives to lure customers during the global recession.