Macworld.com - After successfully defending itself from a lawsuit by Apple Corps, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Monday invited the Beatles to join the iTunes Music Store.
Reuters - This year, Sony Corp. must prove it's not "game over" against Microsoft Corp.
Reuters - U.S. newspaper circulation fell 2.6 percent as of the end of March, according to data released on Monday, the latest evidence that readers are defecting to the Internet and other media outlets.
Reuters - Yahoo Inc. is set to introduce on Monday a long-delayed upgrade to its Web search advertising system, setting the stage for a face off with Web search leader Google Inc. later this year.
AP - The ongoing battle for living room dominance resumes this week at the video game industry's largest annual conference.
Reuters - In their continuing struggle to attract music fans from iTunes, subscription music services are resorting to what made digital music popular in the first place -- a price tag marked "free."
Macworld.com - Oklahoma isn’t OK, as far as the video-game industry is concerned. Pending legislation in the state linking video games to pornography and making the sale and exhibition of violent video games to minors a fineable offense is drawing fire from the industry’s main trade association.
NewsFactor - The prevailing belief among Mac users that their systems are more or less impervious to hack attacks might be incorrect, according to a report released late last week by security firm McAfee. The company found that the number of vulnerabilities in the Mac platform has increased exponentially over the past few years.
NewsFactor - On Monday, Samsung took the wraps off what it is calling the slimmest mobile phone ever made. Turned sideways, the new phone, dubbed the SGH-X820, is just 6.9 mm (.27 inches) thick.
Reuters - Verizon Communications warned the financial services industry may not get the secure networks it needs if Congress adopts laws governing high-speed Internet broadband networks, according to a company memo obtained by Reuters on Monday.
AP - Low-lying Cessna 172s fly in grid patterns over major cities, capturing eagle-eye images of every square foot from just about every direction.
NewsFactor - The iTunes online music store can sport Apple's logo. So ruled the High Court in London on Monday after finding that the hardware manufacturer has not infringed on Apple Corps' trademark.
InfoWorld - It should be no surprise, then, that Web services and SOA pure-plays have become hot property. The latest to be snapped up is Web services networking company Blue Titan, whose purchase by SOA Software was announced Monday. For those keeping count, that's four major SOA acquisitions in the past seven months, with IBM buying DataPower, Mercury snatching up Systinet, and Progress Software grabbing Actional.
AFP - Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker faces a new trial after a German court ruled that he was liable for the debts of his failed Internet sports portal.
Reuters - The number of Americans who gambled online doubled to about 4 percent of the population last year, as people were lured by its convenience, an industry group report released on Monday said.
AP - Steve Jobs, the former chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios Inc., has received shares in The Walt Disney Co. worth $3.9 billion as part of Disney's acquisition of Pixar, according to a regulatory filing Monday.
TechWeb - Embedding analytics into enterprise applications, Oracle Corp. made good on a promise to deliver compliance management reporting capabilities in the Oracle E-Business Suite.
AFP - A US computer hacker was jailed for nearly five years for hijacking around 400,000 computers, including military servers, and infecting them with malicious software.
TechWeb - Most open-source content management products mimic commercial offerings rather than offering new functionality, yet they are being used in innovative ways.
Investor's Business Daily - As Sprint Nextel gets ready next week to spin off its wireline local phone business named Embarq, its faster-growing wireless business has hit a bump in the road.
AFP - Sony Corp has set a price tag for its PlayStation 3 video game console of at least 499 dollars in the United States and 62,790 yen (563 dollars) in Japan, far higher than rival Microsoft's Xbox 360.
Reuters - Warner Bros.'s video unit on Tuesday unveiled plans to sell movies and television shows to BitTorrent Inc. for legal downloads from the Web site that was once blamed for aiding the swapping of illegally copied films and programs.
AP - AT&T Inc. plans to expand its high-speed Internet offerings by selling satellite-based access to customers in rural areas who can't be reached by broadband over phone lines.
AP - A long and winding legal road took another twist for the Beatles' record company Monday, when a British judge ruled that Apple Computer Inc. is entitled to use the apple logo on its iTunes Music Store.
AP - Warner Bros. will become the first major studio to distribute its films and TV shows over the Internet using peer-to-peer technology developed by BitTorrent Inc., the home of a popular tool for trading pirated copies of movies.