AP - Sony Corp. is dismissing concerns about the cost of the new PlayStation 3, the video game machine the company is counting on to win a new round of living room dominance.
AP - While Microsoft Corp. has been beset by delays in its new operating system for personal computers, developers quietly have been working on a new version of another Windows, this one found in everything from sewing machines to sophisticated cell phones.
Macworld.com - Hit television shows from Fox Entertainment Group were added to the iTunes Music Store on Monday. Shows from the Fox, FX, Speed, Fuel TV and 20th Century Fox Television library are available beginning today for $1.99 per episode.
Reuters - Vodafone Group Plc shares rose as much as 4 percent on Tuesday as speculation mounted that the mobile phone giant will sell its 45 percent stake in its U.S. joint venture to partner Verizon Communications .
USATODAY.com - Munich arrives on DVD Tuesday, the last of this year's best-picture-Oscar nominees to be released for home viewing.
Reuters - Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes has started to sell episodes of shows from News Corp.'s Fox television network, the latest major U.S. TV network to reach a deal with Apple's Internet download service.
Reuters - Sony Corp. said on Monday it would begin selling its PlayStation 3 video game console in November for $499 in North America, challenging Microsoft Corp.'s early dominance in the market for next-generation machines.
Macworld.com - When it was first introduced, JBL Multimedia’s white and chrome-clad On Tour speaker system seemed like a good match for Apple’s iPod. Now JBL has introduced a new version of the On Tour redesigned for Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) called the On Tour Plus. It’s available for $129.95.
Reuters - Microsoft's new Vista operating system has put the European Commission in a quandary on whether to open a new front against the software giant before a court clarifies the EU antitrust watchdog's authority.
AP - Dutch telecommunications company Royal KPN NV said Tuesday its first-quarter net profit rose 40 percent, helped by a one-time gain and an acquisition in the company's mobile-phone division.
AFP - A self-confessed German cannibal has been jailed for life after a court here found him guilty of murder for killing and partly eating an allegedly willing victim he had met on the Internet.
AP - Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store has started selling TV programs from Fox Entertainment Group's networks, including shows such as "24," the companies said Tuesday.
Reuters - While much of the attention at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo is focused on new hardware such as Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Co. Ltd's Wii, the success of the next generation of video game consoles will likely be determined by their game lineups.
The Motley Fool - Ring, ring! Will somebody get that, please? It's long distance. TOM Online (Nasdaq: TOMO - News), one of China's leading Internet portals and wireless service providers, reports its Q1 2006 earnings numbers tomorrow.
NewsFactor - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, move over. There's a new celebrity offspring in the spotlight, and its name is PlayStation 3. Featuring stunning graphics and a new, motion-sensitive "six-axis sensing" controller, the next-generation PlayStation 3 was officially introduced in Los Angeles by proud parent Sony, two days before the opening of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).
Reuters - Time Warner Inc.'s Internet company AOL on Tuesday said it would cut 1,300 jobs, or 7 percent of its work force, largely at call centers where customer queries have dropped dramatically.
InfoWorld - Spyware researchers at Webroot Software. have uncovered a stash of tens of thousands of stolen identities from 125 countries that they believe were collected by a new variant of a Trojan horse program the company is calling Trojan-Phisher-Rebery.
Reuters - News Corp.'s pay-television network British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. on Tuesday said it will test technology made by Qualcomm Inc. that delivers programming to mobile phones.
Reuters - The young makers of an Internet spoof of the science-fiction classic "Star Trek," seen by 3.5 million people in less than two months, are planning to create a film-making community on the Internet.
AP - AOL is laying off about 1,300 employees, or 7 percent of its worldwide work force, and is closing its call center in Jacksonville, Fla.
Macworld.com - Blizzard Entertainment revealed a new playable race that will be included with this year’s release of the World of Warcraft expansion pack, The Burning Crusade. The Draenei will be available as an Alliance race.
AFP - British insurer Royal and Sun Alliance (RSA) has reported a 29-percent increase in operating profit on the back of cost cutting and an improved performance in the United States.
InfoWorld - Adobe Systems on Thursday will debut technology intended to make AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) programming easier for Web designers.
InfoWorld - Anyone looking for Sun Microsystems to relinquish control of Java to the open source community or to join the Eclipse Foundation is likely to be disappointed, based on Java guru James Gosling's perspectives on these issues.
AFP - Deutsche Telekom, the German telecommunications giant, said that group earnings rose in the first three months of the current year, driven primarily by its mobile phone operations, while the fixed telephony business continued to lose ground.
