AP - Technology-savvy South Korea isn't happy making only MP3 players and the memory chips that go inside many of the more popular models. It also wants people wearing South Korean "smart" clothes with built-in digital music players.
AP - When Yale football coach Jack Siedlecki goes on a national recruiting trip, he hears the same questions over and over from parents.
AP - The video games site GameDaily is now part of AOL. Time Warner Inc.'s Internet unit said Wednesday it bought the consumer Web site and its industry newsletter earlier this month from Gigex Inc. AOL said it plans to turn GameDaily into its flagship brand for video games.
AP - I hope Dell computer owners like classical music, because they'll hear a lot of it when they're on hold to order replacement batteries for their notebooks.
Reuters - A joint venture of rival satellite television providers DirecTV Group Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. bowed out on Wednesday of a billion-dollar auction of U.S. licenses for advanced wireless services.
Reuters - Business software maker BEA Systems Inc. on Wednesday said net income for its second quarter was flat with the year ago, but earnings excluding certain items rose 49 percent.
Macworld.com - Apple continues to look into what the company describes as “irregularities” in issuing stock options. But don’t expect the ongoing investigation—or an upcoming hearing before the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel—to have much of an impact on any upcoming product releases the company may be planning.
InfoWorld - Raising its profile in the SOA space, JBoss is readying upgrades to its jBPM (Java Business Process Management) software to support the 1.1 and 2.0 versions of BPEL (Business Process Execution Language). The open source software vendor also released a beta version of its ESB (enterprise service) bus this week.
PC Magazine - Brocade, Cisco Systems and Pillar Data Systems have joined Oracle in its validated Linux configurations program, set up to cover the entire stack of components its customers might encounter when installing the open-source operating system.
The Motley Fool - Just two weeks after announcing more market share gains in servers, Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD - News) is sticking it to Intel again. This time, it's a new version of the highly successful Opteron server processor that captured Dell's (Nasdaq: DELL - News) heart in May.
Macworld.com - MacSoft has posted a Universal binary release Halo. If you bought Halo before Apple started shipping Intel-based Macs, it’ll cost you $5 to download a new disc image from Macgamestore.com. What’s more, MacSoft is selling new discs directly for $9.95.
Macworld.com - The new Mac Pro features a potential breakthrough in Mac OS X OpenGL performance that could dramatically enhance the speed of 3-D graphics—provided developers tap into it.
PC Magazine - The computer maker releases an update of its Boot Camp beta software.
AFP - It takes only a few minutes to see why YouTube.com has rocketed to the top of the Internet -- hilarious amateur dance routines, a hypnotic juggler, a Hong Kong bus fight and the most incredible caterpillar you've ever seen crawling across a floor.
AFP - Playing music on mobile telephones and connecting to them wirelessly were gaining popularity in the US market, according to recent sales figures.
Reuters - Sweden's consumer rights agency on Wednesday said it and other rights groups in Scandinavia will meet Apple Computer to discuss their complaint that the U.S. company's popular iTunes service breaches consumer laws.
8x8, the company behind Packet 8 has of late been on a roll when it comes to patents, and today announced they have been awarded a patent for what appears to cover what an ATA does.If this is indeed what...
AFP - India's online population is growing at the fastest rate in the world, a survey by US Internet firm comScore Networks has said.
Reuters - Time Warner Inc.'s Internet unit AOL on Wednesday said it had purchased GameDaily, a video game news and review Web site, part of an effort to expand a portfolio of online information and entertainment.
AFP - French media and communications group Vivendi Universal has rejected an offer from the Polish Elektrim firm to buy its stake in Poland's leading mobile telephone operator, PTC, for a billion euros (1.28 billion dollars), Elektrim said.
PC Magazine - The company announces new versions of its systems management software at the Share conference in Baltimore.
The Motley Fool - Enterprise software companies are mostly prosaic but not CA (NYSE: CA - News). As I pointed out in a recent article, the company has experienced defections of senior executives (like the CFO, Robert Davis), a delay of its fiscal fourth-quarter and annual reports (because of accounting issues on $70 million in sales commissions), and "a material weakness in its financial controls" (which basically means the company has problems with its accounting system).
Reuters - Sony Corp. (6758.T) is betting on 16-year-old golf dynamo Michelle Wie to drive home sales of its cameras, laptop computers and flat-screen TVs during a holiday season critical to its turnaround.
Reuters - Consumer safety officials said on Tuesday they are reviewing all Sony-made lithium-ion batteries in laptop computers for fire hazards after Dell Inc. announced the largest electronics recall in the United States.
Reuters - A home video by two British teenagers entitled "How to be a Perfect Chav" is proving a big draw on the Internet, attracting some 30,000 hits since it was posted on Monday.
