Reuters - U.S. 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.
AP - The video-sharing site YouTube.com suffered an outage Tuesday, the same day a Web measurement company said the site had broken into its list of the Internet's top 50 for the first time. Few details on the outage were available.
Macworld.com - Newly published data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index show that Apple leads other personal computer manufacturers, beating out Dell, HP and others.
Reuters - Web video sensation YouTube.com, which serves up more than 100 million videos online a day, suffered a six-hour breakdown on Tuesday -- its first-ever unplanned outage, a company spokeswoman confirmed.
NewsFactor - For the blogging aficionado who spends hours tweaking his or her blog using a browser-based text editor, publishing may have just gotten easier with Microsoft's new publishing tool. Named Live Writer, the new WYSIWYG editor is still in beta, but so far it’s been well received by initial users. Live Writer is designed to look much like Microsoft Word, so a simple highlight and a click on the desired text is all that is required to make changes. ...
AP - Dell Inc.'s recall of 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because of possible fire and smoke danger has many consumers wondering if their systems are affected.
Reuters - CBS Corp. on Tuesday said it plans to air prime time television programs, including its top-rated CSI series and "Survivor" show, on the Internet for free.
The Motley Fool - Customer relationship management (hence the ticker) software provider Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM - News) has reported earnings exactly eight times since it became a publicly traded company. Exactly half of those times, it exactly matched analysts consensus predictions for its profits; exactly half of those times, it "beat by a penny." No matter what happens when the company reports fiscal Q2 2007 earnings tomorrow, this balance will be upset.
AFP - A Syrian military court sentenced dissident writer Habib Saleh to three years in prison for having "published inaccurate information" on the Internet, a Syrian rights organization said.
NewsFactor - AMD unveiled its next-generation Opteron chip, known as Rev F, providing reasons for businesses to adopt the new server processors, such as lower power consumption, advanced virtualization capabilities, and faster memory.
AP - Nordic consumer regulators will meet in Iceland this month to discuss possible legal action against iPod-maker Apple Computer Inc. if the company does not ease restrictions that prevent songs bought at its online store from being played on rival music players.
PC Magazine - The barrage of phone-related announcements and demonstrations at LinuxWorld underscores the growing stature of Linux as a mobile phone operating system.
Reuters - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. unveiled updated versions of its processors for business computers on Tuesday, hoping it will keep grabbing market share from revitalized rival Intel Corp. .
AFP - The recall by US computer-maker Dell of about 4.1 million laptop batteries due to safety concerns will not have any material impact on the company's finances, founder and board chairman Michael Dell has said.
Om asks where the money is? I say it's in add on applications and new services. The infrastructure costs have to be revenue neutral.Look to areas like access, identity/directory and new apps.........
InfoWorld - IBM at the SHARE conference in Baltimore on Tuesday is previewing Tivoli management software for its System z mainframes that is intended to boost the platform's standing in SOA and Internet computing.
PC World - Open-source OS offers several advantages, phone maker says.
AFP - The United States began issuing "e-passports" carrying data embedded in electronic chips despite concerns the high-tech documents could be read remotely by hackers.
PC Magazine - Norway's Trolltech AS has demonstrated the first fully reprogrammable mobile handset to help phone designers innovate as fast as their counterparts in the personal computer industry have done.
PC Magazine - The company plans to open-source its implementation of the Java ME specification by the end of the year.
PC Magazine - News Analysis: As Microsoft announces its retreat from the Mac virtualization arena, the fight contines with a lean startup in one corner and a heavyweight brand in the other. But questions remain on why Microsoft threw in the towel for Virtual PC for Mac.
AFP - Satellite TV dishes banned in China have been listed for sale on Internet auctioneer eBay's local website, despite a crackdown on the unlawful viewing of foreign programs, state media have said.
A payphone that is WiFi based? That's the idea coming out of Australia. Basically this means payphone operators can set up anywhere there is a WiFi cloud. How this plays out in the muni-wifi space is anyone's guess, as the...
AP - Google Inc. is enabling users to find and print coupons from merchants listed in the online search leader's index of local businesses, adding to a slew of free features designed to attract more traffic to its Web site.
USATODAY.com - REDMOND, Wash. - Reginald Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's new president and chief operating officer, spoke to USA TODAY's Byron Acohido about why he believes Nintendo, the top maker of handheld video game players, can retake top dog status in the billion dollar industry it helped create 20 years ago.
