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China Shutters More Blogs

The Chinese government has ordered the shutdown of more blogs as its parliament opens a 10-day session.

TDK Plans to Cease CD, DVD Production

TDK has announced it plans to stop making recordable CDs and DVDs due to low market prices and increasing costs for raw materials.

LG To Support Both HD DVD and Blu-Ray

The battle between HD DVD and Blu-Ray has gained another fence-sitter as LG Electronics announces it will support both high-definition technologies.

Toshiba Shows Qosmio G30 HD DVD Notebook

Toshiba's unveiled the Qosmio G30, its first notebook computer with HD DVD capability, due to ship in Europe next month. What features! And what a price tag!

Program Your TiVo From Your Verizon Phone

Verizon and TiVo have announced TiVo Mobile, a new mobile application that lets TiVO subscribers schedule recordings from their mobile phones.

Cingular Launches 3G Phones, Video Service

Cingular Wireless has launched a new $20/month mobile video service for two 3G mobile phones.

AOL: Non-Profits Get Free Certified Email

Responding to mounting criticism, AOL says qualified non-profit organizations will never have to pay to have their email certified as legitimate.

DOJ Investigating Online Music Pricing

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into anti-competitive online music pricing.

Google Moving China Search Data to U.S.

Google is moving search records produced by its Chinese search engine to the U.S. to prevent the Chinese government from ceasing the data without Google's consent.

ABC to Carry Top Google Searches and News

A deal between Google and ABC News will put Google's Top search terms and most popular news stories into daily Webcasts of "World News Now."

Nokia: Mobile TV to be Mainstream by 2008

In its SEC filings, handset maker Nokia says it expects mobile TV to reach the mass market by 2008.

Apple Patches Mac OS X Security Holes

Apple's Security Update 2006-001 includes patches for the recent Leap.A and shell script exploits, as well as unrelated fixes for a number of other system components.

Napster Laments But Still Bets On WMA

Napster CEO Chris Gorog says technical logjams with Windows Media audio and portable devices have hurt iTunes competitors, but predicts WMA will ultimately prevail.

VeriSign Keeps Control of .com Through 2012

ICANN's board of directors has approved a settlement agreement which lets VeriSign keep control of the .com top-level domain through at least 2012.

AOL Unfazed by Paid-Email Criticism

America Online says it plans to begin offering pay-to-send preferred email service within 30 days, despite mounting criticism from diverse groups.

iTunes Adds Shows, Oscar-nominated Shorts

iTunes has added three new shows from the Bravo cable channel, plus five films nominated Oscars this year in the Best Live Action Short Film category.

Put Flickr on Your Phone With netomat

The free netomat hub service has been optimized for Flickr, enabling users to receive Flickr photo stream updates on their mobile phones.

SEC Shuts Down Paid Auto-Surf Ponzi Scheme

The Security and Exchange Commission has shut down an online Ponzi scheme which bilked surfers out of $50 million by promising high returns just for looking at ads.

Apple Debuts Intel Mini, iPod Hi-Fi

At a special press event today, Apple took the wraps off an Intel-based Mac mini and the new iPod Hi-Fi high quality portable stereo for iPods.

Study: Most Cameraphone Users Don’t Share

A picture might be worth a thousand words, but Ireland's Research and Markets finds less than one third of camera phone users share picture messages with others.

Sony Ericcson: Cyber-Shot Blogger Phones

Sony Ericsson showed its new K800 and K790 phones today, including two with cameras carrying the Cyber-shot name and built-in Blogger software.

U.S. Home Internet Adoption Slowing Down

A study from Parks Associates finds 36 percent of American homes aren't online at all, and, of those, very few intend to get Internet access anytime soon.

Google Puts National Archives Films Online

Google and the National Archive have announced a pilot program to put historic films online for free.

Broadband in Rural America Slowly Growing

The Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that the gap between urban and rural broadband access in the U.S. is still substantial, but it is narrowing.

TiVo Mulling Free Set-Top Boxes

TiVo CEO Tom Rogers said the company is considering new pricing options for its DVR products, including a plan which would include a free set-top TiVo.

BlackBerry Dodges First Shutdown Bullet

A federal judge took no action against BlackBerry maker RIM today, but said if RIM and NTP don't settle, he will issue an injunction next week.

Politicos Unite Against AOL ‘Email Tax’

MoveOn.org has launched a petition campaign against America Online's proposed certified email service, and claims both liberal and conservative allies.

Perfect 10 Wins Copyright Fight with Google

A U.S. district judge has ruled Google's image search infringes on the copyrights of adult content publisher Perfect 10.

Sonos Desktop Controller for Intel Macs

Sonos has released a Universal binary version of its Sonos Desktop Controller software, letting Apple's new Intel-based Macs drive its wireless music systems.

Sony Jumps to First Place In LCD TVs

Sony has jumped from fourth place to first place in the LCD TV market, with its Bravia line knocking Sharp out of the top spot for the first time.

Raids Close eDonkey File Sharing Server

Joint raids in Belgium and Switzerland have shut down eDonkey's Razorback2 server, used by roughly a third of the file-sharing network's users.

iTunes: Get One ‘Conviction’ Free

Apple's iTunes Music Store is offering the pilot episode of the latest Law & Order spinoff "Conviction" available for free download up to its broadcast premiere March 3.

Survey: Travelling Wi-Fi Users Stay Online

A new study from Research and Markets finds that 60 percent of Wi-Fi users plan their travel with Wi-Fi availability as a consideration.

Epson Sues More Cartridge Vendors

Seiko Epson has filed another round of lawsuits against companies which make or resell third party ink cartridges it claims infringe on their patents.

New EU Antitrust Charges Against Microsoft

The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), which includes Microsoft customers and rivals, has filed new antitrust complaints against Microsoft with the European Union.

Judge Nudges BlackBerry Closer to Shutdown

The federal judge denied proceedings to exempt government BlackBerry users from a potential service shutdown just as one of NTP's patents is (presumably) formerly invalidated.

WebEx Makes AOL’s Business Buddy List

WebEx and AOL are teaming up to create AIM Pro, a version of AOL's Instant Messenger for business users.

Virgin Mobile Surveys the Pain of SMS

A survey for the U.K.'s Virgin Mobile finds 3.8 million people now complain of soreness and injuries from text messaging every year.