Britain to investigate competition in pay-TV market
Virgin Media complaint lead to regulator's decision to look at dominant role of British Sky Broadcasting.

EU to investigate SFR-Tele2 deal
The European Commission said the proposed purchase by the French mobile operator SFR of the French unit of Tele2 of Sweden raised antitrust concerns.

MySpace is not necessarily your space
Users of the social networking site protest restrictions on third-party software.

Briefing: U.S. trade commission to investigate Alcatel
Also: Electronic Arts to buy 19 percent of Neowiz; Sony, EMI Group win British court ruling; More.

Taiwan chipmaker gets upgrade for China
The chipmaker will upgrade production technology to 0.18 micron from 0.25 micron.

Local data is sent to cellphones by Yahoo
Yahoo's new Internet search system, called OneSearch, gives cellphone users direct access to local information.

Viacom seizes on online video advertising
Video advertising is the fastest-growing category online. While all TV networks are focusing on online video, few invested more aggressively than Nickelodeon's parent company, Viacom.

Nokia challenges Qualcomm patents in EU
If Nokia wins its case, Qualcomm will be prevented from collecting licensing fees on certain Nokia phones in Europe.

Sanyo chairwoman resigns as company troubles mount
The company faces an investigation by Japan's securities regulator into possible accounting problems and heads for its third straight annual loss.

Experiment unleashes citizen journalists
Assignment Zero, an experimental journalism site created by a New York college professor, seeks to use volunteer reporters in a process that has been dubbed "crowdsourcing."

U.S. trade commission to investigate Alcatel

The U.S. International Trade Commission said Tuesday that it would investigate Microsoft's complaint against Alcatel- Lucent over a patented system that integrates phones with computers for calls, messages and video conferences. The Commission agreed to open an investigation after Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, filed a complaint Feb. 16 with the agency.

Microsoft may be able to block Alcatel-Lucent, the world's biggest maker of telecommunications equipment, from importing products found to infringe patents in the trade commission case. (Bloomberg)

Electronic Arts, the world's largest video game publisher, will buy 19 percent of the South Korean online game developer Neowiz for about $105 million, expanding a partnership to develop games in a country where six out of seven homes have high-speed Internet access. (Bloomberg)

Sony moved to head off a public relations problem by announcing which older PlayStation 2 games would work on the European version of the PlayStation 3 console, due out Friday. Sony said last month that it would replace a chip in the PS3 model to be sold in Europe with software that would make it cheaper to produce but lessen compatibility between the two versions. A list of usable games appears at http:// faq.eu.playstation.com/bc. (Reuters)

Sony, EMI Group and four other music companies won a British court ruling barring one of the biggest importers in the country from selling cheap CDs and DVDs over the Internet. The High Court in London ruled that CD-WOW infringed on the companies' copyrights by selling in Britain CDs purchased in Hong Kong. (Bloomberg)

Toshiba of Japan and Hynix Semiconductor of South Korea said they had signed a cross-license deal to end a string of lawsuits and countersuits on patents for NAND flash memory chips. The two companies said that Hynix would also supply Toshiba with NAND memory chips. (Reuters)

The Bay City Rollers, the Scottish rock band, sued Sony BMG Music Entertainment's Arista Records label, alleging that the music company failed to pay royalties for more than 25 years. (Bloomberg)