Selling TVs, without TV
Brands are trying to break away from their reliance on 30-second television advertising spots and differentiate their products by trying to give them some of the glamour of the fashion business.

EU considers telecom 'superregulator'
According to a person in Brussels with direct knowledge of the plan, the European commissioner for telecommunications, Viviane Reding, wants to create a new EU agency called the European Telecom Market Authority with power to override national regulators and pry open domestic markets.

Free magazines follow in footsteps of successful free newspapers
While free dailies have attracted millions of readers around the world - they make up more than 50 percent of the newspaper market in Spain, for instance - magazines have generally been reluctant to drop their cover charges, aside from advertiser-driven handouts aimed at, say, tourists or shoppers. Not any more.

Big Brother gets high-tech help in Shenzhen
Starting this month in Shenzhen, a city of 12.4 million people, residency cards fitted with powerful computer chips will be issued with data like employment background, ethnicity and reproductive history, and 20,000 surveillance computer-guided cameras will also be deployed.
- Iraq invasion inspired Chinese tycoon to develop software for police work

Judge says Unix copyrights rightfully belong to Novell
A federal judge ruled that Novell, not the SCO Group, is the rightful owner of the copyrights covering the Unix operating system, removing a cloud over open-source software.

Judge sides with Broadcom in Qualcomm patent fight
Broadcom was tentatively awarded $39.3 million in damages and legal fees on Friday in a patent dispute with a rival chip maker, Qualcomm.

Who owns the concept if no one signs the papers?
The founder and chief executive of Facebook, the fast-growing social networking Web site, is being sued by the founders of ConnectU, another social network.

Technology reveals new worlds to map
Geographic information systems use computers and software to link maps and databases for a variety of applications.

NBC Universal-News Corp. project attracts deep-pocketed investor
Providence Equity Partners is said to have invested in the online joint venture to bring the television shows and movies of the two companies onto the Internet, which still lacks a Web site, a name and a clear mission statement.

Britain publishes restrictions covering online gambling ads
Littlewoodscasino.com, William Hill Casino and Interpoker.com are among about 1,000 gambling Web Sites based outside Britain that are to be banned from advertising in the country when new laws take effect next month.