'Intel inside' ad campaign shifts focus to the Web
Intel has decided that its partners in the cooperative advertising program ought to accelerate their shift of ad dollars to newer media like the Internet.

'Assassin's Creed' video game attracts buzz for holiday season
"Assassin's Creed," an adventure game in which a Crusades-era hit man stalks and kills targets, could be one of the biggest titles this holiday season, analysts say.

Bloggers begin to tell the realities of life in Communist Cuba
Independent bloggers have to build their sites on servers outside Cuba. Only 200,000 of the 11 million in Cuba have access to the World Wide Web, the lowest rate in Latin America.

U.S. students fight copyright law
A growing movement on American university campuses is calling for loosening the restrictions of copyright law so that information can be freely shared online.

EBay begins 'Neighborhoods' social network amid broader reorganization
Building a sense of community should keep buyers and sellers at eBay longer, analysts say.

Blogging from Havana, secretly
A handful of other independent bloggers in Cuba are opening up a crack in the government's tight control over media and information to give the rest of the world a glimpse of life in a one-party, Communist state.

Fox News hires Carly Fiorina, ex-chief of HP
Fiorina has signed on as a contributor with the soon-to-start Fox News business news channel.

Former Skype chief has no regrets about how he handled company
But Niklas Zennstrom, who remains as non-executive chairman, conceded that he might have tried to squeeze money out too fast.

As digital grows, film businesses are shutting down
Eastman Kodak's film business is among those that has plummeted. The company has spent the past few years making a transition to digital technology and is aiming at third world economies to extend the life of film.

Blinkx heats up online video battle with Google
Blinkx, an Internet video search company, will start letting consumers make money from the videos they show on their own blogs, social network sites or home pages if they agree to include advertising in the videos.

The United States will ask the World Trade Organization to examine restrictions on the sale of U.S. films, music, books, magazines and newspapers in China, an agenda for an upcoming WTO meeting showed Thursday.

In its complaint, Washington says China unfairly limits who can import and distribute entertainment products, including movies for theatrical release.

China will have the right to block the request at the Oct. 22 meeting of the dispute settlement body. Upon a second request, an inquiry would start automatically.

The European Union's review of Google's $3.1 billion bid for DoubleClick will focus on the competition aspects of the deal, not privacy issues, said Neelie Kroes, the EU competition commissioner.

Google in April announced the proposed purchase of DoubleClick, an online advertiser. The European Commission, the EU antitrust regulator, said it would decide by Oct. 26 whether to approve or take a closer look at the deal.

Huawei of China plans buy 16.5 percent of 3Com, with the potential to raise its stake by another 5 percent as part of its agreement with Bain Capital to buy 3Com for $2.2 billion. The deal leaves Bain with 83.5 percent of 3Com's voting shares, 3Com said in a document filed voluntarily with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Intel received a "provisional extension" to Oct. 19 from European Union regulators to respond to allegations it illegally used rebates to wrest sales away from Advanced Micro Devices.

Stan Sigman, the president and chief executive of AT&T's mobile phone business, announced that he was retiring after 42 years with the company. Ralph de la Vega will replace Sigman, effective immediately, though Sigman will assist with the transition through the end of the year, AT&T said.

J.K. Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series is suing a community group in India for breach of copyright for recreating Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for a religious festival.