Up for auction: The Weather Channel.
NBC, News Corp. and Comcast are said to be interested in bidding for the Weather Channel, one of the last privately owned U.S. cable channels.

Intel leaves group backing education pcs
Intel said that it chose to withdraw from the One Laptop Per Child educational computer organization over philosophical differences.

Wireless technologies for high-definition TVs to go on display
Manufacturers promise that sets incorporating these technologies will be in stores before the next holiday season.

Netflix partners with LG to bring movies straight to TV
Netflix, the DVD-by-mail company with more than 7 million customers, has a new strategy that may one day make those red envelopes obsolete.

Telescope project gets help from Bill Gates
$400 million telescope in Chile will be able to survey entire sky every three nights, something never done before.

Music industry boosted by online sales
The struggling music industry could be seeing the first signs of recovery with figures showing online downloads more than doubled in Britain in the last week of 2007 compared with 2006, analysts said.

OK! cashes in on Jamie Lynn Spears's pregnancy
Competition for big stories has become especially fierce among celebrity magazines amid accusations that checkbook journalism has rarely reached current levels.

Single-lens reflex cameras
Big, black and gorgeous, SLR cameras had a good year, with many fine models now on the market, writes David Pogue.

Not exactly the Jetsons, but getting closer
A robot with humanlike fluidity makes the future seem not so far off.

Gadgets of the Week
A camera case that really protects, time-shifting for radio, and a laptop with a touch-sensitive screen.

Abu Dhabi finances translation of broad array of books
As part of efforts to transform Abu Dhabi into the cultural lodestone of the Middle East and expand libraries there, the emirate's Authority for Culture and Heritage has chosen its first 100 books to be translated into Arabic.