MySpace music venture starts with 4 top labels
The venture - with Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Music - is MySpace's bid to compete with Apple.

Stop surfing, and chew some gum
A new campaign for Dentyne chewing gum features happy people embracing and kissing as an alternative to pounding their BlackBerrys and surfing the Web.

Wireless music, varied paths
New, less-expensive products are making it easier and more affordable to send digital sound through your home speakers.

Really feeling the music
Two new earbuds that pass audio signals directly through your bones or cartilage would be perfect, if they weren't so flawed in their own ways.
- Sony Ericsson to offer cellphone service with unlimited music downloads
- EU adopts law to raise telecom competition

Web-cams for the tech-challenged
Also: a new, portable MP3 speakers from Altec Lansing and an affordable OLED photo viewer by Digital Foci.

Beware hackers in your e-mail
The password for my Web-based mail account doesn't work anymore and I can't get into it. If it got hacked, what can I do?

Google introduces a phone with PC features
The $179 T-Mobile G1, available next month in the United States, is the latest in a string of challenges to Apple's iPhone.
- Sony Ericsson to offer cellphone service with unlimited music downloads

EU adopts law to raise telecom competition
The law, aimed at giving consumers a wider choice and cheaper services, was opposed by big operators like Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom.

Have your rooftop solar panels disappeared? Check the Internet
Solar power, with its promise of emissions-free renewable energy, boasts a growing number of fans. Some of them, it turns out, are thieves.

Cisco moves out of the data center and into the office
One of the giant companies at the core of the Internet is peddling e-mail software, video conferencing systems and cable TV boxes as it tries to get its products in front of ordinary office workers.

With Google phone, HTC gains fame
For much of the past decade, the Taiwanese manufacturer operated in relative obscurity as a contract manufacturer for many carriers, but that is set to change Tuesday.

Latest twist in Société Générale saga: A graphic novel
The publishers of a work of fiction about Jérôme Kerviel hope their take on the world's biggest trading scandal will add a laugh or two to the mix and earn them some cash.

Nvidia turns from games to industrial imaging
Nvidia, which dominates the market for stand-alone graphics processors, has a lead over competitors to provide industrial data-crunching hardware, thanks to a risky bet the company made several years ago.

RTL buys into Greek television market
The network is buying two-thirds of Alpha Media Group for €125.7 million.

Google in shift on 'abortion' as keyword
After a lawsuit from a Christian anti-abortion group, Google is now allowing religious organizations to take out ads using the keyword "abortion."