InfoWorld - Cyberlaw author and professor Lawrence Lessig has decided not to run for the U.S. Congress after briefly flirting with the idea, he announced on his blog Monday. Read more…
AP - Federal regulators on Monday said they are ready to discipline Internet service providers who secretly favor certain types of data traffic, like Web surfing, over others, like file sharing. Read more…
Reuters - Visiting Web sites that provide general patient information on prostate cancer is not the best way for men to get help deciding whether to be screened for the disease, a new study shows. Read more…
AFP - Microsoft confirmed on Monday that it will no longer make HD DVD drives for its Xbox 360 video game consoles. Read more…
NewsFactor - While microprocessing power increases dramatically from year to year, memory capacity lags behind. That may change as a start-up called MetaRAM addresses the gap with an innovation it promises will quadruple the amount of memory on servers and workstations at a much lower cost. Read more…
InfoWorld - Trend Micro has acquired Identum, an e-mail encryption software vendor based in Bristol, U.K. Read more…
InfoWorld - Covad Communications has jump-started a? stalled public wireless project in Silicon Valley? with a plan to target businesses first. Read more…
PC World - An overflow crowd attends the FCC's hearing at Harvard on net neutrality, the idea that network providers shouldn't discriminate against Web sites or various types of traffic. Read more…
AP - Falling behind rivals in flat-panel development for TVs, Sony is teaming with Japanese rival Sharp in procuring liquid crystal displays, a company official said Tuesday. Read more…
AP - ABC said Monday it will release hit shows like "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives" for free over video-on-demand cable services, with the hitch that viewers will have to sit through commercials without being able to fast-forward. Read more…
AP - The company behind the hugely popular video game "Grand Theft Auto" says it is not going to jump at a $2 billion buyout offer from Electronic Arts Inc. Read more…
PC World - The much-anticipated ThinkPad X300 ultraportable challenges Apple's MacBook Air as the lightest and thinnest notebook available. Read more…
PC World - Google is one of six companies in a new consortium called Unity that is building a new undersea cable to boost Internet capacity between the United States and Asia. Read more…
AP - A group of six international companies, including Google Inc. of the U.S., is building a $300 million underwater fiber-optic cable linking the United States and Japan. Read more…
PC World - The launch of a new family of Windows server products this week should kick-start a broad shift among customers to 64-bit versions of Microsoft's server software. Read more…
Reuters - Avistar Communications Corp , a video conference equipment maker, said on Monday it has been notified that Microsoft Corp has challenged 24 of Avistar's 29 U.S. patents. Read more…
AP - IBM Corp. rolls out a new mainframe computer Tuesday boasting a 50 percent performance boost and dramatically lower energy costs than its predecessor. Read more…
Reuters - Texas Instruments Inc unveiled new application chips on Tuesday that can be used in everything from music players to medical equipment, with an aim of expanding its business beyond the cell phone chip market. Read more…
AFP - Six international telecommunications carriers have agreed to construct an ultra-high-speed submarine cable to carry Internet and other traffic between Japan and the United States, Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) said Tuesday. Read more…
Reuters - The Internet is changing the face of Malaysian politics, becoming a virtual political party of its own as the country gears up for elections next month. Read more…
TechWeb - CEO Ed Mueller told investors his current arrangement to resell Sprint Nextel services is inadequate. Read more…
Reuters - IBM is set to launch the latest update of its powerful mainframe computer on Tuesday, a more energy-efficient machine that it hopes will compete with high-end computers from rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc . Read more…
Reuters - Web search company Google Inc has agreed to build an undersea cable with five telecoms operators that will link the United States to Japan, and provide the capacity to sustain a surge in Internet traffic between the continents. Read more…
Reuters - Pakistani Internet service providers may have inadvertently blocked the popular YouTube Web site across the world at the weekend when they restricted local access to the site, a telecommunications official said. Read more…
Reuters - An independent movie producer with rights to the horror movie "George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead" sued video game maker Capcom Co Ltd on Monday in the latest salvo in a copyright dispute. Read more…
