Technology - AFP

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Swedish streaming software Spotify announced on Monday the launch of a music application for the Symbian platform, used by the world's biggest mobile phone maker Nokia and other smartphones.

LONDON (AFP) - Microsoft has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google, a report said Monday.

LAS PIEDRAS, Uruguay (AFP) - A laptop is now finding its place alongside a notebook and pen in schoolbags in Uruguay, the first and only country to offer an Internet-connected computers to all public primary school students.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - French videogame powerhouse Ubisoft will have a virtual fitness coach whipping Wii users into shape starting Tuesday.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Online auction giant eBay apologized Sunday for a technical glitch that caused a one-day crash of its website search functions it attributed to a surge in holiday shoppers.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - With its deal to buy Revolution Money, American Express is taking aim at the growing market for online and alternative payments, in a challenge to recognized leader PayPal, analysts say.

VIENNA (AFP) - Austrian cattle farmers no longer have to travel long distances to sell or buy cattle: it can all be done at the click of a mouse, on a new auction website.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US bookstore giant Barnes & Noble said Friday it had sold out of its new electronic book reader, the "Nook," and the next shipments would not be available until after the holidays.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US newspaper advertising revenue fell by nearly 28 percent in the third quarter, continuing a slide which has led to layoffs, bankruptcies and the closure of several dailies.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Cisco on Friday announced the release of a free iPhone application for anyone who wants to stay on top of the latest trojans, worms, or other threats marauding on the Internet.

TOKYO (AFP) - Sony Corp. aims to launch next year a new online service that will allow people to download content such as music and movies to their televisions and other electronic gadgets, a top executive said Friday.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US judge set February 18 for a hearing on the revised legal settlement between Google and US authors and publishers that would allow the Internet giant to scan and sell millions of books online.

HELSINKI (AFP) - Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said on Friday it would shed about 330 jobs in Finland and Denmark as part of a streamlining of its vast research and development operations.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Online auction giant eBay announced it had completed its sale of Skype to an investment group that includes the two founders of the Web communications company.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Shares in Dell fell sharply after the US computer giant said quarterly net profit declined 54 percent and revenue dropped 15 percent.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Google, in a significant development for deaf Internet users, announced it was adding automatic caption capability to videos on YouTube.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Associated Press said Thursday that 90 news department staffers were laid off this week in a move that helped the US news agency reach its cost-cutting target.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (AFP) - Google on Thursday provided a peek beneath the hood of its new Chrome operating system, making the software public and promising it will run netbooks by the end of next year.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Twitter used to ask "What are you doing?" No longer. The micro-blogging service now wants to know "What's happening?"

WASHINGTON (AFP) - China is sharply stepping up espionage against the United States as the rising Asian power grows more sophisticated in cyber warfare and spy recruitment, a report to Congress warned Thursday.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A major computer glitch triggered huge flight delays and cancellations across the United States Thursday as airlines were forced to input flight plans manually, officials said.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Televisions, which account for 10 percent and rising of US household energy use, must be made more efficient through a national standard, Senator Dianne Feinstein said in a letter released Thursday.

BERLIN (AFP) - German semi-conductor maker Infineon on Thursday upgraded its turnover and profits forecast over the next 12 months because of higher demand from the auto industry and cost cuts.

BEIJING (AFP) - China has vowed to tighten supervision of its fast-growing online games market, saying some games contained content that was "harmful" to players.

PARIS (AFP) - French book publishers gave a hostile reception Thursday to new proposals by the Internet giant Google to clear the way for millions of books to be sold online.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - California on Wednesday became the first US state to set energy-efficiency standards for television sets, a move designed to save billion of dollars in energy costs.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - EBay founder Pierre Omidyar announced on Wednesday that he was launching an online news service about his adopted home Hawaii.