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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Music and games are the most sought-after programs of 2008 for hot-selling iPhone and iPod Touch devices, Apple said on Wednesday.

The White House has rejected a plan by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to require eight hours of backup power on every cell-phone tower in the country.

Nvidia officials on Tuesday reiterated the company's interest in the mini-laptop space but said it would wait for the market to mature before jumping in.

Digital game developer Electronic Arts (EA) announced its second move into Asia's online game market on Tuesday, by buying South Korean online game developer J2MSoft Inc.

You can count the number of DS-based first-person shooters on one hand. Three fingers, really, between GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, Call of Duty 4, and Metroid Prime: Hunters.

It's a Microsoft press release, so handle with care, but the company's claiming it did more than admirably on Black Friday, it hit the ball out of the park. Not only did the Xbox 360 outsell Sony's PlayStation 3 by three-to-one, says Microsoft, but the 360 managed its best Black Friday sales ever, including a 25 percent lift over 2007 figures.

WASHINGTON - A consumer watchdog group on Wednesday questioned the legality of several advertisements for medical devices that appear on YouTube and called on regulators to crack down on the promotions.

YouTube appears poised for an image makeover, with a pair of announcements this week promising less sex and more symphony.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is plugging its Internet radio service into CBS Corp.'s webcasting network in a move driven by dramatically higher fees for airing music online.

A British systems administrator who hacked into U.S. military computers in 2001 and 2002 will have another chance to make his case of why he shouldn't be extradited to the U.S.

I'm a Mac. You're a PC. But we both need antivirus software.

After years of belittling-and rightfully so-Windows' lame security, Apple is quietly "encouraging" OSX users to try a little protection themselves. In a brief knowledge base article on its support site, Apple suggests that running security software is probably a good idea.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Music and games are the most sought-after programs of 2008 for hot-selling iPhone and iPod Touch devices, Apple said on Wednesday.

Just in time for the busy holiday shopping season, Amazon.com has released an iPhone App that gives users a direct portal to the Website without the Safari middleman. After you sign into your account, the Amazon App lets you search, buy items with a single click, access your wish list and account information, and basically do everything the regular website offers.

I'm a Mac. You're a PC. But we both need antivirus software.

Good OS has introduced a new operating system for the Internet era called "Cloud," which is the successor to company's Linux-based gOS that Wal-Mart introduced in a line of Everex desktops last fall. The Everex computers were pulled from the shelves only months later after Wal-Mart cited a "tepid customer response."

A group of open-source software advocates set out a road map for the software industry through 2020 at the Open World Forum conference in Paris on Tuesday.

Oracle has contributed data-integrity protection code, partly developed with the hardware vendor Emulex, to the Linux kernel, the vendors announced Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller is seeking as much as $30 billion from investors to buy all or part of Yahoo Inc, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, boosting shares of the Web search engine by 7 percent.

As a registered dietitian in private practice for many decades, I must respectfully disagree with an important statement made by the author of the article "To Tame the Belly, Manage the Brain." The disagreement relates to the statement that "high-fructose corn syrup, which is virtually unavoidable in processed foods, may trigger the brain's reward circuitry more strongly than other types of sugars."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers using closed-circuit televisions to create an illusion have made volunteers virtually swap bodies, even making women believe they were in a man's body and vice-versa.