Reuters - Midnight sales under the
Eiffel Tower and at Berlin's Potsdamer Platz were aimed at
blitzing Sony's PlayStation 3 onto the European stage on
Friday, but the console faces tough rivals with headstarts.

InfoWorld - Scientists at IBM Corp.'s Zurich Research Laboratory have developed a glue-application technique used to assemble chips that will keep them running cooler, the company said.

USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle sued SAP AG Thursday for "corporate theft on a grand scale," claiming its business software rival had stolen copyrighted software and other confidential materials. Oracle accused the German company of gaining repeated and unauthorized access to its password-protected customer support website.

InfoWorld - Open-source rivals Novell and Red Hat are each highlighting initiatives to bring Linux-based functionality to the desktop.

BusinessWeek Online - Nokia Chief Executive Officer Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo promised in January that the mobile-phone titan would "turn up the heat" on rivals this year, and so far, he's proving true to his word. On Mar. 21, archrival Motorola slashed its first-quarter sales forecast and said it would post a loss in the period. The […]

AFP - Diehard gamers around the world, some of whom had queued for nearly two days, finally got their hands on brand spanking new Sony Playstation 3 games consoles after midnight launches in Europe, the Middle East and Australasia.

InfoWorld - A Belgian court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a company that said a feature for Google Inc.'s search engine offers up password-cracking tools and serial numbers to unlock their software.

Reuters - Cablevision Systems Corp. said
it lost a legal battle against several Hollywood studios and
television networks to introduce a network-based digital video
recorder service to its subscribers.

AP - Google Inc.’s YouTube is getting another challenge from the media industry, this time as NBC Universal and News Corp. join forces to distribute full-length TV shows and other video over the Internet, supported by advertising.

AP - Internet startup Livedoor Co. was hit with the largest fine ever in corporate Japanese history for violating securities laws Friday, the latest blow in a scandal that has led to seven convictions for former executives and accountants.