Reuters - U.S. sales of video games, devices
and accessories rose 33 percent to $1.1 billion in March,
propelled by sales of new video game consoles like the popular
Wii from Nintendo Co. Ltd.(7974.OS), market research firm NPD
said on Thursday.

InfoWorld - MySpace.com has launched a beta of a news site it hopes will bring more advertising revenue to the popular social networking site.

AFP - SAP, the world's leading maker of business software, said on Friday that earnings rose strongly in the first three months of the current year, even if the increase fell short of expectations.

TechWeb - The 7.04 server and desktop edition includes a Java boost from Sun Microsystems and a vote of confidence from PC magnate Michael Dell.

AFP - Sony Ericsson, which makes mobile telephones, reported a leap in first-quarter profits on Friday owing to a 63-percent surge in the number of telephones sold.

InfoWorld - The addition of a new software routine caused the multi-hour failure of Research in Motion's Blackberry messaging service in North America earlier this week, the company said Friday.

Reuters - A massive service outage of Research
In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry e-mail that
frustrated thousands of users across North America earlier this
week was caused by a "non-critical" software upgrade, the Wall
Street Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday.

AP - Many Web sites have ignored federal warnings against making unfounded health claims in promoting hormone products to treat menopause, the government said Thursday.

AP - It was inevitable that the online video world would offer its take on a crime glimpsed as it unfolded most dramatically via a cell phone camera, carried out by a student who put together a CD-ROM of his manifesto and mailed it to a TV news network.

AP - Back by popular demand: Windows XP. PC maker Dell Inc. said on its Web site Thursday it will once again let home PC buyers choose between Microsoft Corp.’s older operating system and Windows Vista when they purchase certain new machines.