Software giant Microsoft Corp. is setting up a research and development center in Shanghai for its online MSN service, its first such center outside the United States, sources familiar with the plan said on Wednesday.

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said on Wednesday it would have low-cost color screen and music playing handsets made in India through manufacturing agreements with Flextronics and Foxconn.

The majority of consumers have not yet accepted the subscription model to rent rather than buy music but this is likely to change over the next year, according to the head of the online service Napster Inc..

Paris Hilton has sued to shut down a Web site that displays her diaries, photos and other personal property in what lawyers for the celebrity heiress call “one of the most reprehensible invasions of privacy ever committed.”

Sweden plans to be the first country to open an embassy in popular virtual world Second Life.

Israel’s central Holocaust memorial said on Tuesday over 2,000 people in Iran and thousands of other people, including Iranians, had visited its new Farsi Web site documenting the mass murder of 6 million Jews.

China expects its installed power generating capacity to grow by around one third to 840 gigawatts by the end of the decade, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday Sony BMG agreed to settle charges that it secretly embedded potentially damaging anti-piracy software in some of its CDs.

Dedicated followers of fashion designer Prada can now add a sleek mobile phone that dispenses with the conventional keypad to give that finishing touch-screen to their wardrobe.

Microsoft Corp. rolled out Windows Vista at retailers around the world on Tuesday, hoping to dazzle customers with new multimedia features, while in China the focus turned to its new anti-piracy properties.

Two South Korean computer programmers have been arrested on suspicion of sending out 1.6 billion spam e-mail messages in violation of the country’s commerce laws, police said on Tuesday.

The newest, most high-tech camera aboard the Hubble Space Telescope stopped working last weekend and two of its main capabilities are unlikely to recover, NASA officials said on Monday.

Motorola Inc., the world’s second-biggest handset maker, said on Monday it would develop advanced mobile phones using chips from Texas Instruments Inc., the No. 1 wireless chip maker.

Nickelodeon, the children’s TV network of Viacom Inc.’s MTV Networks, said on Monday it would launch a Web-based virtual world for kids called Nicktropolis.

Britain is launching a database of thousands of shoes and shoe types next month to help track down criminals, thought to be the first of its kind in the world.

After more than five years of development, over 50 million lines of software code, a $6 billion investment and a few headaches, Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista finally reaches consumers this week.

News Corp.’s popular Internet social network MySpace said on Monday it will donate a national computer database on U.S. sex offenders to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

China, still working on its long-delayed homegrown third-generation wireless standard, has leapfrogged itself by launching the world’s first fourth-generation standard, state media said on Monday.

More U.S. teachers are using national and international online news sites in the classroom, leaving behind newspapers that fail to grasp the Internet’s importance in trying to reach students, a study found.

Once a haven for Japan’s earliest jazz fans, cafe Chigusa is packing up its thousands of vinyl records.

YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley said the leading online video service is mulling a plan to share advertising revenue with users who contribute to the site, according to a user clip and media reports from Davos, Switzerland.

The Internet is set to revolutionize television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PCs and TV sets, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Saturday.

Intel Corp. and IBM have announced one of the biggest advances in transistors in four decades, overcoming a frustrating obstacle by ensuring microchips can get even smaller and more powerful.

Martial arts expert Joe Eigo never imagined he’d win millions of fans and earn $25,000 when he posted a clip of himself performing a series of gravity defying acrobatics to a video sharing site.

Shares of video game publishers THQ Inc., Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., Activision Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc. were down on Friday, after Microsoft Corp. cut its Xbox 360 video game console shipping target for its fiscal year ending June 30.