Reuters - A federal judge in California ruled
on Monday that wireless chip maker Qualcomm Inc must
immediately stop selling third-generation, or 3G, WCDMA
cellular chips that infringe on the Broadcom Corp
patents.

AFP - A Beijing appeals court has found top Chinese search engine Baidu.com not guilty of property rights infringement for posting links to websites offering illegal music downloads, state media said Monday.

AP - Millions of $40 government coupons become available Tuesday to help low-tech television owners buy special converter boxes for older TVs that might not work after the switch to digital broadcasting.

TechWeb - The maker, LG.Philips, will also show an 84-inch LCD screen at the Consumer Electronics Show next week.

Reuters - Cell phone maker Motorola Inc
and Metrologic Instruments Inc have settled all outstanding
patent infringement disputes, the two companies said in a joint
statement on Monday.

AP - If you’ve ever blistered your bare feet on a hot road you know that asphalt absorbs the sun’s energy. A Dutch company is now siphoning heat from roads and parking lots to heat homes and offices.

Reuters - As if 2007 could get any worse for
Lindsay Lohan, now this: Moviegoers tagged her with the year’s
worst performance by an actress.

TechWeb - The issue was acknowledged in October, when Microsoft warned “not to copy data files that contain alternate data streams to Windows Home Server shared folders.”

AP - The new video game “WolfQuest” allows players to follow the call of the wild in the role of a wolf in Yellowstone National Park.

NewsFactor - According to the Consumer Electronics Association, more than 50 percent of U.S. households now own a digital television — a milestone that the industry trade group’s president Gary Shapiro characterized as a “critical threshold” for the nation.