PC World - Asustek will launch new multimedia mini-PCs at Computex that come with Blu-ray Disc drives as an option.

PC World - Malicious software makers are using social networks, video sites, and blogs to peddle their wares to other online criminals.

Reuters - The head of the U.S. Federal
Communications Commission said on Thursday that the agency was
moving to respond to industry concerns about making the
Internet open and widely available.

Reuters - Research In Motion met Indian
officials on Thursday to discuss government security concerns
that e-mail sent on the BlackBerry device can’t be traced or
intercepted, but there was no news of a resolution.

PC World - With pictures leaked online, there are not likely to be many surprises at next week’s Computex trade show.

Reuters - In 2001, Jonathan Waite was living
in South Korea and lurking around in a futuristic online
whodunit called “The Beast.”

Reuters - Microchip design company Marvell
Technology Group Ltd on Thursday posted a
better-than-expected quarterly profit thanks to cost cuts and
strong sales of wireless products, and its shares jumped 17
percent.

Reuters - Hutchison Telecommunications
(2332.HK) has sealed a deal with Apple Inc to market
the U.S. firm’s popular iPhone handset in the city and Macau as
soon as the next quarter, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on
Friday.

PC World - Hackers gained access to the domain-name registration record for Comcast.net, knocking the company’s Web portal offline.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Sales of Linux software and other programs in Novell’s open platforms group rose 31% to $30 million.