Japanese Firms Embrace e-Paper
Bend it, write on it, read it -- just don't try to fold it into a paper plane. Electronic paper is Japan's answer to rising raw material costs, depleted resources and booming demand for printed matter from emerging markets such as China and India.

Clear Channel: Text Us Song Requests
Clear Channel Communications Inc. launched on Monday a free mobile program that enables listeners to text-message radio stations from their cell phones to make song requests, get real-time traffic reports and access other information.

Microsoft Offers to Share Windows Protocols Past Deadline
Microsoft has agreed to a two-year extension of the licensing provisions required by U.S. antitrust litigation against the company, and is taking things a step further.
5 Ways the Apple Store Rocked Best Buy on iPad Launch Day... or Did It


Nikon Announces New D-SLR
Nikon's new D200 consumer-level D-SLR is not for beginners.
Berners-Lee, MIT Developing 'Web Science' Field
Thursday morning, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT and the University of Southampton announced The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), basically a group designed to set a research agenda for understanding the scientific, technical and social challenges underlying the growth of the Web.

Google's Chrome OS: Next Up, a Web Tablet?
Google's evolution follows an interesting trend. And if the line holds true, I think we can guess what comes next after the Chrome OS.

House Republicans Sign On to June DTV Delay
An effort to delay the impending switch to digitalTV signals got a boost Thursday night after Senate Republicans agreed to a plan that would push the transition to June 12.
Merged Sirius-XM Would Offer Discounts
The price of satellite radio offered by a merged Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. would be less than subscribing separately to both services, Sirius' chief executive Mel Karmazin said on Wednesday.

Verizon Buys Into P2P Tech, and Improves It
The ISP and backbone provider said Friday that it is actually using an improved form of peer-to-peer management technology, called P4P, to lower the cost of P2P applications used by customers on its network.
