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CNET - The Recording Industry Association of America is appealing a judge's decision last month to declare a mistrial in the case of Jammie Thomas, who was ordered to pay the recording industry $222,000 for allegedly sharing music online.

THE South Australian government has pulled the plug on its $5 million records management system project after repeated cost blowouts.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China was silent on media freedom on Friday, the expiry date of special Olympic regulations that had officially allowed foreign journalists to report freely in most of the country for nearly two years. Local governments across China, which once had to approve any visit by overseas correspondents to their regions, said they would still follow the temporary rules in the short term.

(Reuters) - Social networking site Facebook's founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg plans to enter the digital-music business in the wake of the launch of News Corp's MySpace Music last month, the New York Post said.

Consumers say Apple must lower the phone's $500 price for them to make the move.

HP still rules, Sun is making money again and mainframe sales keep on chugging.

The search giant starts a program to protect its financial results from changes in exchange rates of foreign currencies compared to the U.S. dollar.

Though fewer servers were sold, the research firm points to the trend in virtualization and consolidation.

LONDON (Reuters) - British police said on Friday they had shut down a highly sophisticated website that allowed fraudsters around the world to trade in stolen credit card details and find out about the latest online scams.

Google reportedly is calling on its advertisers who also use Yahoo to publicly tout its proposed search advertising partnership with its rival, as a deadline looms next week for federal antitrust regulators to weigh in on whether they will challenge the d