Asustek has said that nearly 66% of upcoming Eee PCs will be shipped with Windows XP, summarily putting the Linux-based Xandros operating system the sub-notebooks used to exclusively feature into the minority.

The company officially launched the Windows XP-based Eee at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany only a week ago. There, it also showed off the next generation Eee with a 9-inch screen and larger touchpad.

Harvard, the Ivy-league bastion of higher learning released a statement on Monday that its database of applicants to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from last year was compromised.

As many as 10,000 applicants could have had their information exposed, with at least 6,600 comprehensive profiles that include names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, mailing and e-mail addresses, phone numbers, test scores, and school records.

Guitar company Gibson has filed suit against Activision with regard to its Guitar Hero music simulator game, claiming it patented the idea first.

Activision, which makes the popular Guitar Hero music simulator series, had been working in close conjunction with guitar maker Gibson, making graphic representations of the company's classic axes available to your game's characters, and even modeling controllers after the SG, Les Paul, Flying V, and Explorer models.

Traditionally a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) TV service, DirectTV's HD on Demand uses the Internet to deliver content. The service, which has been in beta since Summer, is expected to launch in the second quarter of this year.

DirectTV has confirmed to BetaNews that this morning's Wall Street Journal article stating its beta period is about to end, is correct, though the official announcement has not yet been made. One will come as the launch date approaches. The company already has over 1,000 downloadable files, including both episodic and stand-alone content.

AT&T announced that it will begin selling RIM's fourth edition (and counting) of its BlackBerry Pearl, the 8120.

The BlackBerry Pearl 8120 is almost identical to RIM's other Pearl offerings, with the main difference being that it supports 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi connectivity. Verizon's counterpart, the 8130 is the CDMA/ 1x EV-DO version of the 8110, the Pearl "standard edition."

Apple announced today that the iPhone SDK was downloaded over 100,000 times in the first four days. So with the documentation officially "out there," what comes next for the developer?

JupiterResearch analyst Michael Gartenberg said today, "This is super important because if even just a fraction of those downloads yield product, there's going to be a pretty complete catalog of applications available come June. Considering that iPhone wasn't a software platform as recently as week ago, this is really important news and bodes well for the iPhone/iPod Touch ecosystem."

The rumors proved to be true: Last month an advertisement leaked for LG's Glimmer touchscreen/slider handset had a big "Alltel" brand across it; and today Alltel announced it will be exclusively offering the device beginning tomorrow.

Based upon LG's Shine, the Glimmer has a slightly larger display (2.8" 240 x 400) with capacitive touchscreen functions. This 1900/800 MHz dual band CDMA device has EVDO data connectivity and is GPS-ready. It has 128MB of onboard memory expandable via MicroSD, Bluetooth 1.2, and a 2 Megapixel camera as well.

The single most popular Blu-ray player sold today isn't even a dedicated console, it's the Sony PS3. As we learned today, six forthcoming dedicated Blu-ray players could get something the PS3 lacks: total DivX support.

DivX announced today that six new Blu-ray players will soon come to market that have all achieved complete DivX certification. This means Panasonic, Phillips, and Denon will soon have players that fully support the format, allowing more than 25 hours of DVD-quality DivX content to be burned onto a single Blu-ray disc.

Now that ICANN is in the process of upgrading its root servers to handle IPv6 records, somebody has to get the word out to businesses about the benefits of the updated protocol.

The Internet Engineering Task Force is hosting the "IPv6 Experience" in Philadelphia, a meeting geared largely toward generating interest in the next generation IP.

By releasing its Vadowerx SDK to developers and business partners, GoLife Mobile is hoping to spark interest in the object-oriented framework for development of mobile micro-applications more commonly referred to as widgets.

Since the client is Java-based, applications developed within the platform will be usable on many different handsets, regardless of OS. The idea behind widgets is that the tiny individual applications reside in their own framework, like Konfabulator or DesktopX for Windows, the sidebar in Windows Vista, or Dashboard for the Mac.

Searchme is a new visually-oriented search engine which gives its results in the form of a viewable "stack" of page snapshots. The graphical flow of those snapshots may give Web developers a clue as to what's possible with Flex.

Anyone who's used iTunes will immediately see the similarity between Searchme's results page and iTunes' "Cover Flow" view. The two are practically identical. However, the search engine isn't merely aping an existing method of categorization, but is showing off what can be done in Adobe's new Flex 3 open source framework. The free SDK was released at the end of February with Adobe's AIR runtime and SDK.

The ad-supported streaming video site, and product of a partnership between NBC Universal and Fox, is opening its doors to the general public tomorrow after approximately five months in private beta.

For the first time, users will be able to freely stream Hulu's Flash-based, ad-supported TV and movie content. Many had actually expected the site to go live today, and several sources simply reported that it already had.

Gemstar's G-Guide interactive program guide, the company's Asian market equivalent of the TV Guide Channel will be coming to the Nintendo Wii, with no launch date yet determined.

G-Guide has found its way onto practically every platform in the Japanese market: DVRs, TVs, Mobile phones, and online. This marks the first example of Gemstar's IPG making its way into a video game console.

Iomega received an "unsolicited and inferior proposal" from EMC, one of the world's largest providers of data storage solutions, to purchase the company for approximately $178 million, and has promptly rejected it.

According to Iomega, its board of directors met on March 9 and unanimously determined that EMC's proposal both undervalued the company and contained due diligence contingencies that were too broad. During mergers and acquisitions, due diligence reviews are used to identify and assess business risks.

6:25 pm EDT March 10, 2008 - In a response to an inquiry by Billboard magazine, a spokesperson for Apple Inc. issued what Woodward or Bernstein might famously call a "non-denial denial" of press reports that Paul McCartney has finally made an arrangement for Beatles digital content on iTunes.

"This is not news nor is it a scoop," reads the entire comment from the spokesperson from Apple Inc., which is the former Apple Computer and not to be confused with Apple Corps, the Beatles' co-owned record label.