Intel showed off developments with its latest Mobile Internet Device platform, Moorestown, at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei yesterday, highlighting the connectivity it will offer.

"The full internet in your pocket is a major, major transformation," Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Intel Ultra Mobility said, while holding up a device that looked more like an iPhone than an Internet tablet, "It is not possible today. It requires some fundamental innovation to happen to make this pocketable. We're engaging in that innovation, and it's a big transformation."

The stock tickers Tuesday morning are just long stretches of red text with downward arrows, and Sun Microsystems said its numbers for the quarter will follow this downward trend.

On Monday, Sun released its preliminary results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2009, preparing investors for a larger drop than had been previously anticipated. The original revenue forecast for Sun was $3.14 billion, but the company estimates the actual numbers will fall between $2.95 -$3.05 billion, or a loss of between 25¢-35¢ per share.

Tenacious Taiwanese MP3 player company Luxpro has yet again engaged in litigation with Apple over its Super Tangent (nee Super Shuffle) MP3 player.

In 2005, Luxpro debuted an MP3 device called the "Super Shuffle," a screenless media player that looked nearly identical to Apple's First Generation iPod Shuffle. Apple won an injunction against the device for its use of "shuffle" in the name.

Thanks to the depth of coverage given to Microsoft's "Windows, Not Walls" advertising campaign, Apple has come forward with its own ads addressing the palaver.

Humorous and to the point, Apple's advertisements echo comments frequently heard throughout the blogosphere regarding Microsoft's $300 million "Life Without Walls" campaign: "That money could have been used on fixing Vista," and "Why don't the ads address Vista directly?"

When News Corp. and VeriSign came together in the Jamba joint venture in 2006, Fox Mobile's then-President Lucy Hood was slated to take over as CEO of a "new venture." Now, VeriSign and Hood are out and Fox Mobile Group takes shape with the former Jamba CEO at the helm.

Two weeks ago, News Corp. announced that it had purchased VeriSign's remaining share of the mobile entertainment joint venture Jamba, which is known more familiarly for its Jamster brand in the US, after having already a majority stake in Jamba in September 2006.

After last month's mistrial in the proceedings against accused copyright infringer Jammie Thomas, a defendant in a similar file-sharing cases is using the decision as a precedent for retrial.

Whitney Harper was not even old enough to be tried as an adult when MediaSentry discovered that her KaZaA shared music folder contained some 544 copyrighted songs available for sharing. Thirty-seven of these songs, from artists such as Madonna, Faith Hill, Brooks & Dunn, and Good Charlotte were included in the initial filing for summary judgment (PDF available here) against the 16-year-old's father.

Just one year after the launch of the Eee PC, Asus is celebrating its surprise success -- and consumers are finding the device on sale in unlikely places for less than the cost of an iPhone.

Asus is largely responsible for the current "netbook" craze. It was not the first company to offer shrunken notebook computers, and it certainly does not offer the most elegantly designed, but through the proper balance of price, power, and availability, the Eee PC legitimized a form factor with an uncertain future.

Yahoo has renewed its approach to making its site more social, rolling out a beta of its updated open profile system. The feature will enable Yahoo to better track and target ads to its users.

Yahoo has continually lagged behind the other "big four" search engines in the social networking space. Google owns Orkut and controls ads on MySpace, Microsoft has its own Windows Live Spaces and a minor stake in Facebook, and AOL owns Bebo.

This week, Sony updated the system software to both its PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3 video game consoles. Finally, Sony's portable console received its own access to the PlayStation Store.

Sony's PS3 software version 2.5 was made available this week, adding a handful of new features in video and system settings as well as peripheral support. With this update, the PS3 now offers Scene Search, a feature that breaks videos into one, two, or five minute scenes for quicker location of individual parts.

Without the addition of any new hardware, DirecTV Plus HD DVR users will be able to stream recorded HD content from their DVR to local PCs, or watch live TV on their PC while recorded content is being watched on the DVR.

It's a far cry from Slingbox functionality, but the DirecTV2PC beta adds the ability for multi-user households to freely watch content on multiple screens without an extra device. Parents should note that the parental control settings on the DVR are not automatically ported over to the DirecTV2PC software.

UPDATED Microsoft was forced to issue an official statement following CEO Steve Ballmer's comments yesterday morning at Gartner ITXpo. Ballmer's remark that a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo still makes sense caused an upward jolt in Yahoo's stock value.

The company's official word came later: "Our position hasn't changed. Microsoft has no interest in acquiring Yahoo!; there are no discussions between the companies."

BetaNews continues its side-project of tracking of the E-pizza zeitgeist as Pizza Hut launches a Facebook app that allows users to order food through the social network.

Online media analysis firm comScore ranks Facebook as the most-trafficked social media site in the world, and the fourth most trafficked site altogether. Its application platform is an ideal place for companies to engage and intelligently target users, and has already been capitalized upon by the likes of Levi Strauss & Co., CBS, and Neutrogena.

Google's Android Marketplace carries a warning that Google has the power to remotely remove applications that violate the developer distribution agreement, putting the G1 on par with the iPhone at least in the kill switch department.

In August, attention was brought to a blacklist for unauthorized applications located in the iPhone's CoreLocation API -- a blacklist that is tied to a remote "kill switch" for malicious programs. The existence of such a kill switch was later confirmed by Steve Jobs himself to The Wall Street Journal.

Capitol v. Thomas, the infamous copyright infringement case against a Minnesota woman who made copyrighted material available on Kazaa five years ago, ended in a $222,000 victory for the RIAA...that was thrown out.

A few weeks ago, the district court Judge who presided over the Thomas case retracted the verdict and declared the case a mistrial on the grounds that the jury had been falsely instructed about the culpability of those simply "making files available", where no evidence showed that any downloads had taken place.

Research firm Gartner has released its third quarter 2008 results for the personal computer market, showing that in the US, Apple shipments exceeded Acer, the company with the biggest growth in worldwide market share.

Globally, the Acer brand, which now includes Gateway, Packard Bell, and eMachines,shipped 47.3% more hardware than last year's third quarter, growing its market share by nearly 3%, the largest improvement of the top-selling brands. Gartner research shows that Asus and Acer were the two vendors who have expanded their market share the most through the popularity of netbooks. Overall, PC shipments increased by 15%.