Yesterday, eBay secured an important legal victory after New York District Judge Richard Sullivan ruled the online auction service actually did do enough to thwart the sale of counterfeit jewelry.

The battle between Tiffany and eBay started four years ago in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, and has ended with a decision stating it's the responsibility of manufacturers to police counterfeit goods sold through eBay.

In Nintendo's E3 keynote this morning, the official announcement of Animal Crossing: City Folk brought with it some unexpected functionality that the Wii had been lacking up to now: voice chat and native SMS/e-mail interactivity.

Animal Crossing: City Folk is the third in Nintendo's series of nonviolent, task-oriented, real-time games set in a fictitious village populated by anthropomorphic animals. Nintendo expects to release it before the end of 2008.

The home video arm of the studio will cut the prices it charges retailers to order its titles in the holiday quarter, which translates to significant savings for consumers.

With Blu-ray player prices likely to sink further in anticipation of the holiday buying season, and a weakening economy cutting down on consumer spending overall, Warner Home Video's decision to cut its wholesale prices for Blu-ray movie titles may make sense.

Oftentimes, it's difficult to qualify enthusiast-class hardware when it's just plain buggy, especially early in its lifecycle. Such was the case with D-Link's DSM-330 DivX Connected box, a digital media extender with wireless HD streaming.

D-Link's DivX Connected began its life as GejBox, and evolved into what we have today. At CES earlier this year, we looked at the device, and saw a promising future in it for DivX fans.

At a press event last night, Sony launched four new Intel Centrino 2-based Vaio laptop PCs, including an entry-level model -- the Vaio SR -- and the Vaio Z, the first notebook PC from Sony to be configurable with a Blu-ray disc drive.

NEW YORK (BetaNews) -- Sony is now taking orders for the new Vaio Series Z, FW, BZ, and SR notebooks online and in Sony Style stores, said Nobuyasu Nozawa, senior product manager, in a meeting with BetaNews at the press launch. The new models support HDMI for HD "video in," he said. All of them use cylindrical battery technology, too. Shipment is expected the first week in August.

Yesterday's announcement of the "New Xbox Experience" was just another step toward Microsoft's almost almost four-year-old goal of making the Xbox 360 the home's TV, movie, music and gaming center.

The Xbox 360 was launched in 2005 with Xbox Live capability, but it wasn't until 2006 when the real push for the 360 to be "more than a console" began. After increasing the size of Live games, and scrapping the HD DVD aspect of the home entertainment unit, Xbox Live experienced a growth surge.

What Intel has been calling its "tick-tock" cadence almost lost its "tock." But what was expected to be a June release ended up being July, giving partners plenty of time to build up Centrino 2 inventories in time for back-to-school.

After a delay of what ended up being only a handful of weeks, Intel's Centrino 2 mobile technology platform is now debuting worldwide. It's based on the company's 45 nm "Penryn" generation processors unveiled earlier this year, including the all-new Core 2 Duo T9400; and the new Mobile GM45 Express chipset, which boosts the memory bus speed up past the 1 GHz mark.

Litigants trying to get data on what the video site's users were watching have backed off somewhat, although YouTube will still have to share some data with Viacom.

Plaintiffs Viacom and a class-action group led by the Football Association of England agreed to accept a watered-down version of YouTube's viewer logs. That version will not include the IP addresses nor the YouTube usernames of the viewers.

What was already a two-way lack-of-meeting of the minds after Microsoft's last efforts to acquire all or part of Yahoo, has evolved into a colossal three-way misunderstanding, as evidenced by Microsoft's statement this afternoon.

In one of the more bizarre responses in a three-way merger deal fracas since the Viacom/Paramount/Blockbuster deal of the early 1990s, a Microsoft statement this afternoon -- ostensibly to refute some of the details described in a Yahoo statement early Sunday morning -- also manages to separate Microsoft's point of view from that of financier Carl Icahn. Specifically, the statement characterizes Icahn as exacerbating a deal that Microsoft was trying to put together at the request of Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock, not the other way around.

As adventurers head further into the wilderness, GPS maker Garmin launched a new line of handheld GPS devices designed for outdoor, fitness and marine enthusiasts, including one that's both buttonless and waterproof.

The Oregon line is the predecessor successor to the Colorado line of GPS units, with several key improvements added for adventurers. This new waterproof GPS unit has become buttonless -- a major difference between the Oregon line and Colorado line, with Garmin choosing a touch screen interface.

GPU maker Nvidia has been in the press a lot lately, for its tight-lippedness on the failure rates of its 8-series mobile GPUs, its dire competition with AMD/ATI, and its new Rambus patent litigation. Today, however, brought some good news.

Intel announced today that the upcoming single-socket desktop Nehalem CPU platform known as Bloomfield will be getting Nvidia's SLI technology, despite an article in the The Wall Street Journal this morning, saying that Intel and Nvidia were still "squabbling over terms of a 2003 licensing agreement" that could have blocked Nehalem chips from having SLI.

Creative introduced two new consumer-grade media players that claim to be capable of identifying different parts of an MP3 track that have lower sound quality, and remastering them to restore sound quality as much as possible.

The Creative Zen X-Fi and Zen X-Fi with Wi-Fi both offer a 2.5-in. TFT display, built-in FM radio, built-in microphone, a video converter, and SD card expansion slot for additional storage. All of the devices measure 83mm x 55mm x 12.8mm and weigh in at 69 grams.

A quad-core, dual-threaded processor that until now had been tested by the likes of the Japanese space program, is being unveiled this morning for the consumer space by Sun and Fujitsu.

Last May, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced it had built a supercomputer assembled from 424 new Sun processors delivering 3,392 computing cores, with a design that even some of Sun's employees weren't expecting. With eight threads per processor, they couldn't have been "Olympus" processors, which were only dual-core, dual-threaded. JAXA placed the order from Fujitsu back in February.

While it appears that information between Apple's new service and the iPhone are syncing as advertised, users are finding that push services between the computer and MobileMe don't work the same way.

Indeed, Apple has advertised the service using words such as "immediate," which would lead most to believe its service is exactly that fast. But even after applying an update said to enable computers for MobileMe, immediacy doesn't appear to be happening.

Today at E3, Microsoft announced some new features and content partners that will be coming to Xbox Live, the now billion-dollar division of the company.

Of the $1 billion spent on Xbox Live, over one-third was spent on movie and television content, and of all the converged entertainment solutions Microsoft has given its console, today's announcement of a Netflix partnership will no doubt add the most content.