Yet Another Blog

Reuters - Two more U.S. pay-TV providers, Time Warner Cable Inc and Verizon Communications Inc, plan to test systems to offer shows on the Web to paying customers in a bid to protect their subscription revenue.

AP - Americans tired of having their dinners interrupted by phone calls touting car warranties or vacation packages will soon get some relief.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp plans to slash the price of its high-end Xbox 360 video game console by $100, or 25 percent, stepping up the price war in the video game console market.

AFP - China Unicom and computer giant Apple are to announce plans by the end of the week to sell a stripped down iPhone without Wi-Fi in China, the world's biggest mobile market, local media said Thursday.

AP - The video-game industry has defeated more superheroes than Lex Luthor could ever dream of. Superman, Aquaman, Iron Man, X-Men: All rendered lifeless by forces more focused on making a buck than on delivering thrills.

AP - Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture.

AP - Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that has drawn some decidedly juvenile pranks, is looking to impose more discipline with new restrictions on the editing of articles.

NewsFactor - A "feature phone" could become more like an application-friendly smartphone if Microsoft's OneApp is successful. Released Monday, the new software portal allows a wide variety of phones with "limited memory and processing capability" to access such mobile staples as Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger, various games, and other apps.

AFP - US Internet giant Yahoo! said Tuesday it had signed a deal to purchase popular Jordan-based web portal Maktoob, expanding its reach to millions of consumers across the Arab world.