Reuters - A Shenzhen company has been fined for sending bulk junk email in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in China where more than 50 billion spam messages are received a year, state media said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Warner Bros. film studio on Monday unveiled a new division to make and distribute movies directly to DVD consumers - a first for the company - and it put a veteran marketing executive in charge of the group.

USATODAY.com - Two months into the format war over the next generation of home video discs, neither HD DVD nor Blu-ray has made much of an impact on the market. That's not too surprising, given the marketplace confusion over the dueling formats and the time it usually takes consumers to adopt new technologies.

PC Magazine - Toshiba's newest projector offering is reliable enough for work use, but has plenty of features geared toward home use as well.

Reuters - Closely held YouTube Inc., a video Web site, is expanding the type of advertisements it sells to include videos on its home page and on special advertiser-created pages, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing company executives.

Wing Commander Andy Green gets closer to his goal to set a new world record for land speed in JCB's Dieselmax vehicle. During two test runs, the Dieselmax breaks the course record for diesel-powered vehicles at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah....

International sales of liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions were up 135 percent to $11.3 billion USD. Second quarter data by DisplaySearch, a research unit of the NPD Group, shows global shipments of LCDs made up 22 percent of all television sales, up from 17 percent a quarter ago....

TechWeb - Apparently, Microsoft wants to help Mozilla if it's interested in making sure the Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client run under Windows Vista.

Reuters - Software provider Salesforce.com Inc. said on Tuesday that it has acquired start-up Kieden Corp., which helps customers track sales leads generated with online advertisements on Google Inc..

InfoWorld - Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff used a dinner presentation to Boston-area customers, analysts and members of the press Monday evening to announce a new search marketing service that will allow companies to manage Google AdWords marketing campaigns directly from Salesforce's CRM software.

AFP - SanDisk Corporation introduced the world's highest-capacity MP3 player and priced it to take a bigger bite of the market dominated by Apple's iPod.

Reuters - SanDisk Corp. on Monday introduced a new digital music player that stores twice as many songs as the popular iPod Nano for nearly the same price and cut the cost of existing models ahead of the holiday shopping season.

Reuters - The U.S. government will not require recorders in autos but said on Monday that car makers must tell consumers when technology that tracks speed, braking and other measurements is in the new vehicles they buy.

Reuters - Japan's Fuji Photo Film Co. (4901.T) and China's SVA Electron Co. Ltd. (600602.SS) will together spend $270 million to make color filters used in liquid-crystal displays, Fuji Photo said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Twenty-five years after John McEnroe told an umpire "You cannot be serious," a technology making its grand-slam debut next week aims to make line disputes a thing of the past.

Reuters - Global sales of liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs jumped 135 percent in the April-June quarter from a year earlier to a record 9.4 million units, led by Philips Electronics with a 13.5 percent share, a research firm said.

AP - The number of mobile phone users in China, already the world's biggest telecoms market, has grown to more than 431 million, a government news agency reported Tuesday.

TechWeb - A new study delves into how young people are shaping mobile technology markets, and you won't believe how much cash today's 10-year-olds are expected to spend on mobile services.

Reuters - AOL chief technology officer Maureen Govern, who oversaw the division responsible for accidentally releasing search data for more than a half a millions Internet users, has resigned from the company, according to an internal company memorandum.

Macworld.com - Apple has released ExpressCard Update 1.0 for MacBook Pro laptops. The update requires Mac OS X v10.4.7 to install.