SAN FRANCISCO Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will announce Tuesday it is spinning off its manufacturing operations as part of a sweeping plan to cut cuts, The Wall Street Journal reported.

LOS ANGELES RealNetworks Inc. said Monday it had temporarily stopped distributing its DVD copying software, RealDVD, at a federal judge's request in a copyright case brought by Hollywood studios.

FRANKFURT, Germany Shares of SAP AG plunged Monday after the business software maker said it saw a sudden drop in business at the end of September as global financial turmoil escalated.

NEW YORK After a series of changes designed to draw more people to its online marketplace, eBay Inc.'s latest alteration is aimed at its own employees. The auction site operator said Monday it will cut about 1,600 jobs, 10 percent of its work force, in its largest round of dismissals ever.

SEATTLE Shares of major Web companies dropped sharply Monday amid a massive market sell-off that sent the Dow skidding below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

THE LAYOFFS: EBay Inc. is eliminating 1,600 jobs, about 10 percent of its work force. The online auction site operator will cut 1,000 full-time employees and let several hundred temporary and part-time workers go. It will also leave some open positions unfilled.

DETROIT So you think junior is a little too lead-footed when he drives the family car? Starting next year, Ford Motor Co. will give you the power to do something about it.

THE GIZMO: Digital TV antennas and boxes.

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court refused Monday to disturb a $74 million judgment against Dish Network Corp. for violating a patent held by TiVo Inc. involving digital video recorders.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. A Rocklin, Calif., man who claimed dozens of Web site domains in the names of local politicians says he won't budge until they're ousted from office.

FORT WORTH, Texas To understand how established military blogs have become in the halls of the Defense Department, just check Army Secretary Pete Geren's computer.

NEW YORK Assuming your company's name isn't a verb synonymous with looking things up online, how do you get Web surfers to not just try your search engine, but also frequent it?

SAN JOSE, Calif. EBay Inc. did a little shopping of its own on Monday, saying it would pay $1.34 billion for online payments site Bill Me Later and two Danish classified ad Web sites.

WASHINGTON Rosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia.

SEATTLE A CNN-owned Web site called iReport.com, which publishes reports written by ordinary citizens, said Friday it will give the Securities and Exchange Commission information about the author of an item that claimed Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack.

WASHINGTON Google Inc. agreed to delay the start of a Web advertising partnership with rival Yahoo Inc., giving U.S. antitrust regulators more time to review the deal.

SAN FRANCISCO A jury on Friday acquitted the former top lawyer at computer-security software maker McAfee Inc. of illegally tampering with his stock option grants to boost his pay package.

NEW YORK A delayed top-of-the-line BlackBerry phone from Research in Motion Ltd. is still undergoing testing by AT&T Inc., and RIM's co-CEO implied that the carrier wants to avoid the chorus of complaints about performance that greeted the new iPhone this summer.

NEW YORK The economic slowdown has started to squeeze the technology sector. So far this has not led to wide-scale job cuts, but a slowing demand for computers and other electronics may already be weighing on some payrolls.

WARIO LAND: SHAKE IT!

"Mega Man 9" looks, sounds and plays exactly like classic "Mega Man" titles for the Nintendo Entertainment System. But calling the game a throwback doesn't sound right.

NEW YORK Sony Corp. unveiled a new e-book reader Thursday with a built-in light and a touch-sensitive display, features that set it apart from Amazon.com Inc.'s competing Kindle reader.

NEW YORK A Canadian researcher has discovered that a Chinese version of eBay Inc.'s Skype communications software snoops on text chats that contain certain keywords, including "democracy."

LOS ANGELES The federal Copyright Royalty Board on Thursday left the royalty that songwriters receive on sales of CDs and digital downloads at 9.1 cents per song for the next five years.

WASHINGTON A key senator is urging the Justice Department to keep up its investigation into the antitrust implications of the Internet advertising partnership that Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. plan to launch this month.

BURBANK, Calif. As the house lights dim and the maestro lifts his arms, a hush comes over the crowd. It's opening night at The Metropolitan Opera - only we're 2,800 miles away.

On the figurative side, the arrival (and, more importantly, fan anticipation) of "Shake It" reminds us not only that 2-D games continue to be viable on the big screen, but remain capable of creating experiences that a third dimension takes away.

NEW YORK New Jersey's largest newspaper came one step closer toward averting a closure or sale as at least a quarter of its full-time nonunion employees applied for a buyout.

NEW YORK The reliance of restaurant chains and retail stores on outside companies to handle credit-card processing and other information-technology functions is partly to blame for a rash of consumer data breaches over the last few years, according to data sleuths at Verizon Communications Inc.

TOKYO Nintendo's hit DS portable machine will come with a digital camera that will allow players to mix images, scribble on photos and create new faces, the Japanese game maker said Thursday.

SAN JOSE, Calif. Semiconductor sales totaled $22.7 billion in August, up 5.5 percent from a year ago and 2.4 percent from the previous month, the Semiconductor Industry Association said Thursday.

LOS ANGELES Five Hollywood studios have agreed to help pay for a $1 billion-plus rollout of digital technology on about 20,000 movie screens in North America, a precursor to showing movies in 3-D.

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. Chip maker Standard Microsystems Corp. said Wednesday it has seen a "significant decline" in third-quarter demand for notebook and desktop PCs, especially from corporate customers, and gave a forecast below Wall Street's expectations as a results.

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. Semiconductor maker Standard Microsystems Corp. said Wednesday its fiscal second-quarter profit declined, and shares fell after-hours after its outlook fell short of expectations.

NEW YORK Barry Diller is feeling very lucky right now.

BOISE, Idaho Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. said Wednesday its fiscal fourth-quarter loss widened as the industry continues to face oversupply problems and pricing pressures.

Q. My computer has gotten slower and slower at doing basic things like booting up and running multiple programs at once. How do I improve its performance without spending any money?

SEATTLE Apple Inc. will no longer force iPhone software developers to sign a nondisclosure agreement that many had said was hampering their ability to work.

NEW YORK Could playing computer games enhance mental agility enough to turn people over 50 into better drivers? Allstate Corp. wants to find out, and if the answer is yes, it might offer insurance discounts to people who play the games.

Online Adventure site of the week: Adventure Sports Center International (www.adventuresportscenter.com)

You've been battling malware - viruses, worms, spyware and the like - on your PC for years.

"Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood"

When you think up that perfect new handle for storming social networks and other registration-only sites across the Web, run it through UserNameCheck.com first. This webapp's purpose is simple: to tell you whether or not that name is already in use at a pretty impressive list of sites, from Delicious and Digg to eBay and Xbox Live. The developer explains:

Olympus has some of the roughest and toughest cameras on the market, most notably the 10-megapixel Stylus 1030 SW. Other cameras will deliver better image quality, a broader feature set, and faster performance at the same price or less, but you're not going to find another camera that's as tough as this one.

The Samsung M320's design is minimalist and easy to use, and it offers a quality VGA camera. On the downside, the call quality is variable, and the display is a little two low-res for our tastes. But, in the end, it's not a bad handset for occasional callers.

Serif Ltd. has released a new version of its digital video editing program, MoviePlus X3.

"Wipeout HD"

Sony Ericsson W760

The editors of Game Informer magazine rank the top 10 PlayStation 3 titles for October:

"Shaun White Snowboarding"