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Reuters – Yahoo Inc faced growing
pressure on Sunday to find an alternative strategy to Microsoft
Corp’s $47.5 billion takeover offer after the software maker
walked away over a disagreement on price.

Reuters – The emerging effort to use videogames
as a channel for selling music is entering its next phase with
the recent release of “Grand Theft Auto IV.”

AP – Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang has gotten what he wanted: a chance to prove his company is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. offered to buy the Internet pioneer.

InfoWorld – Sun and the OpenSolaris community are launching Monday the official first version of the open-source OpenSolaris operating system, which has only been available in pre-release versions for developers until now.

PC World – A shortage of lithium-ion batteries currently hurting laptop computer shipments will likely ease in the third quarter, an…

Reuters – Nokia (NOK1V.HE) is going to introduce
many new phone models through U.S. carriers in coming months to
grab a bigger share of the lucrative cell phone market, the
Finnish phone maker said on Monday.

InfoWorld – Ah, youth. Ready to take on the world, today’s generation of dynamic, tech-immersed youngsters have grown up alongside the Internet. Firsthand, and sometimes single-handedly, they have advanced some of today’s hottest technology trends, from peer-to-peer networking, to massively multiplayer online games, to social networks and instant messaging. And along the way, a small, sociopathic number of them have behaved very, very badly.

InfoWorld – AdventNet’s Zoho CRM Enterprise Edition is a new, low-cost subscription-based SaaS offering that may be impossible to ignore.

PC World – Google has removed an open-source project that enables the proprietary CoreAVC high-definition video decoder to run in Linux…

USATODAY.com – Join USA TODAY technology reporters Ed Baig and Jefferson Graham every week as they discuss the most interesting new products and industry news. You can download and subscribe to their podcast on iTunes. Email them your questions and they just might get answered in a future show.

BusinessWeek Online – It’s not always easy to get new employees to mix well with co-workers — especially when they’re scattered across the globe or speak different languages. Few companies know this as well as IBM , the computer services provider that last year alone added 20,000 new staff members, many from Brazil, China, India, and Russia.

AP – In the late 1990s, the Japanese publisher Square could do no wrong. Back in the era of the original PlayStation, Square released one gem after another: blockbusters like “Final Fantasy VII” and “Chrono Cross,” lesser-known masterpieces like “Vagrant Story” and “Brave Fencer Musashi,” and one of my all-time favorites, the mind-blowing “Xenogears.”

Reuters – Amazon.com Inc has sued the state
of New York, challenging a new statute requiring Internet
retailers based elsewhere to collect New York sales taxes.

AFP – The price of shares in Internet group Yahoo plunged here by 20 percent on Monday after software giant Microsoft dropped a friendly bid for the company.

Reuters – India has about 114,000 mobile
subscribers using Research In Motion’s (RIM)
BlackBerry services, much lower than expected, the junior
minister for telecommunications said on Monday.

AP – The Associated Press and more than 100 of its member newspapers are launching a service Monday that will make news stories available on Apple Inc.‘s iPhone and other mobile devices.

Reuters – Deutsche Telekom AG’s
major shareholder, the German state, is pressing it to make
large acquisitions in the hope of raising its sagging share
price, a source familiar with the government’s thinking said.

AFP – A Swedish court on Monday handed down a suspended sentence and a 10,000-kronor (1,655-dollar, 1,070-euro) fine to a man found guilty of sharing some 4,500 music files and 30 films on the Internet.

Reuters – Egypt has asked mobile phone companies to
block service to anonymous subscribers as a public security
measure, and at least two firms have begun efforts to comply,
Egyptian officials and mobile firms said on Monday.

AP – The U.S. and European Union should reconsider a shift to biofuels that has helped increase food prices worldwide by turning agricultural land over to energy crops, American economist Jeffrey Sachs said Monday.

AP – T-Mobile USA has fired up its third-generation wireless network in the U.S., announcing Monday that it’s now live in New York City — though few phones can use it.

Reuters – T-Mobile USA, the No. 4 U.S. mobile
service, said on Monday it launched its first commercial
high-speed wireless service in New York City, and plans to
expand the service to 20 to 25 other major U.S. markets by the
end of the year.

AP – The World Trade Organization is giving Japan until Sept. 1 to change its punitive charges on imports of South Korean computer memory chips.

AFP – India’s top mobile phone firm Bharti Airtel said Monday it had entered into “exploratory” talks with Africa’s biggest cellular operator MTN Group, which could lead to a possible takeover offer.

PC World – Roughly 75 percent of SAP’s overall customer base is made up of small and midsize enterprises, the software vendor announced…

AP – News from the virtual world:

NewsFactor – Sun Microsystems on Monday released the OpenSolaris operating system. Some industry analysts are suggesting the community-developed platform based on Sun’s Solaris kernel could give Linux a new challenge.

NewsFactor – Sun Microsystems on Monday released the OpenSolaris operating system. Some industry analysts are suggesting the community-developed platform based on Sun’s Solaris kernel could give Linux a new challenge.

PC World – T-Mobile launched its first 3G (third-generation) network, in New York, but customers can’t yet use the fastest speeds that…

AP – Sure, things look rough for Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. now that they couldn’t agree on a deal. Yahoo’s stock has cratered, and Microsoft has to figure out another way to catch up in the online ad market, a flaw so big it was willing to pay $47.5 billion to fix it.

AP – Two longtime IBM Corp. executives are retiring, prompting the technology company to reshuffle its top ranks.

Reuters – Two of IBM’s most senior
executives, technology strategy chief Nick Donofrio and
hardware chief Bill Zeitler, will retire later this year, an
IBM memo showed on Monday.

Reuters – John McCain reached out to Hispanic
voters on Monday as he sought to win over a constituency that
has moved away from his Republican Party but could prove key in
swing states in a close U.S. presidential election in November.

Reuters – U.S. phone company Qwest
Communications International Inc and Verizon Wireless said on
Monday they signed a five-year agreement for the landline
provider to sell Verizon’s mobile phone services.

InfoWorld – Sun Microsystems officials on Monday acknowledged issues the company has had to deal with in offering products such as the OpenSolaris OS and Java via an open source business model.

NewsFactor – T-Mobile has launched its third-generation UMTS/HSDPA network in New York City and plans to roll it out across major metropolitan areas through the year.

PC World – Anyone with the remotest interest in ICT development will have noticed the battle raging at the “bottom of the pyramid,” where…

AP – Yahoo Inc.‘s stock took a beating Monday after Microsoft Corp. withdrew its $47.5 billion takeover bid, but the punishment wasn’t as severe as many analysts anticipated because investors suspect the rivals eventually will renew their mating dance.

Reuters – The publisher of the controversial
“Grand Theft Auto 4” video game sued the Chicago Transit
Authority on Monday, accusing it of pulling ads promoting the
blockbuster without explanation.

AP – Sprint Nextel Corp. was silent about its future Monday as reports emerged that the company was considering spinning off or selling Nextel and that Deutsche Telekom AG was investigating a bid to buy the struggling wireless provider.

AP – Qwest Communications International Inc. will stop reselling Sprint Nextel Corp.‘s wireless service and move its subscribers to Verizon Wireless’ network, Qwest said Monday.

PC World – Qwest Communications International will resell Verizon Wireless mobile service, ending a five-year deal with Sprint Nextel.

Reuters – Democratic presidential contender
Hillary Clinton appeared on Monday on the “Late Show with David
Letterman” to deliver the “Top 10” reasons she loves America,
which included the ability to order her trademark pantsuits
around the clock on the Internet.