No more Encarta

Microsoft says it is shutting down its online encyclopedia, Encarta, in October and will stop selling Encarta Software by June.

Google Inc. Music

Google Inc. and major music companies launched a free Internet music download service for China on Monday in a bid to help turn a field dominated by pirates into a profitable, legitimate business.

Streaming Video Games?

San Francisco- Music and movies can be streamed over the Internet, so why not video games?

A startup founded by technology entrepreneur Steve Perlman says it has developed a technology to deliver video games on demand, an idea that threatens to eventually take consoles out of the equation. OnLive Inc., Perlman's Palo Alto, California based company, planned to unveil its technology Tuesday night at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Seven years in the works, OnLive says it has developed a way to stream video games without any lag that humans can notice. So the instant you press a button to shoot something on the screen, the gun goes off.

AT&T workers strike

In New York union workers at AT&T are giving their leaders the authority to call a strike as part of negotiations for a new contract covering 112,500 employees. Several contracts covering workers at the phone company's landline division expire on April 4. AT&T Inc. is trying to make the employees pay more for their health care, among other concessions. The Communications Workers of America says 88 percent of members covered by the contracts voted in favor of a possible strike.

Video Game Industry still in the game!

The video game industry is holding up, but the gloom of the recession will be on the minds of thousands of people at this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, a key event for video game insiders looking to learn new skills, showcase innovations and if they're lucky enough, find work.

Cisco Systems Inc. is making servers

In New York Cisco Systems Inc. wants a bigger chunk of the corporate computing market, and plans to start selling servers in competition with old partners like Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM corp.

Is your computer infected?

Computer virus's and infections now don't try to crash your computer. Instead they might slow it down a bit and log your keystrokes and steal passwords or credit card numbers from sites you visit. If you continually get pop ups that wont go away or if you are being redirected to weird sites that aren't what you typed in your computer could be infected. For more information visit http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090315/ap_on_hi_te/tec_inside_a_botnet_checklist