AP - Laura Brown, a mother with a son who fought in the Iraq war, is trying to improve conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center — one laptop computer at a time.

Reuters - After cramming Web browsers, e-mail and music and video players into cell phones, the wireless industry is now trying to make more money by adding mobile advertising and credit-card shopping to handsets.

Reuters - Until two weeks ago, Ruth Ebert never had the slightest interest in the video games favored by her one and only granddaughter.

AFP - Diehard gamers around the world, some of whom had queued for nearly two days, finally got their hands on brand spanking new Sony Playstation 3 games consoles after midnight launches in Europe, the Middle East and Australasia.

Reuters - Midnight sales under the Eiffel Tower and at Berlin's Potsdamer Platz were aimed at blitzing Sony's PlayStation 3 onto the European stage on Friday, but the console faces tough rivals with headstarts.

Reuters - Government agencies would have a harder time communicating with the public in an emergency if imports of cell phones containing Qualcomm Inc. computer chips are banned, a federal official said on Thursday.

Reuters - Government agencies would have a harder time communicating with the public in an emergency if imports of cell phones containing Qualcomm Inc. computer chips are banned, a federal official said on Thursday.

AP - Watching users fumble and nearly drop an early version of the FlipStart compact PC practically gave Robin Budd a heart attack. The culprit was the three-key sequence, Control-Alt-Delete, required to log off or reboot a Windows PC.