Reuters - As if 2007 could get any worse for
Lindsay Lohan, now this: Moviegoers tagged her with the year’s
worst performance by an actress.

Reuters - Internet-based calling company Vonage
Holdings Corp said it has agreed to settle a patent
dispute with Nortel Networks with no payment of
damages, sending its share up more than 8 percent.

Reuters - As if 2007 could get any worse for
Lindsay Lohan, now this: Moviegoers tagged her with the year’s
worst performance by an actress.

AP - The new video game “WolfQuest” allows players to follow the call of the wild in the role of a wolf in Yellowstone National Park.

NewsFactor - According to the Consumer Electronics Association, more than 50 percent of U.S. households now own a digital television — a milestone that the industry trade group’s president Gary Shapiro characterized as a “critical threshold” for the nation.

AP - Vonage Holdings Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp. have settled their patent litigation, allowing for cross-licensing of the telecom companies’ technology.

USATODAY.com - Next year, our friends in China will be feting the Year of the Rat. We’ll have no such luxury. Here in the USA, it’ll be the Year of Getting Real. Or so says a brain trust of marketers, activists and cultural anthropologists who live to dissect our shopping, eating, viewing, networking and lifestyle habits.

Reuters - British computer and video games
retailer Game Group Plc said it expected its full-year
profit to be ahead of an average market forecast after
continued strong sales in the run-up to Christmas, boosting its
shares.

Reuters - Rock band Radiohead’s decision to
release its new album “In Rainbows” by itself — online,
without a record label’s help and at any price the user chose
– rocked the industry last fall.

AP - Young adults are the heaviest users of public libraries despite the ease with which they can access a wealth of information over the Internet from the comforts of their homes, according to a new study.