AP - Garmin Ltd., the nation’s leading maker of satellite-powered navigational devices, is getting into the wireless phone business with a handset that incorporates GPS.

AP - A key benchmark was reached Thursday in the ongoing government airwaves auction, triggering a provision that the government says will lead to greater freedom and flexibility for cell phone subscribers.

Reuters - The New England Patriots
will beat the New York Giants by a score of 38-30 in the Super
Bowl, at least according to the popular “Madden NFL 08″
football videogame.

FT.com - Vodafoneon Thursday made an aggressive push to generate more revenue from mobile internet services by slashing prices in the UK, one of its core European markets.

Reuters - Superlatives keep piling up for
actress Katherine Heigl who on Thursday was named the “most
desirable woman of 2008″ by lifestyle Web site, AskMen.com.

AP - Egyptian wireless company Orascom plans to invest up to $400 million in a new mobile phone network in North Korea, one of the world’s poorest and most tightly controlled societies.

AP - Video-game software publisher Electronic Arts Inc. said Thursday it swung to a loss in the third quarter, hurt in part by the way it accounts for online-enabled games, but adjusted earnings met Wall Street’s expectations.

AP - The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch thick where they lie on the ocean floor.

AP - At least for a while, the World Wide Web wasn’t so worldwide.

AP - Google Inc.’s fourth-quarter profit missed analyst expectations, signaling the crumbling U.S. economy has dented the Internet search leader’s moneymaking machine.