EU Courts Strikes Down Microsoft Appeal of Antitrust Ruling (eWEEK)

The European Court of First Instance upheld on Sept. 17 the findings of the European Commission that Microsoft abused its dominant position by refusing to make its products interoperable with those of its rivals and by tying Windows Media Player to the Windows operating system.

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Clothing Shop Tweaks RFID Tech for Hip Shoppers (TechNewsWorld)

There's no quick phrase that can describe Industry Standard, a business that opened this month near Ohio State University in Columbus. It's part urban clothing store, part recording studio, part skateboard shop, part art gallery. It's a pioneer for the in-store application of radio-frequency identification, or RFID, technology that allows customers to communicate with store employees as they shop.

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Navigation devices set to take mass market route (Reuters)

Portable navigation devices are poised to take off this holiday shopping season as market leaders Garmin and TomTom race each other to make deeper inroads into the mass market by pushing out cheaper models.

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Full-On Rock Band Makes Jamming Follow-Up to Guitar Hero (Wired)

Night has fallen in West Hollywood, and it's the rocking hour at the Troubadour, the legendary club that helped launch the careers of Pearl Jam and Guns N' Roses. A band on the tiny stage is crunching out a surprisingly faithful rendition of the Hives' "Main Offender." It's the first night of E3, the yearly trade show for the videogame industry, and this concert is crawling with game developers, executives, journalists, and retailers.

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Say cheese: Sony technology focuses on smiles (Reuters)

If a picture's worth a thousand words, then how much is a smiling photo worth? About 40,000 yen ($350), based on Sony's new "smile shutter" cameras.

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Prince to "reclaim the Internet" by suing YouTube, eBay, Pirate Bay (ars technica)

Prince is planning to make some doves cry over at YouTube headquarters. The symbol-loving singer has announced that he wants to go after the video-sharing site, along with eBay and the Pirate Bay, for hosting unauthorized versions of his music and merchandise.

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