Can Sun do for audio what Google did for the Web? Searching for ways to set its servers apart, Sun Microsystems is working on a trio of projects to develop software designed to make it easier to find and organize digital media, including music and spoken words.

Reuters, the news and financial information group, became the latest stock to be caught up in the acquisition craze sweeping the London market. Its shares, which have underperformed the wider market by nearly 15% over the past three months, closed 6.75p higher at 368.5p yesterday, excited by wild talk of a bid from Google.

A French media watchdog group claimed on Tuesday that Yahoo provided information that helped Chinese officials convict a journalist accused of leaking state secrets.

Procter & Gamble and the VH1 Save the Music Foundation have launched a multi-channel campaign to raise awareness of the non-profit organization's goal of restoring music education to public schools.

Spamhaus has accused Yahoo of failing in the fight against online fraud, and Microsoft has admitted there is room for improvement.

Just as you can pimp your Scion with snap-on parts, you can modify Web sites to suit your tastes - whether the authors like it or not. The enabling technology, called Greasemonkey, was created by Aaron Boodman, a software engineer who got sick of dealing with the Web on other people's terms.

An Australian court ruled on Monday that the popular file-sharing network Kazaa violated Australian music copyrights and ordered the company to modify its software to help prevent it.

In the latest move to expand media company Web sites into venues for TV-like content, Scripps Networks is launching a 13-part online video series on Foodnetwork.com during Thanksgiving week.

Under its digital music dominance, labels grow restless, and rival services and players are springing up. How can Jobs & Co. keep its lead?

Not long ago, a William Morris agent called podcasting's most famous couple, Dawn and Drew, asking if they would be interested in doing a reality TV show. Dawn laughs: "I said, 'What are you going to film? Me dusting and vacuuming?'" They've also been contacted by NBC's The Tonight Show and the upcoming Tyra Banks talk show, but both programs backed out after initial conversations. "TV's not ready for it yet," Drew said.