<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_hi_te/american_airborne_internet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080815/2008_08_14t163754_450x299_us_americanair_faa.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=uI2fJmyxiiN_CdBXNe91uw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="An American Airlines plane takes off past other planes parked at the terminal of LaGuardia Airport in New York, November 8, 2007. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - One of the few remaining Internet-free havens vanished Wednesday as American Airlines launched airborne e-mail, Web and other online services on some of its longer, nonstop flights.</p><br clear="all"/>

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_hi_te/china_olympic_addresses"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080814/capt.ea4e1b49e4144666bc905e4d4250cafb.aptopix_beijing_olympics_gymnastics_mens_all_around_olygy375.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=J.x4UiksGd1SUJkVPamSRw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="China's gymnast Yang Wei performs on the horizontal bar during the men's individual all-around competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Thursday, Aug 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)" border="0" /></a>AP - China has banned the use of its Olympic gold medalists' names as Internet addresses by anyone but the athletes themselves.</p><br clear="all"/>

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080820/tc_afp/usvoteinternetoffbeat"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080820/capt.cps.nio37.200808085335.photo00.photo.default-512x326.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=AF75skQb5apdU_6Oix75NA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Ever since the online auction site eBay sprung up 10 years ago as a hub for selling just about everything imaginable, a handful of Americans has tried to sell votes, even though it is illegal.(AFP/File/Jacques Demarthon)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Ever since the online auction site eBay sprung up 10 years ago as a hub for selling just about everything imaginable, a handful of Americans has tried to sell votes, even though it is illegal.</p><br clear="all"/>

Reuters - Vodafone Essar, India's third-largest mobile operator, will sell Apple's iPhone 3G at 31,000 rupees ($708) for the 8GB model, a senior company official, who could not be named, said on Wednesday,

InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems is eyeing the SOA-related business of Oracle Fusion and former BEA middleware customers with a special offer to those adopting Sun's Java CAPS (Composite Application Platform Suite) for SOA.

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_hi_te/earns_hewlett_packard"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080819/capt.e1591a36db95417b85594adbf944a0b4.earns_hewlett_packard_masm202.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=JNC6NzAVA80_fHvI9Wt_xg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Hewlett-Packard printer cartridges on the shelf of a Best Buy store in Seekonk, Mass., Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008. Hewlett-Packard Co. says its third-quarter profit jumped 14 percent, beating Wall Street's expectations Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. Strong laptop sales and a robust international presence continue to lift the technology bellwether. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. weathered economic turbulence remarkably well in the fiscal third quarter but the technology bellwether faces another big challenge — stiffer personal-computer competition — that threatens to slow its steady growth.</p><br clear="all"/>

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_hi_te/ebay_fees"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.26fe5a31260545bba07c2b9c49635e32.ebay_fees_nybz182.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=62cR__0NyJFpK6dchHR1vg--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="In this Oct 12, 2006 file photo, eBay signs illuminate the company's booth at the DigitalLife expo in New York. EBay plans to move nearly all transactions to electronic payment methods. Beginning in the U.S. in mid-October, 2008, users will have to pay by credit card, PayPal or the credit card processing service ProPay. No more cash, checks or money orders — which account for less than 10 percent of eBay transactions these days — unless sellers and buyers meet in person. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Some people who sell things on eBay are fed up with new rules the company has been imposing in hopes of making the auction site more attractive to online shoppers. Now even more changes are coming in the next few weeks, but this time eBay Inc. hopes it can cool tempers.</p><br clear="all"/>

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/wr_nm/ebay_sellers_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080820/2008_08_20t005627_450x350_us_ebay_sellers.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=X1k3_WHGrjFF8KUHkAAfmA--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="Brian Winer of Los Angeles uses an eBay kiosk to check on an item he has for sale during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 6, 2006. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - EBay Inc is cutting the fees U.S. sellers on its site pay for fixed-price items, in one of the company's boldest moves this year to boost merchandise for sale, lure new buyers and take on competitors.</p><br clear="all"/>

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080820/tc_afp/lifestyleskoreaittelecom"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080820/capt.cps.nin73.200808060528.photo00.photo.default-512x325.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=7wns9Bbkm.gf48X2VF36zQ--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="A South Korean woman passes mobile handsets on display at an electronics shop in Seoul. The tech-savvy nation now has 45 million mobile phones, equivalent to 91 percent of the total population(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Tech-savvy South Korea now has 45 million mobile phones, equivalent to 91 percent of the total population, the Korea Communications Commission said Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/>

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/tc_nm/apple_iphone_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080820/2008_08_19t111352_450x296_us_apple_iphone.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=zT0WS8MO9s4gRwJvKasdWg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A man holds his new Apple 3G iPhone at Telcel Center in Mexico City July 11, 2008. (Daniel Aguilar/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Apple Inc has issued a software update for the latest iPhone to help fix connection problems that led to a flurry of online complaints from customers, a European mobile service provider said on Tuesday as Credit Suisse reported strong U.S. sales of the device.</p><br clear="all"/>