BEA Systems stock closes up above $17, going against Wall Street malaise.

  First update for Leopard reportedly on the way, as developers test fixes for bugs in Leopard's firewall, Time Machine, and Finder, among others.

  Plus: Time Warner profit up...Nortel swings to profit...Symbian shipments up...Game sales boost EA profit.

  Web host warned customers that servers would be down for about 12 hours on Saturday. It ended up being more like five days.

  The computer maker will take a $30 million charge and is looking for someone else to supply cameras that will be sold under the HP brand.

  Judge grants order to prevent former iRobot employee and rival from selling robot similar to PackBot.

  The studios ponder music's increasingly iffy future; Michael Eisner says writers should blame Steve Jobs; and I've got one word for you: plastics.

  We hadn't heard about this one, but just noticed that Amazon is selling a new Philips clock radio, the AJL308, that doubles as a photo frame and bedside MP3 player.

  After posters have resorted to physical threats from Blu-ray and HD DVD zealots, the popular AVS Forum community site has had to completely shut down the Blu-ray and HD DVD section of its site for the week.

  The BlogWorld conference plays host to experts who say that more advertisers plan to spend more money on blogs and podcasts than on traditional media in the coming years.

  Online arm of business news publisher has purchased the New York-based social-bookmarking site, which focuses on "clippings"of other Web sites.

  Plus: Rocket junkyard fuels private space ventures, lowriders. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.

  Entertainment and devices unit chief says Microsoft is more than ready for any competition posed by Google's approach.

  New feature lets parents set a daily or weekly limit on how many hours children can use the game console.