Reuters - The government agency responsible for insuring corporate pensions sought private legal advice this week to help sort through a range of possible financial scenarios involving General Motors Corp. , including possible bankruptcy.

AP - Toshiba Corp. said Friday it has postponed the release of high-definition DVD players in the United States until April, a month later than planned, so that it can synchronize the sales with title releases from Hollywood studies.

AP - Toshiba won a patent lawsuit against South Korean rival Hynix Semiconductor in a Tokyo court Friday over patents for computer chips widely used in cell phones, digital cameras and portable music players.

A fire broke out on the Jamaica-bound Star Princess cruise ship, and one person died of a heart attack, according to cruise line officials. Two people suffered significant smoke inhalation and nine others had "minor complications from smoke inhalation," said a statement from Princess Cruises, which is owned by Carnival Corp. The Star Princess, with 3,813 passengers and crew, was en route to Montego Bay, Jamaica, after departing Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Sunday, the cruise line said.

AP - Microsoft Corp. announced a shake-up Thursday of the unit that includes its flagship Windows operating system, two days after the company admitted it won't have its next consumer version of Windows ready for the holiday season as planned.

Reuters - CBS Corp. will showcase segments of its "60 Minutes" television news magazine on the popular Internet portal Yahoo as the TV network seeks to rope in a wider audience for news programs, the companies said on Thursday.

Reuters - Generations of General Motors Corp. workers on Thursday started weighing whether to leave their jobs or stay -- a decision analysts said could determine if GM emerges as a smaller, profitable automaker.

Reuters - Graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. said on Thursday it has a new design contract with Sony Corp. (6758.T) that will pay more than it earned for creating the graphics processor for the upcoming PlayStation 3 video game console.

AP - Yahoo Inc. and CBS Corp. have signed a deal to bring video from CBS's popular "60 Minutes" program to Yahoo's web sites, beginning this fall.

Reuters - Communications network equipment 3Com Corp. said on Thursday its fiscal third-quarter loss narrowed as revenue rose.

AFP - US software behemoth Microsoft Corp. unveiled a major reshuffle of its Windows operations, just two days after announcing a costly delay in the launch of its Vista operating system.

Reuters - Palm Inc., the maker of Treo cell phones, on Thursday said quarterly profit rose as it doubled sales of its phones and introduced a new device based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system.

A fire broke out on the Jamaica-bound Star Princess cruise ship, and one person died of a heart attack, according to cruise line officials. Two people suffered significant smoke inhalation and nine others had "minor complications from smoke inhalation," said a statement from Princess Cruises, which is owned by Carnival Corp. The Star Princess, with 3,813 passengers and crew, was en route to Montego Bay, Jamaica, after departing Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Sunday, the cruise line said.

A fire broke out on the Jamaica-bound Star Princess cruise ship, and one person died of a heart attack, according to cruise line officials. Two people suffered significant smoke inhalation and nine others had "minor complications from smoke inhalation," said a statement from Princess Cruises, which is owned by Carnival Corp. The Star Princess, with 3,813 passengers and crew, was en route to Montego Bay, Jamaica, after departing Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Sunday, the cruise line said.

A fire broke out today on the Jamaica-bound Star Princess cruise ship, and one person died of a heart attack, according to cruise line officials. Two people suffered significant smoke inhalation and nine others had "minor complications from smoke inhalation," said a statement from Princess Cruises, which is owned by Carnival Corp. The Star Princess, with 3,813 passengers and crew, was en route to Montego Bay, Jamaica, after departing Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Sunday, the cruise line said. The cause of the fire is not yet known.

Reuters - Cablevision Systems Corp. on Thursday said it signed a deal with SportsNet New York network that will put local sports teams such as the Mets and Jets back on television for Cablevision homes.

Reuters - Toshiba Corp.'s (6502.T) U.S. unit may delay the launch of its next-generation DVD player for several weeks to coincide with the April debut of movies that play in the new HD DVD format, the company said on Thursday.

Reuters - Bankrupt auto parts supplier Delphi Corp. expects about 17,000 U.S. blue-collar workers, half of its U.S. total, to be eligible for retirement programs from its various unions, it said in court papers.

Reuters - CBS Corp. on Thursday said it will showcase segments from its popular "60 Minutes" television news magazine on Yahoo Inc. as it seeks a wider audience for its news programs.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. named Steve Sinofsky to oversee its core Windows business on Thursday, choosing someone from the company's Office business software unit to lead an operating system division beset by delays and missed deadlines.