Sony Corp said it would cut the price of its PlayStation 3 game console by 10 percent in Japan and launch a new model, in a bid to ignite demand in the run-up to the critical year-end shopping season.

The move follows a similar announcement from Sony on its European game operations last week as the Tokyo-based electronics and entertainment conglomerate plays catchup with Nintendo Co Ltd’s hot-selling Wii.

The PS3 has lagged the Wii in sales since the devices were launched late last year due to the Sony machine’s high price and scarcity of strong game titles.

Following the late afternoon announcement, shares in Nintendo lost gains and closed lower.

Sony said on Tuesday it would lower the price of the PS3 with a 20 gigabyte (GB) hard disk drive to 44,980 yen ($384) from 49,980 yen on October 17.

It will also start selling its 60 GB model at 54,980 yen. Sony has not so far suggested a price for the 60 GB model, but it currently retails for around 60,000 yen.

TiVo Inc. is introducing music to its mix of entertainment services, offering owners of the company’s digital video recorders access through their TVs to the Rhapsody music service.

The new feature announced Tuesday means TiVo subscribers with broadband-connected set-top boxes will be able to listen to music streamed over the Internet from Rhapsody’s service. The service, now part of Rhapsody America, a new joint venture between RealNetworks Inc. and Viacom Inc.’s MTV Networks, has a catalog of more than 4 million songs.

Google Inc. will begin showing YouTube videos on thousands of other Web sites, hoping to profit from ads attached to the clips.

The expansion, scheduled to be announced Tuesday, represents the Internet search leader’s farthest-reaching attempt yet to cash in on its $1.76 billion acquisition of YouTube since the deal closed 11 months ago.

Google already shows some video ads on clips on YouTube’s own site.

The ads accompanying the outbound YouTube clips won’t be in a video format. Instead, they will appear as a graphic straddling the video or as a link along the bottom.

Mountain View-based Google began showing ad-supported YouTube videos on a handful of Web sites earlier this year. Now, it’s reaching out to its entire “AdSense” network - an array of large and small Web publishers.

But Google won’t be pulling clips from YouTube’s entire library, which includes a multitude of wacky segments contributed by amateur videographers. The material sent to other Web sites will be confined to video from providers who sign consent forms.

If the broader distribution of video pays off, it could encourage Google to distribute other types of content, including news stories and audio files, across its vast network of advertising partners.

Until now, Google only had been delivering ads tied to the search requests and other content on the pages of its AdSense partners.

With the new twist, Web sites participating in AdSense now can sign up to specify the kinds of YouTube videos they want shown on their pages. A Web site focused on automobiles, for instance, might want to display YouTube videos about cars and other vehicles.

He apparently traveled the world sexually abusing young boys, but remained unidentifiable — until now.

Police in Europe have unscrambled digitally altered images found on the Internet to reveal the face of a man shown abusing boys in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Interpol released four reconstructed photos of the suspected pedophile on Monday in an unprecedented public appeal for help, hoping that someone, somewhere, will recognize the man whose identity and nationality remain a mystery. But the decision to unmask him is not without risk: Tipping criminals off to the techniques that police have at their disposal could also prompt them to better hide their identities.

Interpol said 12 boys, apparently ranging in age from 6 to their early teens, appeared in about 200 photographs posted on the Internet. But the face of the man inflicting the abuse was disguised in a digital whirl.

Using techniques that neither they nor Interpol would discuss, German police produced identifiable images of the man from the original pictures. The reconstructed photos showed a white man who looked to be in his 30s, with uncombed short brown hair. One showed him wearing glasses, in another he smiled, and another showed that he has a hairy chest. Interpol posted the images on its Web site.

A malicious hacker broke into an eBay Inc. server on Friday and temporarily suspended the accounts of a “very small” number of members, the company said.

“We were able to block the fraudster quickly before any permanent damage had been done. At no point did the fraudster get any access to financial information or other sensitive information,” eBay spokeswoman Nichola Sharpe said via e-mail.

EBay has “secured and restored” the affected accounts and is calling the affected users, she said, without specifying how many accounts the hacker accessed and tinkered with.

“The fraudster did this by accessing externally visible servers, not by hacking into the eBay site,” Sharpe said.