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Walt Disney Co. president and chief executive Robert Iger, pictured ...

(AFP) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:29:00 GMT

(AFP) - Walt Disney Co. president and chief executive Robert Iger, pictured in January 2010, said Tuesday that Apple's new iPad tablet computer may prove to be a 'game changer' for the entertainment and media industry. Photo:Alberto E. Rodriguez/AFP

Google co-founder Sergey Brin participates in a panel discussion ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:32:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin participates in a panel discussion in Mountain View, California February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

A general view of the arrival area of the Whistler Creek Alpine ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:54:00 GMT

(AFP) - A general view of the arrival area of the Whistler Creek Alpine Skiing venue of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Photo:Fabrice Coffrini/AFP

An installation is displayed at Hong Kong Disneyland January ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:32:00 GMT

(Reuters) - An installation is displayed at Hong Kong Disneyland January 15, 2009. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Google on Tuesday gave its free email service a 'Buzz,' adding ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:29:00 GMT

(AFP) - Google on Tuesday gave its free email service a 'Buzz,' adding Twitter and Facebook style social networking features. Photo:Loic Venance/AFP

Google co-founder Sergey Brin uses a computer on the company's ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:35:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin uses a computer on the company's campus in Mountain View, California February 9, 2010. Googe Inc unveiled Google 'Buzz,' injecting its social networking features into its popular Web email product as the world's No. 1 search engine seeks to fend off competition from Facebook and Twitter. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

Google plans to make it make it easier for users of Gmail to ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:55:00 GMT

(AFP) - Google plans to make it make it easier for users of Gmail to view online status updates from friends in a swipe at Twitter and Facebook, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Photo:/AFP

A model demonstrates a Nexus One smartphone, the first mobile ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:12:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A model demonstrates a Nexus One smartphone, the first mobile phone Google will sell directly to consumers based on its Android platform, after a news conference at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California January 5, 2010. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

National Association for Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:26:00 GMT

(AFP) - National Association for Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) Chairman Pramod Bhasin delivers the inaugural address of the India Leadership Forum 2010 summit in Mumbai. India's flagship software and services exports industry is facing rising protectionist sentiment in key markets, officials of a trade body warned Tuesday. Photo:Indranil Mukherjee/AFP

A Roulette wheel at a casino. China has said it will launch ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:26:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Roulette wheel at a casino. China has said it will launch a six-month crackdown on rampant online gambling, saying the growing industry was causing large flows of money out of the country. Photo:Roslan Rahman/AFP

Fair goers plays computer games of manufacturer Electronic Arts ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:26:00 GMT

(AFP) - Fair goers plays computer games of manufacturer Electronic Arts (EA) at the GC (Games Convention) fair in 2008 in Leipzig, Germany. US videogame giant Electronic Arts was unable to fight its way out of the red over the Christmas holidays, posting a net loss for the 12th consecutive quarter on Monday. Photo:Barbara Sax/AFP

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:01:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem in this February 7, 2010 file picture. Netanyahu called for immediate and 'crippling' sanctions against Iran on February 9, 2010, as it began making higher-grade nuclear fuel in defiance of international censure. REUTERS/Uriel Sinai/Pool/Files (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS)

Pedestrians walk past Google China headquarters in Beijing January ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:13:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Pedestrians walk past Google China headquarters in Beijing January 26, 2010. REUTERS/Jason Lee

Student supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi hold ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:03:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Student supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi hold red roses during protests in central Tehran in this December 7, 2009 file photo. Internet messages have been circulating about possible rallies on February 11, 2010, when Iran marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. But the climate in the Islamic Republic is much harder than before last year's post-election protests. Picture taken December 7, 2009. REUTERS/via Your View

A screen displays an image from Japanese video game giant Nintendo ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:35:00 GMT

(AFP) - A screen displays an image from Japanese video game giant Nintendo showing its Super Mario character. An Australian man has agreed to pay Nintendo $1.3 mln for illegally uploading a game to the Internet six days before its global release. Photo:Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP

Four Electronic Arts Sims games are posed for a photo at Best ...

(The Canadian Press) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:35:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Four Electronic Arts Sims games are posed for a photo at Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif., Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Paul Sakuma)

Vitamin D Video on Monday released a finished version of software ...

(AFP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:41:00 GMT

(AFP) - Vitamin D Video on Monday released a finished version of software that detects people in surveillance footage recorded by common Web cameras. Photo:/AFP

A Barnes and Noble book store is shown here in Encinitas May ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:31:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Barnes and Noble book store is shown here in Encinitas May 20, 2008. REUTERS/Mike Blake

A sign is posted outside of the Google headquarters January ...

(AFP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:19:00 GMT

(AFP) - A sign is posted outside of the Google headquarters January 2010 in Mountain View, California. Google will report fouth quarter earnings today. Google has filed an appeal of a court decision that ordered the US Internet giant to stop digitising French books without publishers' approval, its lawyers said Monday. Photo:Justin Sullivan/AFP

William Lynch, President of Barnes and Noble.com introduing ...

(AFP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:43:00 GMT

(AFP) - William Lynch, President of Barnes and Noble.com introduing the 'nook' digital reading device in October 2009. The bookstore giant said Monday that its new electronic book reader, the 'Nook,' will be available in US stores this week. Photo:Spencer Platt/AFP

A man surfs the internet in Beijing, June 2009. China has sentenced ...

(AFP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:43:00 GMT

(AFP) - A man surfs the internet in Beijing, June 2009. China has sentenced a man who operated a porn website to 13 years in jail and fined him 100,000 yuan (15,000 dollars), state media said, amid an ongoing campaign to crack down on online sexual content. Photo:Frederic J. Brown/AFP

This picture taken on January 2010 in Paris shows the internet ...

(AFP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:43:00 GMT

(AFP) - This picture taken on January 2010 in Paris shows the internet homepage of the english version of the search engine website Google. In a rare foray into television advertising, Internet giant Google ran an ad during the Super Bowl. Photo:Loic Venance/AFP

Marko Calasan plays chess with his friend Bojana Vasilevska ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:25:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Marko Calasan plays chess with his friend Bojana Vasilevska (not pictured) in Skopje February 8, 2010. Macedonia, which hopes to transform itself into a regional tech centre, could not be more proud of nine-year-old Marko Calasan, who recently became one of the world's youngest Microsoft Certified System Engineers. To match Reuters Life! TECH-MACEDONIA/WHIZ REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski (MACEDONIA - Tags: SOCIETY SCI TECH)

Traffic on the 3rd ring road during rush hour in Beijing in ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:43:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Traffic on the 3rd ring road during rush hour in Beijing in a file photo. REUTERS/Jason Lee

People use computers at an internet cafe in Wuhan, Hubei province, ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:41:00 GMT

(Reuters) - People use computers at an internet cafe in Wuhan, Hubei province, January 23, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer

US online payments company PayPal has temporarily suspended ...

(AFP) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:22:00 GMT

(AFP) - US online payments company PayPal has temporarily suspended personal payments to and from India and transfers to local Indian banks. Photo:/AFP

Two women at an internet cafe in Tehran. Iran said on Sunday ...

(AFP) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:03:00 GMT

(AFP) - Two women at an internet cafe in Tehran. Iran said on Sunday its Internet connections will remain slow this week due to technical problems, ahead of anticipated protests by opposition supporters. Photo:Henghameh Fahimi/AFP

Merchandise sits at the Amazon Phoenix Fulfillment Center in ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:24:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Merchandise sits at the Amazon Phoenix Fulfillment Center in Goodyear, Arizona, in this file image from November 16, 2009. REUTERS/Rick Scuteri

An Amazon Kindle is seen inside an M-Edge Accessories Guardian ...

(AFP) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:57:00 GMT

(AFP) - An Amazon Kindle is seen inside an M-Edge Accessories Guardian case floating in water at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month. A host of rivals to the market-dominating Kindle electronic reader has given newfound hope to publishers that they will finally be able to dictate their own terms after being at the mercy of Amazon. Photo:Ethan Miller/AFP

The 'nook' digital reader, a wireless reader available on Barnes ...

(AFP) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:57:00 GMT

(AFP) - The 'nook' digital reader, a wireless reader available on Barnes & Noble's Web site and in stores. US book publishers are smiling again, after years of watching digital versions of their titles sell for below what they thought they were worth. Photo:Spencer Platt/AFP

Apple Inc.'s new iPad, which doubles as a full-color e-reader ...

(AFP) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:57:00 GMT

(AFP) - Apple Inc.'s new iPad, which doubles as a full-color e-reader of books, newspapers and magazines. US book publishers are smiling again, after years of watching digital versions of their titles sell for below what they thought they were worth. Photo:Ryan Anson/AFP

Windows Vista operating software is displayed at a shop in Virginia. ...

(AFP) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:05:00 GMT

(AFP) - Windows Vista operating software is displayed at a shop in Virginia. US software giant Microsoft has launched Windows Vista in Amharic, the first operating system in the national language of Ethiopia. Photo:Paul J. Richards/AFP

A voter in Quezon City, in suburban Manila, feeds her ballots ...

(AFP) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:03:00 GMT

(AFP) - A voter in Quezon City, in suburban Manila, feeds her ballots in to a automated counting machine during a mock election intended to test the automated system for the May national elections. The Philippines' controversial new automated voting system passed its test in a mock election Saturday, despite press reports of minor glitches, an elections commission official said. Photo:Jay Directo/AFP

Two young Chinese Uighur Muslims view an Osama bin Laden video ...

(AFP) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:40:00 GMT

(AFP) - Two young Chinese Uighur Muslims view an Osama bin Laden video at an internet cafe in the city of Urumqi in China's western Xinjiang Province, 2008. Authorities in China's Xinjiang region Saturday restored access to 27 Internet sites that had been blocked following last July's ethnic unrest in the province. Photo:Mark Ralston/AFP

Cambodia has accused Internet giant Google of being 'professionally ...

(AFP) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:52:00 GMT

(AFP) - Cambodia has accused Internet giant Google of being 'professionally irresponsible' over its map of a ancient temple at the centre of a border dispute with Thailand, a letter seen by AFP Saturday showed. The Google map 'places almost half of the Khmer (Preah Vihear) temple in Thailand and is not an internationally recognised map,' said the letter written by a Cambodian official. Photo:Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP

Google has gone techno-chic, debuting fashion designs inspired ...

(AFP) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:13:00 GMT

(AFP) - Google has gone techno-chic, debuting fashion designs inspired by the Internet giant. The pieces were the work of emerging designers who last year were asked to come up with 'one-of-a-kind' items inspired in some way by Google, whether it be the firm's colors, technology or mission. Photo:Justin Sullivan/AFP

Microsoft's Roger Wong (2nd R) demonstrates maps using Bing ...

(AFP) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:24:00 GMT

(AFP) - Microsoft's Roger Wong (2nd R) demonstrates maps using Bing at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 2010 in Nevada. Microsoft said Friday that Bing will power Internet searches for Facebook's 400 million members in an arrangement that returns control of display advertising to the social-networking service. Photo:Ethan Miller/AFP

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, delivers a keynote ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:51:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, delivers a keynote address at the company's annual conference in San Francisco, July 23, 2008. REUTERS/Kimberly White

An actor in a sheep costume with 'demon eyes' is seen in a screen ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:20:00 GMT

(Reuters) - An actor in a sheep costume with 'demon eyes' is seen in a screen grab captured February 5, 2010 from a controversial web-based political advertisement video posted by the campaign of California Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina. REUTERS/Handout

A screen shot of the Google Earth application on the Google ...

(AFP) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:15:00 GMT

(AFP) - A screen shot of the Google Earth application on the Google Nexus One smartphone, on the Android platform, is shown on a news conference at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google Earth mapping service is letting people use the Internet to dive into the world's oceans or see the ruin that World War II bombings rained on European cities. Photo:Robert Galbraith/AFP

NASA image shows shuttle Atlantis Astronaut Mike Massimino, ...

(AFP) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:56:00 GMT

(AFP) - NASA image shows shuttle Atlantis Astronaut Mike Massimino, STS-125 mission specialist, photographed from an aft flight deck window of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. With astronauts now sending a steady stream of 'tweets' from space, NASA is inviting the public to ask them questions using the popular micro-blogging service. Photo:/AFP

Dutch Deputy Minister Nebahat Albayrak (L), Belgium's Minister ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:08:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Dutch Deputy Minister Nebahat Albayrak (L), Belgium's Minister of Justice Stefaan de Clerck (C) and his Dutch counterpart Hirsch Ballin (R) look at each other's presents at the prison facility in Tilburg February 5, 2010. With plenty of prison cells to spare, the Netherlands has agreed to admit 500 Belgian inmates in its prison in the Southern Dutch city of Tilburg. Belgium will pay the Dutch 30 million euros a year for the favour under a three-year deal. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS)

Belgium's Minister of Justice Stefaan de Clerck (R) receives ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:58:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Belgium's Minister of Justice Stefaan de Clerck (R) receives a symbolic key to the prison from his Dutch counterpart Hirsch Ballin (C) and Deputy Minister Nebahat Albayrak (L) at the prison facility in Tilburg February 5, 2010. With plenty of prison cells to spare, the Netherlands has agreed to admit 500 Belgian inmates in its prison in the Southern Dutch city of Tilburg. Belgium will pay the Dutch 30 million euros a year for the favour under a three-year deal. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS)

A view of the prison facility in Tilburg February 5, 2010. With ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:54:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A view of the prison facility in Tilburg February 5, 2010. With plenty of prison cells to spare, the Netherlands has agreed to admit 500 Belgian inmates in its prison in the Southern Dutch city of Tilburg. Belgium will pay the Dutch 30 million euros a year for the favour under a three-year deal. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS)

Belgium's Minister of Justice Stefaan de Clerck speaks at the ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:46:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Belgium's Minister of Justice Stefaan de Clerck speaks at the prison facility in Tilburg February 5, 2010. With plenty of prison cells to spare, the Netherlands has agreed to admit 500 Belgian inmates in its prison in the Southern Dutch city of Tilburg. Belgium will pay the Dutch 30 million euros a year for the favour under a three-year deal. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS)

Belgium's Minister of Justice Stefaan de Clerck (R) shares a ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:35:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Belgium's Minister of Justice Stefaan de Clerck (R) shares a joke with Dutch Deputy Minister Nebahat Albayrak (L) at the prison facility in Tilburg February 5, 2010. With plenty of prison cells to spare, the Netherlands has agreed to admit 500 Belgian inmates in its prison in the Southern Dutch city of Tilburg. Belgium will pay the Dutch 30 million euros a year for the favour under a three-year deal. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS)

Belgium's Minister of Justice Stefaan de Clerck (L) speaks to ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:30:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Belgium's Minister of Justice Stefaan de Clerck (L) speaks to his Dutch counterpart Hirsch Ballin (R) at the prison facility in Tilburg February 5, 2010. With plenty of prison cells to spare, the Netherlands has agreed to admit 500 Belgian inmates in its prison in the Southern Dutch city of Tilburg. Belgium will pay the Dutch 30 million euros a year for the favour under a three-year deal. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS)

Belgium's Minister of Justice Stefaan de Clerck (R) is welcomed ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:27:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Belgium's Minister of Justice Stefaan de Clerck (R) is welcomed by his Dutch counterpart Hirsch Ballin (C) and Deputy Minister Nebahat Albayrak (L) at the prison facility in Tilburg February 5, 2010. With plenty of prison cells to spare, the Netherlands has agreed to admit 500 Belgian inmates in its prison in the Southern Dutch city of Tilburg. Belgium will pay the Dutch 30 million euros a year for the favour under a three-year deal. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS)

Facebook marked its sixth birthday by simplifying its home page ...

(AFP) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:32:00 GMT

(AFP) - Facebook marked its sixth birthday by simplifying its home page and holding an all-night 'hackathon' to craft new software for the social networking website. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said the online community is hitting another milestone with membership climbing to 400 million this week. Photo:Karen Bleier/AFP

A 16th-century edition of predictions by Nostradamus, the first ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:03:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A 16th-century edition of predictions by Nostradamus, the first book to be digitised by Google from a collection of 500,000 at the Municipal Library of Lyon, is displayed by a librarian in this January 15, 2010 file picture. REUTERS/Robert Pratta/Files