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Google to put ancient Iraq museum collection online

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:45:51 GMT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Google is putting thousands of images of ancient artefacts at Iraq's National Museum online, the Web search leader said on Tuesday, part of a U.S. bid to entice foreign firms to invest in Iraq.

Filmed concerts come to iTunes in Live Nation deal

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:02:10 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Live Nation hopes to gain a new revenue stream on Tuesday when Apple Inc's iTunes begins to feature downloads of some of the live concerts it promotes.

Second UK retailer withdraws Sony Ericsson phone

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:48:49 GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - Retailer Phones 4U has followed rival Carphone Warehouse in withdrawing Sony Ericsson's flagship smartphone, in a further blow to the loss-making firm.

Twitter eyes acquisitions, sees making money in 2010

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:08:03 GMT

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Micro-blogging site Twitter is interested in making more acquisitions as it continues to grow in popularity, co-founder Biz Stone said on Tuesday.

MPs call for parliamentary petitions to go online

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:01:03 GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - The ancient right to petition parliament could enter the online age after MPs seeking to boost democracy in the House of Commons said on Tuesday the public should be able to submit their pleas over the internet.

"Jail broken" iPhones vulnerable to new virus

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:19:46 GMT

BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers have built a virus that attacks Apple Inc's iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via their Internet connections, security experts said.

"Jail broken" iPhones vulnerable to new virus

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:07:28 GMT

BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers have built a virus that attacks Apple Inc's iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via their Internet connections, security experts said.

Twitter's Stone could IPO, no interest in selling

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:44:07 GMT

OXFORD, England (Reuters) - Twitter, the social internet firm that tracks trends through individuals' updates of events around them, may eventually go to the stock market for funding if necessary, its co-founder Biz Stone said.

China attacks "biased" U.S. cyber-spying report

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:58:50 GMT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Monday accused a U.S. congressional advisory panel of bias for a report in which it said the Chinese government appeared increasingly to be piercing U.S. computer networks to gather useful data for its military.

Microsoft, News Corp mull web pact

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:54:32 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google , a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

eBay says fixes search glitch on website

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:51:30 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - eBay said on Sunday it had restored a search function on its website overnight Saturday after a glitch led to searches returning either limited or no results throughout the day.

Smartphone growth to continue strong in 2010

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:13:45 GMT

BARCELONA (Reuters) - The wireless chip industry expects smartphone market surge to continue, with British microchip designer ARM saying growth would likely even accelerate further next year.

Google PC will start in seven seconds or less

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:18:27 GMT

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web.

Google PC will start in seven seconds or less

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:58:12 GMT

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for computers that do their work on the Web.

Vodafone eyeing new Internet revenue options

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:12:18 GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone is looking at new ways of making money from the mobile Internet, such as offering premium services, as the battle for control of an expanding market dominated by search engine Google heats up.

Tesco signs up C&W for broadband push

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:07:42 GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - Tesco , Britain's biggest retailer, has signed up Cable & Wireless to help it provide broadband and home phone services as part of its drive to increase revenues from non-grocery businesses like telecoms.

China's military says website had 230 million attacks

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:30:50 GMT

BEIJING (Reuters) - A website set up by China's Ministry of Defence this summer was hit by more than 230 million hacker attacks in its first month of operation, but none of the attacks were successful, state media reported on Thursday.

Nokia sees corporate interest for netbook

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:29:45 GMT

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Top cellphone maker Nokia has seen growing interest among companies for its first netbook or mini-laptop, a company executive said on Thursday.

All Blacks face dressing down over Twitter leak

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:46:45 GMT

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Neemia Tialata and Cory Jane can expect a talking to from All Blacks coach Graham Henry after revealing on the social networking site Twitter they had been left out of the New Zealand to play England this weekend.

China wants content, values censored in online games

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:43:59 GMT

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China said it will tighten regulations in its rapidly growing online games sector, requiring game operators to enhance socialist values in their games and hire specialised staff to monitor content.

Police make "trojan" virus arrests

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:53:15 GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - Detectives have made the first arrests in Europe to tackle a "trojan" computer virus which is believed to have infected tens of thousands of computers across the world, London police said on Wednesday.

EU ombudsman rebukes EU over errors in Intel case

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:21:20 GMT

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Ombudsman rebuked European Union regulators on Wednesday for procedural errors in their antitrust probe of Intel but the censure will not affect a 1.06 billion euro (941,000 pound) fine against the U.S. chipmaker.

T-Mobile admits employee sold private data

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:30:11 GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - A employee of mobile phone operator T-Mobile is facing prosecution after selling personal details of thousands of British customers to rival companies in an alleged major breach of data protection laws.

Virtual pioneers: Macedonia schools to get wired

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:01:04 GMT

SKOPJE/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - "Practical English Grammar by Correspondence" -- a 1973 tome published by the Soviet Union -- sits atop a pile of books on the librarian's desk in Macedonia's Grigor Prlichev elementary school.

Microsoft ordered to stop some Windows sales in China

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:37:35 GMT

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has been ordered by a Chinese court to stop selling versions of its Windows operating systems that include fonts designed by a local company, citing a violation of licensing agreements.