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Customers use computers inside an internet cafe in Changzhi, ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:13:15 GMT

(Reuters) - Customers use computers inside an internet cafe in Changzhi, Shanxi province April 25, 2008. (Stringe/Reuters)

The ARCHOS 5 Internet Media Tablet is equipped with the processing ...

(AP) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:08:10 GMT

(AP) - The ARCHOS 5 Internet Media Tablet is equipped with the processing power of a PC, along with WiFi and 3G capabilities for optimal Web browsing�all on an ultra-thin, brilliant 5-inch touch-screen. The ARCHOS 5 lets you enjoy your library of movies, music and photos, manage email and record TV programs for HiDef playback on the pocket-size device.

Google will be pampering bloggers and tutoring US policy makers ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:50:39 GMT

(AFP/File) - Google will be pampering bloggers and tutoring US policy makers at Democratic and Republican national conventions as Internet culture flexes growing political muscle.(AFP/File/Jose Luis Roca)

Kari Verjil, elections director for San Bernardino County demonstrates ...

(AP) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:54:46 GMT

(AP) - Kari Verjil, elections director for San Bernardino County demonstrates a touch-screen voting machine at the Registrar of Voters warehouse with thousands of mothballed touch-screen voting machines, background, Tuesday Aug. 19, 2008 in San Bernardino, Calif. The machines were entombed by disenchanted state officials who'd once embraced the new technology, only to see elections delayed by vanishing votes, breakdowns, malfunctions and increasing evidence that the ATM-like devices were vulnerable to hackers. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Kathi Payne, left, elections analyst and Kari Verjil, elections ...

(AP) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:53:35 GMT

(AP) - Kathi Payne, left, elections analyst and Kari Verjil, elections director for San Bernardino County pose at the Registrar of Voters warehouse with thousands of mothballed touch-screen voting machines on Tuesday Aug. 19, 2008 in San Bernardino, Calif. The machines were entombed by disenchanted state officials who'd once embraced the new technology, only to see elections delayed by vanishing votes, breakdowns, malfunctions and increasing evidence that the ATM-like devices were vulnerable to hackers. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Kari Verjil, elections director for Riverside County demonstrates ...

(AP) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:47:38 GMT

(AP) - Kari Verjil, elections director for Riverside County demonstrates a touch-screen voting machine at the Registrar of Voters warehouse with thousands of mothballed touch-screen voting machines, background, Tuesday Aug. 19, 2008 in San Bernardino, Calif. The machines were entombed by disenchanted state officials who'd once embraced the new technology, only to see elections delayed by vanishing votes, breakdowns, malfunctions and increasing evidence that the ATM-like devices were vulnerable to hackers. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Kathi Payne, left, electronic analyst and Kari Verjil, elections ...

(AP) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:46:07 GMT

(AP) - Kathi Payne, left, electronic analyst and Kari Verjil, elections director for Riverside County pose at the Registrar of Voters warehouse with thousands of mothballed touch-screen voting machines on Tuesday Aug. 19, 2008 in San Bernardino, Calif. The machines were entombed by disenchanted state officials who'd once embraced the new technology, only to see elections delayed by vanishing votes, breakdowns, malfunctions and increasing evidence that the ATM-like devices were vulnerable to hackers. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

This picture, supplied by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design ...

(Canadian Press) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:25:29 GMT

(Canadian Press) - This picture, supplied by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum on Dec. 8, 2006, shows an iPod Nano. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is silhouetted as he introduces the new ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:27:12 GMT

(Reuters) - Apple CEO Steve Jobs is silhouetted as he introduces the new Apple iPod Nano media player in San Francisco, California September 5, 2007. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)

Apple's Asia-Pacific senior product marketing manager Yeo ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:21:15 GMT

(AFP/File) - Apple's Asia-Pacific senior product marketing manager Yeo Eng Yiong (unseen) displays the new iPod nano at its India launch in Mumbai, September 2007. Japan has warned users of Apple iPod nanos of a potential fire risk after two new instances in which the popular portable music players overheated.(AFP/File/Sajjad Hussain)

Pictured on the LG Dare(TM) from Verizon Wireless, the Chaperone(R) ...

(AP) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:27:34 GMT

(AP) - Pictured on the LG Dare(TM) from Verizon Wireless, the Chaperone(R) service is a convenient way to help determine the location of your child's cellphone using the Internet or another cellphone. When children carry a Verizon Wireless cellphone while on-the-go, the Chaperone Web site or the Chaperone Parent Get It Now(R) application can be used to view location information or be notified of the whereabouts of the Chaperone Child phone. (PRNewsFoto/Verizon Wireless, Atkinson Studios)

In a step toward the type of future pictured in the hit film ...

(Shapeways) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:08:23 GMT

(Shapeways) - In a step toward the type of future pictured in the hit film "Iron Man," a firm in the Netherlands is letting people fabricate items designed in three-dimensions on the Internet.(Shapeways)

Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri, seen here in a video ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:00:55 GMT

(AFP/File) - Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri, seen here in a video that was posted on the Internet in 2006, has slammed Pakistan's embattled President Pervez Musharraf as an enemy of Islam.(AFP/File/null)

John Walsh gives a thumbs up as President Bush looks on during ...

(AP) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:16:34 GMT

(AP) - John Walsh gives a thumbs up as President Bush looks on during a signing ceremony for the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act in the Rose Garden at the White House in this July 27, 2006 file photo. Nevada and other states are adopting laws that publicize the names of sex offenders on the Internet. But sex offenders say they have rights, too, and argue it's wrong to lump those guilty of minor offenses with the worst offenders. Some are challenging the laws. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)

Watch out Google -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales (seen here ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:20:12 GMT

(AFP/File) - Watch out Google -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales (seen here in 2007) hopes that Wikia Search, a project he spearheads, will break Google's domination as the world's most widely used Internet search engine. Google and fellow titans Yahoo and Microsoft dominate the Internet search engine market which Wales said was already causing some worry among web users.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)

A Russian soldier stands in the middle of the empty highway ...

(AFP) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:59:26 GMT

(AFP) - A Russian soldier stands in the middle of the empty highway connecting the town of Gori with the Georgian capital Tiblisi. Intense cyber attacks on Georgian government websites were launched from computers in Russia while Moscow's military struck in the former Soviet state, a US Internet firm said Wednesday.(AFP/Marco Longari)

A hand holding a biological brain and a robot. The brain consists ...

(AFP/DIEM Photo/Reading Univ.) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:24:58 GMT

(AFP/DIEM Photo/Reading Univ.) - A hand holding a biological brain and a robot. The brain consists of a collection of neurons cultured on a Multi Electrode Array (MEA) which communicates and controls the robot via a Bluetooth connnection. Scientists in Britain announced that they had stitched together thousands of rat neurons into primitive brains capable of controlling the movement of robots.(AFP/DIEM Photo/Reading Univ.)

Fireworks explode above the the National Stadium, also known ...

(AFP) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:07:45 GMT

(AFP) - Fireworks explode above the the National Stadium, also known as the "Bird's Nest," during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony in Beijing on August 8. China enforced a media blackout on the saga of the faked Olympic opening ceremony song on Wednesday and all references to the story were removed from Chinese Internet sites.(AFP/Axel Schmidt)

Georgian policemen retain refugees from South Ossetia outside ...

(AFP) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:47:51 GMT

(AFP) - Georgian policemen retain refugees from South Ossetia outside the parliament building in central Tbilisi on August 10. Georgian government websites have been under intense cyber attack on top of the Russian military strikes launched against the country late last week, a US Internet firm said Tuesday.(AFP/Vano Shlamov)

Around 50,000 Georgians rally in front of the parliament building ...

(AFP) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:47:51 GMT

(AFP) - Around 50,000 Georgians rally in front of the parliament building in central Tbilisi on August 12, to protest against the ongoing armed conflicts involving Russia and Georgia. Georgian government websites have been under intense cyber attack on top of the Russian military strikes launched against the country late last week, a US Internet firm said Tuesday.(AFP/Zviad Nikolaishvili)

Microsoft's Zune media player is shown for the first time to ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:21:47 GMT

(Reuters) - Microsoft's Zune media player is shown for the first time to the media in Redmond, Washington September 14, 2006. (Robert Sorbo/Reuters)

A video grab from undated footage from the Internet shows Al ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:21:07 GMT

(Reuters) - A video grab from undated footage from the Internet shows Al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan Mustafa abu al-Yazid, also known as Abu Saeed al-Masri, making statements from an unknown location. (REUTERS TV/Reuters)

Robert Gilliland, foreground, of Lakeland, Fla., poses for a ...

(AP) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:09:47 GMT

(AP) - Robert Gilliland, foreground, of Lakeland, Fla., poses for a photo with fellow carpoolers Mike Rogers, left, and Brian McKenzie, Thursday morning, Aug. 7, 2008 in Seffner, Fla. Thousands of commuters like Gilliland have also turned to the Internet to arrange shared rides as average gas prices hover around $4 a gallon. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

On August 8, media and volunteers gathered in the Internet lounge ...

(AP) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:57:01 GMT

(AP) - On August 8, media and volunteers gathered in the Internet lounge at the Main Press Center to watch as the Olympic flag made its entrance during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. The PC company Lenovo created this Internet lounge, along with six others in the Olympic Village. In the week before the Olympic Games began, 4,000 athletes and Olympic family members visited the i.lounges each day. (Photo: Business Wire)

Jeff Ma, left, and Mike Kerns pose for a photograph at Citizen ...

(AP) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:41:02 GMT

(AP) - Jeff Ma, left, and Mike Kerns pose for a photograph at Citizen Sports in San Francisco, Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Hoping to introduce a younger generation of players to a game best known as 'fantasy football,' Ma and his primary business partner, Mike Kerns, have introduced a program that enables the leagues to be managed within the popular Internet hangout Facebook. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Jeff Ma, left, and Mike Kerns pose for a photograph at Citizen ...

(AP) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:40:42 GMT

Jeff Ma, left, and Mike Kerns pose for a photograph at Citizen ...

(AP) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:39:11 GMT

Jeff Ma, left, and Mike Kerns at Citizen Sports in San Francisco. ...

(Canadian Press) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:18:24 GMT

(Canadian Press) - Jeff Ma, left, and Mike Kerns at Citizen Sports in San Francisco. Hoping to introduce a younger generation of players to a game best known as 'fantasy football,' Ma and his primary business partner, Mike Kerns, have introduced a program that enables the leagues to be managed within the popular Internet hangout Facebook. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Jeff Chiu

Convention workers put up an advertisement for Zune, Microsoft's ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:11:57 GMT

(Reuters) - Convention workers put up an advertisement for Zune, Microsoft's portable multimedia player, in Las Vegas, January 5, 2007. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)

MLB authenticator game balls after the Boston Red Sox Chicago ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:10:42 GMT

(Reuters) - MLB authenticator game balls after the Boston Red Sox Chicago White Sox American League MLB baseball game in Chicago August 8, 2008. At the end of the White Sox game, MLB authenticator Tom Cunningham assigns each game-used item -- whether a jersey, a ball, a bat or anything else -- an identification number, attach a tamper-proof hologram and enter its information on the Internet so fans who pay hundreds or thousands of dollars can be sure of their purchase. Picture taken August 8. (John Gress/Reuters)

MLB authenticator Tom Cunningham applies a hologram to game ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:50:42 GMT

(Reuters) - MLB authenticator Tom Cunningham applies a hologram to game balls after the Boston Red Sox Chicago White Sox American League MLB baseball game in Chicago August 8, 2008. At the end of the White Sox game, Cunningham assigns each game-used item -- whether a jersey, a ball, a bat or anything else -- an identification number, attach a tamper-proof hologram and enter its information on the Internet so fans who pay hundreds or thousands of dollars can be sure of their purchase. (John Gress/Reuters)

Vice president of the Beijing organising committee Wang Wei ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:15:02 GMT

(AFP/File) - Vice president of the Beijing organising committee Wang Wei gives a press conference in Beijing in 2007. Olympic Games organisers claimed on Saturday that the controversial decision to block Internet sites was taken to protect Chinese youngsters.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)

Egyptian youths stand outside an Internet cafe in Cairo earlier ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:27:21 GMT

(AFP/File) - Egyptian youths stand outside an Internet cafe in Cairo earlier this year. An Egyptian NGO has accused the Egyptian authorities of forcing cyber cafes to gather personal information on Internet users, saying the measure was a violation of privacy.(AFP/File/Amro Maraghi)

A US military computer science professor has warned that a trend ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:27:41 GMT

(AFP/File) - A US military computer science professor has warned that a trend to push software into the "clouds" exacerbates privacy risks as people trust information to the Internet(AFP/File/Jose Luis Roca)