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LONDON (Reuters) - The Internet has the potential to save the book trade instead of dealing it the near-fatal blow it dealt the music industry, the more optimistic participants at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair believe.

(Reuters) - Google Inc and Yahoo Inc are in talks with the U.S. Justice Department in an effort to head off an antitrust challenge to their proposed advertising agreement, The Wall Street Journal said citing lawyers close to the effort.

LONDON - British newspapers are reporting that two people who worked for David Beckham and his wife were arrested after some of the couple's possessions were spotted on an Internet auction site.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Diversified electronics maker Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it is re-entering the U.S. computer market with a range of branded products that build on its component supply strengths.

Anyone who's held an iPhone near electronic equipment like car radios, computer speakers, audio receivers and more has likely been subjected to the noise of electronic interference from the iPhone. A new product from Quick Bridge Solutions promises to fix that. The QB-EM Shield costs $3.99.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - A Canadian company has unveiled software crafted to prevent people, particularly mobile device-loving teenagers, from making telephone calls or text-messaging while driving.

HONG KONG - Electronic Arts Inc. is turning to online games to boost its limited presence in Asia, the regional president of the U.S. video game maker said Tuesday.

While other categories struggle in the slow economy, video game sales have been getting high scores.

You'd think the man who laid the groundwork for Nintendo, who pioneered and changed the video game industry forever, would breeze through his keynote.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Internet has the potential to save the book trade instead of dealing it the near-fatal blow it dealt the music industry, the more optimistic participants at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair believe.

LONDON (Reuters) - Mobile operator 3 UK is to sell Nokia's N95 Comes With Music handset which offers unlimited music downloads, an industry source told Reuters on Tuesday.

Brightcove, the maker of online-video tools, released its new Brightcove 3 video publishing platform on Monday.

DUBAI (AFP) - Computer hackers claiming to be Shiite shut down the website of Saudi-owned satellite channel Al-Arabiya on Friday, a month after Iran reported similar attacks on many of its websites by hardline Sunnis.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Computer security specialists warn that hackers are using fake YouTube pages to trick people into opening their machines to diabolical software.

David Kernell, who was accused of accessing Gov. Sarah Palin's email account without authorization, pleaded innocent to the charges on Wednesday.

Anyone who's held an iPhone near electronic equipment like car radios, computer speakers, audio receivers and more has likely been subjected to the noise of electronic interference from the iPhone. A new product from Quick Bridge Solutions promises to fix that. The QB-EM Shield costs $3.99.

ATTO Technology on Monday rolled out new host adapter cards for Macs and PCs used in data-intensive storage environments. They include new Fibre Channel and SATA host controllers and a new RAID storage controller.

Delkin Devices on Friday announced it's shipping its Secure Digital to CompactFlash card adapter. The adapter costs $29.99.

San Francisco - Dissatisfied with the Web development tools already available, researchers at the newly formed Developer Tools Lab at Mozilla Labs intend to find better options.

Mozilla is doing its part in the battle against clickjacking. The open-source company is offering an updated plug-in for the Firefox browser that blocks what security researchers call one of the most dangerous problems on the Web.

OpenOffice.org will host a launch party in Paris on October 13 to celebrate the eighth anniversary of OpenOffice and the release of version 3.0. The goal? As always, provide a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft Office.

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean researchers said Monday they have developed a robot which can dance and get emotional when it's not tackling the chores.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Culture fans thousands of miles from Beijing can now visit its famous Forbidden City, through a three dimensional recreation of the vast palace that also allows them to dress up as an imperial eunuch and meet a courtesan.

NISKAYUNA, N.Y. - On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make floor lamps, bedside lamps, wall sconces and nearly every other household lamp obsolete.