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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Stock Exchange, a unit of NYSE Euronext, has asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to start offering real-time market data to media and Internet organizations starting in July, seeking to join Nasdaq OMX Group Inc and BATS Trading, which recently announced similar projects.

PARIS (Reuters) - France plans to use the help of Internet service providers to block websites which disseminate child pornography, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said on Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs is expected to unveil on Monday a new version of the iPhone that will offer faster Internet access.

By Ian MacKenzie
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The bright and dark sides of the digital era will be explored at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, the anarchic sideshow to the world's largest annual celebration of the arts in the Scottish capital.

BOSTON (Reuters) - IBM will offer help desk service for its Symphony line of software, raising the competition with rival Microsoft Corp's suite of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

By Baker Li
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Intel Corp said the market for smaller, low-cost personal computers, some of which can fit in one's pocket, could be as big as $10 billion, driven by demand from emerging and matured markets.

By Chloe Fussell
EDINBURGH (Reuters Life!) - When the ancient system of Scottish tribes risked fading away two decades ago the 30th chief of the Carmichael clan turned to the Mormon Church.

By David Lawsky
ST GALLEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Microsoft said on Wednesday that starting some time next year it will make it easier for users of an open-source rival to work with Microsoft Office.

By Edwina Gibbs
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese superhero Ultraman vanquishes an evil enemy during a live performance at a Tokyo games arcade. But Ultraman's real battle is proving much harder -- enticing customers back to the nation's arcades.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The ability of Google Inc's map service to put detailed street-level images on the Internet could raise concerns in Europe if it was introduced there, the EU's data protection agency said on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc's HBO cable network is expected to start selling shows on Apple Inc's iTunes digital entertainment service, with flexible pricing, a source familiar with the discussions said on Monday.

By Scott Hillis
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters Life!) - Playing video games does not turn children into deranged, blood-thirsty super-killers, according to a new book by a pair of Harvard researchers.

By Adam Tanner
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Reuters) - It's official: the guys who founded Google are grown up.

By Anupreeta Das
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social networking site Facebook announced an agreement on Thursday with 49 U.S. state attorneys general and the District of Columbia to increase efforts to protect its youngest members from sexual predators.

By Jane Lee
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Young designers competing to get noticed by fashion labels can now launch their careers online through the fashion world's answer to the social networking Web site Myspace.com.

By Franklin Paul
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc scored over $500 million in global sales of its criminal action game "Grand Theft Auto 4" in its first week, making it one of the most lucrative entertainment launches in history.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Oyj will introduce many new phone models through U.S. carriers in coming months to grab a bigger share of the lucrative cellphone market, the Finnish phone maker said on Monday.

By Anupreeta Das
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo Inc because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with Google's thinking said on Friday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it sold 262,000 Xbox 360 game consoles in the United States in March, regaining its lead over Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 as supply constraints eased.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian companies providing critical services to the economy will be allowed to intercept the emails and internet communications of their workers under new security counter-terrorism laws.