Reuters - A project to re-enact the "Big Bang" at CERN near Geneva on Wednesday is getting the rap treatment on the Internet from a group of young people working there.

Reuters - Nokia's Internet offering is still a work in progress and the world's top mobile phone maker is seeking further acquisitions to speed up the roll out of new services, Niklas Savander, the head of the unit, said in an interview.

AFP - Internet group O3b Networks, backed by Google and two other leading companies, unveiled a plan Tuesday to expand high-speed Internet access to emerging market countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

AP - Apple Inc. has lured the NBC television network back to the iTunes online media service, ending a year of acrimony over the prices Apple charges for shows it sells over iTunes.

AFP - Syrian authorities have blocked access to 160 dissident websites since 2000 as part of a drive to censure the press and control Internet use, a free speech organisation said on Tuesday.

AP - Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off a revamped line of iPods on Tuesday and trumpeted a truce with NBC Universal that means the TV network will begin selling programs again on iTunes.

Reuters - Google Inc has stepped up efforts to digitize dozens of historical newspapers and make scanned images of the original papers available online, the Internet search leader said on Monday.

AP - Google Inc. is trying to expand the newspaper section of its online library to include billions of articles published during the past 244 years, hoping the added attraction will lure even more traffic to its leading Internet search engine.

NewsFactor - As part of an expanded strategic alliance first announced earlier this year, AT&T on Monday officially launched Yahoo's oneSearch mobile search platform on its MEdia Net portal.

NewsFactor - "Let's Rock" is the tagline for Tuesday's press event that Apple is teasing as a major product announcement. The question for the legions of Apple speculators is: What will Apple CEO Steve Jobs announce?

InfoWorld - Google is expanding efforts to put offline materials online by adding old newspaper content to its Google News Archive application, the company announced on Monday.

AFP - Google announced Monday it is working with a growing number of newspapers to "bring history online" by digitizing archives of articles ranging from lunar landings to local obituaries.