AP - China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.

AP - T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook.

AP - A Japanese appeals court upheld the conviction of flamboyant former Internet mogul Takafumi Horie on Friday in an ongoing case that has come to symbolize this nation's effort to deal with white collar crime at emerging dot-coms.

AP - Microsoft's CEO defended the software maker's decision to invest heavily in its unprofitable online business, but shed minimal light Thursday on specific steps it will take to challenge Google in the wake of the failed bid to buy Yahoo.

AFP - China's online population, already the world's largest, has swelled to 253 million, an official report said, driven by news events such as natural disasters and the Beijing Olympics.

AFP - Britain's Prince Harry, briefly dumped by his girlfriend last year over compromising text messages, was breathing a sigh of relief on Friday after being reunited with a cell phone stolen in Lesotho.

Reuters - If like many people in our technology-ruled world you can't live without Google, video games, digital media and social networking sites like Facebook, this is your kind of art exhibit.

AP - "Wallace & Gromit" are going on a new adventure.

AFP - Britain's Prince Harry, briefly dumped by his girlfriend last year over compromising text messages, was breathing a sigh of relief on Friday after being reunited with a cell phone stolen in Lesotho.

Reuters - The once media-shy Taliban have gone hi-tech with DVDs, mobile phone messages, ring-tones, emails and a website to publicize their exploits and lambast their Afghan and Western enemies, a think-tank said on Thursday.