WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust authorities on Friday rejected concerns that a search feature in the new version of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser would give the company an unfair advantage over Google Inc..

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust authorities on Friday rejected concerns that a search feature in the new version of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser would give the company an unfair advantage over Google Inc.

Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch & Co., UBS Investment Bank, Cowen and Company, Piper Jaffray and JMP Securities were hired to underwrite the IPO, according to an amended offering document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If a flu pandemic forced 40 percent of workers to stay home, telecommuting could help keep governments and businesses running -- but hardly any are set up to do this, experts told the U.S. Congress on Thursday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Internet governing body's decision to reject a new .xxx Internet domain for porn sites is a clear case of U.S. political interference in the Web's governance, the European Commission said on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - They paper their virtual walls with kittens and cartoon characters, give their address as Candyland, their age as 103 and announce they are yearning for true love.

LONDON (Reuters) - A British computer expert accused by Washington of the world's "biggest military hack of all time" should be extradited to the United States to stand trial, a court ruled on Wednesday.

Gary McKinnon, 40, was arrested last June following charges by U.S. prosecutors that he illegally accessed 97 government computers -- including Pentagon, U.S. army, navy and NASA systems -- causing $700,000 worth of damage.

BSkyB plans to conduct technical trials of Qualcomm's MediaFlo technology during the summer as part of its exploration of opportunities to run video services on mobile devices, the companies said in a statement.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Warner Bros.'s video unit on Tuesday unveiled plans to sell movies and television shows to BitTorrent Inc. for legal downloads from the Web site that was once blamed for aiding the swapping of illegally copied films and programs.

"We are beginning to offer satellite-based broadband service in areas where our DSL service is not available today, giving more consumers a broadband choice," AT&T Chairman and Chief Executive Ed Whitacre said in a speech at the Detroit Economic club.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Fast-growing music site Last.fm has taken its first round of institutional funding from Index Ventures, an early backer of Web-calling company Skype and U.K. betting exchange Betfair, the company said on Monday.

China is the world's second-largest Internet market after the United States with more than 110 million users. A survey by Chinese search engine Baidu.com put the current number of blog, or Web log, sites at 36.82 million which are kept by 16 million people, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's communications ministry said on Thursday it was making checks into pornography available on Hutchison Whampoa's 3 Italia mobile telephone network after a TV report said the X-rated images could be downloaded by children.

The companies said in a joint statement the collaboration would enable the porting of the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system to Qualcomm's Mobile Station Modem chipsets.