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Asus introduced the Eee PC in October, but accessories for the ultraportable have just started trickling out as users familiarize themselves with the PC. The accessories, which include an extended battery, mice and travel chargers, provide additional power, convenience and protection to Eee PCs.
Asus' Extended Battery
By default, the Eee PC comes with a 4-cell lithium-ion battery that lasts between 3 to...

Online search site Ask.com is not getting rid of its specialized search technology, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday, saying a blog report to that effect was incorrect.
Analysts cited a report in Silicon Alley Insider on Friday as one of several factors that led shares 7 percent lower in Ask.com's parent, IAC/InterActiveCorp.
IAC is due to go...

CHICAGO - Passengers using United Airlines' "Easy Check-In" found it anything but that on Leap Day when the automated system failed, resulting in longer lines at its U.S. airport counters.
The Chicago-based carrier blamed the service interruption on software issues related to the leap year.
Spokeswoman Megan McCarthy says customers couldn't get Easy Check-In kiosks to confirm they had been checked in or...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A British rocket company, cited by New Mexico economic development officials as a potential tenant at the state's spaceport, is looking at other launch sites in Florida and Europe.
Steve Bennett, chief executive of Starchaser Industries, said Thursday by e-mail that the company performed a European Space Agency study...

LOS ANGELES - Paging Dr. Addison Montgomery fans, the doctor is back in the house.
ABC has confirmed to Access Hollywood that Kate Walsh will be back at Seattle Grace in an episode of "Grey's Anatomy" airing this spring.
Shonda Rhimes, the show's creator and executive producer, is said to be...

PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Eagles got the defensive playmaker they desperately needed, signing free-agent cornerback Asante Samuel to a six-year contract on Friday.
Samuel, an All-Pro and Pro Bowl selection this past season, spent the last five seasons with the New England Patriots and had 16 interceptions the last two seasons. The...

WASHINGTON - Northrop Grumman and the maker of Airbus planes beat out Boeing Co. to win a $35 billion government contract to build military refueling planes, the Air Force said Friday.
The selection of Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman and its Paris-based partner, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., came as a surprise to Wall Street.
It is a big blow to...

MOSCOW - A Moldovan investigative reporter who has been banned from Russia since December spent a third day stuck inside a Moscow airport terminal Friday after flying in with her new Russian husband.
Natalia Morar, a reporter with Russia's The New Times magazine, married a Russian colleague in her native Moldova last week to try to get around the ban, but when...

HAVANA - Fidel Castro said Friday he helped choose candidates for Cuba's new government, and asserted that his brother Raul is fully in charge as the new president.
In his first comments since his brother assumed the presidency last weekend, the elder Castro was apparently trying to quash speculation he would continue directing Raul -- and the nation's affairs -- from his...

UNITED NATIONS - Britain and France delayed a Security Council vote on new sanctions against Iran until Monday to try to get more support for the resolution.
The two countries are co-sponsoring the resolution that would impose a third round of sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment and are seeking the same unanimous vote that they got for the...

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton discovered an unlikely foreign-policy role model this week: George W. Bush.
Democrats perpetually accuse the president of displaying contempt for international opinion and pursuing an arrogant and bullying unilateralism. As caricatures go, it's not an unreasonable portrait.
But Obama and Clinton, in their Cleveland debate on Tuesday, sounded every bit as belligerent as...

HOUSTON - Democratic presidential candidate
The Clinton campaign released a new television ad for airing in Texas, which along with Ohio are crucial to her chances of reversing a string of losses to Obama. It shows children sleeping peacefully in bed as a narrator says:
"It's 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. But there's a phone in the White...

Britain's Prince Harry flew out of Afghanistan on Friday after news leaked that he had been fighting on the frontline for 10 weeks, defense sources said.
The 23-year-old grandson of Queen Elizabeth and third in line to the throne left early from his troop deployment amid fears for his security and for those soldiers fighting alongside him.
He...

The top U.S. commander in Iraq will likely take four to six weeks after a reduction in U.S. troop levels ends in mid-July before deciding if more can go home, a senior administration official said on Friday.
Gen. David Petraeus is expected to testify with Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, before Congress April 8-9 on...

The Philadelphia Eagles landed what was considered the biggest prize in this year's NFL free-agent sweepstakes.
The New York Jets traded an unhappy defensive player to New Orleans and traded for one from Carolina.
Those were the big moves as the NFL's free agent period began Friday, a day marked by trades that...