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HANOVER, Germany (AFP) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, guest of honour at the world's biggest high-tech fair, told crisis-hit executives Monday to stop their whining and invest in the future. In a rollicking speech on the eve of the CeBIT fair, Schwarzenegger drew on references from his career as a body-builder, actor and entrepreneur to pump up his recession-knocked audience, which included German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "We are gathering in challenging times. Some may say this is the wrong time for a big trade show like this but they are wrong," the Austrian-born Schwarzenegger said. "Losers whine but winners move...

BERLIN (AP) - Police and customs officials investigating suspected patent violations seized dozens of boxes of mobile phones, navigation devices and other gadgets from exhibitors in a technology fair, authorities said Thursday. All the exhibitors who were searched cooperated, except one who was briefly taken to a police station, police said. Of 51 exhibitors affected, 24 were from mainland China, three from Hong Kong and 12 from Taiwan. Another nine were German, and one each were from Poland, the Netherlands and Korea.

Nero, leader in digital media technology, announced today that Nero Linux 3 will be unveiled at CeBIT. The new version of the definitive burning application for Linux operating systems will feature Blu-ray and HD DVD data recording support as well as an improved graphical user interface that is similar to the look and feel of the current Nero Burning ROM 7 edition.

Critic: Comdex gone for good By Richard N. Velotta LAS VEGAS SUN Convention industry observers are split over whether Comdex, the giant computer trade show that has brought hundreds of thousands of conventioneers to Las Vegas in the 23 years it has been conducted, will ever return after canceling its November show. The trade show's organizers, in a surprise announcement Wednesday, called the move a postponement, but they said the show wouldn't return to the city until November 2005. At least one critic of the show says he doesn't think the show will be back. San Francisco-based MediaLive International Inc.,...