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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Avenue A/Razorfish, a digital advertising and services agency, is set to announce plans to launch a media and entertainment consulting practice, banking on business from traditional media companies that are trying to broaden their image.

Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, co-writers and co-producers of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, came to the Apple Store, SoHo, to speak about the making of the second feature-length movie based on the award-winning television series. Now on iTunes, you can watch video clips from the event, learn how Final Cut Pro played a part in the film’s production, and listen as the talented fillmmakers answer audience questions.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain could give all computer games cinema-style age ratings to protect children from increasingly realistic and violent titles, the government said on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - A mechanical brass calculator used by the ancient Greeks to predict solar and lunar eclipses was probably also used to set the dates for the first Olympic games, researchers said on Wednesday.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top cell phone maker Nokia cut prices for many of its handsets in July, according to market data and industry sources, putting further pressure on its rivals' already thin profits.

RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuters) - Although the future team colors of quarterback Brett Favre are unknown, when the 20th Anniversary "Madden NFL 09" game is released in August he will be wearing the Green Bay Packers' colors on the cover.

LISBON (Reuters) - Intel Corp , the world's biggest microchip producer, expects no slowdown in global demand for personal computers despite economic problems in the United States and in other countries, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett said on Wednesday.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Scientists have made a colored view of an early rejected painting underneath Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Patch of Grass’ painting, using advanced X-ray techniques, a Dutch university said on Wednesday.

BANGALORE (Reuters) - Garmin Ltd posted weak second-quarter results and slashed its outlook for 2008, hurt by slower growth in the personal navigation device (PND) market, and delayed the launch of its smartphone, sending its shares down more than 22 percent.

LONDON (Reuters) - A British computer expert lost his appeal on Wednesday against extradition to the United States where he is accused of “the biggest military hack of all time” and could face up to 70 years in prison.