UN backs India's demand for access to Blackberry's customer data saying the demand is legitimate as it is a matter of national security.

Google Inc launched a website on Thursday for users who want to sift through news, comments and other information on the Internet in real time, letting them follow conversations on social network hubs such as Facebook and Twitter in one place. The move expands the Internet search leader's efforts to compete with Microsoft Corp's Bing in letting Web surfers track up-to-the-minute comments and postings and could also be a useful tool for organizations tracking public opinion on everything from a movie to a new product.

BlackBerry maker says the company does not have a "master key" to gain access to encrypted corporate information.

Internet firm Yahoo Inc said it has completed the transition of its US and Canadian English-language search capabilities to Microsoft Corp's Bing platform. "Yahoo web, image, and video search experiences on both desktop and mobile devices are now powered by the Microsoft platform in the US and Canada, with more markets to come," Shashi Seth, senior vice president of Yahoo search products, said in a blog post.

Japan's ancient sport of sumo is embracing the latest high-tech, with its governing body set to distribute Apple's iPad to wrestlers who often struggle with smaller cellphone keypads due to their giant hands. The sumo association said it will hand out iPads to Japan's 51 "stables", or the clubs the wrestlers belong to, with the aim of improving communication among the roly-poly grapplers after some in the past had missed information sent by fax or telephone.