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Matt Bergstrom, left, and Emily Hilleren, center, play board games at the Holiday Club during a singles event, Nerds at Heart, in Chicago, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Attendance at the monthly gatherings, where mostly young professionals pay $25 for a drink and a chance to spend the evening clustered around trivia and board games was more than double expectations in April and has stayed high since. (AP Photo/Stacie Freudenberg)

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Downturn dating:... Matt Bergstrom, left, and Emily Hilleren, center, play board games at the Holiday Club during a singles event, Nerds at Heart, in Chicago, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Attendance at the monthly gatherings, where mostly young professionals pay $25 for a drink and a chance to spend the evening clustered around trivia and board games was more than double expectations in April and has stayed high since. (AP Photo/Stacie Freudenberg)
Omg! Positive to... In this screen shot, Yahoo Inc.'s "omg" Web site is shown. (AP Photo/Yahoo Inc.)
US wants privacy... US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks to journalists after signing an agreement with the Portuguese government on the fight against crime and terrorism, Tuesday, June 30 2009, at the Necessidades Palace, the Portuguese foreign ministry, in Lisbon. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
PC makers volunt... Children use computers in a library in Xiangfan in central China's Hubei province Wednesday July 1, 2009. In a rare reversal, China's government gave in to domestic and international pressure and backed down from a rule that would have required personal computers sold in the country to have Internet-filtering software. Just hours before the rule was to have taken effect Wednesday, the government said it would postpone the requirement for the "Green Dam" software. (AP Photo)
Jay Leno wins ri... FILE - In this May 10, 2009 file photo, comedian Jay Leno performs during the Jay Leno Comedy Stimulus Plan show at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio. Television host Jay Leno has won control of a Web address using the name of his new show, Thursday, July 2. (AP Photo/David Kohl, File)
Review: New guid... In this image provided by O'Reilly Media Inc., the cover of "The Twitter Book" is shown. (AP Photo/O'Reilly Media Inc.)
Is Twitter the n... Photographers line up in front of the Jackson family residence, Friday, June 26, 2009, in the Encino section of Los Angeles. Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the "King of Pop" and the biggest celebrity in the world only to fall from his throne in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday. He was 50. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Sony struggling ... Sony Corp.'s employee Rumi Yamaguchi smiles in front of a special display commemorating the Sony Walkman's 30th anniversary that opens Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at Sony Archive building in Tokyo, Japan. The first portable cassette-tape player Walkman, shown second from left on the top shelf, hit the Japanese market on July 1, 1979. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
EU, phone makers... European Commission Vice President Guenter Verheugen explains a mobile phone agreement during a press conference at the EU Commission building in Brussels, Monday June 29, 2009. The voluntary agreement among some mobile phone manufacturers will standardize phone chargers. (AP Photo/Jim Buell)
China accuses Go... FILE -In this March 30, 2009 file photo, people use laptops at a ceremony to launch Google's free music download service for China in Beijing. Internet users in China were unable to access search giant Google Inc.'s main Web site or its Chinese service, and the company said Thursday, June 25, 2009, it was investigating. The outage came after the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center last week accused Google of providing links to vulgar and obscene sites. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)
Turmoil fuels 'h... FILE - This Sunday, June 21, 2009, file photo shows a demonstrator carrying a sign identifying herself with Neda, a young Iranian woman shown in a video bleeding to death on the street of Tehran. She was part of a group protesting in front of the White House in support of protesters in Iran and to condemn Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's decision to suppress the protests, in Washington. The Internet video turned the mystery woman into an instant icon of her country's opposition.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Jobs' liver tran... FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2008 file photo, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs smiles during a product announcement at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. A published report says Jobs, who has been on medical leave for undisclosed reasons since January, received a liver transplant two months ago, Saturday, June 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
New iPhone goes ... Osiris Caceres shows off an Apple iPhone 3G S he purchased at an Apple Store Friday, June 19, 2009 in New York. The iPhone 3G S went on sale nationwide Friday. It sports a faster processor, longer battery life, an internal compass, a video camera and a photo camera with better resolution and auto-focus. A 16-gigabyte version of the 3G S will cost $199 and a 32-gigabyte version will be $299. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Japan's top chip... In this photo taken on Dec. 11, 2008, a man walks by a corporate logo of Japan's top chipmaker Toshiba Corp. at the latest environmentally friendly technologies and products fair "Eco-Products Exhibition 2008" in Tokyo. Toshiba tumbled to a record annual loss amid sinking global demand that has forced it to cut thousands of jobs. Toshiba reported Friday, May 8, 2009, a 343.6 billion yen ($3.5 billion) net loss for the fiscal year ended March, compared with a 127.4 billion yen profit a year earlier. It was the company's biggest loss ever and its first annual net loss in seven years. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)
Nintendo's annua... FILE - In this April 9, 2009 file photo, Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata, left, and Nintendo Senior Managing Director Shigeru Miyamoto pose for photographers with new Nintendo DSi handheld machines prior to their press conference in Tokyo Nintendo reported Thursday, May 7, 2009, an 8.5 percent rise in annual profit as the video game maker shrugged off the global slowdown that has battered other Japanese manufacturers. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)
More cell phone ... FILE - In this July 1,2008 file photo, Austin Calderon examines mobile phone accessories in Los Angeles. For the first time, the number of U.S. households opting for only cell phones outnumber those that just have traditional landlines in a high-tech shift accelerated by the recession. (AP Photo/Ric Francis, FILE)
MySpace co-found... New Jersey Devils' Zach Parise, top center, and Paul Martin, right, celebrate a goal by Devils' Jamie Langenbrunner, not shown, as Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Cam Ward looks at the puck during the third period of an NHL first-round hockey playoff game Wednesday, April 15, 2009 in Newark, N.J. The Devils beat the Hurricanes 4-1. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)

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